CTP Skill Center

Today’s instruction is nearly over. Thursday’s assignment was due before class, so I felt fairly rewarded having spent time throughout the week to complete this. The Managing Rigidity homework wasn’t fun, but I admit that investing my time like this seems wise.

I wasn’t sure what was on the calendar for tomorrow, but Mark explained that our Fridays are dedicated to Job Ready Services. Sounds like another wise investment of time.

The note taking exercise took up the bulk of class time and unfortunately we didn’t get to the Google Sheets/Mail Merge with Power of Wellness. I used to perform mail merges with Microsoft Office at my old work and I wondered if the google version is relatively straightforward.

Typed for 15 minutes. Went over what type of learner we are. I believe I am more than one: visual, physical, and verbal. We did some note-taking, turning in the notes we took after watching a slideshow on The Discovery of the Spotted Narwhal. And a quiz. We watched a video with CTP staff doing Job Listings, for example, no college required, job listing no older than 3 months, job should be listed on ctpskillcenter.com. Thank you, Marc. You Rock!!!

Started the day by clocking into HomeBase. Then we met our new person in our CTT group and did our news tech articles. Then we worked on note-taking. Watched a video about note-taking. Then I did the “What I did today” post and clocked out of HomeBase for the day.

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 5 more foundations using the provided email template.

We started in separate classes today and did our tech articles in CTT. I liked the one about the solar systems keeping it safe for the foxes and not just killing them off. Mine was how tech is preserving cultural diversity with 3d modeling, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Then we learned the different learning types and how to take notes according to our learning style. Interesting to think that I learn in different ways. Then we had to take a quiz based on your notes, yeah, that is not my strong suit.

Turned in my assignments and hopefully my email evaluation came through

Discussed note taking

Listening to the conversation with full attention while jotting down information was a bit challenging

Today, we started with typing. I was able to get a little more time to type today. I haven’t been able to do typing everyday because my time coming to class is not as consistent as I would like it to be. But today was great!

Next, we worked on note-taking. I have a hard time with my comprehension if I don’t prepare myself at the beginning of taking notes. What I mean by this is if, for example, the presentation or training you are given is going too fast, then I’m not able to take great notes. I have to have things repeated or shown longer before the next thing is presented. I hope this makes sense. Ever since I was little, I have had a hard time comprehending or understanding something. I’m a great note-taker if it is explained to me a little slower than others. I’m okay with that.