Blog 18: Answer 2

1. What is your EQ? 
    What is the best strategy that a shelter can employ that will improve the chances that it's animals get adopted?
2. What is your first answer? 
     The first answer to my EQ is, the best strategy a shelter can employ is to promote individual animals.
3. What is your second answer? 
    The second answer to my EQ would be good customer service at the shelter.
4. List three reason your answer is true with real-world application for each. 
     -  If another human being is within 4 feet of you, you must make eye contact, smile and verbally acknowledge him or her
       This more for the complaints that customers have
     - Take the time to fully hear and acknowledge the complaint
     - Apologize genuinely and sincerely, no matter what, since we're always sorry if someone has had a bad experience with us
5. What printed sources best support your answer? 
     There are no printed that I used that supported my second answers.
6. What other source supports your answer? 
     I used a blog post from ASPCA that actually backed up my source. The title of the blog post was called "2 Golden Rules for Happy Customers".
7. Tie this together with a concluding thought.
     In the end customer service is also important when it comes to pet adoption. You can't just have rude employees that work at the shelter, then people are not going to want to go back to that shelter because they don't want to have to deal with them.

Blog 17: Interview 3 Reflection

This is the person that I interviewed. His name is Kyle and he is a kennel attendant at my mentorship 

1. what is the most important thing I learned from the interview?
    I basically learned more about my topic. My interviewee also helped me think of more answers and more activity ideas. I also learned a bit more about my interviewee and got to see how they viewed the shelter.

2. How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
    I feel like interviewing does help in a way. For example you get to see what they see and you get to hear what they have to say about the topic. You also get to see how passionate people are about their jobs and topics. But I feel information wise it did not really help me.

Interview 3 audio 

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

1. Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
    What I plan on doing is making flyer for individual animals. But I will not do them by hand I will do them on the computer. I will post them on social media's like Instagram and twitter etc. My goal is to at least get one animal from the shelter adopted. I also plan on taking pictures of them and record them and also post it on social media. 

2. Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
     What I will do is get around 4 or 5 animals a week and create these flyers and post them in social media's. The flyers would probably take around 2 or 3 hours to make perfect. 


3. Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

    This component will help me explore my topic a bit more because I get to see the process of trying to get these animals adopted. I really want to get an animal adopted with my hard work. I will also talk to the other volunteers that take part in the Glamour Shots (they take photos and videos of dogs and post them on social media) and might also help them. 

Blog 15: Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, Sabrina Velez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 34 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component. There was no actual source that helped me complete my independent component. My independent component was more hands on work. 
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work. 

These photos are from the different events that I went to and I got 12 hours. But for following pictures are apart of mentorship I got the rest of my hours 18 hours by doing extra mentorship hours. I really dont have time to be using my phone when I mentor thats why their arent as many pictures. 

I still have more pictures but I don't want to overwhelm my post with a lot of pictures. I will probably post another blog post with all of my pictures. 

How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. This component actually helped me answer my EQ!!! At first I wasn't sure if it would be helpful but my independent component lead the way to my first answer. This component helped my answer my question because at my shelter they promote animals like the way my research said it should be done. By the way my EQ is "what is the best strategy a shelter can employ that will improve the chances that it's animals get adopted?" and my answer was "The best strategy is to promote individual animals". This helped my understand my topic better because my shelter promoted individual animals and they actually had different kinds of pet adopts that basically got most of the animals adopted. 

Blog 14: Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
    I am proud with the outcome of my activity. The reason I am proud is because some people actually tried and some wanted to even keep the flyer that they made. Some people actually posted some in classrooms. 

2. a. What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)? 
         The grade I would give myself is a P.
    b. Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 
         The reason I deserve a P is because I hit all the points I had to hit on the rubric. I am also glad that I did better with my volume  because in my last presentation I didn't really speak as loud. 

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
     What worked for me is the activity. This worked for me because people actually loved it and wanted to post the flyers to help those homeless dogs :')   

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
     I feel like I should have add more information to my presentation because I only hit 9 mins for my lecture. But when I practiced my lecture time was 12 minutes. I feel like this might have happened because I left somethings out and was talking at a quicker pace. 

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
     I think my answer two is going to be " costumer service". This is crucial to answering my question because if the costumer service is terrible people are not going to want to adopt and animals. If the employees are rude no one is going to want to get into problems with them.