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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Awareness of Parkinson's Disease in the school 1
As planned, we brought down 8 bannerettes from the Society to be used as our display at the Kong Chian Library. During that week, we also gave out some fliers that contain general information about Parkinson’s Disease. Our main aim for the exhibition was to raise awareness in the school community about Parkinson’s Disease, which also took place in conjunction with World Parkinson Day. In prior to this, we had also posted up 2 messages on the SMB with the help of Ms Lin to inform students about this. Sadly, the turn-up rate was not very good. Although the traffic flow in the library was rather high, few stopped to take a look at the bannerettes. 
Our second plan was to arrange the President of the Society to come down to various schools for a talk to educate students on Parkinson’s Disease. This is because we feel that there are too little avenues for people to learn about this condition. Unfortunately, we were faced with several difficulties which made us abandon this initial plan. Firstly, many schools had already planned their assemblies at the beginning of the year and due to the tightly packed schedule, little or no time could be provided for Julie to make her presentation. Secondly, the topic does not really fit into the schools PCME framework and therefore unnecessary. Thirdly, no one had expected the outbreak of H1N1, which caused many schools to remove assembly periods from their students’ timetables.
Looking back, I feel that more could have been done to encourage students to find out more about Parkinson’s Disease during our exhibition. Maybe we could have provided Ace opportunities for students to write a report on the exhibition, so while we attract more to visit the exhibition and gain Ace, students benefit from the chance to learn more about Parkinson’s Disease at the same time.
-- Donovan
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School Exhibition
This exhibition was held in our school library. It was the first activity which we were holding so we had our first taste of planning and working with the society. The planning process included choosing the right location for the exhibition, retrieving the banners, maintaining the booth, and making sure that people view the exhibition.
The selection of the location was based on the area which had the largest human traffic flow, and somewhere people would stop by and take a look instead of walking past hurriedly. The library’s central open area linking to the tower-block classrooms, to the second level, and both the entrance and exit was the ideal location for our exhibition. However we also need to make sure that it does not come into obstruction.
In addition, we also had to be in contact with a doctor from Tan Tock Seng Hospital in order to be able to borrow the banners that belong to him for a week for our exhibition. Another challenge which we faced was the maintenance of the booth. We had a video screening going on at the same time at one booth. The video was for educational purposes such as the causes of PD, the various treatments available, the kind of exercises and therapies that could help ease the symptoms and so on. However, we needed to ensure that the laptop which we used to play the videos would have to be securely fastened so that others were not able to fiddle with it or to take it away. The videos also had to be kept running so that it does not repeat. It was difficult to coordinate amongst ourselves as we had similar lunch times and breaks. The problem was, how then could we take turns to check on the booth, and which time slots are best for people to come to view the exhibition. We had placed pamphlets and papers placed at the booth for others to give their feedback and comments.
Jeremy
As planned, we brought down 8 bannerettes from the Society to be used as our display at the Kong Chian Library. During that week, we also gave out some fliers that contain general information about Parkinson’s Disease. Our main aim for the exhibition was to raise awareness in the school community about Parkinson’s Disease, which also took place in conjunction with World Parkinson Day. In prior to this, we had also posted up 2 messages on the SMB with the help of Ms Lin to inform students about this. Sadly, the turn-up rate was not very good. Although the traffic flow in the library was rather high, few stopped to take a look at the bannerettes.
Our second plan was to arrange the President of the Society to come down to various schools for a talk to educate students on Parkinson’s Disease. This is because we feel that there are too little avenues for people to learn about this condition. Unfortunately, we were faced with several difficulties which made us abandon this initial plan. Firstly, many schools had already planned their assemblies at the beginning of the year and due to the tightly packed schedule, little or no time could be provided for Julie to make her presentation. Secondly, the topic does not really fit into the schools PCME framework and therefore unnecessary. Thirdly, no one had expected the outbreak of H1N1, which caused many schools to remove assembly periods from their students’ timetables.
Looking back, I feel that more could have been done to encourage students to find out more about Parkinson’s Disease during our exhibition. Maybe we could have provided Ace opportunities for students to write a report on the exhibition, so while we attract more to visit the exhibition and gain Ace, students benefit from the chance to learn more about Parkinson’s Disease at the same time.
-- Donovan
_______________
School Exhibition
This exhibition was held in our school library. It was the first activity which we were holding so we had our first taste of planning and working with the society. The planning process included choosing the right location for the exhibition, retrieving the banners, maintaining the booth, and making sure that people view the exhibition.
The selection of the location was based on the area which had the largest human traffic flow, and somewhere people would stop by and take a look instead of walking past hurriedly. The library’s central open area linking to the tower-block classrooms, to the second level, and both the entrance and exit was the ideal location for our exhibition. However we also need to make sure that it does not come into obstruction.
In addition, we also had to be in contact with a doctor from Tan Tock Seng Hospital in order to be able to borrow the banners that belong to him for a week for our exhibition. Another challenge which we faced was the maintenance of the booth. We had a video screening going on at the same time at one booth. The video was for educational purposes such as the causes of PD, the various treatments available, the kind of exercises and therapies that could help ease the symptoms and so on. However, we needed to ensure that the laptop which we used to play the videos would have to be securely fastened so that others were not able to fiddle with it or to take it away. The videos also had to be kept running so that it does not repeat. It was difficult to coordinate amongst ourselves as we had similar lunch times and breaks. The problem was, how then could we take turns to check on the booth, and which time slots are best for people to come to view the exhibition. We had placed pamphlets and papers placed at the booth for others to give their feedback and comments.
Jeremy