UCF Internship Blog

  Hello everyone, Patrick Callaghan here once again for another week of my internship and another blog post accompanying it. This week we unfortunately could not meet as a team due to Dr. Gannon’s international conference, all the best to her. This week was very similar to last week. With preparing for midterm tests, papers, essays, reading and research as well as the practice writing I have been doing. The beginning of this week was mostly focused on the above assignments and this end of week and weekend I will be working on my summary to make it as digestible and intriguing as possible. It has been recommended that a battle map that can be used as a visual representation of the failed operation by the Union forces and Maj. Gen. Gillmore. I need to communicate with my group members to discuss how we want to do this whether it be a “slide show” depicting the events or a video of an animated map with or without commentary over it. All in all a visual version of the written battle ...

  Hello everyone, Patrick Callaghan here again for another week of blog posts. Rounding out the approximate middle of the semester is week number 6. Unfortunately due to Dr. Gannon finishing some work for her upcoming conference we were unable to meet this week and discuss the current progress of our roles and with a project due for me this week I did not have much time to focus on the Olustee project. From my Timeline project however, I did learn and try some new things for it that I can possibly use in the future. This week I tried to do a little writing in the spare time I did have, and I think it is really useful. This week was mostly focused on my timeline project for my Ancient Near Eastern class. This projected required a timeline and an essay. Instead of making a Microsoft word document for the timeline I decided to use PowerPoint to make it more professional in appearance. In finishing the timeline with PowerPoint it has actually made me think about extending the knowled...

  Hello everyone, this is Patrick Callaghan posting another blog for indeed another week. This week was mostly focused on the other classes in my schedule finishing up the weekly quizzes and discussions they required including a substantial amount of reading. Through this external learning I wanted to discuss in this blog an interesting question I have thought about that relates to the Olustee project itself. One of my classes I am taking is Ancient Near Eastern Societies where we study and discuss the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt and more. The discussion that caught my eye that relates to the Olustee project is the restrictions these current day countries place on uncovering these ancient societies. Especially in Egypt, archeologists can only look through funerary cites or tombs and nothing of the habitation cites. Although the Battle of Olustee is not an ancient civilization, it is a battle lost by the Union (the current government of today) that has records abou...

  Hello everyone for another week of the fall semester and this blog post will conclude the fourth consecutive week of my internship. This week was the most difficult in terms of workload for not only classes but also the Olustee project, although not heavy in work itself it added to the stresses and load in total. This week I am going to go into why this week was rough and as well as the skills I look to enhance and better understand throughout this internship. What a week it has been. Although I would be lying if I said this was the first time I stayed up for multiple days in an attempt to complete my work. This was for sure the first time that the perfect storm of a lot of reading and studying came with mistiming and time mismanaging. This has been a skill that I have worked on for a while and continue to have my ups and downs. This started with my misunderstanding of how many chapters I had to read along with the long sources I needed to read for my other class. I read what I...

  Hello all and welcome to my blog again. This is week number three of the semester and subsequently the third week of my internship. This week our meeting consisted of going over everything that we have done so far and what the future plans are for the project. We also talked about time frames as well and as of right now we seem to have a schedule we are in line with and plan on presenting our project in November.                During our meeting we discussed the battle summary that I have had, the sources that I posted to our Google Drive folder, and the “draft” story boards I completed. Right now I have been tasked to clean up all of the these that will be possibly displayed on the website. The main part is the flow and feel of the summary. I have mentioned this multiple times, but it is important that I write actively as it is trying to grasp the attention from the readers especially if the goal is to plac...

                 Hello everyone, this is Patrick Callaghan posting my second blog post on the second week of my internship. This week I wanted to talk about my experience of living on my own and going through the first and second week of classes alone. Although not stressful or pressuring on paper, it is definitely a change of scenery and responsibilities in a complete sense, relying on myself for everything and not over or under doing anything. All in all the experience of such a change is good but takes getting used to.                I think I mentioned this last blog post, but one change is not having events going on through my family to get up and leave the room and desk to get fresh air and take time away from the screens and work. I have noticed that I am someone who, probably like others, work like a snowball rolling down a snowy moun...

  Hello everyone, my name is Patrick Callaghan, and this is my first blog post for the first week of this internship. This will be my second internship ever; I am continuing on from the summer semester internship with Dr. Gannon on completing the website for the Battle of Olustee. Unfortunately Dr. Gannon and our team were not able to meet this week. So this week I wanted to talk about a couple of goals that have carried over from last internship and a few new things I would like to look deeper into. The first goal I would like to continue working on is becoming a consistent active writer. As my role from last internship was to work on the battle summary of the Battle of Olustee, I looked to create something that retold the story keeping the attention of the most “non-readers” out there. A task that seems ambitious but if I can keep working on it I think it will be possible to produce a final product that is worth reading. The second goal is less with the project and more about...