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

Week 5: A brackish week

Well nothing has changed much over the past week as my last day of work during week 4 was on wednesday and the first day I worked this week was today. I pretty much worked on the anatomy table today again and took some mental notes as to what I should write in my "guide" to presenting the anatomy table. Tomorrow (Tuesday) I plan on talking to my mentor about working on other presentations and possibly introducing some STEM classes with legos and Knex to the general public!

Looking forward to future weeks!

Jacob Dixon

Week 4: The Body

So most of you heard me talk about the "anatomy table" last week in class, and this was the first week that I really had the opportunity to use it! Basically, my job this week was to "run" the anatomy table this week. I wasn't necessarily given any instructions on what to do with it other than show visitors the exhibit. I decided to come up with a little demonstration that I would use to go through the various systems of the body. It ended up being a hit and whenever visitors would come to the anatomy table it they loved learning about the body! My supervisor ended up hearing so many good things about my presentation that today she asked me to go through it with the other workers that manned the anatomy table when I wasn't there, talk about being put on the spot!
Anyways, I'm going to post a couple pics of some of the slides of the anatomy table and I hope to get a short video of it up here soon.
Hope you all had a great week!

Cheers,
Jacob Dixon