Learning Objectives #WhereAreWeAt
Hi! I would like to show you the learning objectives I formulated before commencing. I would also like to tell you where I am in the process of achieving these objectives.
These are my four learning objectives, my initial key strategies to obtain them as well as where I feel like I am in the process of achieving them at this point:
Learning Objective I:
To gain insight in how a cookbook is created.
Key strategies (tasks): Take part in developing of recipes, formulating the text, set up of the cookbook, publishing of the book, etc.
Learning Objective II:
Improve cooking skills and gain knowledge on how to behave in a kitchen, concerning hygiene, cross- contamination, etc.
Key strategies (tasks): Testing out the recipes by cooking them. Learning from the other members of the team as well as from internship supervisor.
Learning Objective III:
Improve skills in video making and publishing.
Key strategies (tasks): Create cooking-videos for some of the dishes and decide the best way to publish/present them (links in the book, QR-codes, etc.)
Learning Objective IV:
To be able to make nutritional assessments of recipes and meals.
Key strategies (tasks): Using online databases to assess the nutritional content of the recipes in the cookbook. Deciding on which, and how much, of the nutritional information to put in the cookbook.
As I expected, even before starting on this internship, it is very difficult to predict how a process like this is going to pan out. Especially the fact that none of us in the team, my supervisor included, ever had tried working on creating a cookbook before, made the process even more unpredictable.
However, the learning objectives we formulated have actually fitted quite well with the process. Especially developing recipes and cooking has been a huge part of the process up until now.
Video making has filled out a smaller part than expected; mainly due to the very time-consuming process, it is to create a video. We simply have not had enough kitchen hours to be able to invest the time it would take to make as many videos as we initially wanted to produce (10-15). Thus, we have at this point only managed to produce three videos.
The nutritional assessment of recipes has been a smaller part than expected, because the publisher did not want complete nutritional assessment of all dishes, but rather the content of specific relevant nutrients in given recipes (i.e. content of iron, calcium, vitamin D, etc.).
Over all I have achieved parts of all of my learning objectives, but given the fact that we are working as a team, some of my experience has come vicariously and through observation of the other team members.
As of right now, my main learning experience has been that a process like this is very hard to plan, and adjustments have to be made almost on a daily basis, to be able to live up to the expectations of all the involved parties.
Tomorrow I will guide you through “a day at the office/kitchen”, which hopefully will give you more insight in the work we are doing…
