Clovis Online School - Principal Interview Preparation

In preparation for the student-parent-principal interview, please do the following:

We are looking forward to meeting you in person.  Enrollment will open again the week of May 16, 2011.  Feel free to call if you have further questions in the meantime ( 559-327-4400). 

Prior to our interview/meeting, please complete the following (specific directions and links are listed below): 

1. Create an iGoogle page and subscribe to the school blog at http://clovisonlineschool.wordpress.com .
2. Get a Fresno County public library card (if you live in a different county, then get a public library card in that area).  See:  http://fresnolibrary.org/.
3. What is your learning style/intelligence?  This survey is anonymous but asks for your first name and age.  Please do not use your real name, but use your real age.  Copy and paste your results to a word document and print. http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php  
4. What are your career interests? Create an account at - http://www.californiacolleges.edu/ 

• Click on the “career” section and complete the “My Interest Finder” inventory in the “Interest” section on the left side.
• Print your results and save to a word documen

5. Who are you/your personal learning plan.  Write about yourself, who you are and what you want to do in the future.  Bring this printed to the interview.
6. Go online and test our online platform, Moodle. 

• Go to: www.answerbay.com
• Create an account and complete the 10 lessons (they take students from 2-4 hours to complete).

Bring printed to your interview:

• Your iGoogle page.
• Your learning style/intelligence results (which should be pasted into a word document)
• Your career interest results from Californiacolleges.edu  (which should be pasted into a word document)
• Your personal learning plan

Possible Interview questions:

·         What do you like to do?  What are you good at?

·         Describe a great learning experience you have had.

·         If you were to interview teachers for our online school, what would be one question you’d ask the teachers?

·         What talents would you bring to the school?

·         What were the results of your learning style inventory?

·         What were the results of your career interests?

·         What do you know how to do that you can share with others?

·         What do you plan on doing after high school?

·         Why do you think the online school will be good for you?

Forms to complete:

• Responsible Use Policy
  

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Create an iGoogle web page

A quick video about it in case you’re interested: http://www.scribd.com/doc/231808/Using-iGoogle

1. Create a Google email account at http://gmail.google.com. (Think about what you want to name this email account, as well as your password. Now, just a word about passwords. For all of these tools, figure out a standard password you use and use the same password with everything or slightly modify it using a street number as needed). Once you’ve created your Google email account, you’re ready to create some other useful tools.

2. Create an iGoogle personalized web page at: http://google.com/ig

· Once your iGoogle page is created, customize the look by clicking on “change theme” in the upper right side of the iGoogle page.

· Then, add some gadgets by clicking on the “add stuff” link in the upper right side of the page. (See diagram below).

Add other “gadgets”. Add your gmail account. Use the “gadget search” to search for other things you may like such as “sports” or “education” or “animals” or “history”…

Add blog postings to your iGoogle page. As one example, let’s say you want to follow the progress of the Clovis Online School. Click on “add stuff”. Look on the left side, half way down the page, where it says “add feed.” Click on “add feed.” Paste in the Clovis Online School blog web address (http://clovisonlineschool.wordpress.com). You will now see the latest postings from this blog on your iGoogle page. (And, you can add any other blogs you’d like to read on your iGoogle page, but there’s another way to read lots of blog postings that is next).