Week 13

 WEEK 12 TOTAL HOURS: 27.5

Sunday August 26th:
5 hours: Sermon PowerPoint [graphic design/media technology], Sermon Notes [typing/graphic design], Note Cards [typing/graphic design], Communication Cards
3 hours: Cafe Training [Visual Communication/Interpersonal Communication]
2 hours: Media Booth [youth service], Photography [visual communication], Spotify Radio Configuration [media technology], Announcement slides, Video/Lighting

Monday August 27th:
3 hours: Blog Updating

Thurs (8/30) - Sun (9/2)
Interviews / Annotating: 4.5 Hours

Sunday September 2nd:
5 hours: Sermon PowerPoint [graphic design/media technology], Sermon Notes [typing/graphic design], Note Cards [typing/graphic design], Communication Cards
3 hours: Cafe Training [Visual Communication/Interpersonal Communication]
2 hours: Media Booth [youth service], Photography [visual communication], Spotify Radio Configuration [media technology], Announcement slides, Video/Lighting

Work Samples From This Week:

New Presentation Design

                              

                                     CSM Website Page

Snack Bar Price Board

My Thoughts:

This week is my final week of practicum, I am getting all my hours done including my interviews and I am including Sunday the 26th in this week, as well as Sunday September 2nd as my last day. Both Sundays I did the usuals and did some extra stuff like the CSM web page and a new presentation design. I spent a lot of time updating this blog as well as getting everything finished up like getting the interview from my supervisor and having him fill out the evaluation link. Now that the practicum is over, I will continue to do the duties that I regularly do, but perhaps on a lesser scale since I am in full-time classes now and no longer have time to go into the office mid-week. I hope to get more involved in a broader sense after I finish up my senior major classes that apply, like video production, multimedia, and web design. These things will really help me with my work in this area of the church. When I get my degree, I know that I will have a lot to offer. This practicum really helped me and gave me a more professional sense of time management and what it really takes to run a service and the print and digital material that goes along with that. I will continue to work on this more and more, growing in my skills as I apply my future media courses, and my degree overall. :)

Week 12

WEEK 12 TOTAL HOURS: 10.5

Sunday August 19th:
1.5 hours: Shopping at Cash and Carry
1 hour: Designing Snack Bar Display
5 hours: Sermon PowerPoint [graphic design/media technology], Sermon Notes [typing/graphic design], Note Cards [typing/graphic design], Communication Cards
3 hours: Media Booth [youth service], Photography [visual communication], Spotify Radio Configuration [media technology], Announcement slides, Video/Lighting

Work Samples From This Week:

Announcement Slide

Sermon Slide

Worship Slide

My Thoughts:

Sunday the first thing I did was go shopping at Cash and Carry to pick up supplies for the Snack Bar displays and inventory. After that I designed the snack bar prices display. I needed a whiteboard or chalkboard, but had none, so I had to improvise, found a large unused frame, and fitted it with blank white paper, and wrote out the prices display on that with whiteboard markers on the glass. The whole display turned out nice and I used what I learned in Visual Communication to appeal. After that I did the usual printing and the usual service media booth. I recently enrolled in video production for fall so I am excited to apply that to this position, which I hope to carry out even after the practicum hours are over. My hours are winding down so I am just trying to be diligent by recording them and a portion of my work samples. The rest of the week I had Leadership Training for the Talon so the Sunday hours are all I can record this week.

Week 11

WEEK 11 TOTAL HOURS: 17

Sunday August 12th:
2 hours: Youth internship meetings
5 hours: Sermon PowerPoint [graphic design/media technology], Sermon Notes [typing/graphic design], Note Cards [typing/graphic design], Communication Cards
3 hours: Media Booth [youth service], Photography [visual communication], Spotify Radio Configuration [media technology], Announcement slides, Video/Lighting

Tuesday August 14th:
2 hours: Blog Updating
3 hours: Preparing for First Impressions meeting (outlining message/preparing room/shopping for supplies)
2 hours: First Impression meeting

Work Samples From This Week:

Statistic Binder Cover

Orders of Service / Statistic Pages

My Thoughts:
Sunday I did the usual printing and updating of the service stuff like the PowerPoint and other print stuff, except I started exceptionally earlier than I usually do. This made me work longer than usual, but I managed to get all of my stuff done well without rushing and even make a service statistic binder than can be analyzed at the Tuesday staff meeting when the staff are going over youth service statistics, which I think will be very useful to the communication between ministries. It was also the last day of the summer youth internship so now I will not have the kids to delegate my boring work off to, like cutting and copying. Which I don't really mind, more hours for me. I have been having a hard time finding the hours to publish weekly updates on my blog, even though I have been keeping close tabs on my hours. For some reason I have been putting off publishing my hours and thoughts, but I will try hard to make it happen in the few following weeks of my internship. I have also agreed to be a part of the first impressions team which involves in and out of service new guest/congregation communication. I believe a lot of branding will immersed into the new vision for the team. Anyway Tuesday night we have a communication dessert meeting, so I am spending the rest of today outlining the main points for the speaker and shopping for desserts for the reception.

