As some of you know, I currently work (volunteer? intern?) at People's Emergency Center (PEC) in the Center for Digital Inclusion & Technology (CDIT) as part of my Mission Year experience. My time here so far has been interesting to say the least, but as my first month at PEC draws to a close, I feel like I'm finally beginning to find my niche. After spending my first three weeks completing random and sporadic assignments (read: little to nothing), I finally started developing a work load for myself this week!
I began the week by tackling our work study program. Fourteen college students with very little supervision and a pitiful excuse for a schedule doesn't cut it for me. I reorganized the schedule, developed and assigned specific roles to each student, and am in the process of creating and implementing policies and procedures. No more getting paid to study on my watch!
Next, I dove into sorting out the issues with our sixth grade after school computer class. I changed the schedule to better meet our needs, removed all the middle men, and gave our new instructor the freedom to make the class her own. Streamlining is beautiful.
On Wednesday, the most amazing thing happened: one of my coworkers announced that she is starting a quarterly departmental newsletter. Can you guess how many seconds elapsed before I offered to help?! I would venture to say that three is a gross overstatement. :) We've decided to name it communIT(y) news, hence the title of this post. The tagline is "Bringing Information Technology to West Philly." I've already written two stories for this quarter's edition!
Next week, I will begin revamping (deleting and recreating?) CDIT's Facebook page. Once it's functional, I need everyone to "Like" it!
Oh, and we also had a graphic designer come in this week to work with our department on creating a logo. I LOVE what he came up with; once it's finalized, I'll post a pic!
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