Tantawan Public Summary - Leduc
Public Summary Payroll - St. Albert
Antony Public Summary - St. Albert
Crystal Public Summary - Edmonton
Aman Public Summary - St. Albert
Zane Public Summary - Yellowhead
Jeremy Public Summary - Edmonton
Katherine Public Summary - Calgary
Jenna Public Summary - Edmonton
Robyn Public Summary - Spruce Grove
Farjot Public Summary - Wetaskiwin
Networking Consultant Public Summary - Leduc
Public Summary
My experience with FACTS was a little bit tough to get used to as I am not familiar with working on my own schedule during the summer. Although, once I familiarized myself with the organization’s values and the people that I was going to be working with, I was a little bit more excited to begin with my summer job.
This summer, I was involved with several tasks, most of them admin related:
- Recruitment (team): Contacted various schools and organizations in search of members for our full time team
- Fort McMurray Project and Master Doc: I worked with 3 other people from our team to create a Fort McMurray Support Network and Media Coverage Folder. My roles included finding links to add to the network, organizing the links into different categories, assisting an intern with media coverage research, and reviewing the final draft for the website
- Interns: inquiring them about their internship, following up with their internship, responding to any questions they have
- Recruitment (interns): contacted interns interested in an internship for August 2016 (through SCiP)
- Admin Work: checked reporting docs, meetings with other team members, contact with David, checking reporting documents, writing out intern procedures, booking meeting rooms,
- 2016 Master Doc: search through the entire google drive for projects, blog posts, contact lists, web reviews, and information on full-time workers and interns
Zane's Public Summary
When I started with FACTS it was a little intimidating because I didn’t really know what was expected of me/what the organization was all about. Once more people got on board with the job and we were given a little more direction everything went a lot smoother.
I started off working on the school board project doing web reviews of the all of the schools in the Edmonton and St Albert area and eventually calling them to attempt to network. Unfortunately none of the schools were really interested in working with us.
After that I researched Canada Day activities in my constituencies. After that I was given the task of working with the Mewassin Free Methodist Church to make a blog for them. We had a meeting and I did a fair amount of research and compiling said research on my own time. I also attempted to network with the summer school profs. I attended the August 2nd workshop where we worked with members from the church on their blog.
Overall my 9 weeks with FACTS was a positive experience and I’m confident I learned skills that will aid me in future jobs.
Aman Public Summary
I have worked on several projects with FACTSnet. Chief among those were the scripts and videos I made for reporting, as well all the contact lists I’ve exported from SeaMonkey. I’ve also provided tech support with scanning, downloading SeaMonkey, and using Blogger throughout the term for the team.
I made a video for intern reporting, and am going to finish one for full time for volunteer hours during the school year. I developed and updated contact lists, and exported them out using SeaMonkey. I worked with Blogger, as our website uses this for our website. I taught the basics of Blogger to our team, as well as create a blog for the Garry Lefebvre Legacy.
I was also involved in a bunch of admin work, as I was checking reporting and correcting reporting procedures for a couple weeks during this term.I was available for basic tech support with SeaMonkey and Blogger throughout the term for the team.
Jenna Public Summary
Over the course of the summer I have completed the following projects as a network coordinator for FACTSnet:
- Developed a heritage plan for schools to use if they please in order to celebrate Canada’s upcoming hundred and fiftieth birthday. This has been an ongoing project for me, which can be found in my masterdoc.
- Emailed schools in regards to the heritage project, asking them if they were interested in implementing the program.
- Researched school divisions in both Sturgeon and St. Albert and cut and pasted information in regards to mental health, heritage, the french language, and parents from their websites into a FACTSnet database.
- Researched Canada Day plans in the edmonton area.
- Completed a mid term report
- Researched the ALIS career tool as well as the career tool developed by the Government of Canada.
- Researched heritage in edmonton
- Made an email draft and contacted summer school professors about introducing FACTS internships to their students
- Attended a meeting with the Mewassin Free Methodist Church in regards to making them a website
- Compiled and contacted an invite list for a networking seminar
- Attended a seminar with FACTSnet
- Final Summary
- Final Document
Farjot's Public Summary
I have worked on many projects through my summer at FACTSnet, the major project I was put in charge of as an administrator was the school board project. In this project I was in charge of putting together all the information of the Black Gold division and the Catholic in Wetaskiwin division. Among the different jobs I had to do on my division I was also put in charge of making sure all the work completed by other members of the school board project was being done in both a timely and professional manner.
After the school board project had come to a close I was mostly given more administrative duties such as looking after the workers reports, and hour spreadsheets. By the end of the summer all of the blogger duties had been passed onto me as well.
