KatieBryant

= Katie Bryant's Internship =


 * 1) MY REFLECTIONS
 * 2) FINAL REFLECTION
 * 3) ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
 * 4) MIDTERM REPORT
 * 5) TIME SHEETS
 * 6) PROJECT WEBSITE
 * 7) INTERNSHIP WIKI

REFLECTIONS
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**Reflection 1 ** September 13, 2011

My project seems to be getting off to a good start. I was excited to finally move forward and start creating my project. The biggest challenge, I think, that I am going to run into is organizing people to be in the same place at the same time. In my contract I did try to anticipate this challenge and my only hope is that I have not underestimated this element. Luckily there are parts of this project that only involve me because I can already see that things may not be completed in the planned order.

The interview with Nancy went extremely well and I enjoyed hearing her challenges and her joys. I had not realized how much she has accomplished both personally and professionally. Narrowing down her story to incorporate the most influential of her experience will be hard. I am trying to keep my video time down for technical as well as attention span reasons. I feel that I could use her story for many more of these short videos.

One of the reasons I was so interested in doing this project is the insight you can gain from other people. During this interview Nancy had some great activity ideas that she had used in the past that may be useful to me for this project. She also had a lot of knowledge of research that had been done in her area of expertise. These bits of information that she shared helps me out greatly.

I’m working on the title for the video and haven’t come across one yet that has won me over. The focus is going to be on how strong families build successful people.

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**Reflection 2** September 27, 2011

I truly feel like a novice at this point. When I started this project I was very excited about the idea and the potential behind it. Don’t get me wrong, I am still very excited about it, but I feel I have a lot to learn. I went into my interview confident with my agenda and where my focus would lie and found that, after talking, it is hard to prepare for an interview when you don’t know what the answers will be. Or when people you are working with have an image of a final result or message/agenda they want to get across it is hard to keep everyone focused on your goal or ideal outcome.

The shoot seems to have turned out the same way. I went in with a plan and found that being I wasn’t as prepared as I thought I was. I remained flexible with the questions and answers but tried to stay focus. I was interested in the topics we covered, but after wondered if kept enough with my theme or let the conversation get away from me. Certainly much more practice with this format is needed for me. I will truly see how things come about when I try to edit the material.

Another challenge I faced was organizing people. What a huge task that can be. For this part of my project I have been trying to schedule interviews, plan shoot days and editing times. I have been working with only two other people and still I found sometime being overwhelmed and wondering if things would ever come together. All of us are leading our own lives and trying to keep up with our commitments while trying to fit meeting times in for this project.

Part of what inspired me and spurred my interest in doing a project like this was some programs that I had watched that share people’s stories that had brilliant messages. One of these was a biography on Diane Sawyer. There was a quote that she shared from her Father:

//"My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something you really love that you would do it anyway. Do it in the most adventurous place you can do it. And make sure that it helps other people. And if you feel there's a genuine need for it, and that through that need you can help other people, you're home." — Diane Sawyer//

It is things like this that I think we all need to hear and I think we all have things like this that we can share and inspire others with. I’m hoping I will come across inspirational things shared by other that people will find meaning in and be able to present them as well as these examples have.

Here of some of the shows that have inspired my ideas

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">E60 on ESPN <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Master Class on OWN Network (episode feat. Diane Sawyer) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[]

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<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">**Reflection 3** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">October 25, 2011

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;"> This past week I was able to get some preliminary feedback on my project. Annie Murray, a retired teacher, came by and looked at my project and what I was planning to do. I was thrilled to hear that she thought the concept was a great idea and was impressed with the material I had put together so far. Hearing that gave me some satisfaction. Sometimes during this process I feel like I have bit off a little more than I could chew. Though I love the idea, sometimes I feel that I am feeling around in the dark when making decisions on how to approach this concept. She gave me some wonderful ideas for implementing activities and some needed encouragement. Like the concept behind my project, it’s all about listening and learning from others.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;"> This past week has been my biggest struggle with the technology aspect of it all. Technology is truly a love hate relationship. Last week I really wanted to use what I have learned in the past and play around a bit with graphics and animations. I planned on creating some nice animated opening pieces for each segment in Flash and wanted to create some text elements and slates in Photoshop. I started creating these and my computer started dying slowly on me. Unfortunately I lost the ability to use my Adobe CS and had to revert back to the basics to get my edits done. Scott and I were able to play around with text elements in Premiere at ETV and come up with some decent solutions to our graphics dilemma. I was a little disappointed, but I’m not going to be a contender for the Oscars’ so I did what I could to move forward.

