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ABOVE AND BEYOND REPORT
FALL 2016
Aditi Joshi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Work Dairies Fall 2016 (WD) ____________________________________________________________________________ 1
W1- technicalprofessionalism ___________________________________________________________________________________ 1
W2 ndash Professionalism _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
W3 - Customer Service ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 2
W4 ndash Technical _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2
W5 ndash Assistive Technology ________________________________________________________________________________________ 3
W6 - Technical _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4
W7 ndash Customer Service ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 4
W8 ndash Professionalism _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 5
W9 ndashprofessionalism Technical _________________________________________________________________________________ 6
W10 ndash Warm Fuzzies _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 7
CS Challenges ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 8
W1 ndash wordpress eportfolio ________________________________________________________________________________________ 8
W2 ndash Combination of Charts (excel) _____________________________________________________________________________ 10
W3 ndash Fillable forms (word) ______________________________________________________________________________________ 12
W4 ndash R basics _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13
W5 ndash Access _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14
W6 ndash Gimp _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15
W7 ndash Text to Columns COUNTIF Conditional Formatting (Excel) ____________________________________________ 16
W8 ndash PowerPoint Quiz____________________________________________________________________________________________ 18
W9 ndash Excel Solver _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19
W10 ndash Create a challenge ________________________________________________________________________________________ 20
DMC Challenges ________________________________________________________________________________________ 22
W1ndash Agents of the commons _____________________________________________________________________________________ 22
W2ndash How to create a character kit in adobe illustrator ________________________________________________________ 25
W3ndash Premiere (shoot a famous movie scene) __________________________________________________________________ 27
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip ______________________________________________________ 28
W4ndash photoshop extraction _______________________________________________________________________________________ 29
TABLE OF CONTENTS
W5ndash Geometric collage ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 31
W6ndash Indesign Poster _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 33
W7ndash 3d Perspective in PS _______________________________________________________________________________________ 34
W8ndash Levitation Portrait _________________________________________________________________________________________ 36
W9ndash Colouring in Lightroom _____________________________________________________________________________________ 38
W10ndash 3D in Photoshop CC _______________________________________________________________________________________ 39
MUCEP ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 40
Week 1 (13 sept 2-5) __________________________________________________________________________________________ 40
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100) ________________________________________________________________________________ 40
Week 1 (15 September 200-300) ___________________________________________________________________________ 40
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500) _________________________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300) ________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500) _________________________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300) _______________________________________________________________ 41
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200) __________________________________________________________________________________ 43
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500) _________________________________________________________________________________ 43
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 44
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 44
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300) ________________________________________________________________ 45
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 46
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300) __________________________________________________________________ 47
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 48
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300) ________________________________________________________________ 48
Overall Report __________________________________________________________________________________________ 52
Time _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 52
New things ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 52
Going onhellip _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 52
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Work Dairies Fall 2016 (WD)
W1- TECHNICALPROFESSIONALISM
bull Ah tradition Set a professional goal for yourself for this semester It need not be technical (eg
improved time management improved techniques for dealing with difficult clients improved DMC
abilities etc) Why are you setting yourself this goal How will you achieve it What will be the biggest
impediments to you achieving it
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC
skills Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and
communication skills I will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative
cloud and use it in person )
W2 ndash PROFESSIONALISM
bull Visit this site and take the quiz Think about a time that you were faced with a problemstressor that
tested your coping skills Does your quiz result reflect how you dealt with this issue After completing
this quiz what factors might you take into consideration if faced with a similar problem in the future
bull How Good Is Your Problem Solving
bull Do you solve problems systematically or do you just grasp the first solution that comes along Find out
how effectively you solve problems
This quiz was very interesting and it was kind of true in the way it calculated the outcome I usually
just jump into the solution and follow my intuition which leads to the right solution I scored 53
However the questions were hard to understand as it was very broad usually problem solving is
different per problem and type so to answer in a broad way is difficult I agree with Rick that the quiz
was hard to do
I would try to use the method the site told me about as I should try and slow down to be able to
understand the situation fully and also think through all the possible options and then choose the best
one
Your approach to problem solving is a little hit-and-miss Sometimes your solutions work
really well and other times they dont You understand what you should do and you
recognize that having a structured problem-solving process is important However you
dont always follow that process By working on your consistency and committing to the
process youll see significant improvements
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W3 - CUSTOMER SERVICE
bull An oldie but a goodie and Janes favorite question What do you think it the more important asset for
working at The Commons technical ability or customer service Why Which area do you feel you are
strongest in How has this helped or hindered you in this job
I think that working at the commons you kind of need both of these as they work hand in hand
However customer service is a more important asset then technical ability as even though you might know
how to fix complex problems and have no way to communicate the solution then it is of no point As
Stephanie said as long as you are willing to learn and improve your technical ability I feel that I am
strongest in communicating with people and helping out in most problems but I am still learning a lot more
every day This has helped me become a better troubleshooter
W4 ndash TECHNICAL
bull We like to end our interviews by having applicants complete a skill testing challenge as Irsquom sure you all
fondly remember Wersquove been using the same challenge for a few years so itrsquos time to change things up
Find me a quick technical challenge (no DMC challenges please) that we can use to test applicantsrsquo tech
skills Remember that we donrsquot expect interviewees to already know how to complete the challenge
wersquore testing their ability to figure it out People should reasonably be able to complete this challenge
(with the help of Google etc) in 15-20 minutes
I like Quentin Holberts idea about the excel sheet we could also try one of PowerPoint like the
previous challenge Create a 6 slide MS PowerPoint presentation with 3 transitions 3 images and
embedded video (not a link) Try to pick a short video to embed as the file size will be large if the video is
long Attach your finished presentation as a PowerPoint Show
We can also ask about the slide master etc
The link to the tutorials
httpwwwgcflearnfreeorgpowerpoiner-view3
httpssupportofficecomen-usartic8787ui
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W5 ndash ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
bull You may have used some of our AT programs such as Kurzweil Dragon or Inspiration but did you know
that we also have AT items available on reserve at Lending Services These include
bull AT iPad
bull Echo smart-pen
bull Smart-view Versa
bull Pen Scanner
bull iPad amp Stylus
bull This week sign out one of these items from Lending Services and give it a try What did you find most
useful about the reserve and could you see yourself using it in the future
bull We have a brief description of each item on our website Donrsquot hesitate to ask for help from Rachael
Steph or me (or Naomi) if you need it
I also tried the Iris-Pen I guess Quentin Holbert gave a full review about this device So I decided to try a
new way of seeing things It is a good device to scan the text it is very smooth and easy to use Anyone can
use it the instructions are very simple and it also tells when you are scanning it in different angles (pretty
cool D) I tried to scan different colors just to see how it detects them dark colors are easy to be detected
however when they are (pink - the Technical services leaflet or white on a colored back ground) It is
difficult to understand It shows different characters such as the attached image
It also has a hard time to read grey color or small sized fonts (Quentin already said it)
Overall it is a cool technology to have fun to use
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W6 - TECHNICAL
We always ask this question but I think its essential in this environment for you to be sharing your
knowledge with each other Share a technical trick youve used this semester to get a client out of a bind
bull I was helping a client last week on their PowerPoint presentation In the animations of the slides and
how to use the master slide
bull Then I found these links they can be useful for drawing shapes in PowerPoint
bull httpwwwavantixlearningcamicrosoks-shor
bull Also sometimes people are too lazy to animate each slide and make it more presentable so this site
gives amazing quick templates for the presentations
httpwwwfree-power-point-templatese-designs
W7 ndash CUSTOMER SERVICE
What has been your most notable customer interaction this semester It can be either positive or negative
(ie challenging rewarding demanding inspiring etc) What made it notable How did you handle it
bull Throughout the time working in the commons every day you learn something new
I was helping a client last month on Tuesday she was stressed out about a paper she needed to
complete which was due at 700 pm that day When I was doing rounds she came up to me to ask for
help She had been struggling to get the contents page to work her way when she saw me helping
another client with a similar issue in Word she came to me First thing I did was listen to her problem
and try to calm her down as she was starting to get agitated as it wasnt working I showed her how to
do it and pointed out her mistake which was that she has used the wrong font size for one of the
paragraphs therefore it kept showing up in the contents page After showing this she was very thankful
that I helped her out A week later she came up to desk and told me she got 90 in her essay and her
professor was impressed by her use of the contents page She was delighted by the service we are giving
to the students and this made me happy that I was able to help her in her studies Later that day she
came with a bunch of first years and told them that You ever need help in the library ask the commons
(People with red vests) they will try to help you the best way they can
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W8 ndash PROFESSIONALISM
Whats your work style Take this quiz and post your results Do they accurately describe your style
How has your working style benefited you at The Commons What challenges have you encountered
because of your working style
According to the quiz I am a Dexterous Dreamer
bull Do they accurately describe your style
Yes it does describe how I am
bull How has your working style benefited you at The Commons
Yes it has helped improve my troubleshooting skills and has improved my communication skills
bull What challenges have you encountered because of your working style
Sometimes while working the first answer you come up with for troubleshooting is no always the
correct one so to have many options is one thing that I learned Always have a plan B if A doesnt work
out
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W9 ndashPROFESSIONALISM TECHNICAL
Think back on your Week 1 goal Did you achieve it (Be honest) If yes how (Share resources if you have
them) If not why not
bull My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication
skills I will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it
in person
I have been able to reach my goal to some extent I have improved my time management skills as well as
DMC skills however not as much as I had hoped for Working on the marketing team has helped me
improve some of my designing skills I learned two new programs Emaze and Prezi this was a fun
experience
Tutoring was new step for me I had some step backs but I am trying to reach my goal for it This has
helped me become more comfortable in communicating with clients
Over all I think this semester was bit tougher as there were many new things going on and it was
harder for me to cope with the changes but in the end I managed to give everything my best shot
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W10 ndash WARM FUZZIES
This semester I was working with many new faces I enjoyed working with everyone I am glad to be an
agent of the commons
Andrea Rivera She is a great person to work with we usually met on Thursdays during my CS tutoring
hours she is a delight to work with a fast learner she has great communication skills and is an amazing
friend For me the commons is a small family where we all stay peacefully together even during hectic times
such as Orientation and exam week This semester was pretty crazy I had to put on my thinking socks for
some situations It was a pleasure working with the marketing team on the student life cycle as well as
doing all the fun challenges And everyone else in the commons all of you are amazing people and great
friends
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CS Challenges
W1 ndash WORDPRESS EPORTFOLIO
bull We did this challenge at the beginning of last semester but I want to highlight the service again and get
everyone set up with a portfolio space
bull CITL provides students with Wordpress space to develop an easily shared online portfolio We would
like for you all to be up to speed on how Wordpress works and promote the service To that end we
highly recommend that you routinely update your site every week to feature your challenges and any
