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.

3rd Marking Period Blog Posts

The work you did in the 3rd marking period will be used in the 4th marking to complete the final projects.

You need to complete this work if you have not done so.  It will hurt your final semester grade if the work is not completed.

Midpoint Reflection Questions

This is the midway point of the semester and your internships.

You do not have to do Daily Posts or Weekly Vocabulary for this week April 7 - April 11!

...unless you want to for extra credit.

Assignment: 

I would like you to use the following questions to guide you in creating a post reflecting on and analyzing your experience up to this point.  Due Date:  Sunday April 13, 11:59 P.M.

Please copy, paste, and respond to the following questions 

FOR YOUR BLOG

How has the internship been the same as and/or different than your expectations?  

What is similar and different about the culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment?  What new skills have you learned that apply to the workplace?

What kind of relationship do you have with your mentor and co-workers?  How have you grown as a result of interacting with professional adults?

What challenges at the internship have you faced that you have overcome and how did you overcome them?

What challenges have you faced in school as a result of the altered schedule and how are you handling them?

What goals are you working to accomplish during the remainder of the internship?

What new things have you learned about New York City?

ASSIGNMENTS DUE

The last day of the marking period is today!

I need you to be finished with your work as soon as possible!

Now, that being said, grades are not due until next Friday, so there is a little bit of a window for you to get late assignments completed.  But I refuse to stay up late on Thursday reading blogs so that you can get as much credit as possible.  If you post an assignment late next week, or try to do some last minute extra credit, it is unlikely that I will get to it.

To be safe, get everything done by the end of Sunday.  I will definitely see it and give you credit for it if it is in by Sunday.

Good luck!

Grading Rubric for JIS

I am going to calculate your grades for this class based on the following rubric. There are 12 assignments. The total for those assignments is 100 points. If you did the assignment, you will receive credit. Late assignments will be penalized by a 40% reduction. Notice that there are some extra credit opportunities.

12 Assignments= 100 points
Late Assignments = - 40%

20 Created a Web Log

10 Weekly Vocabulary April 4

5 Daily Posts March 31-April 3

10 Weekly Vocabulary March 29

5 Daily Posts March 24-27

5 Pictures

10 Weekly Vocabulary March 21

10 Third Week Assignment

10 Second Week Assignment Part 2

5 End of Second Week of Internship

5 End of First Week of Internship

5 February 15 Questions


Extra Credit

5 Completed profile

1 Any additional pictures

5 Personalized alterations to your blog

1 Additional / non-mandatory post

Daily Post

Make a daily post on your internship days. Just do a short write up of what happened and what you did that day at your internship. You do not have to have a daily post for non-internship days, unless, of course, you want to post something.

Pictures

One of the assignments for the final project is a picture slide show. Many of you have already taken pictures of yourself on the job, but many of you have not. We all need to get rolling on that as soon as possible.

Assignment:

Take pictures of you, your internship site, your mentor, and you working at your site. (and anything else that might make sense to include in documenting your internship experience)

NEW DUE DATE  Friday April 4!

We will upload pictures onto the computers and post them on blogs, if you do not know how to do that, yet.

Where do I get a camera?

I have four cameras that you may sign out via the signout sheet. Please take the pictures and return the camera the next day. Do not delete any of the pictures on the camera. Check the battery power and how much memory is left on the camera before you leave with it. Be careful with the camera!!! You are responsible for it.

Weekly Vocabulary

Your internship sites are rich with new and unfamiliar terms or phrases. One of the goals of the internship is to further develop your english language proficiency. Every week from now on you are to publish a post about new vocabulary words or phrases that have encountered or picked up "on the job." There is a template provided below for you to use each week. Your goal is at least five. Please give the word/phrase, what it means, and the context in which you came across it.

Many recent comments have been related to the following...

Question: What if I didn't hear any new words?

Answer: Challenge yourself. Do the assignment using words or phrases related to SAT preparation, college now, or some other advanced activity that will require expanding your vocabulary and increasing your English language proficiency

Here is an example:

Word: Jailbroken

Meaning: A computer hardware device that has been hacked into

Context: I saw an article about the iPhone being jailbroken, or hacked so it could be used on other mobile service providers.


FOR YOUR BLOG (Due Friday, 11:59 p.m. of each week)

1. Word / Phrase:

Meaning:

Context:

2. Word / Phrase:

Meaning:

Context:

3. Word / Phrase:

Meaning:

Context:

4. Word / Phrase:

Meaning:

Context:

5. Word / Phrase:

Meaning:

Context:

NEW PALTZ

Mr. Sean requested that I post this. I think it would be great if you had a write up about the trip (for those of you that went) as part of your blog. It says one page or less. Write it in a word document first and then cut and paste to a new post called NEW PALTZ. We can cut and paste it to a word doc to print and post on the wall later.

