Introduction
During my first semester of CODES 122 Research class, we were to use our knowledge of what we have learned from last semester and apply it to what we can do now in the present to fix these problems we have learned. Each research group had a wicked problem they found in the MOBOT about their specific topic. My group’s topic was about indigenous knowledge and the miscommunication about it. Our goal was to try and help the garden members on filling this missing gap of information. For this semester, I have come up with 5 goals I want to achieve by the end of this semester.
1st Goal
(30%) Oral communication 8A-C : Being able to communicate with my teammates and lab workers in a responsive formal way. Being a part of the team.
Some ways I have achieved this goal would be the visit we took at the MOBOT when we went into a deep dive of certain plant pressings and applying it to the group we are assigned in. My group and I discussed what was missing from these plant pressings and some ways we could fix that. Our leader, Victoria, was very good at responding to our answers fully which made writing the Reflection very easy.
Another good example of me achieving this goal was during the MOBOT visit February 28th. All the groups gave out their surveys to the garden employees for better feedback. I gave out a brief summary of what our survey is and what we are trying to achieve.
(The parts underlined were said during our SA discussion that I got picked for.)
Another example of achieving this goal would be my final storyboarding video about Indigenous knowledge. I decided to narrate part of this video for my group.
2nd Goal
(20%) Critical and Creative Thinking 2C: Transform ideas through synthesizing knowledge from multiple domains.
This goal is actually a pretty main one for me since this semester is mostly based on the project we gave during the showcase. I am achieving this goal by synthesizing and using the knowledge I’ve learned about indigenous plants and how indigenous people use these plants last semester to how we can fill these gaps with indigenous perspectives and names.
(This plant pressing shows the westernized way these botanists identified plants. We used this information to help the garden inform people on indigenous ways. )
Another way I achieved this goal would be my Final Lab of synthesizing the information I got from our surveys and trying to fill in these missing gaps in MOBOT.
3rd Goal
(20%) Ethnical Reasoning 3 A-B: Recognizing ethnical issues in the garden and trying to resolve them with lab workers.
This goal can really tie into the surveys all our groups conducted.
(This picture shows the collaboration between me and the leader within the MOBOT facility trying to solve an ethical issue of filling missing information.
4th Goal
(10%) Information Literacy: 5A Defines the scope of research questions effectively and selects information cogently to address them.
The necessary knowledge document comes into play with this goal by providing sources and terms that can be useful within our research team.
Group 1 (Troy, Evitt, Kadynce, Kasey)
Your presentation from December: source-https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18LIW935GcWp0gvvs19cJ480xGRF0Qon0Qvkt8akgafE/edit?usp=sharing
Other notes
Jordan Teisher (herbarium director, current)
Jim Solomon (herbarium director, past)
Sylvia Sukop (Ph.D. student in history at Wash University, Germanic Languages/Literatures, the Holocaust, slavery)
Andrew Culligan (Archivist)
Andrew Wyatt (head of horticulture)
Robbie Hart (director of the Brown Center)
^All copied and pasted from necessary knowledge document.
5th Goal
(20%) Collaboration: 12C Works independently towards goals by contributing and meeting deadlines.
I have been achieving this goal by turning my projects and reflections in on time with a certain date listed above.
(This reflection was submitted a couple days before it was due.)
(this final lab was turned in a whole week before the due date)