additional projects you work on
bull
bull For this challenge get your eportfolio up and running with a home page pages for your challenges and
work diaries and a couple of posts Think about how you would present this website to us as yoursquore
Above and Beyond Report at the end of EVERY semester If youve already set up your eportfolio make
sure it is up to date - include old challenges reflection pieces etc
bull Set Up Instructions
bull Log into D2L
bull Click eportfolio at the top of the page
bull Read the User Guide if need be
bull Click Login
bull Customize your profile
bull Click Dashboard - My Sites
bull Go to [Name]s Portfolio
bull Start creating Its usually a good idea to start customizing your appearance and then start adding
posts
Here is my portfolio httpseportfoliomuncaadj174
I have played around with the portfolio tried changing the themes and editing the pictures
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W2 ndash COMBINATION OF CHARTS (EXCEL)
bull This tutorial was created by Rukshana Sundar I forgot to credit you Rukshana thus the edit Great job
bull Using the data provided or your own data file you provide create a chart combining two or more types
of graphs
bull At the end of this tutorial you will be able to
middot combine two types of graphs (ie bar graph and line graph) to represent data
middot alter the horizontal and vertical axes to combine data
middot add graph titles axis titles and legends
My work
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Work Dairies Fall 2016 (WD) ____________________________________________________________________________ 1
W1- technicalprofessionalism ___________________________________________________________________________________ 1
W2 ndash Professionalism _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
W3 - Customer Service ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 2
W4 ndash Technical _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2
W5 ndash Assistive Technology ________________________________________________________________________________________ 3
W6 - Technical _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4
W7 ndash Customer Service ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 4
W8 ndash Professionalism _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 5
W9 ndashprofessionalism Technical _________________________________________________________________________________ 6
W10 ndash Warm Fuzzies _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 7
CS Challenges ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 8
W1 ndash wordpress eportfolio ________________________________________________________________________________________ 8
W2 ndash Combination of Charts (excel) _____________________________________________________________________________ 10
W3 ndash Fillable forms (word) ______________________________________________________________________________________ 12
W4 ndash R basics _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13
W5 ndash Access _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14
W6 ndash Gimp _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15
W7 ndash Text to Columns COUNTIF Conditional Formatting (Excel) ____________________________________________ 16
W8 ndash PowerPoint Quiz____________________________________________________________________________________________ 18
W9 ndash Excel Solver _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19
W10 ndash Create a challenge ________________________________________________________________________________________ 20
DMC Challenges ________________________________________________________________________________________ 22
W1ndash Agents of the commons _____________________________________________________________________________________ 22
W2ndash How to create a character kit in adobe illustrator ________________________________________________________ 25
W3ndash Premiere (shoot a famous movie scene) __________________________________________________________________ 27
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip ______________________________________________________ 28
W4ndash photoshop extraction _______________________________________________________________________________________ 29
TABLE OF CONTENTS
W5ndash Geometric collage ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 31
W6ndash Indesign Poster _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 33
W7ndash 3d Perspective in PS _______________________________________________________________________________________ 34
W8ndash Levitation Portrait _________________________________________________________________________________________ 36
W9ndash Colouring in Lightroom _____________________________________________________________________________________ 38
W10ndash 3D in Photoshop CC _______________________________________________________________________________________ 39
MUCEP ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 40
Week 1 (13 sept 2-5) __________________________________________________________________________________________ 40
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100) ________________________________________________________________________________ 40
Week 1 (15 September 200-300) ___________________________________________________________________________ 40
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500) _________________________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300) ________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500) _________________________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300) _______________________________________________________________ 41
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200) __________________________________________________________________________________ 43
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500) _________________________________________________________________________________ 43
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 44
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 44
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300) ________________________________________________________________ 45
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 46
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300) __________________________________________________________________ 47
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 48
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300) ________________________________________________________________ 48
Overall Report __________________________________________________________________________________________ 52
Time _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 52
New things ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 52
Going onhellip _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 52
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Work Dairies Fall 2016 (WD)
W1- TECHNICALPROFESSIONALISM
bull Ah tradition Set a professional goal for yourself for this semester It need not be technical (eg
improved time management improved techniques for dealing with difficult clients improved DMC
abilities etc) Why are you setting yourself this goal How will you achieve it What will be the biggest
impediments to you achieving it
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC
skills Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and
communication skills I will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative
cloud and use it in person )
W2 ndash PROFESSIONALISM
bull Visit this site and take the quiz Think about a time that you were faced with a problemstressor that
tested your coping skills Does your quiz result reflect how you dealt with this issue After completing
this quiz what factors might you take into consideration if faced with a similar problem in the future
bull How Good Is Your Problem Solving
bull Do you solve problems systematically or do you just grasp the first solution that comes along Find out
how effectively you solve problems
This quiz was very interesting and it was kind of true in the way it calculated the outcome I usually
just jump into the solution and follow my intuition which leads to the right solution I scored 53
However the questions were hard to understand as it was very broad usually problem solving is
different per problem and type so to answer in a broad way is difficult I agree with Rick that the quiz
was hard to do
I would try to use the method the site told me about as I should try and slow down to be able to
understand the situation fully and also think through all the possible options and then choose the best
one
Your approach to problem solving is a little hit-and-miss Sometimes your solutions work
really well and other times they dont You understand what you should do and you
recognize that having a structured problem-solving process is important However you
dont always follow that process By working on your consistency and committing to the
process youll see significant improvements
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W3 - CUSTOMER SERVICE
bull An oldie but a goodie and Janes favorite question What do you think it the more important asset for
working at The Commons technical ability or customer service Why Which area do you feel you are
strongest in How has this helped or hindered you in this job
I think that working at the commons you kind of need both of these as they work hand in hand
However customer service is a more important asset then technical ability as even though you might know
how to fix complex problems and have no way to communicate the solution then it is of no point As
Stephanie said as long as you are willing to learn and improve your technical ability I feel that I am
strongest in communicating with people and helping out in most problems but I am still learning a lot more
every day This has helped me become a better troubleshooter
W4 ndash TECHNICAL
bull We like to end our interviews by having applicants complete a skill testing challenge as Irsquom sure you all
fondly remember Wersquove been using the same challenge for a few years so itrsquos time to change things up
Find me a quick technical challenge (no DMC challenges please) that we can use to test applicantsrsquo tech
skills Remember that we donrsquot expect interviewees to already know how to complete the challenge
wersquore testing their ability to figure it out People should reasonably be able to complete this challenge
(with the help of Google etc) in 15-20 minutes
I like Quentin Holberts idea about the excel sheet we could also try one of PowerPoint like the
previous challenge Create a 6 slide MS PowerPoint presentation with 3 transitions 3 images and
embedded video (not a link) Try to pick a short video to embed as the file size will be large if the video is
long Attach your finished presentation as a PowerPoint Show
We can also ask about the slide master etc
The link to the tutorials
httpwwwgcflearnfreeorgpowerpoiner-view3
httpssupportofficecomen-usartic8787ui
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W5 ndash ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
bull You may have used some of our AT programs such as Kurzweil Dragon or Inspiration but did you know
that we also have AT items available on reserve at Lending Services These include
bull AT iPad
bull Echo smart-pen
bull Smart-view Versa
bull Pen Scanner
bull iPad amp Stylus
bull This week sign out one of these items from Lending Services and give it a try What did you find most
useful about the reserve and could you see yourself using it in the future
bull We have a brief description of each item on our website Donrsquot hesitate to ask for help from Rachael
Steph or me (or Naomi) if you need it
I also tried the Iris-Pen I guess Quentin Holbert gave a full review about this device So I decided to try a
new way of seeing things It is a good device to scan the text it is very smooth and easy to use Anyone can
use it the instructions are very simple and it also tells when you are scanning it in different angles (pretty
cool D) I tried to scan different colors just to see how it detects them dark colors are easy to be detected
however when they are (pink - the Technical services leaflet or white on a colored back ground) It is
difficult to understand It shows different characters such as the attached image
It also has a hard time to read grey color or small sized fonts (Quentin already said it)
Overall it is a cool technology to have fun to use
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W6 - TECHNICAL
We always ask this question but I think its essential in this environment for you to be sharing your
knowledge with each other Share a technical trick youve used this semester to get a client out of a bind
bull I was helping a client last week on their PowerPoint presentation In the animations of the slides and
how to use the master slide
bull Then I found these links they can be useful for drawing shapes in PowerPoint
bull httpwwwavantixlearningcamicrosoks-shor
bull Also sometimes people are too lazy to animate each slide and make it more presentable so this site
gives amazing quick templates for the presentations
httpwwwfree-power-point-templatese-designs
W7 ndash CUSTOMER SERVICE
What has been your most notable customer interaction this semester It can be either positive or negative
(ie challenging rewarding demanding inspiring etc) What made it notable How did you handle it
bull Throughout the time working in the commons every day you learn something new
I was helping a client last month on Tuesday she was stressed out about a paper she needed to
complete which was due at 700 pm that day When I was doing rounds she came up to me to ask for
help She had been struggling to get the contents page to work her way when she saw me helping
another client with a similar issue in Word she came to me First thing I did was listen to her problem
and try to calm her down as she was starting to get agitated as it wasnt working I showed her how to
do it and pointed out her mistake which was that she has used the wrong font size for one of the
paragraphs therefore it kept showing up in the contents page After showing this she was very thankful
that I helped her out A week later she came up to desk and told me she got 90 in her essay and her
professor was impressed by her use of the contents page She was delighted by the service we are giving
to the students and this made me happy that I was able to help her in her studies Later that day she
came with a bunch of first years and told them that You ever need help in the library ask the commons
(People with red vests) they will try to help you the best way they can
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W8 ndash PROFESSIONALISM
Whats your work style Take this quiz and post your results Do they accurately describe your style
How has your working style benefited you at The Commons What challenges have you encountered
because of your working style
According to the quiz I am a Dexterous Dreamer
bull Do they accurately describe your style
Yes it does describe how I am
bull How has your working style benefited you at The Commons
Yes it has helped improve my troubleshooting skills and has improved my communication skills
bull What challenges have you encountered because of your working style
Sometimes while working the first answer you come up with for troubleshooting is no always the
correct one so to have many options is one thing that I learned Always have a plan B if A doesnt work
out
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W9 ndashPROFESSIONALISM TECHNICAL
Think back on your Week 1 goal Did you achieve it (Be honest) If yes how (Share resources if you have
them) If not why not
bull My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication
skills I will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it
in person
I have been able to reach my goal to some extent I have improved my time management skills as well as
DMC skills however not as much as I had hoped for Working on the marketing team has helped me
improve some of my designing skills I learned two new programs Emaze and Prezi this was a fun
experience
Tutoring was new step for me I had some step backs but I am trying to reach my goal for it This has
helped me become more comfortable in communicating with clients
Over all I think this semester was bit tougher as there were many new things going on and it was
harder for me to cope with the changes but in the end I managed to give everything my best shot
