May 24

Capstone Blog Post #2

In the capstone project, we have come so far. We finally did the interview and it turned out great. We needed to do the interview because we needed to hear the information from an expert. We also were allowed to ask our own questions so that made it a lot easier to get more information. I thought that doing an interview would help a lot with the project. The interview needed to have at least 10 questions. 

Finding out who to interview was hard. At first, I did not think I knew anyone that was an expert on therapy dogs. I asked my mom to help me find an interview and she said she had a friend with a dog who used to be a therapy dog. I finally got an interview but I felt that I needed to interview two people to get a lot of research. My mom emailed a therapy dog company called the Good Dog Foundation. Someone there agreed to let me interview them! Writing the questions for the interviews was hard. I came up with separate questions for both experts. I added five subquestions to my first interview question slide. After adding my subquestions I needed to make other questions. For example One of my questions was “How long does training take and why?”

The interview was through email. When my mom found an expert I could interview the expert told us we could email all of my questions to her and she would email my mom the answers to all of the questions. When I got the questions back they had good answers. I was very happy with it. To me, it did not go as expected. I thought that it would at least be on zoom or a call. I learned more from the answers though. It gave me some information that I did not have.

Overall the interview was easy at some points but also challenging for the most part. I cant wait to see what is next!

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March 30

Immigration Interview – Blog Post #1

When I found out about the immigration project I was nervous because I could not find an immigrant that I could interview. I remembered my babysitter Manuela Chocoj was an immigrant and I could interview her. Making questions to ask her was hard because they needed to be questions that she could give a lot of details about. I got 11 questions to ask her. While making the questions I needed to think outside of the box. My friends and parents also helped make my questions even better than they were before. Overall interviewing Manuela was very interesting.

Preparing for the interview was hard but also fun. I needed to find questions to ask and I needed to find a day where I was free to interview her. I needed to remember that if she does not say much that I would need to ask her to tell more when the interview happens. While making the questions I did not have any resources. I got ideas from my friends and made most of them myself. While making the list of questions I considered removing questions that were not necessary and questions that were yes or no or only one answer questions.

The interview was not hard. It took 5 minutes and she answered the questions with a lot of detail. I had 14 questions to ask her and needed to write more as we were asking the questions because I did not have that much information to include in the video that we are going to make. While interviewing her I asked her to add a little more detail and sometimes she could not understand the question so I needed to repeat it to her. She did not get sad if I asked her questions about her old place. It did not give her bad memories.

In conclusion, the interview and preparing for the interview was very fun and some parts were hard. I am excited to start making the video.

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