My Internship (2 of 12)

My internship is with the Monongalia and Preston Counties Literacy Volunteers, Inc. This is a non-profit organization that teaches adult learners to read. They also offer tutoring in ESL (English as a second language) and basic computer classes. I am working at the office, which has a staff of two.

I have a lot of work to do this semester, including editing and updating the Monongalia County website, and perhaps making a new one for Preston County. I am also going to create documents to implement a new personnel policy system and create a planned giving form.

The Monongolia County website has much more information than Preston County's, it just needs a lot of updating and organization. I have been working on the external links page, which is about twelve pages (when cut and pasted into Word) of unorganized cut and pasted information, mostly from emails sent to the director. I am working on organization via categorization and headings, and also checking the links (63 of them) to see if they work, and finding new ones if they don't. I am also writing descriptions for them. At the page stands now, it is completely unusable and intimidating for anyone that would try and get information from it. I am working very hard with its design, and trying to make it as user friendly as possible. There is a lot of very good information there that will be able to be easily accessed when I am finished with it.

Establishing Expectations (1 of 12)

After looking over the course materials, I feel that this will be a very helpful class for my future job hunt and profession. I believe that there is a lot of interesting material that relates to relevant issues pertaining to careers.

I am familiar with both texts used in this course, because they were also used in my Technical writing class. They seemed to be very helpful for that class, which culminated in an online portfolio, much the same as this class will. I expect that they will also be useful in this class.

Apart from the classwork is the actual internship. I really look forward to producing documents that will be used by the organization and others. I am very interested in making the best, most usable documents that I can. I can't wait to start!

Overall, I look forward to all aspects of this class. I feel confidant that I will succeed in both the classwork, and the internship.