Sunday, May 25, 2008

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?

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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