Mentor Meeting

Today in our mentor meeting, Mr. Heurich and I talked about my presentation. We outlined what was going to be said, and what I should do more of before I have my presentation. For instance, I should write more about reflections before I have my presentation, so that people can see how my project affected me.

One thing that I wanted to look at at the beginning of my project was the difference between AT and PT. I never really looked at it. We thought though, that I should before the presentation, that way I can tell people what the difference is, and what I would be doing.

Our meeting was cut short because Mr. Heurich had to go give a presentation to the 8th graders that came in from DeWitt, but we got some really good ideas for what I should do. I'm going to try to meet with him one or two more times before my project on the 18th.

Mentor Meeting

In my mentor meeting today, I taped my friend Courtney's ankle to show how much better I've been getting since I went to Ithaca College and had them teach me. It was nerve-wracking because I didn't know what to expect. I wasn't sure if I was going to do everything correctly, and I didn't want to waste the tape that I had, because that was ALL the tape that I had. But it went quite well I thought. I'll let you decide, here it is:

Yawn

Oh my gosh, today was the most boring day of my WISE project thus far. Chelsea, the final student from IC finally came in today. She is a gymnast, so they were still in season, so she couldn't come down to the high school until today. Since she's going to be working with Kara doing Lacrosse or Track, Kim said that maybe it was better if I did a different sport. I have been changing it up like I mentioned before, but I don't have as many choices now. She doesn't want me working with Lacrosse as much as I have been recently. So, I changed sports. Remember how I mentioned that Girls's Lacrosse was the most boring thing? Yea, I had to work with Girl's Lacrosse today. John and I spent most of the time trying to stay awake...soooo boring.

In better news, during my WISE mentor meeting today, I taped my best friend's ankle. The video is going to be posted as soon as I find my cord. That will hopefully be tonight, but I don't know for sure if I know where my cord is, so at the earliest possible time, I will upload that so you can see it. It was really weird to be doing a tape job without anybody explaining it to me. I talk to Mr. Heurich, and tell him, and the camera what I am doing. I'm not used to that, it was kinda cool. :)

I guess that's all for now, hopefully you will see the video soon. bye!

In the meeting this week...

Mr. Heurich and I met today 7th period like we do every Tuesday. He and I discussed what I had done this past week. There wasn't a whole lot that we needed to talk about. He thought that I was doing a good job and that I was on track. What we did talk about however was the fact that I hadn't been consistent with my blogging. So, I told him what a busy week it had been and we agreed that during our meetings, we would start out by talking about the basics of what I had done, and then I would be able to do some work on my blog, if I need to catch up, or do some research. I think it is a beneficial use of the time because in the library, I can work in a quiet environment, and focus on doing my work.

So, after we talked about that, I got to work on writing some of the old blogs that I needed to write, and I'll finish the rest later.

Another Mentor Meeting

I met with Mr. Heurich today 7th period. We talked about what I have done this week, and some ideas for new posts that I could write...I have already written a blog about the ideas...look below. We also talked about what my plans are for my presentation.

As far as the presentation goes, I would like to give a taping lesson to people. I don't know if it would be ankle taping, wrist taping, etc, but I think it would be a good idea to look at doing that as a culmination of all the things i've learned about Athletic Training. Along with that, I thought of having some handouts with pictures of injuries, and I could have a someone come in and demonstrate how doing a certain thing could cause the injury, and I could stop them as soon as the injury would occur.

Mr. Heurich and I also talked about doing a blog about the differences between Athletic Training and Physical Therapy. There are a lot of differences, but a lot of people don't know what those differences would be off the top of their head, so it would be a little more information to help peOple understand just what I want to do with my life after high school and college. Even I am not totally sure of all of the differences, so it would help not only the general public that doesn't know about Athletic Training, it would be able to help me as well.

Part of the reason that I wanted to do this project was that I wanted to make sure that the field that I definitely wanted to go into in college was Athletic Training. That's what I love about this project so much. It helped me to officially decide that I want to go into Athletic Training. Yay!!

