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Demonstration of the internship matrix

Dr. Howard is a professor in the Leadership of Learning program and oversees the internship for twenty-five students. Dr. Howard logs into his ACU Moodle port and sees within the list of courses he instructs, the Leadership Internship. He opens the course and sees on the right hand side an ePortfolio block, with the link “Internship Matrix” inside the block. Dr. Howard clicks the link and is taken to a new page that displays the Matrix for the Internship Matrix (Figure 2). The Internship Matrix details all the internship requirement activities as well as the internship experiences and learning outcomes. At the top of the page, Dr. Howard clicks a drop down box that allows him to select any one of the twenty-five students that he oversees. Dr. Howard selects Ernest Bass from the list and when clicked, Ernest’s Internship Matrix appears with the requirements, the activities, and the learning outcomes that he has completed so far. Dr. Howard notices that when he scrolls the mouse cursor over the internship activities, that a tool tip appears giving him the title and description of each activity.

Dr. Howard received notification from his student, Ernest Bass, that he uploaded an artifact and reflection for his first internship activity. Dr. Howard enters Ernest Bass’s Internship Matrix and sees Experience 1C changed color to light blue indicating that Ernest Bass chose 1C to demonstrate mastery of experience 1. Dr. Howard clicks on cell 1C and a pop-window opens giving Dr. Howard the following options:

Dr. Howard opens both the artifact and reflection documents. After reviewing, Dr. Howard now wants to add his feedback. Dr. Howard writes his feedback in a word document and saves it to his C drive. Dr. Howard then goes back to the Internship Matrix and clicks the link “Add Feedback” and a pop-up window appears. Dr. Howard clicks the button “Browse” and a file directory is opened from which he can select the feedback document. Once Dr. Howard attaches the document and clicks “Submit” he is taken back to the Internship Matrix view. Dr. Howard sees that the “Add Feedback” title has been changed to “View Feedback”. Dr. Howard now clicks the “Lock” checkbox and clicks submit. Dr. Howard returns to the Internship Matrix where he sees that 1C has changed to Dark Blue and has a padlock icon that indicates it is now locked.

• View Artifact (Title of artifact shown)
• View Reflection (Title of reflection shown)
• Add Feedback
• Lock (Check Box)

Capstone experience

The capstone experience is the final component of the online internship. Although students register for this experience as their final course, they have been working toward the capstone experience since the internship orientation webinar after the second course. Students reflect on their experiences throughout the degree program. This self-reflection includes reviewing the 38 internship activities and the other artifacts on the Internship Matrix and how they support the student’s mastery of the program outcome and the national standards. Students are encouraged to involve their site mentor in this self-evaluation process.