Comparing my first and second interview

After you have reviewed and rated all interviews from your peers, reflect on a comparison of your own first two interviews.

What changed from the first to the second one? 

What did you do differently? 

Was the interviewee from the same country or culture?

Did you get communicative flow, and did you hear and record information that added to the knowledge base from the first interview? 

What was new? 

What was contradictory? 

How much time did you spend, transcribing the recorded audio portion?

How satisfied are you with your effort? Compare yourself to other second interviews you read.

 
Please write 300-500 words about this. It's due before we'll leave the class today but I will not review blog posts until tomorrow afternoon.

The 27th of March

Will see us listen to country/regional groups, correct a few sentences that came out of interviews, and review the second interview using another spreadsheet and again providing the top three scores, as before. Those few students who did not meet me yesterday should talk to me during and after class.
Make a copy of the spreadsheet ("score card" from a few posts back) with students' names in your own documents environment, publish it so we can all read but not edit it, and make a post with the spreadsheet link, the top three scores, names, point values.

Reporting on scores and: Collecting regional information

Please create your own spreadsheet and rate all interviews completed by now. If interviews are missing, rate them "0" in all parameters. Then create a new post and privide
- an information link to your spreadsheet
- your top three scores: student's name, hot link to their interview, and total points according to your score.
for example:
1. Roland SJ interview here 18 points
2. Aili Zhao X interview here 17 points
3. Haile MP interview here 15 points

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Class members are expected to organize themselves into regional groups of 3-4 members in the last half hour of class time. Find classmates who interviewed students from the same or bordering countries or regions. Sit together and discuss what you found interesting and noteworthy about the culture you interviewed. Collect all of these observations by all group members into one presentation to class. You will present next week. Each group member will post the same group presentation on her or his blog.
• outline the main observations by theme
• create a visual map of ideas that serves as a blue print for presentation
• use media clips
• use text resources
• cite your sources
• tell who contributed which information to the presentation

at 2pm, the completions of interview one were as follows.

1	Abdullaev, Farrukh K	+.
2	Akbas, Neset F	+.
3	Alali, Faisal H	+
4	Aldablan, Abdullah A	-
5	Alkalthami, Abdullah M	-
6	Barron, Justine L	-
7	Byiringiro, Janvier	+
8	Cai, Wenting	+
9	Chen, Boshi	+
10	Ding, Mengyao	+ .
11	Gu, Yi	+ .
12	Karna, Ashley M	+
13	Li, Zhongmeizi	+
14	Liu, Lianlin	+
15	Patterson, Tyler J	+
16	Purfeerst, Tiffany M	-
17	Rajapaksha Gedara, Janaka P	+
18	Reece, Joseph C	+
19	Reinke, Kelsey M	ok
20	Schleif, Nicholas E	+
21	Smith, Tiffany M	+
22	Wang, Yue	+
23	Xu, Hao	+ .
24	Zhang, Xingyi	+ .
25	Zhang, Zhaoyang	+
27	Ariane M	+ .

Scoring interviews

Interview competition 1

Please read all posted interviews. If one is missing, fill out a form with the name and zeros. You will receive evaluation forms today and you are expected to fill out one set of parameters for each class mate.
The parameters are here for reference:
en191s18s11 Name:________________________________________________________
How is the preparation documented?    0..1..2..3
How good are the personal considerations regarding the interview process? 0..1..2
How comprehensive and informative is the country report?  0..1..2..3..4
How does the interview read? Interesting, good questions/answers?  0..1..2..3..4..5
How well is the complete interview presented on the blog? Clarity, errors, visual appearance all count. 0..1..2..3..4..5..6
total:______________________________________________________________

Score card - copy the spreadsheet to your own docs and fill in the results of all students and make a spreadsheet in your google account. Post (share) the document and link a new Post on your blog to the spreadsheet. 

Remember the interview format:
Elements of each interview that must show up on your blog:
Title: My first interview
1. Describe your preparations. (1) Interview preparations.  (How did you approach people? When, where, and how did you conduct and record the interview? Whom did you interview?)
2. Describe the interview. What did surprise you? How did the interview unfold? (2) Interview report
3. Report on country/region and culture: (3) Country Report
4. Transcribe the interview. (4) Interview transcription

Reviewing the first interview

Today, we will look at interviews, compare notes, and establish criteria to evaluate the first interview. The next interview is due on March 27 - two weeks from now - and the third interview one week later, on April 3. The meeting next week, March 20, 2012 will be conferences with me in LH 116. I will start meeting students at 5PM in my office. This will cover 20-21 students and all those who cannot get in next week will have to arrange a meeting with me. The schedule for meeting me next week is here. Go to the schedule and pick a time. Be sure not to erase other students' names.