Professional Journey

As of today, I have now fully completed my 100 instructional hours. The professional development was met with challenges, but the overall experience was very educational. In the beginning, learned how to adequately communicate with the latent print examiner on her educational needs for the students regarding her intentions on how to present the A.F.I.X./A.F.I.S. programs. By sharing ideas on what format should be done to deliver the presentation was very beneficial in determining what web point 2.0 tools would efficiently work in showing the programs. So, I took her feedback and started working on ways to deliver the programs outside the agency to the classroom. Initially, began the development process by just taking screenshots and going back over those screenshots to show the fingerprint process. Notably, after I created the first presentation, explained the concept to the latent print examiner who was somewhat impressed by how the video presentation was heading. However, I felt the...

As of today, I have completed 76 hours of instructional hours to date. Due to work computer issues had to wait until October 9, 2017, to resume my quest of recording the databases related to fingerprints. I have learned to expect the unexpected when it comes to computers because you never know when the system will malfunction! However, learned to work around adverse situations by communicating with the subject matter expert on the material she wanted to include in the video training for her students. Concluded not to film the entire work office for privacy-related issues and stick to the lesson plan on A.F.I.X. and A.F.I.S only to eliminate any confusion. In deciding how to present the videos, concluded still shots were not as effective as watching the process in action. So, removed the still shots and recorded the simulation live to upload to the video presentation. Students can virtually see how the process works and see in real time what it takes to examine fingerprints. The proces...