CTP Skill Center

We started Monday by loading the tech articles that we go over on Thursday. We did a benchmark for CompTIA and got a median score. Tuesday, we started the disk partitioning lab, and didn’t do very well. Wednesday, I asked Jose for a breakdown, and then was able to get Windows and Ubuntu together, but then I messed it up, so I had to start fresh with Ubuntu and Debian. Got those two together without any hitch. We had our monthly check-in with Carrie and Devin. Thursday, we learned about BIOS and POST for computers. We got to take an inside look at our home computers. The BIOS, which is the start-up of all computer systems. I proceeded to finish the Disk partitioning lab by adding Manjaro to the others, but it was not happening.

This week was a whirlwind. This week we worked on Professional Skills and electives. I’m in my third month of training. That means that I worked on my CORE Portfolio Project using Google Slides. This is when you are getting creative and thinking about all of the things you have learned, developed, and done while you were in training. These things go all in your portfolio. I had all week to complete it.

I learned how to change my background into a slide theme. We had a Google Slides project, and Marc showed us an awesome website to go to called Slides Carnival. I really liked how it will give you slides based on what you have searched for. This website is compatible with Google Drive! I found a new place to go to for slides. I also learned how to create background colors in Google Drive. I can mix all colors of the rainbow on one slide.

Yesterday, we worked on creating a Zoom meeting. Mike showed how to create one in minutes. I didn’t think that I would be prepared, and he instantly told me what to do step by step, pretty quickly.

Today, I’ve completed my CORE Training Portfolio Project. This was a lot of work, but fun to create. I can’t wait to show what I’ve come up with.

Started each day by clocking into HomeBase. On Monday was a new lab start, and it was about computer hardware. We worked on disk Partitions of installed OSs, worked on looking at the BIOS of my own laptop, and some VM’s as well. On Wednesday, we met with Carrie for our monthy check in’s. Thursday, we did our tech articles. And the whole week watched Skillsoft videos on our own time.

This week in PRO I felt it was difficult to manage so many reminders and assignments due before class. I was here in attendance every day, but I sense I was behind in overall preparation for things that were due, namely the Percipio on Monday and the Accountability assignment which was due today. Hopefully with a little more experience and working on my Calendar, I will feel more totally prepared for class.

The beginning of the week was dedicated to Salesforce CRM online learning. I must have been confused about the requirements for the Elective we should have been working on Tuesday. I wanted to continue with my Salesforce Superbadge even though I did not wind up having enough time to achieve this. After re-reading the electives assignment on Google Docs, I chose the assignment for electives that involved researching Art Museum exhibits in the bay area and organizing the information into a spreadsheet.

It took me only a couple days to complete the spreadsheet, because I know pretty well how to create spreadsheets. I also had time to check in on course progress on Wednesday. The remainder of time on Wednesday was to learn how to set up zoom calls, which was fine. It did start to stress out my processor opening so many zoom windows, and by the end of the class we ended up in different rooms than our instructors.

This week was fun but I’m hoping I continue to learn new skills!

I learned to set up and create a zoom meeting, created various pictures for my portfolio, completed my accountability assignment, and discussed how to eliminate pictures posted on my slides. Finished my portfolio today. Worked a bit on my Percipio assignment that’s due on Monday.

Practiced typing. Finished my accountability assignment and my core portfolio before class. The accountability assignment was called Virtual Management, and it’s something I will be applying to my life. This week I met with Devin and Carrie to check in; it was good to hear that I am doing well. Yesterday, we learned how to schedule and invite people to a Zoom meeting. The week was basically working on our Core Portfolios for us individuals who are graduating at the end of this month.

Today, my main responsibilities as an administrative associate are my daily task for the day to research and post job listings onto the CTP skill center website, and my main task for the day is to research general emails and contact information for foundations from a provided list and then send email messages to the applicable foundations. I logged more general emails and site forms for provided foundations to be contacted, filtered out foundations without proper contact sites and general emails and messaged around 9 more foundations using the provided email template.