Dear Juniors,

Tuesday was a great day for International High School! I sincerely hope you enjoyed yourselves and learned a great deal about New Paltz. I would like to invite you to share your thoughts and feelings about the visit. Please write a page or less describing your experience on the college campus. What did you learn? How did you feel? What thoughts did you have when you first sat in the lecture hall? What questions did you have?

Any and all responses are welcome. Your reflections will be posted in the New Paltz display with all the photographs of our trip. Plus, if you make a submission, Ms. Aarti will give you extra credit towards your English grades (which means your grade average will rise).

Thanks,

Mr. Sean

Third Week Assignment

Assignment:

Describe one significant activity or project that you have completed or are working on currently. BE DESCRIPTIVE!
Give as much specific detail as you can. Elaborate. Explain. Expound. Delineate. Illustrate. Use a lot of words. Treat this like an English class writing assignment. Use complete sentences with correct grammar and punctuation.

FOR YOUR BLOG
Describe one significant activity or project that you have completed or are working on currently.

Due Date: Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:59 PM

Second Week Assignment part 2

This is a supplemental assignment for your second week.

FOR YOUR BLOG

What did you do during your second week?


How was it different than the first week?


What is something that you really like about the internship?


What is something you dislike about the internship?


Who else's blog have your read and commented on?

End of the Second Week Assignment

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Many more of you have come online and are tapped into the blog, what I'm sure will be a great social networking experience by the end of the semester. I have read many blogs, seen some cool pictures, posted comments, become frustrated, etc. This is getting off to a slower start than I had hoped, but it will work itself out soon enough. For those of you that are on the ball, I want to keep you progressing along.


ASSIGNMENT (updated March 16, 7:00 p.m)

There is a list posted on the blog of every student who has an active blog. You are to read 5 people's blogs and post a comment. If it is criticism you wish to give, make it constructive (how can they improve what they have written, edit their blog to correct mistakes, or elaborate on something they have written). If you wish to give praise, make it sincere and specific.

People will be posting comments on your blog! Read them and make the changes that you feel are appropriate.

"How will I know that people post on my blog?"

Answer: go to the dashboard. go to your settings. under comments there is a section called comment notification email. put your email address in there. Every time a comment comes in, you will receive an email.

The Student's Web Logs

The student's blogs are now located on the right underneath my profile.

LAST MINUTE

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

URGENT. PLEASE READ!!!

It is Sunday evening and MANY of you have not posted a blog. If you have created a blog, posted the assignment, and posted a comment on my Feb 29 blog stating that you need me to read your post, then I have probably read it and you are safe. If you have not done those three things, then you are getting off to a slow start, which is bringing your grade DOWN for this class.

If you know of someone who needs to complete this assignment, please urge them to do so SOON!!!

At midnight tonight the bell will toll turbulently for tardy assignment terminators. "Twill be a tale of terror it's turbulency tells!

The End of the First Week of Internships

The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.

The first week is complete. I hope you have all had a good initial experience. I am sure there are many things you would like to say about your internship and the weblog that you have created for yourself for this class is the place to do that.

Please Note: Besides me reading your blog, I will encourage your mentors, teachers, parents, peers, etc. to view these blogs. Use discretion as to your choice of words and material. If there is something sensitive that needs to be discussed, please seek me or your advisor out in person, or send me an email (aschulz5678@gmail.com... Matters relating to internship or school only please!!)

Happy Leap Day!

!!!!!!!THIS IS YOUR ASSIGNMENT!!!!!!!
PUBLISH A POST THAT ANSWERS THESE QUESTIONS

FOR YOUR BLOG (retype or copy and paste)

Title: The End of the First Week of Internships


Please describe your internship site by answering the following questions...


What is it?

What kind of business is it and what kind of work do the professionals do there?

Where is it?

Tell a little about your mentor.

What happened on the first day?

What kinds of things have you done so far?

What were some of the highlights of the first week? (Memorable moments, cool things...)



Please answer some logistical questions...

When do you leave school?

How long does it take you to get to your internship?

When do you arrive at home?

What is your schedule? (What days do you work and for how long each day?)

Who are the two people that can sign your time card? (Your mentor and the additional person)



At this point, do you have any other questions, comments, concerns, queries, or inquiries?

February 15 Questions

FOR YOUR BLOG

-Tell a little about yourself.

-What did you learn in the junior internship seminar class up to this point?

-What is your greatest fear about internship?

-What is your greatest hope for the internship?

-What is your internship site and what are you going to do there? If you do not know, what do you think you will be doing?

-What will you miss about going to high school as you normally did for the last 2.5 years?