One of my graduate courses required a group project as part of a block about the Learning Design Studio. Our project developed a Google Site for our work. This is a copy of my contributions to the group effort, reformatted for this website. The project starts here.
Museum visitor persona: Hector Gonzales
Swinging good time by Aleckoh is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
- Gender: Male
- Age: 30
- Lives in Houston. His daughter lives with him on Wednesday nights/Thursday mornings and every-other weekend.
- Likes beer and baseball, going fishing (saltwater and freshwater fishing), spending time with his daughter.
Education and experience
Hector attended formal education until he was 18 years old. Most of this was in Mexico, but the last few years of formal education was in Texas.
After he completed school, he started working for a large chain that offers a range of auto mechanic services, but primarily focuses on maintenance work. After one year, he secured a position at a Service Department in a Ford car dealership , working his way up their apprenticeship model in the auto mechanics part of the dealership. The dealership sent him to several specialty mechanic training courses.
Role and responsibilities
Hector’s main role and responsibilities with regards to this project is that of being a father.
Technical skills
Although very mechanically minded, Hector does not spend much time with electronic gadgets such as mobile phones and computers, and he sometimes feels uncomfortably aware of this when around others who work in office settings.
Subject domain skills and knowledge
Hector has not had any formal education about the history of aviation, but he does watch the History channel on TV often.
Motivation and desires
Hector has an interest in all things mechanical.
Goals and expectations
Hector expects museum visits to give him opportunities to participate in interesting, engaging, and educational activities with his daughter, so that she can be a happy child, well-rounded citizen, and successful adult.
Obstacles to success
Because Hector immigrated to the US as a late teen, his English reading skills are not high. He is very fluent in spoken English, though.
Unique assets
Have we mentioned his daughter?
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