04.03 - Interview Candidates, Research

At the beginning of class today, we talked about people finding interview candidates for their research project. Ideally, everyone will be able to find someone engaged in the activity which they are studying. However, if someone can't find an interview candidate that does that exact activity, they can find someone in that field more generally. For example, if someone were researching robotic engineering and could not find a robotic engineer they could talk to a mechanical engineer about the engineering field more generally. Interview candidates could also be a person who regularly interacts with the activity that someone is studying. For example, if someone were researching EMTs, but could not talk to an EMT they could interview a nurse about health care and the role that EMTs play in their interactions with them.

In class, I handed out interview candidate sheets that people can use to brainstorm three possible candidates (see below). If anyone is having a really hard time finding a candidate we can check in and do some brainstorming together. People should talk to family and friends this week to see what is available to them for possible interview candidates.

Everyone then had the rest of the period to work on their research for their future exploration project. During this time I met with people to talk through some possible interview candidates.

Handouts:
Interview Candidate Short List
(on this sheet, ethos refers to the experiences and knowledge that make this speaker a credible candidate for this topic)

Helpful Documents:

Future Exploration research questions

Future Exploration Project Assignment Checklist
Future Exploration Project Assignment Calendar

Future Exploration Sources - Model Sheet (how to copy the sheet)

Determining Source Reliability

Citing Websites (bibilography and parenthetical)

Submitted Today:
Revisions: Activities Speaker Presentation Notes
Revisions: Reading questions for "Notes from the Underground"

Homework:

Brainstorm and talk to friends and family to fill out the interview candidate short list.

Find sources for your future exploration research project and create notecards from these sources (looking to have 7 sources or more and 20 notecards or more for Monday)