Analysis of Job Shadow Blog:

• Who are your users?
  Users are 11th and 12th grade students in the the Academy of Finance at San Diego High School of Business. There are approximately 50 – 60 total juniors and seniors in the program each year. These students apply and are accepted to the program, agreeing to focus on more technical classes while taking more rigorous courses in order to earn college credit.
• What do you want them to be able to do as a result of using your web site?
  Upon completing a job shadow experience, students should go to the blog set up for that particular business (linked to the Academy web site) and describe what they did on the job shadow as well as their opinion of the business.
  Each semester students will be able to look at these business’ blogs when deciding which job shadow they would like to experience next.
• What have others done that is similar?
  Currently, I have had students stand up (typically only one, whereas normally 2-4 students go to each business at a time) and describe their experience with the group as a whole.
  This is not the best way, as students are nervous when in front of such a large group, so they may not be giving up the full experience of the day. Additionally, some of the students that went on the job shadow may sit quietly while another student describes their experience at a business and not share their own.
• What performance drivers might prevent them from learning with this tool? (skills/knowledge, motivation, environment, incentive)
  Students may not end up visiting each and every blog in order to find out what each business is all about, rather use that time to surf the net. They may not read more than one entry per business, when people have different tastes and two students could go to the same job shadow at a business and one loved it and one hated it.