Week 12: The final countdown

So it's the last week of blogging... kinda crazy. Anyways my last week is going to be pretty cool! Yesterday I was able to feed a 5 foot ratsnake two rats right out of my hand, which was really cool, I'll try and post a video soon. Also this Wednesday I'm going to be presenting my presentation of the table to the president of the Witte museum along with some of the big donors of the museum, which is pretty cool. Other than that I'm finalizing my project and getting ready to pack up for the 20ish hour drive back to Gainesville! See Y'all in a week!

Jacob

Week 11

So I honestly have nothing new to update this week. Last week was my birthday so I took off thursday so my first day of work this week was yesterday (Monday) and half of the day I helped build some shelves for some incoming materials instead of working on the anatomy table. Today it was back on the table, but there is one thing I would like to share. A group of special needs visitors came to the museum and were thrilled with the exhibits that we had. Some of them were more capable than others, but almost all of them enjoyed looking at the body and listening to what I had to say. It was really cool watching them be so interested in the body!

Cheers, one more week to go!

Jacob

Week 10

Well, nothing has happened much since last week. I'm still working the anatomy table which is really fun, but other than that nothing has changed. One cool thing is that next week I'm supposed to be working with some fossils, which sounds exciting! For the moment I'm just thinking of how I am going to present my final project of producing a "guide" on how to present the anatomy table to different age ranges: elementary kids, teenagers, and adults.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Jacob

Week Something or Another

Hey all! Not much to report this week, just working away at my anatomy table and helping visitors enjoy the museum. I've been brainstorming ideas for my project and am thinking about making short video segments on how to present the table to different age groups and highlight some of the differences that presenters might encounter.

One cool experience that I had this week was with a visitor who was heavily impaired with her mobility and could barely hear. I was able to show her the anatomy table, and because sign language is my foreign language I could talk her through most of my presentation which was really cool! Because of her disabilities she wasn't able to participate in most of the exhibits at the museum, but she was really happy because of the anatomy table and one other exhibit that I was able to help her with (where you literally "wear" the human body as a vest). She and her nurse (at least I think that's who she was) were so happy that they wrote an email to the WITTY about their experience. So cool that I was able to help her enjoy the museum :)

--I attached some pictures for you all to enjoy, have a great four more weeks!

Jacob

Week 8: Repeat

Well, nothing has really changed at my internship. I'm still working the anatomy table which is really fun, but other than that I haven't been doing anything else. I'm supposed to get training on some other presentations this week and I'll have more of an update after that. For now I'm just thinking of how I am going to present my final project of producing a "guide" on how to present the anatomy table to different age ranges: 3-4 year old kids, elementary kids, and teenagers/adults.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Jacob

Week 7: New Beginnings...

Hey Guys! Sorry my post is so late but I was busy working and giving swimming lessons until late tonight (and I'm out in Texas) :) Anyways, the internship is going well. I just had a meeting with Sarah (The public programs director), and in the coming weeks I will be trained to do some of the other programs that they have trained actors coming in to do, which makes me really excited! Also, the 5 minute presentations which are in the works need to be approved by the curator and then I will be working on training the junior volunteers on how to present them. Other than that I've been on the anatomy table plugging away! 

Enjoy your 'summer break' 

Jacob Dixon! 

Week 6: Upgrade

So most of these last week was similar to before: Anatomy table, lost of kids, learning more bones in my free times, ect... but then it all changed when the supervisors attacked...

Apparently I had been getting a lot of compliments about my presentation of the anatomy table, and my co-workers wanted to know what I was doing. So, I walked them through what I did and how I did it, so others could kind of "replicate" what I was doing. After this, my mentor, Liz, asked me to set up a meeting with Sarah (The director of public programs) because they wanted me to start helping design some short program presentations and train volunteers to work them. I thought that was pretty cool, and I'm excited to start doing something other than the anatomy table! Don't get me wrong, the thing is REALLY cool, but it's like watching your favorite move 5x a day for a few weeks. Eventually it gets a little old.

Other than that I came down with strep this weak, had a killer migraine all weekend, puked my guts out, and didn't feel like eating anything other than jello. Mainly because I would see anything else a second time in a not so preferred way.

I'll me meeting with Sarah this Thursday, and I'm excited to see what's going to happen!

Almost 1/2 way done!

JaCoB DiXoN