Things move fast in the internship world- while I had every intention to blog more frequently, I find that my weeks have sped along (with no posts) and I’m now officially past the half way mark of my time here in Kingston. The Weeks: The travel Soon after I wrote the last blog post, I started traveling around the island on school visits with the … Continue reading Jamaica Journal- 2 (technically 2-5)
At the halfway mark and there’s so much to say but also not much to say at all. Sesame Workshop has given us basically no work. Our on-going petitions for work have been met with empty promises and trite excuses since really before we even arrived to the office. It all finally made sense a few days ago. The education/research/content teams had been dissolved and … Continue reading A Whole New World
Week 1 is done- a week that was equal parts nervous excitement and a sense of home and belonging. Dive in to a few musings from this week. Work Week 1 Whatever slight nervousness I had abated as soon as I walked in the doors to the office- everyone at the organization is so warm and supportive, the atmosphere is energetic and positive. Every member … Continue reading Jamaica Journal-1
This marks the end of my internship. This is it. Going back to Philadelphia to complete my last semester. Today as I reflect back on this internship experience as a whole – I really think I have come out with some great working and personal relationships. Unlike my fellow IEDP classmates, I really did not think too much about having an ideal internship. I had … Continue reading Au Revoir La Suisse
A three-month internship is a rather peculiar affair. It is short enough to ensure that you do not end up with anything concrete. And, just long enough to make you feel that you should have come away with something more solid. Continue reading He came, he saw…
For a few moments, take a trip down memory lane with me. Think of a scenic flight you took or the opportunity you had to gaze down at a vista from atop a hill. Remember how perfect everything looked from far away? The straight-lined crop plantations, the flawlessly paved roads, the immaculate green of pine trees, it all looked so perfect. Almost too perfect. And … Continue reading Imperfect perfections
Work details: In my last blog I mentioned that my task is to really understand Epistemic Network Analysis and to think about how coding works in quantitative research. I attended a workshop where I learnt more about quantitative ethnography and the use of ENA to study international collaboration in STEM. Then I learnt more about it by reading a book by David Shaffer. It was … Continue reading Travailler Dans Le Temps D’une Canicule
Remember telling someone in office that you were good at something, only to be inundated with requests from colleagues left, right and center to help them with that particular thing? Well, such has been my lot in the past few days. I was asked to work on a simple, innocent-looking MS-Excel file, which I did to the best of my abilities. Little did I know … Continue reading A skill in demand
My work at World Learning continues with more annotated bibliographies. (If you don’t know what they are, read my last post, or in fact, just don’t. Human beings are better off without knowing certain things.) In work related developments, though, I have an additional supervisor. The fantastic Radmila is also a Senior Education Specialist who is working on a donor-funded program that she wants me … Continue reading What is better than one supervisor are two supervisors
So, where does an International Educational Development intern go for his global internship; Washington DC, obviously. The seat of the US government, the city with crazy traffic and an even crazier assortment of non-profits. But my non-profit (not that I own it or anything) is particularly special. It is called ‘World Learning’ and amongst its many contributions to the world is its summer homestay study … Continue reading A capital internship
The International Educational Development Program 