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W10 ndash WARM FUZZIES
This semester I was working with many new faces I enjoyed working with everyone I am glad to be an
agent of the commons
Andrea Rivera She is a great person to work with we usually met on Thursdays during my CS tutoring
hours she is a delight to work with a fast learner she has great communication skills and is an amazing
friend For me the commons is a small family where we all stay peacefully together even during hectic times
such as Orientation and exam week This semester was pretty crazy I had to put on my thinking socks for
some situations It was a pleasure working with the marketing team on the student life cycle as well as
doing all the fun challenges And everyone else in the commons all of you are amazing people and great
friends
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CS Challenges
W1 ndash WORDPRESS EPORTFOLIO
bull We did this challenge at the beginning of last semester but I want to highlight the service again and get
everyone set up with a portfolio space
bull CITL provides students with Wordpress space to develop an easily shared online portfolio We would
like for you all to be up to speed on how Wordpress works and promote the service To that end we
highly recommend that you routinely update your site every week to feature your challenges and any
additional projects you work on
bull
bull For this challenge get your eportfolio up and running with a home page pages for your challenges and
work diaries and a couple of posts Think about how you would present this website to us as yoursquore
Above and Beyond Report at the end of EVERY semester If youve already set up your eportfolio make
sure it is up to date - include old challenges reflection pieces etc
bull Set Up Instructions
bull Log into D2L
bull Click eportfolio at the top of the page
bull Read the User Guide if need be
bull Click Login
bull Customize your profile
bull Click Dashboard - My Sites
bull Go to [Name]s Portfolio
bull Start creating Its usually a good idea to start customizing your appearance and then start adding
posts
Here is my portfolio httpseportfoliomuncaadj174
I have played around with the portfolio tried changing the themes and editing the pictures
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W2 ndash COMBINATION OF CHARTS (EXCEL)
bull This tutorial was created by Rukshana Sundar I forgot to credit you Rukshana thus the edit Great job
bull Using the data provided or your own data file you provide create a chart combining two or more types
of graphs
bull At the end of this tutorial you will be able to
middot combine two types of graphs (ie bar graph and line graph) to represent data
middot alter the horizontal and vertical axes to combine data
middot add graph titles axis titles and legends
My work
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
W5ndash Geometric collage ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 31
W6ndash Indesign Poster _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 33
W7ndash 3d Perspective in PS _______________________________________________________________________________________ 34
W8ndash Levitation Portrait _________________________________________________________________________________________ 36
W9ndash Colouring in Lightroom _____________________________________________________________________________________ 38
W10ndash 3D in Photoshop CC _______________________________________________________________________________________ 39
MUCEP ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 40
Week 1 (13 sept 2-5) __________________________________________________________________________________________ 40
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100) ________________________________________________________________________________ 40
Week 1 (15 September 200-300) ___________________________________________________________________________ 40
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500) _________________________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300) ________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500) _________________________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300) _______________________________________________________________ 41
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 41
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200) __________________________________________________________________________________ 43
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500) _________________________________________________________________________________ 43
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 44
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 44
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300) ________________________________________________________________ 45
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 46
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300) __________________________________________________________________ 47
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 48
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300) ________________________________________________________________ 48
Overall Report __________________________________________________________________________________________ 52
Time _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 52
New things ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 52
Going onhellip _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 52
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Work Dairies Fall 2016 (WD)
W1- TECHNICALPROFESSIONALISM
bull Ah tradition Set a professional goal for yourself for this semester It need not be technical (eg
improved time management improved techniques for dealing with difficult clients improved DMC
abilities etc) Why are you setting yourself this goal How will you achieve it What will be the biggest
impediments to you achieving it
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC
skills Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and
communication skills I will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative
cloud and use it in person )
W2 ndash PROFESSIONALISM
bull Visit this site and take the quiz Think about a time that you were faced with a problemstressor that
tested your coping skills Does your quiz result reflect how you dealt with this issue After completing
this quiz what factors might you take into consideration if faced with a similar problem in the future
bull How Good Is Your Problem Solving
bull Do you solve problems systematically or do you just grasp the first solution that comes along Find out
how effectively you solve problems
This quiz was very interesting and it was kind of true in the way it calculated the outcome I usually
just jump into the solution and follow my intuition which leads to the right solution I scored 53
However the questions were hard to understand as it was very broad usually problem solving is
different per problem and type so to answer in a broad way is difficult I agree with Rick that the quiz
was hard to do
I would try to use the method the site told me about as I should try and slow down to be able to
understand the situation fully and also think through all the possible options and then choose the best
one
Your approach to problem solving is a little hit-and-miss Sometimes your solutions work
really well and other times they dont You understand what you should do and you
recognize that having a structured problem-solving process is important However you
dont always follow that process By working on your consistency and committing to the
process youll see significant improvements
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W3 - CUSTOMER SERVICE
bull An oldie but a goodie and Janes favorite question What do you think it the more important asset for
working at The Commons technical ability or customer service Why Which area do you feel you are
strongest in How has this helped or hindered you in this job
I think that working at the commons you kind of need both of these as they work hand in hand
However customer service is a more important asset then technical ability as even though you might know
how to fix complex problems and have no way to communicate the solution then it is of no point As
Stephanie said as long as you are willing to learn and improve your technical ability I feel that I am
strongest in communicating with people and helping out in most problems but I am still learning a lot more
every day This has helped me become a better troubleshooter
W4 ndash TECHNICAL
bull We like to end our interviews by having applicants complete a skill testing challenge as Irsquom sure you all
fondly remember Wersquove been using the same challenge for a few years so itrsquos time to change things up
Find me a quick technical challenge (no DMC challenges please) that we can use to test applicantsrsquo tech
skills Remember that we donrsquot expect interviewees to already know how to complete the challenge
wersquore testing their ability to figure it out People should reasonably be able to complete this challenge
(with the help of Google etc) in 15-20 minutes
I like Quentin Holberts idea about the excel sheet we could also try one of PowerPoint like the
previous challenge Create a 6 slide MS PowerPoint presentation with 3 transitions 3 images and
embedded video (not a link) Try to pick a short video to embed as the file size will be large if the video is
long Attach your finished presentation as a PowerPoint Show
We can also ask about the slide master etc
The link to the tutorials
httpwwwgcflearnfreeorgpowerpoiner-view3
httpssupportofficecomen-usartic8787ui
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W5 ndash ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
bull You may have used some of our AT programs such as Kurzweil Dragon or Inspiration but did you know
that we also have AT items available on reserve at Lending Services These include
bull AT iPad
bull Echo smart-pen
bull Smart-view Versa
bull Pen Scanner
bull iPad amp Stylus
bull This week sign out one of these items from Lending Services and give it a try What did you find most
useful about the reserve and could you see yourself using it in the future
bull We have a brief description of each item on our website Donrsquot hesitate to ask for help from Rachael
Steph or me (or Naomi) if you need it
I also tried the Iris-Pen I guess Quentin Holbert gave a full review about this device So I decided to try a
new way of seeing things It is a good device to scan the text it is very smooth and easy to use Anyone can
use it the instructions are very simple and it also tells when you are scanning it in different angles (pretty
cool D) I tried to scan different colors just to see how it detects them dark colors are easy to be detected
however when they are (pink - the Technical services leaflet or white on a colored back ground) It is
difficult to understand It shows different characters such as the attached image
It also has a hard time to read grey color or small sized fonts (Quentin already said it)
Overall it is a cool technology to have fun to use
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W6 - TECHNICAL
We always ask this question but I think its essential in this environment for you to be sharing your
knowledge with each other Share a technical trick youve used this semester to get a client out of a bind
bull I was helping a client last week on their PowerPoint presentation In the animations of the slides and
how to use the master slide
bull Then I found these links they can be useful for drawing shapes in PowerPoint
bull httpwwwavantixlearningcamicrosoks-shor
bull Also sometimes people are too lazy to animate each slide and make it more presentable so this site
gives amazing quick templates for the presentations
httpwwwfree-power-point-templatese-designs
W7 ndash CUSTOMER SERVICE
What has been your most notable customer interaction this semester It can be either positive or negative
(ie challenging rewarding demanding inspiring etc) What made it notable How did you handle it
bull Throughout the time working in the commons every day you learn something new
I was helping a client last month on Tuesday she was stressed out about a paper she needed to
complete which was due at 700 pm that day When I was doing rounds she came up to me to ask for
help She had been struggling to get the contents page to work her way when she saw me helping
another client with a similar issue in Word she came to me First thing I did was listen to her problem
and try to calm her down as she was starting to get agitated as it wasnt working I showed her how to
do it and pointed out her mistake which was that she has used the wrong font size for one of the
paragraphs therefore it kept showing up in the contents page After showing this she was very thankful
that I helped her out A week later she came up to desk and told me she got 90 in her essay and her
professor was impressed by her use of the contents page She was delighted by the service we are giving
to the students and this made me happy that I was able to help her in her studies Later that day she
came with a bunch of first years and told them that You ever need help in the library ask the commons
(People with red vests) they will try to help you the best way they can
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W8 ndash PROFESSIONALISM
Whats your work style Take this quiz and post your results Do they accurately describe your style
How has your working style benefited you at The Commons What challenges have you encountered
because of your working style
According to the quiz I am a Dexterous Dreamer
bull Do they accurately describe your style
Yes it does describe how I am
bull How has your working style benefited you at The Commons
Yes it has helped improve my troubleshooting skills and has improved my communication skills
bull What challenges have you encountered because of your working style
Sometimes while working the first answer you come up with for troubleshooting is no always the
correct one so to have many options is one thing that I learned Always have a plan B if A doesnt work
out
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W9 ndashPROFESSIONALISM TECHNICAL
Think back on your Week 1 goal Did you achieve it (Be honest) If yes how (Share resources if you have
them) If not why not
bull My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication
skills I will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it
in person
I have been able to reach my goal to some extent I have improved my time management skills as well as
DMC skills however not as much as I had hoped for Working on the marketing team has helped me
improve some of my designing skills I learned two new programs Emaze and Prezi this was a fun
experience
Tutoring was new step for me I had some step backs but I am trying to reach my goal for it This has
helped me become more comfortable in communicating with clients
Over all I think this semester was bit tougher as there were many new things going on and it was
harder for me to cope with the changes but in the end I managed to give everything my best shot
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W10 ndash WARM FUZZIES
This semester I was working with many new faces I enjoyed working with everyone I am glad to be an
agent of the commons
Andrea Rivera She is a great person to work with we usually met on Thursdays during my CS tutoring
hours she is a delight to work with a fast learner she has great communication skills and is an amazing
friend For me the commons is a small family where we all stay peacefully together even during hectic times
such as Orientation and exam week This semester was pretty crazy I had to put on my thinking socks for
some situations It was a pleasure working with the marketing team on the student life cycle as well as
doing all the fun challenges And everyone else in the commons all of you are amazing people and great
friends
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CS Challenges
W1 ndash WORDPRESS EPORTFOLIO
bull We did this challenge at the beginning of last semester but I want to highlight the service again and get
everyone set up with a portfolio space
bull CITL provides students with Wordpress space to develop an easily shared online portfolio We would
like for you all to be up to speed on how Wordpress works and promote the service To that end we
highly recommend that you routinely update your site every week to feature your challenges and any
additional projects you work on
bull
