If I Could Do It All Over Again… 1. Don’t expect your living situation to be perfect 2. You can’t “study” like you did in high school 3. Going out on a Wednesday is cool and fun, but your 8 am lab won’t appreciate it too much. 4. The friends you have in August may notbe around in May 5. Make memories. You will never get your first year back!
REFLECTIVE JOURNALING TOOLS Reflective J ournalingTools LEARNING: • How is practice different from theory? Did this exercise help you to understand your theory and the application of theory better? How? Why? • Did you learn anything that helped you to better understand a theory, the use of a test that you were taught in lectures/labs? • What did you learn that were not taught in lectures (e.g. communication with patients), and how did you cope or learn more about this to improve your performance? Or how can this be incorporated into lectures? • Did this exercise help you to remember or recall later other aspects of previous experiences that you have forgotten? • Did this exercise help you identify areas that need to be changed, improved etc. in yourself/peers/staff/clinical training etc. Why and how? • What actions did you take you take and what are the results (what did you learn)? SELF ASSESSMENT: • Did you identify areas/issues that you were unclear of, or disagreed with your supervisors/peers, or different from what you have learned in your past lectures? Justify the actions taken. Did this help you in your learning? How? • Have you been open to share with others and to listen what others have to say? • Have you paid attention to both your strong and weak points? Can you identify them? What are you going to do about them? • How did faculty supervision/RW help you in your clinical experiences in relation to your professional growth? (eg. did it encourage you to be more independent, to become more confident in professional activities and behaviors etc) • What have you noted about yourself, your learning altitude, your relationship with peers/supervisors etc. that has changed from doing this exercise? COMMUNICATION: • What have you learned from interacting with others (peers/supervisors/staff etc)? • Did your peers gain anything from YOUR involvement in this exercise and vice versa? • Did this exercise encourage and facilitate communication? • Did you clarify with your supervisors/peers about problematic issues identified? Why (not)? What are the results? • How could you/your peers/staff help you overcome negative emotions arising from your work? Did your show empathy for your peers? PROFESSIONALISM: • Did you learn that different situations call for different strategies in management? • What are the good and bad practices that you have identified? How would you suggest to handle the bad/poor practices identified (if any)? • Did you learn to accept and use constructive criticism? • Did you accept responsibility for your own actions? • Did you try to maintain high standard of performance? • Did you display a generally positive altitude and demonstrate self-confidence? • Did you demonstrate knowledge of the legal boundaries and ethics of contact lens practice? EMOTION & PERSONAL GROWTH: • Did you reflect on your feelings when dealing with the case/peers/supervisor (eg. frustration, embarrassment, fear) for this exercise? If not, why not? If yes, who should be responsible — you, your patient or your supervisor? Why? • Did you find reflection (as required for this exercise) helpful, challenging, and enjoyable, change the way you learn? How? Why (not)? • How and what did you do to handle negative emotions arising from doing this subject? How could these feelings be minimized? • Did you try to find out if your feelings were different from your peers? Why? What did you do to help your peers? • Did you reflect on your learning altitude? How was it? Is there room for improvement? How? Why (not)? • What did you learn about your relationship with your peers/supervisors? What did you learn about working with others? Ideas for Reflective Journaling Writing Contributor(s): Dr. Michael Ying and Dr. Pauline Cho
Replay QoE measurement Old way: QoE = Server + Network Modern way: QoE = Servers + Network + Browser Browsers are smart Parallelism on multiple connections JavaScript execution can trigger additional queries Rendering introduces delays in resource access Caching and pre-fetching HTTP replay cannot approximate real Web browser access to resources 0.25s 0.25s 0.06s 1.02s 0.67s 0.90s 1.19s 0.14s 0.97s 1.13s 0.70s 0.28s 0.27s 0.12s 3.86s 1.88s Total network time GET /wiki/page 1 Analyze page GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET combined.min.css jquery-ui.css main-ltr.css commonPrint.css shared.css flaggedrevs.css Common.css wikibits.js jquery.min.js ajax.js mwsuggest.js plugins...js Print.css Vector.css raw&gen=css ClickTracking.js Vector...js js&useskin WikiTable.css CommonsTicker.css flaggedrevs.js Infobox.css Messagebox.css Hoverbox.css Autocount.css toc.css Multilingual.css mediawiki_88x31.png 2 Rendering + JavaScript GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET ExtraTools.js Navigation.js NavigationTabs.js Displaytitle.js RandomBook.js Edittools.js EditToolbar.js BookSearch.js MediaWikiCommon.css 3 Rendering + JavaScript GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET GET 4 GET GET GET GET GET GET page-base.png page-fade.png border.png 1.png external-link.png bullet-icon.png user-icon.png tab-break.png tab-current.png tab-normal-fade.png search-fade.png Rendering search-ltr.png arrow-down.png wiki.png portal-break.png portal-break.png arrow-right.png generate page send files send files mBenchLab – [email protected] BROWSERS MATTER FOR QOE? send files send files + 2.21s total rendering time 6
Using Interview Results To Step 7: Designate persona types Construct Personas Jake Parker (Event Cataloger) Jake is a 23-year-old senior in college and is part of the fraternity Sigma Sigma Lambda. He lives with 16 frat brothers in the frat house, and true to reputation, he parties hard on the weekends. However, he mostly focuses on school work and his geography classes (his major) during the week to try and maintain reasonable grades. His social life revolves around parties, meeting new people as well as enjoying the camaraderie of his frat brothers. He was going out with a girl named Mindy for a while but broke up with her a few months ago. Now he’s playing the field. Jake is less computer savvy than many people his age since learning how to use computers was never a high priority for him. He could always find something he’d rather be doing, and for that matter, he usually had people that could help him, so he knows how to use the basics of the operating system, how to browse the Internet, and how to send email, but not too much more. He uses a computer in the common area of the frat house he doesn’t own one himself. His parents gave Jake a digital camera for his birthday but he doesn’t use it much. Shooting pictures of high-quality isn’t too important to him. He sometimes takes the camera along if he is going on an extended outing such as a ski trip, but mostly he just carries a recent-model camera phone. He’s had his current camera phone for about a month and his previous model for about 6 months. He has saved over 500 pictures from them. He finds himself snapping pictures of his friends in “compromising situations” so that he can give them friendly hassles later on. He always takes a few pictures of the fun times with his buddies when he goes to bars, clubs and to parties. He forgets to download the pictures to the computer until his camera gets full every week or two. Then he muddles through downloading. He likes to get pictures posted to the private area of the server for his frat so he can show how much fun he’s having. Jake rarely looks back on photos that are much more than a month old, but he figures he’ll take his photos with him on a CD when he leaves university so he can remember the good times. Goals: • To post his pictures on the Internet so he can increase camaraderie with his new friends, fraternity brothers and social contacts. • To print his pictures as a source of joking and fun for use with his frat brothers who live in his house. CS 321 • To limit access to certain pictures for viewing only by his fraternity brothers. Lesson Six • To easily find more appropriate photos for very occasional emailing to his more casual friends and family. Personas Page 12
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