Brainstorm some questions you could ask friends, family, and community members that would help us to identify projects in the community for our class to undertake.
After everyone had brainstormed some questions, people shared out their answers. We came up with a list of questions (shown below) that people could ask in their interviews in addition to other questions they brainstormed and whatever questions come naturally to the interview process.
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I then spoke some about how to use probing questions to develop responses to the questions above and to help get a clear picture of project ideas and needs from people (list below).
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"X" represents the respondent's suggested project
Everyone then practiced this interview process by interviewing a partner and then being interviewed by that partner in turn. We then discussed the various projects that came up in these discussions and will add them to our overall list of possible projects.
Homework:
Interview three people using the list of questions generated in class (along with your own questions and any questions that naturally come up in the interview) along with probing questions. You may interview one other student, but then should interview at least two other people (family, your boss, community members).
If you have not done so already, be sure to submit your resume and/or college essay to me for critique/assessment.
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