bull For this challenge get your eportfolio up and running with a home page pages for your challenges and
work diaries and a couple of posts Think about how you would present this website to us as yoursquore
Above and Beyond Report at the end of EVERY semester If youve already set up your eportfolio make
sure it is up to date - include old challenges reflection pieces etc
bull Set Up Instructions
bull Log into D2L
bull Click eportfolio at the top of the page
bull Read the User Guide if need be
bull Click Login
bull Customize your profile
bull Click Dashboard - My Sites
bull Go to [Name]s Portfolio
bull Start creating Its usually a good idea to start customizing your appearance and then start adding
posts
Here is my portfolio httpseportfoliomuncaadj174
I have played around with the portfolio tried changing the themes and editing the pictures
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W2 ndash COMBINATION OF CHARTS (EXCEL)
bull This tutorial was created by Rukshana Sundar I forgot to credit you Rukshana thus the edit Great job
bull Using the data provided or your own data file you provide create a chart combining two or more types
of graphs
bull At the end of this tutorial you will be able to
middot combine two types of graphs (ie bar graph and line graph) to represent data
middot alter the horizontal and vertical axes to combine data
middot add graph titles axis titles and legends
My work
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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Work Dairies Fall 2016 (WD)
W1- TECHNICALPROFESSIONALISM
bull Ah tradition Set a professional goal for yourself for this semester It need not be technical (eg
improved time management improved techniques for dealing with difficult clients improved DMC
abilities etc) Why are you setting yourself this goal How will you achieve it What will be the biggest
impediments to you achieving it
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC
skills Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and
communication skills I will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative
cloud and use it in person )
W2 ndash PROFESSIONALISM
bull Visit this site and take the quiz Think about a time that you were faced with a problemstressor that
tested your coping skills Does your quiz result reflect how you dealt with this issue After completing
this quiz what factors might you take into consideration if faced with a similar problem in the future
bull How Good Is Your Problem Solving
bull Do you solve problems systematically or do you just grasp the first solution that comes along Find out
how effectively you solve problems
This quiz was very interesting and it was kind of true in the way it calculated the outcome I usually
just jump into the solution and follow my intuition which leads to the right solution I scored 53
However the questions were hard to understand as it was very broad usually problem solving is
different per problem and type so to answer in a broad way is difficult I agree with Rick that the quiz
was hard to do
I would try to use the method the site told me about as I should try and slow down to be able to
understand the situation fully and also think through all the possible options and then choose the best
one
Your approach to problem solving is a little hit-and-miss Sometimes your solutions work
really well and other times they dont You understand what you should do and you
recognize that having a structured problem-solving process is important However you
dont always follow that process By working on your consistency and committing to the
process youll see significant improvements
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W3 - CUSTOMER SERVICE
bull An oldie but a goodie and Janes favorite question What do you think it the more important asset for
working at The Commons technical ability or customer service Why Which area do you feel you are
strongest in How has this helped or hindered you in this job
I think that working at the commons you kind of need both of these as they work hand in hand
However customer service is a more important asset then technical ability as even though you might know
how to fix complex problems and have no way to communicate the solution then it is of no point As
Stephanie said as long as you are willing to learn and improve your technical ability I feel that I am
strongest in communicating with people and helping out in most problems but I am still learning a lot more
every day This has helped me become a better troubleshooter
W4 ndash TECHNICAL
bull We like to end our interviews by having applicants complete a skill testing challenge as Irsquom sure you all
fondly remember Wersquove been using the same challenge for a few years so itrsquos time to change things up
Find me a quick technical challenge (no DMC challenges please) that we can use to test applicantsrsquo tech
skills Remember that we donrsquot expect interviewees to already know how to complete the challenge
wersquore testing their ability to figure it out People should reasonably be able to complete this challenge
(with the help of Google etc) in 15-20 minutes
I like Quentin Holberts idea about the excel sheet we could also try one of PowerPoint like the
previous challenge Create a 6 slide MS PowerPoint presentation with 3 transitions 3 images and
embedded video (not a link) Try to pick a short video to embed as the file size will be large if the video is
long Attach your finished presentation as a PowerPoint Show
We can also ask about the slide master etc
The link to the tutorials
httpwwwgcflearnfreeorgpowerpoiner-view3
httpssupportofficecomen-usartic8787ui
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W5 ndash ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
bull You may have used some of our AT programs such as Kurzweil Dragon or Inspiration but did you know
that we also have AT items available on reserve at Lending Services These include
bull AT iPad
bull Echo smart-pen
bull Smart-view Versa
bull Pen Scanner
bull iPad amp Stylus
bull This week sign out one of these items from Lending Services and give it a try What did you find most
useful about the reserve and could you see yourself using it in the future
bull We have a brief description of each item on our website Donrsquot hesitate to ask for help from Rachael
Steph or me (or Naomi) if you need it
I also tried the Iris-Pen I guess Quentin Holbert gave a full review about this device So I decided to try a
new way of seeing things It is a good device to scan the text it is very smooth and easy to use Anyone can
use it the instructions are very simple and it also tells when you are scanning it in different angles (pretty
cool D) I tried to scan different colors just to see how it detects them dark colors are easy to be detected
however when they are (pink - the Technical services leaflet or white on a colored back ground) It is
difficult to understand It shows different characters such as the attached image
It also has a hard time to read grey color or small sized fonts (Quentin already said it)
Overall it is a cool technology to have fun to use
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W6 - TECHNICAL
We always ask this question but I think its essential in this environment for you to be sharing your
knowledge with each other Share a technical trick youve used this semester to get a client out of a bind
bull I was helping a client last week on their PowerPoint presentation In the animations of the slides and
how to use the master slide
bull Then I found these links they can be useful for drawing shapes in PowerPoint
bull httpwwwavantixlearningcamicrosoks-shor
bull Also sometimes people are too lazy to animate each slide and make it more presentable so this site
gives amazing quick templates for the presentations
httpwwwfree-power-point-templatese-designs
W7 ndash CUSTOMER SERVICE
What has been your most notable customer interaction this semester It can be either positive or negative
(ie challenging rewarding demanding inspiring etc) What made it notable How did you handle it
bull Throughout the time working in the commons every day you learn something new
I was helping a client last month on Tuesday she was stressed out about a paper she needed to
complete which was due at 700 pm that day When I was doing rounds she came up to me to ask for
help She had been struggling to get the contents page to work her way when she saw me helping
another client with a similar issue in Word she came to me First thing I did was listen to her problem
and try to calm her down as she was starting to get agitated as it wasnt working I showed her how to
do it and pointed out her mistake which was that she has used the wrong font size for one of the
paragraphs therefore it kept showing up in the contents page After showing this she was very thankful
that I helped her out A week later she came up to desk and told me she got 90 in her essay and her
professor was impressed by her use of the contents page She was delighted by the service we are giving
to the students and this made me happy that I was able to help her in her studies Later that day she
came with a bunch of first years and told them that You ever need help in the library ask the commons
(People with red vests) they will try to help you the best way they can
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W8 ndash PROFESSIONALISM
Whats your work style Take this quiz and post your results Do they accurately describe your style
How has your working style benefited you at The Commons What challenges have you encountered
because of your working style
According to the quiz I am a Dexterous Dreamer
bull Do they accurately describe your style
Yes it does describe how I am
bull How has your working style benefited you at The Commons
Yes it has helped improve my troubleshooting skills and has improved my communication skills
bull What challenges have you encountered because of your working style
Sometimes while working the first answer you come up with for troubleshooting is no always the
correct one so to have many options is one thing that I learned Always have a plan B if A doesnt work
out
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W9 ndashPROFESSIONALISM TECHNICAL
Think back on your Week 1 goal Did you achieve it (Be honest) If yes how (Share resources if you have
them) If not why not
bull My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication
skills I will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it
in person
I have been able to reach my goal to some extent I have improved my time management skills as well as
DMC skills however not as much as I had hoped for Working on the marketing team has helped me
improve some of my designing skills I learned two new programs Emaze and Prezi this was a fun
experience
Tutoring was new step for me I had some step backs but I am trying to reach my goal for it This has
helped me become more comfortable in communicating with clients
Over all I think this semester was bit tougher as there were many new things going on and it was
harder for me to cope with the changes but in the end I managed to give everything my best shot
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W10 ndash WARM FUZZIES
This semester I was working with many new faces I enjoyed working with everyone I am glad to be an
agent of the commons
Andrea Rivera She is a great person to work with we usually met on Thursdays during my CS tutoring
hours she is a delight to work with a fast learner she has great communication skills and is an amazing
friend For me the commons is a small family where we all stay peacefully together even during hectic times
such as Orientation and exam week This semester was pretty crazy I had to put on my thinking socks for
some situations It was a pleasure working with the marketing team on the student life cycle as well as
doing all the fun challenges And everyone else in the commons all of you are amazing people and great
friends
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CS Challenges
W1 ndash WORDPRESS EPORTFOLIO
bull We did this challenge at the beginning of last semester but I want to highlight the service again and get
everyone set up with a portfolio space
bull CITL provides students with Wordpress space to develop an easily shared online portfolio We would
like for you all to be up to speed on how Wordpress works and promote the service To that end we
highly recommend that you routinely update your site every week to feature your challenges and any
additional projects you work on
bull
bull For this challenge get your eportfolio up and running with a home page pages for your challenges and
work diaries and a couple of posts Think about how you would present this website to us as yoursquore
Above and Beyond Report at the end of EVERY semester If youve already set up your eportfolio make
sure it is up to date - include old challenges reflection pieces etc
bull Set Up Instructions
bull Log into D2L
bull Click eportfolio at the top of the page
bull Read the User Guide if need be
bull Click Login
bull Customize your profile
bull Click Dashboard - My Sites
bull Go to [Name]s Portfolio
bull Start creating Its usually a good idea to start customizing your appearance and then start adding
posts
Here is my portfolio httpseportfoliomuncaadj174
I have played around with the portfolio tried changing the themes and editing the pictures
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W2 ndash COMBINATION OF CHARTS (EXCEL)
bull This tutorial was created by Rukshana Sundar I forgot to credit you Rukshana thus the edit Great job
bull Using the data provided or your own data file you provide create a chart combining two or more types
of graphs
bull At the end of this tutorial you will be able to
middot combine two types of graphs (ie bar graph and line graph) to represent data
middot alter the horizontal and vertical axes to combine data
middot add graph titles axis titles and legends
My work
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W3 - CUSTOMER SERVICE
bull An oldie but a goodie and Janes favorite question What do you think it the more important asset for
working at The Commons technical ability or customer service Why Which area do you feel you are
strongest in How has this helped or hindered you in this job
I think that working at the commons you kind of need both of these as they work hand in hand
However customer service is a more important asset then technical ability as even though you might know
how to fix complex problems and have no way to communicate the solution then it is of no point As
Stephanie said as long as you are willing to learn and improve your technical ability I feel that I am
strongest in communicating with people and helping out in most problems but I am still learning a lot more
every day This has helped me become a better troubleshooter
W4 ndash TECHNICAL
bull We like to end our interviews by having applicants complete a skill testing challenge as Irsquom sure you all
fondly remember Wersquove been using the same challenge for a few years so itrsquos time to change things up
Find me a quick technical challenge (no DMC challenges please) that we can use to test applicantsrsquo tech
skills Remember that we donrsquot expect interviewees to already know how to complete the challenge
wersquore testing their ability to figure it out People should reasonably be able to complete this challenge
(with the help of Google etc) in 15-20 minutes
I like Quentin Holberts idea about the excel sheet we could also try one of PowerPoint like the
previous challenge Create a 6 slide MS PowerPoint presentation with 3 transitions 3 images and
embedded video (not a link) Try to pick a short video to embed as the file size will be large if the video is
long Attach your finished presentation as a PowerPoint Show
We can also ask about the slide master etc
The link to the tutorials
httpwwwgcflearnfreeorgpowerpoiner-view3
httpssupportofficecomen-usartic8787ui
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W5 ndash ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
bull You may have used some of our AT programs such as Kurzweil Dragon or Inspiration but did you know
that we also have AT items available on reserve at Lending Services These include
bull AT iPad
bull Echo smart-pen
bull Smart-view Versa
bull Pen Scanner
bull iPad amp Stylus
bull This week sign out one of these items from Lending Services and give it a try What did you find most
useful about the reserve and could you see yourself using it in the future
bull We have a brief description of each item on our website Donrsquot hesitate to ask for help from Rachael
