8/24/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Meeting with Lena (30 minutes).
- Reviewing orientation material (1 hour).
- Signed into Bepress and created my profile and bio and developed my activity logs via WordPress and creating the respective links (1 hour + 30 minutes).
- Downloading the Acalytics Exporter extension and Microsoft Teams app (1 hour).
- Finishing up by introducing myself in Microsoft Teams (30 minutes).
I began working on these objectives at 10:00 a.m. and completed all objectives at 3:30 p.m.
Total Time: 4 hours
8/25/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Meeting with Lena and reviewing the processes of F-D to B (1 hour and 30 minutes).
- Provided updated screenshots for the “F-D Claim Your Professor” page and the “C Using the Acalytics” page (30 minutes).
- Brought profile “kyle-perry” to a B-grade status (30 minutes).
- Brought profile “matt-insall” to a B-grade status (30 minutes).
- Began working to bring profile “daniel-oerther” to a B-grade status. Will schedule an appointment with Lena for 8/26/2020 (1 hour).
Work began at 12:40 p.m. and ended at 6:40 p.m.
Total Time: 4 hours
8/26/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Met with Lena and reviewed the workflow of developing the Columbia faculty list and obtained a better understanding of how to reach the A grade in the Rolla faculty list (45 minutes).
- Developed a spreadsheet for Agricultural Systems Management for the Columbia faculty list (15 minutes).
- Continued working on bringing profile “daniel-oerther” to a B-grade status. Will schedule an appointment with Lena for 8/31/2020.
Work began at 11:00 a.m. and ended at 3:30 p.m.
Total Time: 2 hours (END OF WEEK 1)
Accumulated hours for practicum: 10 hours
8/31/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Met with Lena and was instructed with a new task of importing Open Access articles into UMSL Faculty Works (1 hour and 15 minutes).
- Worked on importing OA articles (if there were any to import) from the following faculty profiles (2 hours and 45 minutes):
- Abderrahmen Mtibaa
- Adam Boessen
- Alina Slapac
- Amber Candela
- Amber Reinhart
- Andrew Hurley
- Emily Brown
- Bruce Wilking
- Scheduled an appointment with Lena for 9/1/2020 (Time not applicable)
Work began from 10:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Total time: 4 hours
9/1/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Meeting with Lena (15 minutes).
- Re-downloading and testing the newly fixed Acalytics Explorer extension (45 minutes).
- Brought the following profiles in the Rolla Faculty list to an F grade due to not being able to find a profile in the discovery tool (15 minutes):
- Roger Weaver
- David Van Aken
- Peizhen Zhu
- Richard Hagni
- Nancy Krost
- Brought the following profiles in the Rolla Faculty list to a B grade (2 hours and 45 minutes):
- Daniel Oerther
- Nan Cen
- Cesar Mendoza
- Angela Lueking
- Began on working on bringing profile Fatih Dogan from a C to B grade (1 hour).
Hoping to bring Fatih Dogan’s profile to a B grade on 9/2/2020.GOAL ACHIEVED.
Work began from 12:40 p.m. to 5: 40 p.m.
Total time: 5 hours
9/2/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Brought Fatih Dogan’s profile from a C to a B grade in the Rolla Faculty List and scheduled an appointment with Lena for 9/8/2020 (1 hour).
Work began from 12:50 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Total time: 1 hour (END OF WEEK 2)
Accumulated hours for practicum: 20 hours
9/7/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Briefly touched base with Lena on today’s objectives (5 minutes).
Removed and reinstall Analytics Explorer due to it not registering on my end. The issue has been reported to the Teams chat.*ISSUE RESOLVED* (55 minutes).- Gave Braden Lusk’s profile an F grade since it could not be found and brought the following profiles from the Rolla Faculty list to a D grade *Will work on getting these profiles to a B grade once Analytics Explorer is working for me once again* (15 minutes):
- Jeffrey Winiarz
- Victor Khilkevich
- Greg Hilmas
- William Schonberg
- George Markowsky
- John Hogan
- Uploaded OA Articles from Cody Ding’s profile in the UMSL Faculty files (1 hour and 45 minutes).
Work began from 2:00 p.m. and ended at 4:30 p.m.
Total time: 2 hours
9/8/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Meeting with Lena (15 minutes)
- Brought 27 profiles from the Rolla Faculty list to a C grade and gave 6 profiles an F grade since they not found in the Discovery tool (5 hours and 45 minutes).
Work began at 10:00 a.m. and ended at 6:00 p.m.
Total time: 6 hours
9/9/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Brought the following profiles from a C to B grade (1 hour):
- Anna Cotterill
- Tseggai Isaac
- Qingbo Yang
- Read through the instructions over getting profiles to an A or A-/+ grade and brought profile “kyle-perry” to an A+ grade (1 hour).
Work began from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Total time: 2 hours (END OF WEEK 3)
Accumulated hours for practicum: 30 hours
9/14/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Touched base with Lena via Teams (5 minutes).
- Reviewed the literature for the A grade workflow (10 minutes).
- Brought the following profiles to an A or A-/+ (3 hours and 45 minutes):
- Daniel Oerther
- Nan Cen
- Cesar Mendoza
- Angela Lueking
- Fatih Dogan
- Anne Cotterill
- Tseggai Isaac
- Qingbo Yang
NOTE: START WORKING ON THOSE C GRADE PROFILES AND GET THEM UP TO As THIS WEEK.
