"Working" is a community.
What makes this group a community is that they all work together for a single purpose on the job. The purpose of this community's job is to produce materials that promote student events and activities. This main purpose holds the various parts of this group together. Some people work specifically on advertising, budgeting, and hosting the student activities and events.
This community shares an interest in broadening the cultural atmosphere of the student body at Everett Community College by providing opportunities for the students to have exposure to various events without having to leave the campus. The group also has a need for support from each other, and for each other. This interdependency helps keep the cogs of the wheel in motion. Shared values of this group includes wanting to help students to connect to each other, give them opportunities to 'give back' to the student body and this helps develop a sense of community for the student body in general.
Tensions can arise in this group when different working members have differing ideas about how to promote an activity or event. Some people emphasize the complexity involved in a project, while some people have a simpler approach because they want to make it less confusing to the viewing public. Personal preferences can lead to some mild conflict which spurs open debate so that in the end, we can come to a compromise that everyone accepts.
I personally fit into this group by sharing certain skills and my philosophy of graphic design with the others in this 'community'. I in turn appreciate the specific skills the other members of the community contribute to make the overall project or assignment a success. I enjoy my role of assistant graphic designer, because it gives me lots of practical experience of working as a team to promote and produce worthy events. I find this to be a gratifying form of connecting to the smaller group at work, which then connects me to the broader community of the Everett Community College student body by communicating these events and activities to them in a meaningful way.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
"My Wallet-My Identity"
Hey Folks,
I suppose if somebody was to look in my wallet, they would first notice that it is organized and simple. This so happens to reflect how I like to run my life. But if someone was looking for money in my wallet, they would probably suspect that I am not a wealthy person. With just one credit card (relatively hidden), a much more prominent debit card, and only a few dollars, along with easily accessible store 'discount' cards, it may be obvious that I am always looking for a way to save money (and that I don't rely on my credit card very much). This also reflects my general take on life, in that my main focus in life is not the accumulation of "things", rather the importance of people in my life.
As far as important people in my life goes, I think my wallet would be able to identify me as someone engaged to be married soon, since I have a business card from a jewelry store, and one from a tux rental place. They would even have a pretty good idea of what my fiance' looks like, because a couple photos of her are obvious when my wallet is opened up.
One could also assume I am a die-hard Mariner's baseball fan as a ticket from their terrible 2008 season is still in my wallet. What would NOT be obvious is that the ticket is still in my wallet because it represents the one time I went to the game with just my Dad last year. So for me, it wasn't so much that I love the Mariners 'no matter what', but that I rarely get the opportunity to have one-on-one time with my Dad.
My voter registration card may give the impression that I participate in the voting process, although it would NOT indicate which political party I usually vote for, or how closely I follow politics in general.
And my wallet does NOT tell that I am studying to be a graphic designer, although one would see that I have a student identification card for Everett Community College in my wallet.
It also would NOT be obvious how much my family means to me, since I keep my wallet light, and don't carry any other photos but the two of my fiance'.
My driver's license is obviously the most factual piece of identification about me; detailing my address, birth date, photograph, signature, need for visual correction, organ donor status, height, weight, etc. Although it contains true facts about me, they are not a complete description of my identity and personality.
I suppose if somebody was to look in my wallet, they would first notice that it is organized and simple. This so happens to reflect how I like to run my life. But if someone was looking for money in my wallet, they would probably suspect that I am not a wealthy person. With just one credit card (relatively hidden), a much more prominent debit card, and only a few dollars, along with easily accessible store 'discount' cards, it may be obvious that I am always looking for a way to save money (and that I don't rely on my credit card very much). This also reflects my general take on life, in that my main focus in life is not the accumulation of "things", rather the importance of people in my life.
As far as important people in my life goes, I think my wallet would be able to identify me as someone engaged to be married soon, since I have a business card from a jewelry store, and one from a tux rental place. They would even have a pretty good idea of what my fiance' looks like, because a couple photos of her are obvious when my wallet is opened up.
One could also assume I am a die-hard Mariner's baseball fan as a ticket from their terrible 2008 season is still in my wallet. What would NOT be obvious is that the ticket is still in my wallet because it represents the one time I went to the game with just my Dad last year. So for me, it wasn't so much that I love the Mariners 'no matter what', but that I rarely get the opportunity to have one-on-one time with my Dad.
My voter registration card may give the impression that I participate in the voting process, although it would NOT indicate which political party I usually vote for, or how closely I follow politics in general.
And my wallet does NOT tell that I am studying to be a graphic designer, although one would see that I have a student identification card for Everett Community College in my wallet.
It also would NOT be obvious how much my family means to me, since I keep my wallet light, and don't carry any other photos but the two of my fiance'.
My driver's license is obviously the most factual piece of identification about me; detailing my address, birth date, photograph, signature, need for visual correction, organ donor status, height, weight, etc. Although it contains true facts about me, they are not a complete description of my identity and personality.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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