Room Creativity

(1) How do you plan to address the room creativity expectation?

•  Since me and Lucy are having presentations on topics that have to do with the medical field, we planned on covering the walls with black tarp, so the room can be darker, and can create a single background. With the black tarp we can also direct the audience's attention to our presentation. I also plan on having maybe a poster or two on the CDC/WHO, or my art interpretation of infectious diseases, the one we did in Ogden's class.

(2) What activity ideas do you have for answer 1 or 2?

• I know a sponge isn't needed for the blog post, but for my sponge, I would like to recreate the infection spread throughout the room, using the water and plastic cups, the activity I did for my 20 minute presentation.

•  My activity for answer 1 will be that I give each group of tables a set of common symptoms and a list of disease that may be the cause of those symptoms, the students must then figure out which disease is wreaking havoc, on their patient, and what type of precautions should be taken.
• My second activity for answer 2 is unknown as of now, because I am rethinking my second answer.

Answer 2

 My EQ is "What is the most important thing to know in the diagnosis an infectious disease?"

1. Vaccination records produce evidence in which diseases are not infecting the patient, but vaccination can also provide insight in which diseases may be infecting the patient this is a key role in the diagnosis of infectious diseases, and can narrow down the possible diseases.  

    

2. When doing my Independent Component, the main prevention of infectious diseases is vaccination.

      -In a New York Times article, I've seen that parents are not vaccinating their children anymore, and that doctors are urging to stop that trend, since it may make the children sicker in the future when they are older.

      - Vaccination records are used to see if a kid has been vaccinated against certain diseases, so it can rule out diseases when diagnosing an infectious diseases. Since most vaccinations are for infectious diseases, it makes sense that a vaccination record helps in the diagnosis.

3. Pieces of evidence are

1. Independent Component 1- Disease Spectrum
2. STEINHAUER, JENNIFER. "Public Health Risk Seen as Parents Reject Vaccines." The New York Times. The New York Times, 21 Mar. 2008. Web. 16 Mar. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html>.'
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Web. 16 Mar. 2012. <http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/howvpd.htm>.

The Product

Since I have started my service learning in Western University, with Dr. Ellen Collisson, I have been able to narrow down what I want to do after graduate school. Dr. Collisson, researches different infectious zoonitic diseases,  and I want to do that as my future job. I have also started eating chicken less, and cooking the meat fully. In my service learning I present to a group of people about the Avian Influenza. Another product from my service learning is, that I obtained a job that is secured in Western University, and I have also created really good relations with the people at Western University. Since I have become more comfortable with talking to professionals about microbiology, I can now talk to them, without feeling uneducated.