Steph or me (or Naomi) if you need it
I also tried the Iris-Pen I guess Quentin Holbert gave a full review about this device So I decided to try a
new way of seeing things It is a good device to scan the text it is very smooth and easy to use Anyone can
use it the instructions are very simple and it also tells when you are scanning it in different angles (pretty
cool D) I tried to scan different colors just to see how it detects them dark colors are easy to be detected
however when they are (pink - the Technical services leaflet or white on a colored back ground) It is
difficult to understand It shows different characters such as the attached image
It also has a hard time to read grey color or small sized fonts (Quentin already said it)
Overall it is a cool technology to have fun to use
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W6 - TECHNICAL
We always ask this question but I think its essential in this environment for you to be sharing your
knowledge with each other Share a technical trick youve used this semester to get a client out of a bind
bull I was helping a client last week on their PowerPoint presentation In the animations of the slides and
how to use the master slide
bull Then I found these links they can be useful for drawing shapes in PowerPoint
bull httpwwwavantixlearningcamicrosoks-shor
bull Also sometimes people are too lazy to animate each slide and make it more presentable so this site
gives amazing quick templates for the presentations
httpwwwfree-power-point-templatese-designs
W7 ndash CUSTOMER SERVICE
What has been your most notable customer interaction this semester It can be either positive or negative
(ie challenging rewarding demanding inspiring etc) What made it notable How did you handle it
bull Throughout the time working in the commons every day you learn something new
I was helping a client last month on Tuesday she was stressed out about a paper she needed to
complete which was due at 700 pm that day When I was doing rounds she came up to me to ask for
help She had been struggling to get the contents page to work her way when she saw me helping
another client with a similar issue in Word she came to me First thing I did was listen to her problem
and try to calm her down as she was starting to get agitated as it wasnt working I showed her how to
do it and pointed out her mistake which was that she has used the wrong font size for one of the
paragraphs therefore it kept showing up in the contents page After showing this she was very thankful
that I helped her out A week later she came up to desk and told me she got 90 in her essay and her
professor was impressed by her use of the contents page She was delighted by the service we are giving
to the students and this made me happy that I was able to help her in her studies Later that day she
came with a bunch of first years and told them that You ever need help in the library ask the commons
(People with red vests) they will try to help you the best way they can
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W8 ndash PROFESSIONALISM
Whats your work style Take this quiz and post your results Do they accurately describe your style
How has your working style benefited you at The Commons What challenges have you encountered
because of your working style
According to the quiz I am a Dexterous Dreamer
bull Do they accurately describe your style
Yes it does describe how I am
bull How has your working style benefited you at The Commons
Yes it has helped improve my troubleshooting skills and has improved my communication skills
bull What challenges have you encountered because of your working style
Sometimes while working the first answer you come up with for troubleshooting is no always the
correct one so to have many options is one thing that I learned Always have a plan B if A doesnt work
out
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W9 ndashPROFESSIONALISM TECHNICAL
Think back on your Week 1 goal Did you achieve it (Be honest) If yes how (Share resources if you have
them) If not why not
bull My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication
skills I will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it
in person
I have been able to reach my goal to some extent I have improved my time management skills as well as
DMC skills however not as much as I had hoped for Working on the marketing team has helped me
improve some of my designing skills I learned two new programs Emaze and Prezi this was a fun
experience
Tutoring was new step for me I had some step backs but I am trying to reach my goal for it This has
helped me become more comfortable in communicating with clients
Over all I think this semester was bit tougher as there were many new things going on and it was
harder for me to cope with the changes but in the end I managed to give everything my best shot
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W10 ndash WARM FUZZIES
This semester I was working with many new faces I enjoyed working with everyone I am glad to be an
agent of the commons
Andrea Rivera She is a great person to work with we usually met on Thursdays during my CS tutoring
hours she is a delight to work with a fast learner she has great communication skills and is an amazing
friend For me the commons is a small family where we all stay peacefully together even during hectic times
such as Orientation and exam week This semester was pretty crazy I had to put on my thinking socks for
some situations It was a pleasure working with the marketing team on the student life cycle as well as
doing all the fun challenges And everyone else in the commons all of you are amazing people and great
friends
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CS Challenges
W1 ndash WORDPRESS EPORTFOLIO
bull We did this challenge at the beginning of last semester but I want to highlight the service again and get
everyone set up with a portfolio space
bull CITL provides students with Wordpress space to develop an easily shared online portfolio We would
like for you all to be up to speed on how Wordpress works and promote the service To that end we
highly recommend that you routinely update your site every week to feature your challenges and any
additional projects you work on
bull
bull For this challenge get your eportfolio up and running with a home page pages for your challenges and
work diaries and a couple of posts Think about how you would present this website to us as yoursquore
Above and Beyond Report at the end of EVERY semester If youve already set up your eportfolio make
sure it is up to date - include old challenges reflection pieces etc
bull Set Up Instructions
bull Log into D2L
bull Click eportfolio at the top of the page
bull Read the User Guide if need be
bull Click Login
bull Customize your profile
bull Click Dashboard - My Sites
bull Go to [Name]s Portfolio
bull Start creating Its usually a good idea to start customizing your appearance and then start adding
posts
Here is my portfolio httpseportfoliomuncaadj174
I have played around with the portfolio tried changing the themes and editing the pictures
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W2 ndash COMBINATION OF CHARTS (EXCEL)
bull This tutorial was created by Rukshana Sundar I forgot to credit you Rukshana thus the edit Great job
bull Using the data provided or your own data file you provide create a chart combining two or more types
of graphs
bull At the end of this tutorial you will be able to
middot combine two types of graphs (ie bar graph and line graph) to represent data
middot alter the horizontal and vertical axes to combine data
middot add graph titles axis titles and legends
My work
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W5 ndash ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
bull You may have used some of our AT programs such as Kurzweil Dragon or Inspiration but did you know
that we also have AT items available on reserve at Lending Services These include
bull AT iPad
bull Echo smart-pen
bull Smart-view Versa
bull Pen Scanner
bull iPad amp Stylus
bull This week sign out one of these items from Lending Services and give it a try What did you find most
useful about the reserve and could you see yourself using it in the future
bull We have a brief description of each item on our website Donrsquot hesitate to ask for help from Rachael
Steph or me (or Naomi) if you need it
I also tried the Iris-Pen I guess Quentin Holbert gave a full review about this device So I decided to try a
new way of seeing things It is a good device to scan the text it is very smooth and easy to use Anyone can
use it the instructions are very simple and it also tells when you are scanning it in different angles (pretty
cool D) I tried to scan different colors just to see how it detects them dark colors are easy to be detected
however when they are (pink - the Technical services leaflet or white on a colored back ground) It is
difficult to understand It shows different characters such as the attached image
It also has a hard time to read grey color or small sized fonts (Quentin already said it)
Overall it is a cool technology to have fun to use
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W6 - TECHNICAL
We always ask this question but I think its essential in this environment for you to be sharing your
knowledge with each other Share a technical trick youve used this semester to get a client out of a bind
bull I was helping a client last week on their PowerPoint presentation In the animations of the slides and
how to use the master slide
bull Then I found these links they can be useful for drawing shapes in PowerPoint
bull httpwwwavantixlearningcamicrosoks-shor
bull Also sometimes people are too lazy to animate each slide and make it more presentable so this site
gives amazing quick templates for the presentations
httpwwwfree-power-point-templatese-designs
W7 ndash CUSTOMER SERVICE
What has been your most notable customer interaction this semester It can be either positive or negative
(ie challenging rewarding demanding inspiring etc) What made it notable How did you handle it
bull Throughout the time working in the commons every day you learn something new
I was helping a client last month on Tuesday she was stressed out about a paper she needed to
complete which was due at 700 pm that day When I was doing rounds she came up to me to ask for
help She had been struggling to get the contents page to work her way when she saw me helping
another client with a similar issue in Word she came to me First thing I did was listen to her problem
and try to calm her down as she was starting to get agitated as it wasnt working I showed her how to
do it and pointed out her mistake which was that she has used the wrong font size for one of the
paragraphs therefore it kept showing up in the contents page After showing this she was very thankful
that I helped her out A week later she came up to desk and told me she got 90 in her essay and her
professor was impressed by her use of the contents page She was delighted by the service we are giving
to the students and this made me happy that I was able to help her in her studies Later that day she
came with a bunch of first years and told them that You ever need help in the library ask the commons
(People with red vests) they will try to help you the best way they can
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W8 ndash PROFESSIONALISM
Whats your work style Take this quiz and post your results Do they accurately describe your style
How has your working style benefited you at The Commons What challenges have you encountered
because of your working style
According to the quiz I am a Dexterous Dreamer
bull Do they accurately describe your style
Yes it does describe how I am
bull How has your working style benefited you at The Commons
Yes it has helped improve my troubleshooting skills and has improved my communication skills
bull What challenges have you encountered because of your working style
Sometimes while working the first answer you come up with for troubleshooting is no always the
correct one so to have many options is one thing that I learned Always have a plan B if A doesnt work
out
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W9 ndashPROFESSIONALISM TECHNICAL
Think back on your Week 1 goal Did you achieve it (Be honest) If yes how (Share resources if you have
them) If not why not
bull My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication
skills I will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it
in person
I have been able to reach my goal to some extent I have improved my time management skills as well as
DMC skills however not as much as I had hoped for Working on the marketing team has helped me
improve some of my designing skills I learned two new programs Emaze and Prezi this was a fun
experience
Tutoring was new step for me I had some step backs but I am trying to reach my goal for it This has
helped me become more comfortable in communicating with clients
Over all I think this semester was bit tougher as there were many new things going on and it was
harder for me to cope with the changes but in the end I managed to give everything my best shot
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W10 ndash WARM FUZZIES
This semester I was working with many new faces I enjoyed working with everyone I am glad to be an
agent of the commons
Andrea Rivera She is a great person to work with we usually met on Thursdays during my CS tutoring
hours she is a delight to work with a fast learner she has great communication skills and is an amazing
friend For me the commons is a small family where we all stay peacefully together even during hectic times
such as Orientation and exam week This semester was pretty crazy I had to put on my thinking socks for
some situations It was a pleasure working with the marketing team on the student life cycle as well as
doing all the fun challenges And everyone else in the commons all of you are amazing people and great
friends
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CS Challenges
W1 ndash WORDPRESS EPORTFOLIO
bull We did this challenge at the beginning of last semester but I want to highlight the service again and get
everyone set up with a portfolio space
bull CITL provides students with Wordpress space to develop an easily shared online portfolio We would
like for you all to be up to speed on how Wordpress works and promote the service To that end we
highly recommend that you routinely update your site every week to feature your challenges and any
additional projects you work on
bull
bull For this challenge get your eportfolio up and running with a home page pages for your challenges and
work diaries and a couple of posts Think about how you would present this website to us as yoursquore
Above and Beyond Report at the end of EVERY semester If youve already set up your eportfolio make
sure it is up to date - include old challenges reflection pieces etc
bull Set Up Instructions
bull Log into D2L
bull Click eportfolio at the top of the page
bull Read the User Guide if need be
bull Click Login
bull Customize your profile
bull Click Dashboard - My Sites
bull Go to [Name]s Portfolio
bull Start creating Its usually a good idea to start customizing your appearance and then start adding
posts
Here is my portfolio httpseportfoliomuncaadj174
I have played around with the portfolio tried changing the themes and editing the pictures
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W2 ndash COMBINATION OF CHARTS (EXCEL)
bull This tutorial was created by Rukshana Sundar I forgot to credit you Rukshana thus the edit Great job
bull Using the data provided or your own data file you provide create a chart combining two or more types
of graphs
bull At the end of this tutorial you will be able to
middot combine two types of graphs (ie bar graph and line graph) to represent data
middot alter the horizontal and vertical axes to combine data
middot add graph titles axis titles and legends
My work
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W6 - TECHNICAL
We always ask this question but I think its essential in this environment for you to be sharing your
knowledge with each other Share a technical trick youve used this semester to get a client out of a bind
bull I was helping a client last week on their PowerPoint presentation In the animations of the slides and
how to use the master slide
bull Then I found these links they can be useful for drawing shapes in PowerPoint
bull httpwwwavantixlearningcamicrosoks-shor
bull Also sometimes people are too lazy to animate each slide and make it more presentable so this site
