Empirical Questions & Assignments Sequence Students will create a blog page in their digital portfolio titled, "My Profession or My Work." This blog/page will demonstrate an understanding of answers to the following Empirical questions & assignments.
About Page Assignment: EP Q#1
About You Page: You will place a video on the "About" you page introducing who you are and what success is to you.
Question: What is success for you? What is your major? Why did you choose this major? How do you feel you could be successful in this endeavor?
Product: Future Goals & Why
Class Activities:
Digital Portfolio Basic Page Development Instruction: About Page
Connecting Related Careers & Goals with handshake
Meditation - You Tube - Possible Career
EMP Q#2: Library Research & Internships
Question: When doing library research over internships, what did you find when comparing the data given to you by Handshake?
Product: Blog post titled, "Library VS. Handshake"
Class Activities:
Digital Portfolio Basic Page Development Instruction
Peer Connection & Library Services
Career Services - Careers & Handshake
EMP Q#3: Title: Library Research & Lesser Character Strength
Question: What connections can you draw between the skills necessary in your intended internship and your lesser strength provided to you by the character strength quiz?
Choose the internship you want to work towards and take a screen shot of that internship.
Take a screen shot of the skills required and reflect on which skill you need to work on and how that skill can improve your chances of obtaining this internship
Product:Library Research & Lesser Character StrengthInternship Analysis Post
Class Activities:
Blog post
Career Services - Connecting VIA character strengths & Handshake
Bell Library - Connecting Library Research & Analysis Skills
Question: What lesser strength skills am I choosing to work on based on my research? What are some ways I can begin to work on this skill? How can I prove that I worked on this skill via my blog?
Product: Ideas of how to construct proof of working on my skills. Work towards obtaining the internship by coming up with a 5 day proposal of what to do to improve the skill.
Create a proposal of what you will do to work on your skill for 5 consecutive days to obtain this internship.
Submit Proposal
Once your method is approved for documentation you can begin to document when you would like. The full documentation and observation needs to be done for *five to six consecutive days.*You will update your page where you started Empirical Question #4 at with this observation and turn it in via Empirical Question #4 on blackboard. You also need to include a reflection of your observation by answering this question:
What methods of behavior improvement do you feel helped you in this observation? Do you feel like this technique is helpful to obtain this internship and for your over all performance? Do you feel like you could have done something more or less in this process?