Robyn's Public Summary (Spruce Grove)
Over the course of the summer I have worked on the following projects as a network coordinator for FACTSnet:
School Board Project:
- This term I started off by contacting schools in the Parkland, Evergreen, and St. Albert Catholic region
- I completed web reviews for Middle schools and some elementary schools in the Parkland, Evergreen, and Albert Catholic region
- I compiled all the links from the Junior High and High Schools and Junior High in the above regions based on subject into the Cut and Paste files
Equine CTS Project:
- Helped at the barn
- Created a draft email to send to schools about the SPCA CTS program
- Went through the two SPCA CTS equine modules
- Created two potential logos for equine CTS program
History:
- I read and summarized the first two chapters of “Hoofprints and Hitching Posts”, which is a book on the history of horses in Canada
- Using “As the Roots Grow” I looked into the history of sports in Spruce Grove
- I scanned in the book “Memories of Looma”, which covers the history of the town of Looma
Calgary Summary 2016
The month of June was concerned with a general set up for the scanning
and organization of the PBF archives. This consisted of several meetings with
David Ibsen, contacts from Ambrose University, and PBF members who played a
part in the future of the archive. The PBF archives consist of textbooks,
notes, yearbooks, and anything else pertaining to the Prophetic Bible
Institute, Berean Bible College, and Foothill Bible College. These institutes
were part of William Aberhart’s legacy. Before the scanning could take place,
however, many details needed to be arranged. We were hoping to recruit high
school students, in need of work experience, near Ambrose University to scan
the PBF documents. My first goal in June was to contact high schools in hope of
finding such students, however I did not hear back from any of them.
My second goal was to recruit as many organizations and individuals with
PBF connections to attend a meeting discussing the future of the archive. While
I did not hear back from several organizations, several PBF alumni attended the
meeting, and the meeting held on June 27th was a success. We discussed the
content and future of the archives as well as a PBF meeting supposed to be held
next year. There were many details still needing to be arranged pertaining to
the future of the archive. Towards the end of June, I met with the archive
manager of the Glenbow Museum to discuss whether, after completion, the PBF
archive could be donated to the museum. Glenbow accepted. Still hoping that
high school students would help, I started the process of scanning the
archives on my own.
The month of June was also concerned with research on my personal project: the
policies put in place by William Aberhart during his time as the Premier of
Alberta, specifically the policies concerning mental health and poverty. While
social credit was his most famous policy, Aberhart played an important role in
guaranteed income and the eugenics movement in Alberta. My research process
consisted of reading and listening to Aberhart’s original speeches and
broadcasts, reading recent articles, looking through the Glenbow archives, and
interviewing an economist. This research has also given me a better context to
Aberhart’s life and legacy. It has also helped me better understand the
importance of the PBF archives and appreciate and understand the PBF alumni
that I have met.
I mainly worked on scanning and organizing the PBF archive for the first
few weeks of July. I would spend approximately every other day in a library
study room at Ambrose University, scanning the archives and organizing the
scanned pictures (jpeg’s) into folders on my computer. Every time I scanned a
new document, I would add it to a master doc of everything scanned into the
digital archive, that way I can easily compare the digital PBF archives with
the Glenbow ones. On alternate days, I copy and paste each jpeg into a
publisher document, where I crop them and fit them to a page. This way all
jpeg’s pertaining to the same Archive document can be put together in one
single digital document. Once the pictures are formatted to the page, I convert
the publisher document into PDF and save them in the same folder as the jpegs.
Due to the large quantity of documents needing to be scanned, this process will
most-likely make up the majority of my work for the rest of the summer. Further
discussion still needs to take place on the future of the Archive and how much
of it the Glenbow Museum will take.
Along with the scanning of the Archives, I have continued (though less
frequently) my research on Aberhart and his policies concerning low income and
mental health. In the mid-late 1930’s, Aberhart introduced the Social Credit
party where he promised to give everyone a monthly amount of money. Though his
party won the majority votes, Social Credit was not successful. There were many
economic and political issues for why the “guaranteed income” promised to the
people could not be given out. The idea of guaranteed income continues to be
explored by political parties and economic policies, however it is continually
found that, though in theory the strategy is ideal, in practice it is
challenging. This led me to study what policies should be in practice today, in
view of the lessons learned by Aberhart and his policies for putting money into
the hands of the people. While directly giving out money is found to not work
today, there are other means to help the ever growing problem of homelessness.
An alternative to guaranteed income is “guaranteed housing”, an idea quickly
spreading in North America. The Housing First project helps give homeless
individuals stable housing with no to very little rent. This approach is found
to be very effective in North America today in the quest to end homelessness.
In this way, my independent research has been studying housing first and
comparing it to Aberhart’s Guaranteed Income and Social Credit policies.
August consisted of work continued scanning of the archive and
preparation of the archive for easy delegation of the task to future interns. I
also spent a significant amount of time in preparation of a second PBF meeting
on August 10, where we discussed the future of the archive and its format as
well as how to organize the PBF group and its members. We also held a meeting
on August 10 concerning intern recruitment and internship details. I spent a
significant amount of time leading up to the meeting trying to recruit students
for the internship and organizations as sponsors. Though finding organizations
proved to be more challenging, we were able to recruit several students for the
meeting. With the archive still needing to be scanned and donated to Glenbow,
the last weeks of my employment have consisted of organizing the archive to be
passed on to interns and further meetings with Glenbow Museum.
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