Volunteering at Cradles to Crayons

This weekend, a few of my classmates and I volunteered with people from the community at St. Mary's Church in Newton to help Cradles to Crayons sort through hundreds of donations. Being a part of this event made me realize how important it is for the community to be involved with non-profit organizations. By sorting the donations into categories such as girls and boys clothes, toys, and winter accessories, it made the sorting process at their warehouse, The Giving Factory, easier.
Spending time helping an organization doesn't only help the people in need, but gives the ones who volunteer the gratification of helping their community.
Our event and winter clothing drive are ways the students of Lasell College can get involved and help children in need.

Great class project

When people say that they hate school its either because of the professor or just the content that the professors try to teach. In this Media Relations class we are truly doing something that will pertain to the real world. We are setting up meetings, contacting businesses, and working with one another to get this event lifted off the ground. Although we have encountered some small road bumps along the way, we still have a great vision of what this class can achieve. I really wish that every student can have two of the professors that I have had at Lasell college that really do care what you learn in class. Those two teachers not only make school fun again, but they make you think critically with out having to open a book and do the critical thinking questions that are usually at the end of a chapter outline.

I really hope everyone can help us out by coming to our event and giving at least one article of warm clothing for our winter coat drive.

Connected Learning

At Lasell College, directors and professors stress the school's strong connected learning program. However, I just realized that only a few professors are actually commited to this curriculumn. As a junior, I expected my previous years to be filled with an abundance of "connected learning" experiences, but this semester is my first practice with connecting what I learn in the classroom to the outside world. Although I think it's late to be learning how to apply my knowledge, I'm glad to be doing it at all.

To connect what we learn about media relations, my class is hosting an winter clothing benefit in the campus center called Rockin' the Cradle. We are all responsible for different tasks and pulling everything together to ensure success for this event. I am on the writing team, and responsible for creating documents to distrubte to people involved in the event. Rockin' the Cradle will not only benefit children in need of winter clothing items but also the students in Professor Vicente's Media Relations class. I think the learning experience we gain by planning this event and seeing the final outcome, will help us in the future.

I personally have already learned so much. Especially about Lasell College. I never knew that it could be so difficult to get department heads involved-or even to respond to our letters and emails! We're hosting an event at the school which NEEDS local awareness, we PAY the teachers, shouldnt they want to be involved?

It frustrates me that the school's reputation for being so commited to connected learning is pretty much close to false. When I came to this school I thought I'd get a lot of hands-on experience, and I wouldnt just be sitting in the classroom taking notes and listening to some boring lecture. Unfortunatly, I've only had two teachers that commited their classes to teaching us how to apply the things we learn to real situations in the communications industry.

Looks like I know who to try to take more classes with in following semesters! FYI Fellow students: make sure you talk to your friends about which teachers to take your courses with! Unless, that is, you enjoy mind-numbing powerpoints and dreadful lectures...

Cradles to Crayons Family Volunteer Day

This is the flyer designed and being used to advertise Cradles to Crayons' Family Volunteer Day.



The Creative Team is working on 3 more flyers for all of the events we have going on soon (student party November 19th and the Winter Coat Drive for November 29-December 6).

Our events are finally seeming to come together and all loose ends are being tied. We will be advertising the party and coat drive soon so that will definitely give us the boost we need to really get everything done.