Work began from 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Total hours: 4 hours
9/15/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Checked in with Lena and began working on bringing profiles with C grades to A grades (Meaning C -> B -> A) (4 hours). The following profiles were brought to an A or A+/- grade:
- Jeffery Winiarz
- Victor Khilkevich
Goal: Get Greg Hilma’s profile to an A grade 9/16/2020 (Greg has almost 200 works to check through, so it was not going to be finished on the original proposed date) GOAL ACHIEVED on 9/21/2020.
Work began from 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Total time: 4 hours
9/16/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Continued working on Greg Hilma’s profile (1 hour and 45 minutes).
- Brought Katherine Grote’s profile to an A grade (15 minutes).
Work started from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Total time: 2 hours (END OF WEEK 4)
Accumulated hours for practicum: 40 hours.
9/21/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Touching base with Lena and setting up an appointment her for 9/22/2020 (15 minutes).
- Managed to bring Greg Hilma’s profile to an A+ grade (4 hours and 45 minutes).
NOTE: This is the halfway point of the practicum. I need to write up a Mid-term report and submit it over the weekend.
Work started from 12:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Total time: 5 hours
9/22/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Met with Lena via Zoom (10 minutes).
- Brought the following profiles to an A or A +/- grade (4 hours and 50 minutes):
- William Schonberg
- John Hogan
- Paul Parris
- Levent Acar
Work started at 12:50 p.m. and ended at 5:50 p.m.
Total Time: 5 hours (END OF WEEK 5 – MIDWAY POINT)
Accumulated hours for practicum: 50 hours
9/28/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following
- Touching base with Lena and attempting to continue bringing my C-graded profiles to As. However, within the first 10 minutes of working, I ended up getting booted off of Teams due to a “transient error”. I would attempt to sign on and off my email 3 times periodically before I decided to conclude the workday. Was not able to contact Lena nor any other practicum students about the issue via Teams, but I will notify Lena about the situation during our meeting (1 hour).
Work began around 1:30 pm and ended at 2:30 pm.
Total time: 1 hour
9/29/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Met with Lena via Zoom. To follow-up on the mishap that occurred on 9/28/2020, it was found that Microsoft 365 had a severe outage that day that caused many individuals to find themselves unable to access any of their apps. The issue has been fixed on Microsoft’s end and I was able to continue work. I began working on Marco Cavaglia’s profile and I hope to finish his profile by the end of this week (4 hours).
Work began from 12:30 pm and ended at 5:30 pm.
Total hours: 4 hours.
10/3/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following.
- After a series of unfortunate mishaps, I managed to complete my 10 hours for the week. I’m still working on Marco Cavaglia’s profile and should be finished on Monday. Afterward, I will continue working on getting other C grade profiles to an A or A+/- grade. (5 hours)
Work began from 2 pm to 5 pm to 9 pm to 11 pm
Total hours: 5 hours (END OF WEEK 6)
Accumulated hours for practicum: 60 hours.
10/5/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Touched base with Lena and set a Zoom appointment at 10:20 am for 10/6/2020 (10 minutes).
- Made a correction on the previous activity log entry (5 minutes) .
- I successfully brought Marco Cavaglia’s profile to an A+ grade (4 hours and 45 minutes).
Work began at 12 pm and ended at 6:30 pm.
Total Time: 5 hours
10/6/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Meeting with Lena via Zoom (5 minutes).
- Brought the following profiles to an A or A+/-:
- George Markowsky
- John Myers
- Anthony Okafor
- Keng Siau
FINAL GOAL: Bring remaining profiles to an A or A+/- grade before the end of the practicum. If the goal is met, then do more!
Work began from 10 am to 5:30 pm.
Total hours: 5 (END OF WEEK 7)
Accumulated hours for practicum: 70 hours
10/13/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Met with Lena via zoom and discussed job seeking tips and advice (15 minutes).
- Brought the following profiles to an A or A+/-(1 hour and 30 minutes):
- Cheng Wang
- Daoru Han
- Reviewed the A profiles that I graded and corrected their grading in accordance with the grading scale that Christina Proctor provided in the workflow tab (1 hour and 45 minutes).
Work began from 12:30 pm and ended at 5:30 pm
Total time: 3 hours and 30 minutes
10/14/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Brought the following profiles to an A or A+/- grade (3 hours):
- Dimitri Feys
- Paul Worsey
- R. Stanley
Work began at 9:30 am and ended at 12:30 pm
Total time: 3 hours
10/15/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Brought the the following profiles to an A or A+/- grade (3 hours and 30 minutes):
- Hongyan Ma
- Suzanna Long
Work began from 4:00 pm and ended at 8:00 pm
Total time: 3 hours and 30 minutes (END OF WEEK 8)
Accumulated hours for practicum: 80 hours
10/19/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Brought the following profiles to an A or A+/- grade (2 hours and 30 minutes):
- Jason Murphy
- Steve Watkins
- Began working on the following profiles (2 hours and 30 minutes):
- Frank Liou
- William Fahrenholtz
Work began from 3:30 pm to 10:30 pm.
Total hours: 5 hours
10/20/2020 – Today’s objectives consisted of the following:
- Brought the final two profiles I curated to an A or A+/- grade (5 hours):
- Frank Liou
- William Fahrenholtz
Work began at 3:00 pm and ended at 8:30 pm.
Total time: 5 hours (END OF WEEK 9)
Accumulated for practicum: 90 hours.
Will post in the “GET A JOB” chat and write final reflection sometime before the end of the week.
END OF PRACTICUM
FINAL RESULTS:
- 90 hours completed.
- 46 profiles curated.
- 33 profiles with an A or A+/- grade.
- 13 profiles with an F grade due to their profiles being missing.
- 38 Open Access articles added.