We have been working hard to collect stories from Maine people in their 20s about their experiences since high school in an attempt to bridge the gap between school and the real world. The videos of these interviews appear on this site and quotes will be selected to appear in our first annual publication, Navigating the Real World. Upon its completion in April, Navigating the Real World will be distributed to every high school student in Maine.
We would really like to include interviews from high school students, both in the publication and at the site. We really believe that conducting an interview of someone not too much older than them can be extremely beneficial to high school students. Typically students interview people who are in career fields that they are interested in, asking questions such as "what kinds of mistakes have you made?", "if you had it to do over what would you do differently?", "what advice do you have for people in high school?", etc...
This page is designed to help you with the process of conducting, editing, and posting interviews. Please make use of the links below and contact us if you have any questions.
Annotated list of videos for use with high school students
Journalism Summer Internship Opportunity for students
Watch the recording of a webinar hosted by Tom and Kati about Navigating the Real World
How one teacher brings interviewing to the classroom
Watch interview segments from other high school classes
Our printed handbook (pdf) for setting up, conducting, editing and posting an interview
Find us on Facebook!
The printed edition was delivered to all Maine high school students at the end of April.
Check it out here.
(The links are clickable.)
Our next printed edition will be out for the fall semester.
Meet employees of some of our sponsors:
NavigatingTheRealWorld.org is produced by Navigating the Real World, Inc., a Portland, Maine, based nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that will launch the companion publication, Navigating The Real World, in high schools all across Maine in Spring 2010. Our purpose is to gather and publish information and perspectives to help people in their teens and 20s navigate important life decisions and challenges - and to have some fun while we are doing this! Over the coming year we will roll out a range of new offerings using social media and other communication and information technology.