Mrs. Sauls suggested that I look at a magazine called Oxygen. It is about women and them getting in shape and doing things to help their bodies, and I think this a great idea. I am going to take a look at this magazine at the earliest possible time...which might be in a few days after I have looked at Runner's World, the magazine not the online articles...so we'll see.

I guess that's all for now...bye! :)

Mentor Meeting 3/9/10

Today is my third meeting with Mr. Heurich. I filled him in on what I have done lately...keeping him apprised of what my progress is.

What I've Done Since Last Meeting

• Met with Kim Bailey for the first time and saw her taping some of the athletes
• Looked up some videos of taping knees and ankles on youtube (will blog about some of the videos that I liked and that were useful)
• Read another periodical online, however it was of no help
• Set up an appointment with Dr. Getzin for the 24th of March to talk to him about my back along with talking about common injuries in sports.

What I plan To Do

• Before the next meeting, I am going to come into the library and look at some magazines that Mr. Heurich and I found. One magazine is DanceSpirit, another is Runner's World to se if they have anything that could be useful to me.
• I am going to meet with Kim Bailey again today and any other day that I can to keep going on my interning. I will talk to her to see if I can find out any more on the common injuries that she works with. I don't know that I will have a lot of time to do this because it is the beginning of the season and she is going to have a lot to do getting ready and getting Impact Testing done. Impact Testing is testing to see if an athlete has a concussion or not to start the season.
• I will blog about any videos that I found useful and interesting from YouTube.
• I am going to work on making my blog media-rich. This will include videos, pictures. Anything that I learn or want to learn will be included from now on.

Second Mentor Meeting

I met with Mr. Heurich today and we talked about two different topics. One was what i had done since the last mentor meeting that I had last Tuesday, and the other was what I am planning on doing in the next week or two.

What I've done since Last Tuesday

• I read multiple periodicals that I had picked out and put in my annotated bibliography before I even really started working on my project. Some proved to be helpful while others weren't. There were one or two that I got a lot of information on and that I will be using in the future. (Soon I will post a blog entry about the articles that I read.)
• I had a doctor's appointment with Dr. Andrew Getzin, who is a doctor at Cayuga Sports Medicine. I was talking to him about my project while I was having my appointment, and he said that I was welcome to go and visit him at Ithaca College if I wanted any hands on experience.

What I plan on doing in the next two weeks

• I am going to meet with Dr. Getzin most likely this Friday to see what he can tell me and who I should get in touch with.
• I will be heading up to Ithaca College to talk to some of the professors in the Athletic Training program. If I could get an appointment, I would like to meet with Paul Geisler to see if I could go to his class and observe every now and then.
• I am going to start meeting with Kim Bailey next Monday, March 8th. The spring sports are going to start then and I will be able to do something as far as helping Kim and learning some of the information that I want to.
• When I meet with some of these people, I hope to find out some of the more common injuries associated with gymnastics. When that happens, I can start researching those specific injuries.
  
  

Self-Assessment

I think I need to get working more now that i have a lot of the starting points. I said in my original two week plan that I wasn't going to be able to do a whole lot at the beginning of the project because of dance, and that proved to be true. However, now that I have a lot of my competition season out of the way, I should be able to focus more on getting the work for my project done.

I have been able to work occasionally on what I wanted to do, and when I was able to, I got a lot done in a short period of time, so now with the time that I have, I will be able to get a ton of research done.

First Mentor Meeting

So, today was my first meeting with Mr. Heurich. We talked about what my project entailed. I was telling him how I wanted to have a diagram at the end of my project and what the final project would be. He said he has some ideas about putting videos in as part of the presentation.

I told him about how I hope to lean about basic taping techniques. I can learn those from either Kim Bailey, the high school's Athletic Trainer or from Todd Lazenby, one of Ithaca College's Athletic Trainers.

We talked about not only my goals with how I hope the project will go, but also with how I hope he will help me stay focused, because I have a major problem staying focused.

This is my first time using a blog. I had never thought about using one before Mr. Heurich told me about the fact that I would be using one. This is a new experience for me, and I'm super excited to keep blogging throughout the duration of my project. I will be doing a lot of photography along with videos that I take so that I can illustrate what I am learning and doing, and some of those will be posted on here as well.