gives amazing quick templates for the presentations
httpwwwfree-power-point-templatese-designs
W7 ndash CUSTOMER SERVICE
What has been your most notable customer interaction this semester It can be either positive or negative
(ie challenging rewarding demanding inspiring etc) What made it notable How did you handle it
bull Throughout the time working in the commons every day you learn something new
I was helping a client last month on Tuesday she was stressed out about a paper she needed to
complete which was due at 700 pm that day When I was doing rounds she came up to me to ask for
help She had been struggling to get the contents page to work her way when she saw me helping
another client with a similar issue in Word she came to me First thing I did was listen to her problem
and try to calm her down as she was starting to get agitated as it wasnt working I showed her how to
do it and pointed out her mistake which was that she has used the wrong font size for one of the
paragraphs therefore it kept showing up in the contents page After showing this she was very thankful
that I helped her out A week later she came up to desk and told me she got 90 in her essay and her
professor was impressed by her use of the contents page She was delighted by the service we are giving
to the students and this made me happy that I was able to help her in her studies Later that day she
came with a bunch of first years and told them that You ever need help in the library ask the commons
(People with red vests) they will try to help you the best way they can
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W8 ndash PROFESSIONALISM
Whats your work style Take this quiz and post your results Do they accurately describe your style
How has your working style benefited you at The Commons What challenges have you encountered
because of your working style
According to the quiz I am a Dexterous Dreamer
bull Do they accurately describe your style
Yes it does describe how I am
bull How has your working style benefited you at The Commons
Yes it has helped improve my troubleshooting skills and has improved my communication skills
bull What challenges have you encountered because of your working style
Sometimes while working the first answer you come up with for troubleshooting is no always the
correct one so to have many options is one thing that I learned Always have a plan B if A doesnt work
out
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W9 ndashPROFESSIONALISM TECHNICAL
Think back on your Week 1 goal Did you achieve it (Be honest) If yes how (Share resources if you have
them) If not why not
bull My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication
skills I will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it
in person
I have been able to reach my goal to some extent I have improved my time management skills as well as
DMC skills however not as much as I had hoped for Working on the marketing team has helped me
improve some of my designing skills I learned two new programs Emaze and Prezi this was a fun
experience
Tutoring was new step for me I had some step backs but I am trying to reach my goal for it This has
helped me become more comfortable in communicating with clients
Over all I think this semester was bit tougher as there were many new things going on and it was
harder for me to cope with the changes but in the end I managed to give everything my best shot
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W10 ndash WARM FUZZIES
This semester I was working with many new faces I enjoyed working with everyone I am glad to be an
agent of the commons
Andrea Rivera She is a great person to work with we usually met on Thursdays during my CS tutoring
hours she is a delight to work with a fast learner she has great communication skills and is an amazing
friend For me the commons is a small family where we all stay peacefully together even during hectic times
such as Orientation and exam week This semester was pretty crazy I had to put on my thinking socks for
some situations It was a pleasure working with the marketing team on the student life cycle as well as
doing all the fun challenges And everyone else in the commons all of you are amazing people and great
friends
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CS Challenges
W1 ndash WORDPRESS EPORTFOLIO
bull We did this challenge at the beginning of last semester but I want to highlight the service again and get
everyone set up with a portfolio space
bull CITL provides students with Wordpress space to develop an easily shared online portfolio We would
like for you all to be up to speed on how Wordpress works and promote the service To that end we
highly recommend that you routinely update your site every week to feature your challenges and any
additional projects you work on
bull
bull For this challenge get your eportfolio up and running with a home page pages for your challenges and
work diaries and a couple of posts Think about how you would present this website to us as yoursquore
Above and Beyond Report at the end of EVERY semester If youve already set up your eportfolio make
sure it is up to date - include old challenges reflection pieces etc
bull Set Up Instructions
bull Log into D2L
bull Click eportfolio at the top of the page
bull Read the User Guide if need be
bull Click Login
bull Customize your profile
bull Click Dashboard - My Sites
bull Go to [Name]s Portfolio
bull Start creating Its usually a good idea to start customizing your appearance and then start adding
posts
Here is my portfolio httpseportfoliomuncaadj174
I have played around with the portfolio tried changing the themes and editing the pictures
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W2 ndash COMBINATION OF CHARTS (EXCEL)
bull This tutorial was created by Rukshana Sundar I forgot to credit you Rukshana thus the edit Great job
bull Using the data provided or your own data file you provide create a chart combining two or more types
of graphs
bull At the end of this tutorial you will be able to
middot combine two types of graphs (ie bar graph and line graph) to represent data
middot alter the horizontal and vertical axes to combine data
middot add graph titles axis titles and legends
My work
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W8 ndash PROFESSIONALISM
Whats your work style Take this quiz and post your results Do they accurately describe your style
How has your working style benefited you at The Commons What challenges have you encountered
because of your working style
According to the quiz I am a Dexterous Dreamer
bull Do they accurately describe your style
Yes it does describe how I am
bull How has your working style benefited you at The Commons
Yes it has helped improve my troubleshooting skills and has improved my communication skills
bull What challenges have you encountered because of your working style
Sometimes while working the first answer you come up with for troubleshooting is no always the
correct one so to have many options is one thing that I learned Always have a plan B if A doesnt work
out
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W9 ndashPROFESSIONALISM TECHNICAL
Think back on your Week 1 goal Did you achieve it (Be honest) If yes how (Share resources if you have
them) If not why not
bull My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication
skills I will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it
in person
I have been able to reach my goal to some extent I have improved my time management skills as well as
DMC skills however not as much as I had hoped for Working on the marketing team has helped me
improve some of my designing skills I learned two new programs Emaze and Prezi this was a fun
experience
Tutoring was new step for me I had some step backs but I am trying to reach my goal for it This has
helped me become more comfortable in communicating with clients
Over all I think this semester was bit tougher as there were many new things going on and it was
harder for me to cope with the changes but in the end I managed to give everything my best shot
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W10 ndash WARM FUZZIES
This semester I was working with many new faces I enjoyed working with everyone I am glad to be an
agent of the commons
Andrea Rivera She is a great person to work with we usually met on Thursdays during my CS tutoring
hours she is a delight to work with a fast learner she has great communication skills and is an amazing
friend For me the commons is a small family where we all stay peacefully together even during hectic times
such as Orientation and exam week This semester was pretty crazy I had to put on my thinking socks for
some situations It was a pleasure working with the marketing team on the student life cycle as well as
doing all the fun challenges And everyone else in the commons all of you are amazing people and great
friends
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CS Challenges
W1 ndash WORDPRESS EPORTFOLIO
bull We did this challenge at the beginning of last semester but I want to highlight the service again and get
everyone set up with a portfolio space
bull CITL provides students with Wordpress space to develop an easily shared online portfolio We would
like for you all to be up to speed on how Wordpress works and promote the service To that end we
highly recommend that you routinely update your site every week to feature your challenges and any
additional projects you work on
bull
bull For this challenge get your eportfolio up and running with a home page pages for your challenges and
work diaries and a couple of posts Think about how you would present this website to us as yoursquore
Above and Beyond Report at the end of EVERY semester If youve already set up your eportfolio make
sure it is up to date - include old challenges reflection pieces etc
bull Set Up Instructions
bull Log into D2L
bull Click eportfolio at the top of the page
bull Read the User Guide if need be
bull Click Login
bull Customize your profile
bull Click Dashboard - My Sites
bull Go to [Name]s Portfolio
bull Start creating Its usually a good idea to start customizing your appearance and then start adding
posts
Here is my portfolio httpseportfoliomuncaadj174
I have played around with the portfolio tried changing the themes and editing the pictures
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W2 ndash COMBINATION OF CHARTS (EXCEL)
bull This tutorial was created by Rukshana Sundar I forgot to credit you Rukshana thus the edit Great job
bull Using the data provided or your own data file you provide create a chart combining two or more types
of graphs
bull At the end of this tutorial you will be able to
middot combine two types of graphs (ie bar graph and line graph) to represent data
middot alter the horizontal and vertical axes to combine data
middot add graph titles axis titles and legends
My work
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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Page 6
W9 ndashPROFESSIONALISM TECHNICAL
Think back on your Week 1 goal Did you achieve it (Be honest) If yes how (Share resources if you have
them) If not why not
bull My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication
skills I will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it
in person
I have been able to reach my goal to some extent I have improved my time management skills as well as
DMC skills however not as much as I had hoped for Working on the marketing team has helped me
improve some of my designing skills I learned two new programs Emaze and Prezi this was a fun
experience
Tutoring was new step for me I had some step backs but I am trying to reach my goal for it This has
helped me become more comfortable in communicating with clients
Over all I think this semester was bit tougher as there were many new things going on and it was
harder for me to cope with the changes but in the end I managed to give everything my best shot
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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W10 ndash WARM FUZZIES
This semester I was working with many new faces I enjoyed working with everyone I am glad to be an
agent of the commons
Andrea Rivera She is a great person to work with we usually met on Thursdays during my CS tutoring
hours she is a delight to work with a fast learner she has great communication skills and is an amazing
friend For me the commons is a small family where we all stay peacefully together even during hectic times
such as Orientation and exam week This semester was pretty crazy I had to put on my thinking socks for
some situations It was a pleasure working with the marketing team on the student life cycle as well as
doing all the fun challenges And everyone else in the commons all of you are amazing people and great
friends
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 8
CS Challenges
W1 ndash WORDPRESS EPORTFOLIO
bull We did this challenge at the beginning of last semester but I want to highlight the service again and get
everyone set up with a portfolio space
bull CITL provides students with Wordpress space to develop an easily shared online portfolio We would
like for you all to be up to speed on how Wordpress works and promote the service To that end we
highly recommend that you routinely update your site every week to feature your challenges and any
additional projects you work on
bull
bull For this challenge get your eportfolio up and running with a home page pages for your challenges and
work diaries and a couple of posts Think about how you would present this website to us as yoursquore
Above and Beyond Report at the end of EVERY semester If youve already set up your eportfolio make
sure it is up to date - include old challenges reflection pieces etc
bull Set Up Instructions
bull Log into D2L
bull Click eportfolio at the top of the page
bull Read the User Guide if need be
bull Click Login
bull Customize your profile
bull Click Dashboard - My Sites
bull Go to [Name]s Portfolio
bull Start creating Its usually a good idea to start customizing your appearance and then start adding
posts
Here is my portfolio httpseportfoliomuncaadj174
I have played around with the portfolio tried changing the themes and editing the pictures
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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W2 ndash COMBINATION OF CHARTS (EXCEL)
bull This tutorial was created by Rukshana Sundar I forgot to credit you Rukshana thus the edit Great job
bull Using the data provided or your own data file you provide create a chart combining two or more types
of graphs
bull At the end of this tutorial you will be able to
middot combine two types of graphs (ie bar graph and line graph) to represent data
middot alter the horizontal and vertical axes to combine data
middot add graph titles axis titles and legends
My work
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 13
W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 14
W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 15
W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W10 ndash WARM FUZZIES
This semester I was working with many new faces I enjoyed working with everyone I am glad to be an
agent of the commons
Andrea Rivera She is a great person to work with we usually met on Thursdays during my CS tutoring
hours she is a delight to work with a fast learner she has great communication skills and is an amazing
friend For me the commons is a small family where we all stay peacefully together even during hectic times
such as Orientation and exam week This semester was pretty crazy I had to put on my thinking socks for
some situations It was a pleasure working with the marketing team on the student life cycle as well as
doing all the fun challenges And everyone else in the commons all of you are amazing people and great
friends
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CS Challenges
W1 ndash WORDPRESS EPORTFOLIO
bull We did this challenge at the beginning of last semester but I want to highlight the service again and get
everyone set up with a portfolio space
bull CITL provides students with Wordpress space to develop an easily shared online portfolio We would
like for you all to be up to speed on how Wordpress works and promote the service To that end we
highly recommend that you routinely update your site every week to feature your challenges and any
additional projects you work on
bull
bull For this challenge get your eportfolio up and running with a home page pages for your challenges and
work diaries and a couple of posts Think about how you would present this website to us as yoursquore
