Blog 21 - Interview 4 Reflection

Please copy these questions and answer them in your own blog.  Attach a link to your video or sound file (at least 5 minutes of what you feel is your best portion).  As usual, you'll want an appropriate image to lead this. 

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview? 

• That wars have more of an impact to the places people go and why people leave.
• And how genetics does play some kind of role in how some people live their lives.

2.  How will what I learned affect my final lesson?

• It will affect my final lesson because I can now go into a small section about wars when discussing my second answer.
• It will go over how genetics and how some diseases are genetics are going to impact the health of someone.

The text of this interview should be turned in to turnitin.com.  A verification form for Interview 4 can be printed out from the Senior Project Packet link on the side of the blog.  Do not forget to justify your mentor as an expert in your specific topic. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5TdWp8sdyWnU05wR0xpZnNCZGc/view?usp=sharing 

Blog 20: Fourth Interview Questions

• Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
• I plan on interviewing the guy who runs the family history center that I attend to for mentorship.
• Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ
• I asked my interviewee a question about my EQ because I wanted to hear his perspective.
• I also asked him how history affects family history.
• I then asked him how genetics comes into play when it comes to family history.
• I asked him how to help me relate this to high school students.
• I also asked about where to get resources.

Blog 17- Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

The most important thing I feel I learned from my interview is how important it is to focus on the actual history part of family history and to understand customs and traditions of the country of your area of study.

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?

My approach is to now let the answers to my questions decide my next question and not worry to much about having set questions ready right away.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5TdWp8sdyWna1BWVEZlRWh0NTQ/view?usp=sharing 

Third Interview Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

I plan on interviewing a man in my area names Clifford Rackley. He is a family history person who is very well known within the LDS church in this area.
2. Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? 

I have not called this person, but do plan on talking to them over the weekend. 
3. Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.

What kind of resources are most helpful when looking for ways to help those who are in a situation such as African Americans. 

4. Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).

What is a unique way to convey Family History to high school students who aren't active in it at all?

5. Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ. 

Blog 10 - Interview 2 Reflection

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentorship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else?  Are you shadowing?  Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic?  If so, what?  Are there other people who are experts in the location?  Etc...)

For my mentorship, I attend the Family history center on Grand, north of the 10 freeway and south of Rowland. While at my mentorship, I do research on my personal family history. The tasks I do complete are meaningful to my topic because the idea of family history is tracking down said persons personal bloodline. There are other people that can help me. I know where to find these people because I already know many of the people that work with it on a regular basis.

2.  How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you?

I found my mentor because I regularly attend church on Sunday with my mentor. I was able to convince my mentor in a simple manor because I know she is passionate about family history and she was excited to see that someone wanted to work with her on it.

3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship?  How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentorship/with this person

I have gotten a lot more comfortable with my mentor and this relates to the time I have spent with them for mentorship because before I found this person very odd and not very exciting, but the time I spent with my mentor, I have gotten close and have discovered they are a truly nice person, but are just socially awkward in a sense.

4. What went well in this interview?  Why do you think so?  What do you still need to improve?  How do you know?  How will you go about it?

With my interview, things went well because once I got to my third question about finding missing information such as census', birth certificates, death certificates, and marriage licenses that's when the interview truly took shape and became more than a get to know you interview. I think it went well because my third question was a lot more than just tell me about yourself and about their experience. I need to improve my questions because until I changed my third question, all five of my questions were about my interviewee and not really about their experience. I will ask for help from the senior team because even though no one else is doing my topic, the senior team could still possibly point me in the right direction.

Blog #3 Interview Prep

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  Why?

I plan to interview my mentor because I don't know who else to talk to about family history and where else I could go for advice and for places to go for more research.

2.  Five questions will be assigned to all seniors to ask.  What additional questions do you plan to ask?  Ask open-ended questions.  What are open-ended questions? Click here! 

I plan on asking my mentor on why family history has exploded and why everyone wants to do it so suddenly. I also plan on asking for books to recommendations for research. 

Blog 7- Second Interview Questions

1.  Who is your mentor and where do they work?  If their workplace does not reflect their expertise, what makes them an expert?

My mentor is Sherrie Salmons and she is currently retired, though she does volunteer at the Family History Center on Grand. She also practices Family History on her spare time.

2.  What five questions will you ask them about their background?

Questions I would ask her are:

Why did you start Family History?

How long have you been participating in Family History?

What's something significant you have learned about yourself completing Family History?

Has your relationship with your family changed in any way ever since you started Family History?

What's your favorite part of Family History?