I have started building my activities segments in PowerPoint and, this week, will begin putting it all together on the website. Scott and I will be putting the video segments up on Vimeo so they can be accessed online and I will have the ability to embed them on my pages. I’ve also decided on a title…..”Live & Learn”.

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** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Reflection 4 ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">November 8, 2011

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">These past few weeks have been crunch time for this project. I was finally able to get the edits done and get them uploaded to Vimeo. I had wanted to add CC to them, but to do that my options where basically limited to YouTube. CC on Vimeo is not an option, but I did see that many users are requesting that it be added. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;"> Scott, my mentor, highly recommended the Vimeo route. He felt that since the video we did was in HD that this would provide the best way to display it. After watching some of the projects people have up on that site I thought that was the best idea. Vimeo seems to be a site used by more professionals and had some amazing and innovative projects. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;"> One other hitch I ran into with Vimeo was getting the videos uploaded. My file sizes were quite large so Scott and I had to do the uploads from his facility where they have a much larger bandwidth. While in that process we found out that you do need a paid membership to upload several HD videos. The free membership only allows one HD upload per week and won’t allow embedding. Luckily it’s not too expensive of an investment. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;"> Once I had full access to the videos I could now start to put it all together. I really needed to be able to review them to get the discussion questions and activities together. That didn’t go as smoothly as I had planned either. I had a document that I had been working on for weeks adding ideas and notes. When my Mac crashed something must have happened to the file. When I knew the computer was dying I made one last back up. I guess some of the information didn’t make it to the other side! So I ended up having to start over on some of my presentations. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;"> The next step was getting it all online. I had really wanted to put it on my WordPress site. I had started to and realized that somewhere, associated with my style sheet, there was code I could not get to. I just couldn’t’ t get the pages to do the layout that I wanted. There is a way to edit the HTML, but when I went back to the view mode it reverted back to what I didn’t want. Frustrated I decided to create my project on a wiki. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;"> Overall, I’m pretty happy with the outcome. I certainly think some things could have been done better. In some cases those things can be adjusted and in others they can’t. I just need some time to mess with things. I really wanted to get the project out there so that I could start getting some feedback. I’m looking forward to see people’s responses. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Back To Top

**<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Reflection 5 ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">November 22, 2011

This part of my project has been the most frustrating for me. I’ve been working really hard to get this all together and get it out so I can get some feedback and all I hear is crickets…. figuratively speaking of course. I tried to get the project up and out by early November so that I would have plenty of time to collect feedback for evaluation and so far only two people have done my survey. I’m a bid disappointed. I really wanted to get some opinions and ideas.

I did get some great feedback and ideas from a friend and former co-worker from ASU’s distance learning program. Jim Salisbury is the Station Manager for [|ASUtv] and has been working in distance learning and program design since I was working on my B.A. in television production many years ago. He has always been a great go-to person for ideas and advice on projects.

He told me “I like your video/course! Not only does it look great, but they videos really do convey a wholesome message.” He too says that he tries, in his occupation to inspire others “Whether it be just to continue “lifelong learning” or to actually go to school, no matter what their age or financial burden.” Some ideas that he shared were ways to get the project out there through twitter, educational publications and social media sites. He also liked the choice of Wikispaces for presenting the material since the “site is one that people can trust.”

Some of the changes that were recommended were not to lead people off the page with the links in the credits. To have new windows open up instead. I was torn about this idea because of the information I learned in Dr.Wissick's Diverse Populations class. I was under the impression that this option should be left to the user and allow the back option for easier navigation.

I have been trying to find ways to make the pages look a bit more professional. I am working on re-designing the PowerPoint’s because I found them rather boring after I started looking back at them. Jim had mentioned “Wiki layouts are very simple, easy to read and easy to navigate. Not ground breaking, but with this kind of page I think the focus is really on content & substance, not about flash and awe.” I’d still like to try to make it look as nice and professional as possible

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