When the new album comes out and musical artists go on tour, talk show hosts interview the artists about their music or their tours. Like here:
If you own a business and you want to hire someone, you conduct an interview. If you want to get a job, you will most likely be interviewed. NOT like here:
Interviews are everywhere! And for this assignment, you are going to write and conduct an interview.
1. Think about the world. What questions do you have? What do you wish you knew more about? Your topic is only limited to what can be discovered on the Internet--which means there are endless possibilities. Choose a topic or person for your interview and make a list of things you wish you knew more about or a person you wish you knew more about. The topic can be anything; the person can be a celebrity or an average person who you know in real life. You can interview a resident at a nursing home, a grandparent, a business person or a movie star.
2. Use Google to find information, video clips, blogs, news stories, and images about that person or that topic. Read the articles, click the links, copy and paste information into a Google Doc if you want to save it. (If you really want to get fancy, make BOOKMARKS to save your websites.) In other words: do research about the person or topic you chose in #1.
3. Imagine that you could ask an expert about your topic. If you chose a person, imagine that you could talk to that person. What questions would you ask? Create a Google Doc in which you list your questions on that topic or for that person.
4. Learn about how to conduct an Interview. This link takes you to a GREAT page about how to make phone calls to someone in the community, how to introduce yourself to an adult, how to organize your questions. Please visit this site and read the information! For students: How to Interview Someone for a Paper
Next, get some tips here eHow: How to Interview Someone for a Story
Or if you want to interview a celebrity, read this eHow article: How to Interview a Celebrity It gives information about how to get in touch with celebrities' agents, how to figure out what agent belongs to what celebrity. Very valuable information!
5. Figure out how to conduct your interview. You can use the phone, email, your blog, visit someone local and in person, get on Skype, use Google Phone, or send a letter...EVEN IF you choose a celebrity, you will make contact and conduct an interview. You need to do research about how to contact the person who is an expert on your topic or the celebrity you want to interview.
6. Double, Triple, Quadruple check your interview questions. Have your peers look at them (you can share your Google Doc) have your parents look at them, have your teachers look at them. Make sure that your questions make sense and are appropriate.
7. Schedule the Interview. This may take some effort. You may have to email or mail questions to someone who may never write back. If that's the case, you'll need to get creative and either interview someone else or be prepared to write about why you think this person wouldn't agree to an interview. You may need to plan in advance for an interview that won't happen until next week sometime. Don't worry. We can be flexible. Just go through the motions and try to get an interview scheduled with someone.
8. Practice. If you are conducting the interview in person, by phone or via Skype, you need to practice asking your questions aloud and taking notes about the responses. If you are conducting the interview in writing, read your questions aloud to make sure that they sound good and are clearly stated.
9. Conduct the Interview. Remember that you are representing our school. You are representing yourself. Be positive, confident, and SHINE! Don't forget to take notes if you are interviewing someone in person, on the phone, or via Skype.
10. Add to your Google Doc. Write in the responses the person gave to your questions. Copy/Paste email responses or type up responses to the questions you asked out loud/in person.
11. Paste your ENTIRE Interview in a blog post on your blog. Then write a reflection on your blog: How did your interview go? Are you proud of yourself? Did you like the way it turned out? What would you differently next time? What did you learn?
When your interview is posted to your blog, you are officially done!
Here are some examples of Top 10 Legendary Celebrity Interviews
They are just for you to watch while you are thinking about the assignment and wondering how you can do it :) AND YOU CAN DO IT!!!
NOTE: I don't expect you to have this done today. This Interview thing is a process. Until someone tells me they are close to done with their interview, there will be no new ndaltschool blogposts with new assignments.
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