I found a very exciting site on food games. These are online games and are very educational. 

check it out: http://www.foodlink.org.uk/testyourself.asp#

Week two of my prototyping..!!!!

My Ideas and prototypes:

1. I am currently working on the career fair. The idea has been approved and so now we have to see how many clients are ready with their resumes and cover letters. 

2. Databases: Its an ongoing work that we are doing at the center, we are creating a database for every client. There are 75 units which has at least one person looking for job. So this database will help us find out who at this point of time needs special attention.

3. Back to career fair, we have thought of organizing it somewhere in october and will be inviting clients from other shelters. 

4. Hopefully if this works well , we will have one career fair every month open to all the WIN shelters.

5. I also wanted to bring in the idea of games and learning. So I will be organizing a game with the staff to teach them importance of internet search engines and also usage of emails.

Now my questions:

1. I know i am doing a lot of work at the residence and it all contributes to my thesis but i am still uncertain as to what element am I missing .

2. I know everything i am doing is a part of my research , but what is the definition of a successful thesis..????

Prototyping

Hi,

So i have been doing lot of stuff. I had interviewed few clients who came for my workshop last week and asked them -"why they think its important to find a job? "
There answers were eye-opening, I have uploaded them on the Jennie Clarke site : jennieclarke.wordpress.com . Also that gave me a sense of their problems and their motivations.

After our discussion in class I also felt that there was a strong need to create a safe space for them. We were completely disregarding the fact that these people have faced a lot in life and our happy with a safe cornerof their own.

So my next prototype/ experiment is - organizing a Career Fair at the center.

I have already got the idea approved and now I am calling employers who can come in and take interviews.

We have Burger King and a security company coming in. We yet need to finalize a date. I hope it goes well.

Once the flyer is up i'll have it linked to the blog.

A great achievement!!!!

So the best achievement is that one of the client I was helping with building resume and finding jobs ...got a call for interview .

Also people are slowly and steadily understanding the power a technology and how easy and efficient life becomes when you know how you can incorporate it within the sphere of your demands.

Development updates:

Another development: I am in the process of introducing the blog to the clients. Have been absolutely busy in creating their resume and teaching them how to upload it on to the different job posting sites.
I will be conducting the computer training workshop every Tuesday. So hopefully people will be in the computer lab more often.
We are also introducing a blog night for the residents in which they will be formally introduced to the blog and will eventually be asked to visit it once in a day.
One response that I got form a client was via mail saying that she found her current job through the blog and she wanted to thank me!
What a great feeling.....!!!!

Another Workshop.....

I am doing a resume building workshop with the clients here. Doing one to one interviews and helping them create a great resume in hopes that it will help them land into a great job.
Its amazing to see the fight some of them have face everyday...mere existence is a nightmare for some......

Meha

First Workshop......

Finally took my first workshop at Jennie Clarke Residence. It was great to receive such a huge response from the residents there. Most of them were eager to learn how to use Microsoft word for their benefit. They created their resume and posted it online.

One of the client in particular was amazing to work with , she came in with the most negative attitude and left with the most positive mindset.

She came back again the next day and asked for my help in sending out her resume. And believe it or not learnt how to make Internet work for her benefit.
It was the most amazing experience........!!!