We Make Our Path By Walking: The Interview
In your hands, you have a card describing your interview subject. Yours might say “an elementary school student,” or “an HTH school director,” or something similar. You also have a topic to interview this person about, such as “work spaces,” “grading,” or something similar.
Your first job interview this person in the next 24 hours about your topic. Your goal is to bring back as much detailed information as you possibly can.
You will then turn this interview into a three-minute long presentation about who you interviewed and what they told you. In your presentation, you will speak to the class while a slideshow runs on the screen. You can use any form of automated slideshow presentation that you like, but it must be exactly three minutes long, we must see a new slide every 15 seconds, and when it comes to text on the screen, slides may have no more than one (normal) hyphenated word on them.
Each member of your group must contribute fairly, positively and productively.
Requirements:
Conduct your interview in the next 24 hours.
Record the audio of the conversation and bring it to class (use a phone or a computer)
Create an three minute automated slideshow (try powerpoint, iphoto, imovie, google presentation or something similar) to share with the class.
Your presentation will show a new slide every 15 seconds (that’s 12 slides total).
Text limit per slide: one normal hyphenated word (a non-hyphenated word is even better!).
You may only push “play” on your slideshow. It runs itself.
You provide the audio by speaking to the class (kind of like a TED talk).
Tips, tricks and frequently asked questions:
Make your interview a conversation, not an interrogation.
Ask lots of “why” questions.
Ask for stories (hint: try saying “tell me about a time…”)
Try to really learn everything you can about your interview subject’s perspective.
Ask extra questions. You can delete stuff later.
Clarify ideas. Ask similar questions with different words. Make your interview subject really explain.
Don’t assume that you understand. Ask, ask, and ask again.
Take at least one photo of your interview subject.
Get or take other photos and visuals together that represent your ideas.
For this presentation, any useful visual will be accepted (google images is okay).
Write a script of your presentation.
Rehearse!
To set the slide times in google presentation:
Put your slides in order & get them all set the way you like them
Share > public on the web (anyone can view)
File > Publish to web
At the bottom of the dialog box, set the slide time to 15 seconds
Follow the directions and get the final presentation published to your DP, send it to me, etc. Just put the final published version somewhere that is super easy for me to get tomorrow.
Test it and make sure it works.