Welcome to the Internship Fair

Greetings.  This is the web log that the students used to receive assignments and other information about their internship work.  

To the right, there is the list of the students.  

To read their blog, click on the name.  

To post a comment, click on the comment and type in the box.  Then type in the letters in the picture and click post comment.

To come back to this page, go back to the home page.

Have fun at the fair!!!

Keynote Presentation Elements

Some of you have raised concerns over being able to work on the keynote presentation at home. Unless you have the same kind of computer that the school has, you will not be able to work on the presentation directly. BUT, what you can do is write the words that are going to be put into those slides, if you know what the requirements are.

One idea would be to write the words on a piece of paper and then when you get to the computers at school, type them into the appropriate slides.

Another idea is to type the words into an email and send it to yourself to cut and paste from later.


Below are the keynote slide requirements. You do not need to create a blog post for this.

-Cover slide – Title, name, date

Title examples= My Internship, An Internship, My Internship Experience, What I did this Spring, you have creative freedom here


-Name of Site; Description of Internship site – refer to your blog post

Description should include what kind of business it is, where it is located

-Pictures of the site -- if you never managed to take pictures, find some on the internet if possible

-Description of duties -- make a bulleted list for this. Word -- description.

-Pictures of you working -- if you never took picture, find some on the internet of people doing the same kind of work you did

-Description of a typical day -- look at your daily post entries and use examples from that to create a generic work day.  
Time arrived
What you did that was familiar
What you might have done that was new or different
Something else that may have happened
Time departed for home


-A challenge you faced, and how you over came it

-7 Vocabulary words and meanings related to your site -- make a bulleted list. word -- description

-Description of mentor (picture?) -- who they are, where from, what they do, what they are like, etc.

-Excerpts or highlights from your interview -- describe who you interviewed and why and pick two of their answers that were meaningful and include them in the slide

-Important Excerpts from Midpoint and Final reflections -- choose three questions and answers that you feel are significant from these two posts. You can include more questions and answers if you wish.

-Your Resume with new internship experience added and highlighted -- This one I am still working on as to how to get that onto your slide neatly, but for now just make sure you know where your resume is

-Advice for a future intern -- What advice would you give to an intern who had this same internship site next year? Consider challenges you faced or difficulties you had that could have been avoided if someone had given you advice a year ago.

-Conclusion - Overall evaluation of the internship experience. Consider these questions: Did you like it? Why or why not? Did you get anything out of it? Should we have future classes do this? WHy or why not?

Internship Final Reflection

These questions are on the Final Site Visit form that the advisors are giving to the mentors as part of the final site visit at your internships.  I thought I would give you an advance notice of this.  Elements from this will be used in your presentation.


ASSIGNMENT

Post the questions and answers on your blog.

FOR YOUR BLOG

Did you meet your goals?

What are the most important things you’ve learned?

In what ways have your grown?

What were the highlights of your internship experience?

If you can, describe a memorable moment or experience.

What challenges did you overcome?

What advice would you give a new intern at this site?

What will you miss about your internship?

Due Date: Friday May 23, 11:59

Interview Questions

Thank you and nice job to all of you who submitted questions.

ASSIGNMENT

Select someone at your internship to interview. 

Arrange a time and place that you can conduct the interview. 

It is a good idea to give the questions you are asking to the interviewee (the person you are going to interview) in advance.

Please use the list of questions below when interviewing your mentor. Select at least 12 or more of these questions to ask the interviewee. You may use all of them if you wish. Again, it would be good to give the interviewee the questions in advance.

Record the answers during the interview and then type the questions and answers into a post titled Interview.

Questions

1. What is your full name?

2. Where are you from?

3. Where did you go to college? For how long? Do you plan to go back to school?

4. (If the interviewee went to college)…What was your major in college and what kind of degree do you earn?

5. Why did you choose that field?

6. What got you involved in this field of work? What inspired you to do it?

7. Why did you choose this job?

8. How long have you worked here?

9. What is your job title?

10. What do your duties include? Or What kinds of work does your job involve?

11. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?

12. What is the best part of your job?

13. What is something you would like to change about your job?

14. Did you work somewhere else before this job? Where? For how long? How was that similar/different?

15. What do you see as your future with this company?

16. Do you enjoy the kind of work you do?

17. Do you plan to open your own business one day?

18. How has having an intern helped your company or organization advance or progress?

19. What advice would you give to high school-aged interns (such as myself) getting ready for college and then the real world?

Try Trying

This is not an assignment post. This is to help clarify the previous assignment post. A few comments have come in expressing confusion about what exactly it is you are supposed to do for the assignments.


The daily post synthesis is pretty straight-forward. Don't do 8 daily posts. Do one post that lists two tasks you do this week that you have done before and two things that are new.


The interview: you are going to interview someone.
-Who do you want to interview?

-What do you already know about that person? (their name, where they are from, how old they are, what their job is...)

-What do you want to know about that person? (how they got their job, where they went to school, how long they were in school...)


The floor plan:
Draw a diagram of how your entire office looks: where the rooms are, walls, and doors on your floor, not the whole building.

Draw another diagram of your work space, or your desk.

For example, if I gave this assignment to Mr. Carlos, he would draw a diagram of the entire first floor of our school building: the rooms, walls, hallways, and doors. And he would draw another "zoomed in" picture of his desk and chair, the copier, Ms. Joan's desk, Mr. Lurick's desk, the front desk, etc.


I want you to get started on this ASAP. I think you know how to do it. Don't wait until Friday or next week to start. You won't have enough time.

ASSIGNMENTS: The week after Spring Break

Hello,

I trust everyone had a good Spring Break. Now we enter the final stretch.

What are we doing this week?

ASSIGNMENT Daily post synthesis

I have seen many repetitive posts for the daily posts and feel like we all need a break in that routine. Rather than doing a daily post every day for the next two weeks, I want you to write one post that includes the following:

-List two same old things, things you do this week that you have done before

Also

-List two new "things"; things you have never done before at your internship

What is a thing? tasks, projects, activities, duties, internship related work-type functions


Only make one post, not several daily posts and use the following template for this assignment.

FOR YOUR BLOG

OLD:

OLD:

NEW:

NEW:



ASSIGNMENT Pre - Interview Thinking

You are going to interview someone at your internship. It can be your mentor or another co-worker as long as it is not another intern. Who will that be?

Answer these two questions:

FOR YOUR BLOG

-What do I know about this person?

-What do I want to know about this person?





ASSIGNMENT Floor Plan

You are to draw a floor plan of the physical space of your internship working area. Confused?

The floor plan shows the size and location of the walls and doors in a generic space. Use google images. Search keyword: floor plan. Also try office floor plan, house floor plan, hospital floor plan, etc.

In your floor plan, also include a separate "blow up" drawing of your personal space or area. For example, if you work in an office you probably have some chair that you sit in regularly. I want to zoom in on that spot and see what is in the immediate vicinity of that chair?

In other words what is around you? A desk, lamp, paper pile, phone, waste basket, picture, other chairs, someone else's desk, books, and so on and so on...

Q: HOW DO I DO THIS IN MY BLOG?

A: You don't. Draw the total area floor plan on one regular sized sheet of paper. Draw the "blow up" floor plan on another.




NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW Mr. Andrew, that is way more than we can do in a week.

You are right.

ASSIGNMENTS DUE: Friday May 9, 11:59 P.M.

Weekly Vocab and Daily Posts

Assignment:

Daily Posts April 14-April 17

Weekly Vocabulary April 18

Please complete daily posts and weekly vocabulary (5 words) for this week. Be sure to copy the form for weekly vocab from the earlier post.