RebeccaNesbit

**Click on the link to find the rest of my internship information. Below are my reflections:**

**Reflection 1:** **- September 13:**

Wow! What an eventful few weeks already!! I am doing my internship at Chapin Middle School where I work and I plan on creating tutorials about how to create pre and post tests using the Scantron Achievement Series (SAS). The machine within itself can be quite complicated to use at first but after many trial and errors it gets a little bit less complicated. I want the faculty at my school to be able to access the tutorials at any time to help guide them throughout creating pre and post tests as well as answer any questions they might have. When I thought about this idea, I tried to put into perspective my audience and how well they understand technology. I have one teacher that I work with who really struggles with technology so I am trying to keep her in mind while I am creating the tutorials. I personally am a very detail-oriented person. The more details, the better I feel. Right now I am just creating a basic tutorial to get started however, I plan to add still shots within the tutorial to help guide my audience. I also plan on using Jing or Voicethread to create a audio/visual tutorial as well. My mentor has been fantastic throughout all of this. She and I try to work together as much as we can whether we are discussing SAS ideas or actually creating pre and post tests for our science classes. The program is very finicky and peculiar. You must do each part exactly right or you will not get what you need. For example, the Science District Coordinator for Lex/Rich 5 came to one of our content planning meetings to talk with us about printing off our answer documents for SAS. If you do not "unclick" two buttons on the print preview then your answer document will be unable to be scanned for results. My goal is to write a tutorial for printing and scanning the answer documents later. I like SAS but it definitely takes time and patience to mess around with it.


 * Reflection 2: **
 * -September 27: **

The past two weeks have gone a lot smoother than the first few weeks with the internship. :) The more I work with the SAS program the more familiar I become with it. Last week I created a pre and post-test for my upcoming science indicators I will be covering in the unit I am teaching. I created a "quick pick" test where I was able to choose from a test bank the items that I wanted on the test. The downside to this is there might not be a lot of test items to choose from depending on the topic that is chosen. For example, with the test I created, I only had 10 items to choose from with the indicator I chose and two of the items were not on the 6th grade level. That part I found odd because the test items should have been based on sixth grade standards. I did not have a whole lot of time to work on a lot of the internship because of outside factors but I managed to start taking some pictures for the answer key only handout as well as begin creating a brief handout on how to create a "quick pick" test. Everything is still going well and I feel like I know more about the SAS now. I do not have any finished materials right now but I will upload some later.

The internship is still going well and I feel like I am right on schedule with everything. There have been a couple of mishaps with my video tutorials because the microphone wouldn't work but I think everything is fixed now. :) The teachers at my school appreciate the handouts, especially the ones that are not very technology savvy. When I create my handouts and tutorials, I have one teacher in mind that I try to create them for her. She is NOT technology savvy AT ALL!! I don't want to sound mean but she even admits that she is clueless when it comes to technology. As I create my handouts, I give them to her to let her look over. She then tries to "figure" out SAS using them and if she can do it then I know my handouts are beneficial. She has been very good at telling me if somethings sound confusing or if she doesn't understand a specific step. This helps me know where I need to make corrections. Some of the teachers at my school still do not like to use SAS for various reasons so they tend to have bad attitudes towards the whole thing. Minus the attitudes, I think that teachers are becoming more comfortable with using the machine.
 * Reflection 3: **
 * -October 25: **

The internship had to sit on the back burner a little bit the past two weeks because other parts of work required my full attention but things still are progressing. Now that I have created the handouts, I am helping other teachers create pre and post assessments using SAS. I am also making sure the handouts are user friendly. After the students complete the pre and post assessments on the answer documents, the teacher turns them in to be scanned. Originally I had not planned on making a handout on how to scan the answer documents into the SAS program but now I have decided to create one. First, I have to learn how to scan the answer documents and then I can create a handout about it. I have been talking with my co-worker who does all of the scanning. Since I did not get to do much with the internship the past two weeks, this is my goal for the next week or so.
 * Reflection 4: **
 * -November 8: **

Reflection 5: -November 22: Things have been really going great with my internship the past two weeks!! I feel like I have done a lot over the duration of the internship and overall this internship has been successful. At the beginning I was excited about it but anxious of the different aspects of the internship. The fixed handouts are up and running!! I am having trouble getting the video tutorial of how to print off answer documents because you have to have Scan Station downloaded onto the computer but my home computer with Jing will not let it download. I refuse to settle for it not working so I will continue to work on it!! I spent a lot of time working with other co-workers supervising them using the handouts as well as working on my annotated bibliography.