November 4, 2009 by kathleenpatton
Graduation Event Wrap Up
Session Beginning Date: September 15, 2009
Graduation Date: October 20, 2009
Location: 2200 Virginia Ave Santa Monica, CA 90404
Time: 7:00 to 9:00pm
Emcee: Chris Liu
Guest Speakers: Katy Porter
Names of Instructors:
Cri-Help: Smriti, Tyson, Robert, Francis
Walden House: Joanne, Jonathan, Dawn, Derin
House of Uhuru: Chris, Dan, Kaoru, Paul
The Ceremony began with the Emcee; Chris Liu’s, welcoming the graduates and guests. Chris congratulated the graduates and then detailed the night’s events. Chris, who has been teaching the CDD classes for the past two sessions, expressed how much he enjoyed teaching and meeting the students and wished them all future success. Following Chris’ introduction, Katy Porter, our Guest Speaker took the stage. Katy’s motivational speech inspired everyone in the audience. Her speech concentrated on having a focus on goals and taking positive steps to accomplish them. Kathy used a story about a boy with a goal to be an astronaut, in the story the boy does anything necessary to achieve his goal, during his quest to become an astronaut he becomes an eye Doctor and discovers he’s a decent Doctor. Kathy’s story concentrated on achieving your goals and discovering new things along the way.
Our first Student Speaker was from House of Uhuru, followed by Walden House and Cri-Help center. Each of the three student speakers read their 500-word papers in front of the audience. Their experiences were touching and expressive, acknowledging CDD’s positive role in their lives. Uhuru had a very dedicated speaker, one who through his speech, showed he was ready to get back what he has lost. The Speaker from Walden House was very lively and inspiring. Cri-Help’s representative had the most heart-warm story out of the three; she spoke about her family and marriage. Throughout the ceremony, Mark Hanauer the CDD Event’s Photographer, walked about capturing the moment of each of the Speakers; Audience and Guests. To Conclude the Ceremony, CDD Staff and two personnel from each of the centers stood inline on stage as each of the students were called to receive their certificates.
At the end of the ceremony, the Graduates and their guest along with the CDD Instructors and facility personnel from each of the centers enjoyed refreshments, took pictures and socialized among themselves. The ceremony over all was smooth and well organized. The Guests enjoyed themselves in a relaxed environment. The Graduating Students and their Guests made the night shine with pride as seen from the many smiling faces.
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October 25, 2009 by kathleenpatton
Instructor EOC Report
Center Name: House of Uhuru
Beginning Date: 9/15/2009
Graduation Date: 10/20/2009
Names of the four Instructors: Kaoru, Paul, Daniel, Chris
The session started out with 14 students with a few of them having had experience using computers and the rest being completely new to the computer. One student in particular (Annette) was very intimidated by the computer.
The session started off well, with instructors Dan and Chris teaching the Computer Discovery terms to some very enthusiastic students. The students were happy to learn the difference between memory (RAM) and hard drive, as well as seeing a motherboard for the first time. Paul joined us as an instructor a couple of classes into the session but was able to pick up easily and helped Kaoru teach the rest of the session. Throughout the course, students were able to learn the mouse, cutting and pasting, copying and dragging, MS Windows, the ins and outs of MS Word, and the Internet. By the end of the course, students were ready to jump onto the Internet to search for various items to help their journey – jobs, apartments, schools.
James was inspired to apply at LA Trade Tech to learn computer repair. Demetrus, who already knew a lot about computers, was disruptive towards the beginning of the session but calmed down enough to help a couple of students type their papers. He ended up presenting his own paper at graduation to thunderous applause.
Annette, who initially struggled, worked very hard to complete her paper and happily graduated with her colleagues. She plans to use the computer to track expenses in her future fabric store business. Other students did similarly well, building on their existing knowledge of computers. Tameka intends to use her newfound skills to promote her hairdressing talent. Tony, Allen, and Raymond developed their mouse using capabilities (a difficult thing for someone who has never used a mouse before). Allen even learned how to change his mouse settings so that he can use his mouse with his preferred hand (left). Most students also improved their typing skills, utilizing the class to practice on the Mavis Beacon typing software. Osbaldo had a tougher time than most because English is his second language. He persevered though and was able to graduate and receive his certificate.
All in all 9 students graduated, each with new skills developed in the class. Even though a couple of students left the facility and other students could not complete the class for personal reasons, we were very proud of the students who did stay and ‘stick it out’ for the 6 weeks. Both the staff at House of Uhuru and the CDD instructors (Kaoru, Paul, Dan, and Chris) gave them huge congratulations at graduation.
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October 18, 2009 by kathleenpatton
WEEKLY CLASS REPORT
Walden House /10-17-2009
Opening Comments:
The final class started on time. Dawn is “illing” so I covered the class solo.
Attendance:
We had 7 students in attendance. Jimmy and James were unable to attend.
INTRODUCTIONS OR OVERVIEW:
I took roll and laid out the agenda for the day.
1ST TOPIC COVERED:
We reviewed the prescribed 15 words in the Email vocabulary
2ND TOPIC COVERED:
I had all attending students present their papers.
ADDITIONAL TOPICS:
N/A
LAB TIME:
Lab time was spent having the students who hadn’t finish their papers work on that. We have 6 typed up papers which are attached with this report.