Above and Beyond Report at the end of EVERY semester If youve already set up your eportfolio make
sure it is up to date - include old challenges reflection pieces etc
bull Set Up Instructions
bull Log into D2L
bull Click eportfolio at the top of the page
bull Read the User Guide if need be
bull Click Login
bull Customize your profile
bull Click Dashboard - My Sites
bull Go to [Name]s Portfolio
bull Start creating Its usually a good idea to start customizing your appearance and then start adding
posts
Here is my portfolio httpseportfoliomuncaadj174
I have played around with the portfolio tried changing the themes and editing the pictures
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W2 ndash COMBINATION OF CHARTS (EXCEL)
bull This tutorial was created by Rukshana Sundar I forgot to credit you Rukshana thus the edit Great job
bull Using the data provided or your own data file you provide create a chart combining two or more types
of graphs
bull At the end of this tutorial you will be able to
middot combine two types of graphs (ie bar graph and line graph) to represent data
middot alter the horizontal and vertical axes to combine data
middot add graph titles axis titles and legends
My work
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 15
W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 16
W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 18
W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 19
W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 20
W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 21
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 22
DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Page 24
Final piece
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 25
W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 26
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 27
W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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CS Challenges
W1 ndash WORDPRESS EPORTFOLIO
bull We did this challenge at the beginning of last semester but I want to highlight the service again and get
everyone set up with a portfolio space
bull CITL provides students with Wordpress space to develop an easily shared online portfolio We would
like for you all to be up to speed on how Wordpress works and promote the service To that end we
highly recommend that you routinely update your site every week to feature your challenges and any
additional projects you work on
bull
bull For this challenge get your eportfolio up and running with a home page pages for your challenges and
work diaries and a couple of posts Think about how you would present this website to us as yoursquore
Above and Beyond Report at the end of EVERY semester If youve already set up your eportfolio make
sure it is up to date - include old challenges reflection pieces etc
bull Set Up Instructions
bull Log into D2L
bull Click eportfolio at the top of the page
bull Read the User Guide if need be
bull Click Login
bull Customize your profile
bull Click Dashboard - My Sites
bull Go to [Name]s Portfolio
bull Start creating Its usually a good idea to start customizing your appearance and then start adding
posts
Here is my portfolio httpseportfoliomuncaadj174
I have played around with the portfolio tried changing the themes and editing the pictures
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W2 ndash COMBINATION OF CHARTS (EXCEL)
bull This tutorial was created by Rukshana Sundar I forgot to credit you Rukshana thus the edit Great job
bull Using the data provided or your own data file you provide create a chart combining two or more types
of graphs
bull At the end of this tutorial you will be able to
middot combine two types of graphs (ie bar graph and line graph) to represent data
middot alter the horizontal and vertical axes to combine data
middot add graph titles axis titles and legends
My work
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W2 ndash COMBINATION OF CHARTS (EXCEL)
bull This tutorial was created by Rukshana Sundar I forgot to credit you Rukshana thus the edit Great job
bull Using the data provided or your own data file you provide create a chart combining two or more types
of graphs
bull At the end of this tutorial you will be able to
middot combine two types of graphs (ie bar graph and line graph) to represent data
middot alter the horizontal and vertical axes to combine data
middot add graph titles axis titles and legends
My work
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W2 ndash COMBINATION OF CHARTS (EXCEL)
bull This tutorial was created by Rukshana Sundar I forgot to credit you Rukshana thus the edit Great job
bull Using the data provided or your own data file you provide create a chart combining two or more types
of graphs
bull At the end of this tutorial you will be able to
middot combine two types of graphs (ie bar graph and line graph) to represent data
middot alter the horizontal and vertical axes to combine data
middot add graph titles axis titles and legends
My work
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Page 12
W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 13
W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 14
W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 15
W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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Page 16
W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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Page 17
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 18
W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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Page 19
W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 20
W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 21
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 22
DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Page 24
Final piece
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 25
W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 26
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 27
W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Page 28
Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W3 ndash FILLABLE FORMS (WORD)
bull This challenge was created by Aditi Joshi
Create a fillable form in Microsoft Word While Aditi chose to do a food related survey you should choose a
different topic Bonus kudos to those who use extra style and design
It took me some time to think of another survey as food is one of my specialties
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W4 ndash R BASICS
bull R is a programming language and software for developing stats and data Its now the new standard for
stats courses since they removed Minitab licenses for the math department so we should have a basic
understanding of how it works
bull Import the provided data (or your own or sample data from R) and plot it into a basic chart in R Take a
screenshot of the results and post here
bull TUTORIAL - You really only want the loading a csv file and basic plotting sections but feel free to go
further into the tutorial
This was a bit challenging for me as it is a new software I got confusd a lot but In the end managed to
figure it out Thanks with the help of Matthew
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W5 ndash ACCESS
An older challenge but a goodie
bull Create a database with at least 4 different tables and then create the relationships for the tables Run a
sample query where you join information from two tables Examples include
bull Bookstore with author book publisher etc
bull Music database with albums artists genres etc
This was a fun challenge took me some time to think of an example
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W6 ndash GIMP
Time to get you non-DMC people outside your comfort zones Gimp is an open-source photo editing and
design program for those of us who cant afford Photoshop for our own personal use This week get in the
Halloween spirit by editing a basic photo into something a bit spookier
Thanks to Haris Khan for a basic introduction Ive also included an old tutorial for creating a haunted house
You can use the exact photo they used or one of your choosing (ie turning the library into a haunted house
would be AWESOME)
BEFORE
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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Page 19
W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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Page 20
W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 21
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 22
DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 25
W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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Page 32
AFTER
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Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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Page 35
AFTER
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Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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Page 37
AFTER
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Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W7 ndash TEXT TO COLUMNS COUNTIF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (EXCEL)
This challenge was created by Rick
1 Copy the provided text into Excel then use Text to Columns to turn it into a multi-column table of data
that you can work with
2 Create a summary table that shows the number of products of each type that have been sold using
COUNTIF
3 Add two useful Conditional Formatting rules to the data
Tutorial is attached I advise you read through to the end before starting anything
AFTER
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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Page 35
AFTER
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Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
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Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
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W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 21
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
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Final piece
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
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W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
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W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
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AFTER
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Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
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AFTER
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W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
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Page 37
AFTER
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Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
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Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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W8 ndash POWERPOINT QUIZ
Create an interactive quiz in PowerPoint consisting of the following
A unique template
At least 10 multiple choice questions
Feedback slides
You may need to use Office 2013365 to meet the same quality in the tutorial andor download
Visual Basic Application but do your best with what you have
TUTORIAL (2013)
TUTORIAL (2010)
bull This was a bit tricky for me but I managed to figure it out thanks to Harisrsquos help
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 19
W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 20
W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 21
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Final piece
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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Page 19
W9 ndash EXCEL SOLVER
Mail Merge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to generating the same document for a number of
users and purposes For this challenge create a ticket with an associated number for an event of your
choosing Upload all of your documents to Bitrix when yoursquore done
Tutorial (text for 2007 but should function the same)
Tutorial (video)
I made treasure hunt tickets
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W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 21
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 22
DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 23
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 24
Final piece
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 25
W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 26
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 27
W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Page 28
Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 20
W10 ndash CREATE A CHALLENGE
I did one about creating table of contents in MS word most of my clients needed help in making them
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 21
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 22
DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 23
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 24
Final piece
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 25
W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 26
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 27
W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 28
Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 21
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 22
DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 23
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 24
Final piece
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 25
W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 26
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 27
W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 28
Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 22
DMC Challenges
W1ndash AGENTS OF THE COMMONS
bull Follow the instructions in the attached PDF Use your OWN name for the text Major street cred if you
swap out the eagle symbol for the commons logo
bull
bull
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 23
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 24
Final piece
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 25
W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 26
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 27
W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 28
Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 23
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 24
Final piece
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 25
W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 26
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 27
W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 28
Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 24
Final piece
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 25
W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 26
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 27
W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 28
Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 25
W2ndash HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER KIT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
bull httpsdesigntutspluscomtutorials-cms-25785
bull Try to use your own likeness overall but obviously the whole point of this is to generate alternative
versions of yourself Post three characters made up of the parts in a jpg and also a screenshot of the
parts sorted as per the attached image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 26
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 27
W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 28
Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 26
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 27
W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 28
Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
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Page 27
W3ndash PREMIERE (SHOOT A FAMOUS MOVIE SCENE)
bull Recruit an actor or two from our staff and shoot a 30 second minimum (60 second max scene) from an
existing popular movie Ideally less people in the scene the better so you dont need many actors Do not
include any special effects or titling in this version
bull You can find the scripts here
bull httpwwwimsdbcomgenreSci-Fi
