Assignment Description: List some primary ways you plan to collect information/artifacts about your site that will help you fall 2013 to complete your final internship synthesis projects (presentation and poster).
My Data Collection Strategy:
1) Observation
Since I hope to either do my internship at one of my case studies or with an organization that further my career, I plan to do a lot of observation. This means I will be taking a lot of notes. I could compile these notes into the “Top 5 Things I Learned” for my internship poster or I could include a lot of quotes. It will be good to review my notes at the end of the internship and synthesize it into one poster.
2) Informational Interviews
I plan to continue to do as many informational interviews with professionals in my field as I can. I’ve really enjoyed doing them so far and I’ve learned a lot. These interviews also help me network and find more resources.
3) Twitter
This may sound ridiculous, but Twitter can be a great way to quickly document your day. I have a personal Twitter I haven’t been using much, but if I required myself to tweet at least twice a day about my internship I could generate a lot of content. Although I may have to think about making my tweets private. Regardless, tweeting a few times a day is a lot less intimidating than blogging, thus more likely to happen.
4) Materials & Pictures
Lastly, I plan to collect any organizational materials I can find or documents of my experience. And hopefully take tons of pictures to prove that I was there!