FINAL NOTES:
The class went very well. The students are excited about the upcoming graduation. David Chase was marked off as having completed his paper on Tuesday. He unfortunately misplaced the paper so he did not turn in a paper today.
After listening to the presentations, I concur with the Tuesday team’s assertion that Eric B. is the ideal presenter for the class. I would also like to recommend Shawn S. as the alternate.
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October 13, 2009 by kathleenpatton
WEEKLY CLASS REPORT
Uhuru House /10-06-2009
OPENING COMMENTS:
Class started at 7PM. Students were anxious about the quiz on Computer Discovery Terms.
ATTENDANCE:
We had 12 students in attendance. Jamie Alexander has left Uhuru House. Sedrict Shyn was absent.
INTRODUCTIONS OR OVERVIEW:
The students were asked if they wanted to take the quiz at the beginning of class or after the break. It was decided to take the quiz at the beginning so that the students could get it over with and also to avoid any distractions of students trying to study for the quiz during class.
1ST TOPIC COVERED:
After the quiz, Chris went over the second half of Module 2. He went over Cut, Copy, and Paste, and had students try cutting and copying/pasting words and phrases in Word. He also showed students how to cut and copy/paste a folder in My Documents. During this time, Daniel graded the quizzes.
2ND TOPIC COVERED:
Daniel then went over MS Word. He talked about headers/footers, fonts, page layouts, and page views. We went row by row among the tables and had students change their fonts and page views. We also took this opportunity to have the students demonstrate their skills at cutting and copying/pasting.
3RD TOPIC COVERED:
We also went over dialog boxes and had students change their page layout into various formats – landscape/portrait, letter/legal size, and different margins.
ADDITIONAL TOPICS:
None
LAB TIME:
Besides lecture and the quiz, most of the class time was spend doing hands-on exercises on the computer, mostly in MS Word. Students practiced cutting and pasting and changing their fonts (style, size, and color).
FINAL NOTES:
Demetrus was spoken to about listening to music during class. He said that he will stop. Internet access was unavailable. He also spent most of the class time typing his paper since he is already knowledgeable about the topics that were covered. The “Internet” light on the modem does not light up which could possibly mean that there is no Internet – last week when the Internet was working, that light was green. The device was rebooted and both jacks on the DSL line were tried. None of the computers were able to access the Internet. Perhaps the tech savvy Saturday team could take a look.
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October 11, 2009 by kathleenpatton
WEEKLY CLASS REPORT
Walden House /10-10-2009
Opening Comments:
The 4th Saturday class started on time. All attending students were in class on time.
Attendance:
We had 9 students in attendance. Javier Herrera has dropped out of the class
INTRODUCTIONS OR OVERVIEW:
We took roll and laid out the agenda for the day.
1ST TOPIC COVERED:
We went over public speaking and presentations. We covered off on the Do’s and Don’ts of a good presentation.
2ND TOPIC COVERED:
Dawn reviewed the Internet materials
LAB TIME:
We skipped break and continued right into lab time. Most of the students have finished handwriting their papers and are now typing them. We spent lab time helping them out with their papers.
FINAL NOTES:
The class went very well. Still very drama-free!
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October 7, 2009 by kathleenpatton
WEEKLY CLASS REPORT
Walden House /10-03-2009
Opening Comments:
The3rd Saturday class started on time. All attending students were in class on time.
Attendance:
We had 9 students in attendance. Joe Gates had a pass and was unable to attend
INTRODUCTIONS OR OVERVIEW:
We took roll and laid out the agenda for the day.
1ST TOPIC COVERED:
We reviewed the last 5 computer discovery terms.
2ND TOPIC COVERED:
Dawn reviewed the 2nd half of module two starting covering the menu and dialog box topics
ADDITIONAL TOPICS:
We covered the first 4 pages of the MS Word demonstration document discussing word processing, in general and MS word specifically.
LAB TIME:
Lab time was spent going over the suggested practice exercises. We had the student create word documents; create personal folders in “my documents” and save their documents. We also showed them how to access their saved documents.
FINAL NOTES:
The class went very well. The students were a bit nervous about the upcoming quiz but we were able to reassure them that nothing would be outside of the scope of what had been covered in class so far. The class is coming along nicely. One thing to note though, Steve Protillo might have some literacy issues as he struggled with spelling common words.
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October 4, 2009 by kathleenpatton
WEEKLY CLASS REPORT
Cri-Help/Oct.03, 2009
Attendance:
There were thirteen students in total.
1ST TOPIC COVERED:
Robert reviewed model 2 , Terms in Computer Discovery, Topics in the workbook up through page 34 putting more Emphasis on Dialog Boxes, working with the mouse ,keyboard and used examples from Ms-Word..
2ND TOPIC COVERED:
Francis briefly went through MS-Word with he students a long in the work book up to page 4. and explained that muc of it will be carried out during Lab Time
ADDITIONAL TOPICS COVERED
There was no additional topics covered.
LAB TIME:
The students where divided into two groups where by each group had Aprox. 20min for hands on training on Computer , (eg. Typing using Ms-word Program) it was taken care of by Francis, then 20min completing their paper and presentation assignments was discussed by -Robert.
FINAL NOTES:
Two students handled in their outline paper that is Devin Parker and Susan Holzborn , then two where discharged from the center (Gabriel Gonzalez and Kingsey Campbell
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