Saturday, 10 February 2007

Personas


Overview
Name: Janet Smith
Age: 38
Occupation: Teacher at primary school
Status: Married and has a child
Husband: Tim Smith, 39, psychologist
Child: John Ward, 10, goes to school

A Day in the Life
Monday - Friday:
9am-5.00pm Teaching and other duties at school
Evenings: Marking papers and homework, preparing for the next school day
Weekends: Marking papers and homework, preparing for the next weeks school days, spending time with the family. Meet up with old friends and colleagues. Watching TV and reading articles on-line.

School Activities
  • From 9am to 3.30pm he teaches.
  • 3.30pm to 5pm attends teachers' meetings, etc. and when she is free at this time marks her pupils' homework.
  • Sometimes she finds it difficult to put up with kids' unwillingness to pay attention to her classes.
  • She finds marking homework time consuming.

Household and leisure activities
  • She is a member of a local bowling team.
  • Always ties to run away from housework.
  • Spends lots of time at the weekend on the on the computer reading articles.
Goals, fears and Aspirations

  • Wants to be the headmaster of the school.
  • She fears losing the control over her classes as sometimes she finds it difficult to get the kids attention.

Computer skills, knowledge and Abilities
  • Has basics skills of using computers and uses them often.
  • Very good at science subjects.

Technology Attitudes
She considers computers as a useful tool and wants to learn to use them more.

Communicating
she has many friends and loves to socialize with people.

International Considerations
  • She goes with her family to different counties like Spain, Portugal and Canada on holiday.
  • She loves travelling and knowing about other cultures.