bull Post your video as a private YouTube video in a reply to this thread
In this challenge I worked with many people Katherine Farah and Haris We recorded many videos for each
scene
Katherine Renrsquos video Explosion scene from source code I acted in this one
Link httpsyoutube97UYhKMF_wc
Haris Khanrsquos video Scene from Limitless movie when the guy takes the first pill I recorded this video
Link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=xP-ZwmCPBAs
Finally my video It is from the Suicide Squad movie when the joker is going to torture Harley Queen
My actors were Haris and Katherine was very fun
Link httpsyoutubePXOJMBKeWk0
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Page 28
Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
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Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 28
Farah Deenrsquos video From Batman The Dark Knight
Links
bull httpsyoutube8XyLOLMJ4Wg
bull httpsyoutube1Q7TSNk1hLw
Makeup credits to me and Farah D
Why so serious letrsquos put a smile on your facehellip
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 29
W4ndash PHOTOSHOP EXTRACTION
bull Shoot a photo of yourself and extract yourself Replace background with a new background Post both
the before and after images Wouldnt hate seeing some creativity with the posing so that it matches the
background in a fun way
bull httpsgregbenzphotographycomphotogphotoshop
Final image
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 30
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 31
W5ndash GEOMETRIC COLLAGE
bull httpblogspoongraphicscoukvideo-photoshop
bull Use a couple of images with yourself in them along with the ones that you take from the website Post
your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this post
A fun challenge enjoyed working on it
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 32
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
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Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
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Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
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Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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AFTER
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Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 33
W6ndash INDESIGN POSTER
bull Create a poster advertising one of our services in the DMC Post both the InDesign file and a jpg version
of the poster
bull Heres a video tutorial that may help
bull httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=b27Q4YUGO8Y
I did one for Scanning in the DMC InDesign seems kind of tricky for me I tried to make a poster but
personally I would prefer Photoshop or Illustrator I made it in the funky pattern which is now a trend in the
university
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 34
W7ndash 3D PERSPECTIVE IN PS
Take a photo on campus Add 3d text of your name so that the perspective matches Post both the original
and jpg images as jpgs in a reply to this post This tutorial should help
httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wCDZpdBaIAM
This was a fun challenge I had taken this picture last winter
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 35
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 36
W8ndash LEVITATION PORTRAIT
Create a photo of yourself levitating Post the finished image as a jpg in a reply to this post
httppetapixelcom20150210levit-tutorial
BEFORE
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
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Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Page 51
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Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 37
AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 38
W9ndash COLOURING IN LIGHTROOM
Use the tutorial to hand color a photo taken on campus Post your before and after images as jpgs in a
reply to this post
httpdigital-photography-schoolcomlightroom
I tried changing the color of this image Will try another one later
BEFORE AFTER
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 39
W10ndash SPECIAL EFFECTS ON VIDEO
Add special effects to the movie scene that you shot in DMC challenge w3 Post your finished product as a
YouTube video in a reply to this post
Here is mine this is the first time I am using premiere pro on the green screen so I hope it is nice
httpsyoutubeGURC_vPVigQ
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 40
MUCEP
I am tutoring this semester as a CS tutor
I had a fun experience being a tutor the task is more detailed as I is completely client oriented apart from
the software I teach I am a Microsoft office tutor in particular in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Excel In
addition Google documents D2L overview (especially for first years or new students who donrsquot know how
to go through D2L)
bull My hours starting Tuesday 13 September 2016
bull Tuesday 200 - 500 Pm
bull Thursday 900 - 1100 Am amp 200 - 300 Pm
I can tutor in
bull Word
bull Excel
bull PowerPoint
bull Google Docs
FALL 2016 CS TUTORING LOG
Week 1 (13 Sept 2-5)
I had my first clients today (Yey )
I helped a client in D2L he needed a simple general overview of how D2l works as he was doing an online course for the first time He was very pleased with the way I assisted him and said he would also tell his friends if they ever needed help to come to the commons
He also told me how his professor told all the students who are doing the course in campus to come to the commons if they need any help
Later I had a client who wanted to learn excel from the basics We only had Half an hour but he understood generally how excel looks like and booked another tutorial to continue from where we left off
Week 1 (15 sept 900 - 1100)
I had an appointment at 1000 but client was a no show In the other time I helped clients with printing and wireless setups Filled the printers and showed a few first years how to put money into their accounts using the black boxes
Week 1 (15 September 200-300)
I helped at the desk and cleaned the tray had a few clients who needed help in printing My client didnt show up for this tutorial as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 41
Week 2 (20 sept 200 - 500)
I had a client who wanted to learn how to use conditional formatting in MS Excel I also helped him with V lookup H lookup and creating histograms
My second client did not show up so in the mean time I assisted a few clients at the desk and a first year student showing her how the D2L works
I helped my next client with MS word formatting with her essay and then helped other clients at the desk I am also learning how to generally use Microsoft Access for my next client on Thursday
Week 2 (22 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I helped a client with her resume she wanted its formation to be more presentable I helped her for half an hour she was very happy with the results Later on I helped a client with similar issues he needed help in formatting his resume After that I filled in the printers and helped a few clients with wireless setups and printing issues
While I was free I worked on my Cs challenge
Week 3 ( 27 Sept 200-500)
I helped at the desk and showed the new members how to get familiar with the Webtools and rounds systems etc Did a few wireless setups and created a few Labnet accounts
I had a client who needed help in learning how to make a contents table and how to use automatic references in Microsoft word I also helped him out in formatting his document into a more organized form by using bullet points and many more small tricks of word The client was shocked how easy and time saving it is use these tricks He told me that before he used to manually write everything up
Week 3 ( 29 Sept 900-1100 and 200-300)
In the morning I did my Cs Challenge then helped a client with her essay formatting and showing her how to use words automatic reference creator Later I also helped her with MS Excel she wanted to know how to create graphs and edit them I showed her by using the challenge we had as a template
At 200 I was at the desk helping clients for wireless setups MyMun and self-service password resets Showed a few clients how to use the black boxes then helped in clients in printing
Week 4 ( 4 Oct 200-500)
I did not have any client today so I helped out at the desk I helped quite a few clients with printing issues and wireless as well It was pretty busy did a few rounds filled the printers Overall the shift was quite busy
Week 5 (11 Oct 200-500)
I had a client at 230 he wanted a small overview about a problem with Microsoft Word It was a small formatting error which made his contents page shows the wrong information
After that I was working on the challenges and worked on the radio free poster as well
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 42
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 43
Also worked on the campus card boxes poster
Week 5 (13 Oct 900-1200)
I had no clients today so was working on the marketing Student life cycle Finished working on the administrative part of the life cycle
Week 6 ( 18 Oct 200 - 500)
I had no clients today so in this time I worked on my challenges and I am creating a poster for CS tutoring which will be done soon A client came up to me later to ask for help in their essay formatting She needed help with indenting her work and creating a cover page this took only a few minutes as she was on the right track (But I did not book her in the system as it was only 10-15 mins)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 44
Week 6 (20 Oct 200-300)
In this shift I was working on my challenge for the work diaries and the tutoring poster
Week 7 (25 Oct 200-500)
I was shadowing Anuj today in his tutoring session he was teaching his client how to edit a video Later helped Terence at the Desk for the rest of the shift and helped clients for printing and created a few guest accounts Later worked on the challenges completed the work Diary and am still working on the CS challenge
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 45
Week 7 (27 Oct 900 - 1100 and 200-300)
I designed the tutoring poster in this shift and worked on the CS challenge of gimp and was designing a new
poster for marketing
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 46
Week 8 (1 Nov 200-500)
I was working on designing posters for the social media and helped a client in publisher He wanted to make
tickets for an event with 1200 entries and was trying to put ticket numbers into each side of the ticket We
managed to make it work (Was with the client from 330-500)
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 47
Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 8(3 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
I worked on designing posters and memes for the social media (marketing) Later I was working in the DMC
for the student life cycle and we were going over the presentation and were doing a quick run through on
the projects we designed for the cycle
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
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Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 48
Week 9 (8 Nov 200-500)
This was quite an interesting shift first I worked on the DMC challenge later helped a few clients in printing
and did a quick run through on how the access looks like and what I would show to my client I had a PHD
client and she needed to learn the basics of access for her course This was a bit tricky for me so I explained
to her how the functions are in access and I showed her how to make a relationship and query for a sample
of her data She understood the main points then I showed her the access challenge we did to see how much
she understood She liked the challenge a lot and insisted that we should also post such tutorials on our
website not only in twitter She will come again to book another tutorial as she needs to make a huge
database from her research in excel into access
Week 9 (10 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
This shift I worked on my above and beyond report and created a few memes for the social media )
Week 10 (15 Nov 200-500)
This shift was very busy I helped a client in Microsoft PowerPoint then I had a client who needed help to
format their thesis paper using MS Word I showed her how to use tables in Word and how to use the
headings and the contents table to make the paper more organized After that I helped another client with
some editing of their document in MS Word He needed help in creating a table and merging the graphs
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 49
Week 10 (17 Nov 900-1100 and 200-300)
My client at 900 am did not come so in that time I worked on my challenges later a client wanted to format
their document in MS word I showed them how to use the page numbering and different heading styles to
make their work better this took only a few minutes after that I continued to work on my challenges Most
of my tutoring sessions were on how to format a document usually a thesis paper so for my cs challenge I
made it on the contents table
Week 11 (22 Nov 200-500)
Both of my clients did not show up so I was at the desk working on my challenges and later helped another
client in tutoring excel he needed help in creating a scatter graph for his chemistry experiment (I was
reading through the steps which are given and at the top of the page it was written when in doubt you can
go to the commons desk and they will help you out I was happy that now some courses are also promoting
us ) after helping him I also helped a few of his friends who were also doing the same experiment
Week 11 (24 Nov 1000-1100 and 200-300)
I had a client who needed help in excel formatting the table and later plotting a graph We couldnt finish the
session as the client came 40 minutes lateSo he has booked another time slot for next week In the mean
time I am working on designing keep quiet signs for the main library
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 50
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 51
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 52
Overall Report
TIME
I have been working at the commons for about six months As I was travelling this summer yet it was
wonderful to do the challenges as itrsquos said there is always time to learn something new
NEW THINGS
I am working with the marketing team with the student life cycle project We are all designing the life cyclersquos
layout We have passed onto the next phase we will start the main editing soon We will be using Emaze
rather than Prezi and we are also working on new marketing strategies such as the Mannequin challenge
for the whole commons including hatcher
In addition all the new challenges are amazing fun and coolhellip
GOING ONhellip
You are always learning something new and developing to become a better person This job has helped me
improve my communication skills working with coworkers and customers
My goal this semester is to improve my time management skills and continue working on my DMC skills
Also I have started CS tutoring which will help me improve my Microsoft office and communication skills I
will also be working with the marketing team to learn more about the creative cloud and use it in person
There were quite a few step backs this semester I was not confortable in teaching after a few wrong encounters with different clients However the other clients I had made me realize that I am still making an impact in their lives by teaching them how to format their work and the shortcuts they can use to make their work easier for them Their enthusiasm in learning encouraged me to help them and pass on the things I learned while working here and in school to them
While working with the marketing crew I learned quite a bit about the creative cloud and how to design quick posters for the social media
Together we worked on the student life cycle finding interactive ways to make it easy to understand while also being fun to read We started off with Prezi Emaze and interactive pdf we had many designs for each of them and later we finalized with using Emaze
This semester time management was a bit easier to manage in the beginning it got a bit harder when the midterms started I gave it my best shot to manage everything so far it seems I am doing okay
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
ABOVE AND BEYOND FALL 2016
Page 53
IT IS TRUE I AM AN AGENT OF
THE COMMONS
