Honors 496 is the flip side of Honors 100. It is the class we take at the end of our journey through the honors program at UW. Below are some required assignments from this class.
Artifact One: Outside of School
This picture was taken November 12, 2012: my first day as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) at Seattle Children's Hospital. Having the opportunity to work in such unique environment has greatly influenced my academic path in college. Being a CNA has time and time again reaffirmed my desire to go to become a nurse, I believe, played a large role in my acceptance to nursing school.
Artifact Two: Coursework
During winter quarter 2014 I took Epidemiology 380. It was a fascinating, but fairly challenging class. I am very proud of my final score, a 92.8%, which turned out to be a 3.9!
Artifact Three: Learning Journey
I believe my two quarter Public Health Capstone Course is serving as a culmination of sorts for my learning journey at UW. In the class we focus a lot on reflection as a means to synthesize what we have learned in Public Health classes and that which we are learning at our service sites. Recently, I wrote a reflection the similarities and differences I have observed between myself and the individuals I serve at Seattle Union Gospel Mission.
Audience, Organization, & Question
Think Out Loud Protocol Preparation
I spent the last week updating and reworking my portfolio so it is more accessible (and hopefully less “yearbook-ey”) to my peers. I changed the organization of the portfolio to encompass three different categories: “Journey to Nursing School,” “Roadmap to Public Health,” and “Honors,” which are all experiences that have been formative in shaping my time at UW. These tabs replaced the links I had previously had, which had denoted each year I have spent at the University, as the guiding factor of my portfolio. I hope that my new organization provides a more initiative path to move through my website. I have many enlarged words in my descriptions of classes and other artifacts, which link to other pages and stories. As a result I think there are many different ways my peers can navigate through my portfolio. Depending on the links they initially click, they may end up reading a reflection on my experience working at a men’s homeless shelter, or viewing my official acceptance letter into UW Nursing. One aspect that I am still struggling with is that although many of the pages are linked, there is no forced navigation between the three categories. Students will have to click on the top main menu bar to navigate between major topics. This could potentially be a stumbling block for my peers, and I look forward to getting feedback on the structure. I think my peers will focus most of their attention on my “Journey to Nursing School” section, as that is the place where I have the most content, which only makes sense since it has been a huge part of my university experience. I am excited about the recent changes I have made to my website and I hope that my updated portfolio is easy to navigate and interesting to read!
I spent the last week updating and reworking my portfolio so it is more accessible (and hopefully less “yearbook-ey”) to my peers. I changed the organization of the portfolio to encompass three different categories: “Journey to Nursing School,” “Roadmap to Public Health,” and “Honors,” which are all experiences that have been formative in shaping my time at UW. These tabs replaced the links I had previously had, which had denoted each year I have spent at the University, as the guiding factor of my portfolio. I hope that my new organization provides a more initiative path to move through my website. I have many enlarged words in my descriptions of classes and other artifacts, which link to other pages and stories. As a result I think there are many different ways my peers can navigate through my portfolio. Depending on the links they initially click, they may end up reading a reflection on my experience working at a men’s homeless shelter, or viewing my official acceptance letter into UW Nursing. One aspect that I am still struggling with is that although many of the pages are linked, there is no forced navigation between the three categories. Students will have to click on the top main menu bar to navigate between major topics. This could potentially be a stumbling block for my peers, and I look forward to getting feedback on the structure. I think my peers will focus most of their attention on my “Journey to Nursing School” section, as that is the place where I have the most content, which only makes sense since it has been a huge part of my university experience. I am excited about the recent changes I have made to my website and I hope that my updated portfolio is easy to navigate and interesting to read!