Week 10

WEEK 10 TOTAL HOURS: 20

Sunday August 5th:
2 hours: Youth internship meetings
4 hours: Sermon PowerPoint [graphic design/media technology], Sermon Notes [typing/graphic design], Note Cards [typing/graphic design], Communication Cards
2 hours: Media Booth [youth service], Photography [visual communication], Spotify Radio Configuration [media technology], Announcement slides, Video/Lighting
5 hours: Youth Overnight Event Leading

Monday August 6th:
1 hour: Social Media Updating
3 hours: Graphic Design for Print Material
3 hours: Cafe Communication Training

Work Samples From This Week:

Guest Speaker

SLS Summer Interns

Worship Team

My Thoughts:
This week was pretty stressful. Sunday I did the usual printing, editing, and media during service. We also had a guest speaker who needed a video so I had to learn how to upload, edit, cut, and embed a video into the presentation, which took a long time because PowerPoint on Macs are not as easy as on a PC. Sunday night we had an overnight event with the interns that I agreed to lead at. It was good because it was at the church and I got an early start the next morning being able to get to work as soon as I woke up. I have been putting off updating my blog, I guess I just feel really burnt out from doing so many things over the summer and taking full-time credits. I will be glad to be out of school because I will not have to share so many other duties with my real job. Right now it is hard to fit in my practicum hours, update the blog, and also I am on a deadline to make a whole new website for the Talon newspaper before school starts. I kind of dropped the ball on a couple things this week, I was supposed to update the church website youth page but I never got around to it.

Week 9

WEEK 9 TOTAL HOURS: 17

Sunday July 29th:
2 hours: Youth internship meetings
1 hour: Shopping for Service Supplies
5 hours: Sermon PowerPoint [graphic design/media technology], Sermon Notes [typing/graphic design], Note Cards [typing/graphic design], Communication Cards
2 hours: Media Booth [youth service], Photography [visual communication], Spotify Radio Configuration [media technology], Announcement slides, Video/Lighting
1 hour: Serving at Youth reception

Tuesday July 31st:
1 hour: Social Media Updating
2 hours: Service Review/Vision meeting
1 hour: Online Photo Album Updating

Wednesday August 1st:
2 hours: Meeting with Worship Arts Pastor

Work Samples From This Week:

Tournament Card Front

Tournament Card Back

My Thoughts:
Sunday I did the usual, except we had a small party after the service that I had to shop and serve at. Wednesday I also met with the worship arts pastor to get the youth ministry Macbook cleared out and updated, and it is working much better. This week the interns helped out a lot and have been having vision meetings for the ministry. This is good because we all review how service has been going and how we are communicating things and what needs to change or improve. Our communication can never stop improving in my opinion, so it is good to have a student view. I was also supposed to learn how to use the video camera this week but I never got around to it. This is a crucial thing in my opinion as I believe videos are a great way to communicate to youth during a service. When I get the time, it will also be great to get better at video shooting and editing. I hope I can take a course about it this next year. Things are becoming more and more stressful and I fear that the stress might cut into the oncoming weeks.

Week 8

WEEK 8 TOTAL HOURS: 18

Sunday July 22nd:
2 hours: Youth internship meetings
5 hours: PowerPoint [graphic design/media technology], Music configuration, Note Cards [typing/graphic design], Communication Cards
3 hours: Media Booth [youth service], Photography [visual communication], Spotify Radio Configuration [media technology], Announcement slides, Video/Lighting

Tuesday July 24th:
1 hour: Social Media Updating
1 hour: Practicum hour logging
1 hour: Online Photo Album Updating
2 hours: Graphic Design for Print Material
1 hour: Printing/Cutting office material
2 hours: Leading at youth intern outing

Work Samples From This Week:

Generic Notes Card Front

Generic Notes Card Back

My Thoughts:

Sunday I did the usual, except we had an invite night so it was more like an event than a service. I also volunteered to start up a snack cafe type thing in the youth lounge. I hope I can find time to do some more branding for that. I spent a lot of time this week shopping for supplies for the event, designing price pages for the snack bar, uploading and configuring music for the event, and managing lighting and the computer during the service. Sometimes I wish I had an assistant to help with stuff like this during service, but it will be so hard to find time to train them and to do it exactly as it needs to be done for communicating the right thing at the right time during a service; I know a youth could do it but I fear they just won't be able to do it right, but I know I should be more trusting and less perfectionist. We have also been printing too many note cards so I was advised to make generic ones that we can recycle and reuse every week. This week is also the first of three weeks that we will be having summer youth interns who are at my bidding whenever I need help! I am looking forward to delegating my grunt work off to them or when it is crunch time around service.