My Life… My Thoughts

 The culture that we have in this class is a unique one. We all seem to really get alone and can easily work together. This is why I believe that language, humor, and play, physical settings, rituals, values are the cultural identifications that our class has.  These five cultural identification gives us our CSS or style for the class. Each of these identifications helps this itec 3610 become the IT Citrines.

The language, humor, and play I feel work together. I believe that I picked these identities because we love to laugh, joke, and play it makes the time go by faster. The laughs that we share together makes for a comfortable learning environment. It also shows that we genuinely enjoy each other’s company.  The language is apart of humor and play. We use language when we tell the jokes or just say things that cause others to laugh. Our language is how we communicate. The citrines love to talk, well some of us do.

The class’s physical setting for the citrines is the seating arrangement that we use. We all tend to sit in the same seats in every one of Thomas and Bruce’s classes. But we usually change things around in Johnston’s class for some reason. We also love to bring own snacks to class to set the mood so we can stay alert during all the lectures. The fact that all have the computers that we’re working on is another part of the setting we have in the classroom.

The ritual that we have in class is similar to our physical setting like snacks, seats, and computers. Other rituals that we have are the lessons that each teacher talks about. Each teacher lesson builds on a skill that we need to succeed in the class. Thomas gives us computer skills, Johnston gives us the personal techniques that are required to develop personal repro with clients. Bruce’s skills benefit the office part of business skills in excel and what to keep things to track from clients or customers that consume our goods or services. Attending class is a form of rituals.

We value the teachers and these skills that they are giving us. These skills will help us not only in our work lives but in our everyday life. The lesson that Thomas gave us about how to power search was a great lesson to have. It gave us a great skill to help us better research articles on the internet. This skill helps us everywhere and every class. Bruce has given us an insight into Google Sheets that I did know existed. These skills have personally helped me recently export a spreadsheet of the children I work with. Johnston has helped me polish the skills that I have and is helping me work on the ones that I’m not comfortable using.

The class we have is a really great makeup of many individuals that we can learn from and help us grow as well as rounded employee or boss entering the work field. The class really does have all the culture identifiers but these I think are a few of the most important ones that the citrines have.

This diagram is used to organize thoughts by grouping them into categories. I am not a person that does this these days or ever. But I can see where this is a skill that I should learn to use. If I dont I might be a hard individual to work with.

Etiquette and Netiquette have similar meanings. These are workplace terms for professional ways of acting. Etiquette is knowing how to behave at the right times and places. Having good manners, being on time, give personal space, and avoid gossiping, and just have respect for others. Netiquette is having good manners on the internet. Netiquette is a thing that most people on the internet are lacking. Netiquette is the workplace deal with the internet as well but with writing emails and writing in office memos. Good practices of netiquette are not writing in all caps, not using abberavted words or shorthands, or using offensive words.

I believe I have good listening skills, but maybe not. The class activities that we did showed me how others listen and how others take control. So in our first activity, we had to work together to put a deck of card in a certain order. We talked together about how we were going to do things when its time. But it when it was time people kinda forgot and did things how they wanted to achieve results in the end. That made some people kinda shut down. I feel like at this point in my life I am a pretty good team player and i work well with others despite how i might feel about them. Our second activity involved us read a case study before class and in our new groups recall and discuss question that we were given. In this group, I was a very good team player and a listener. This group had more people that wanted to take control so I felt that was all we could do. I dont know maybe that was just me feeling that.