Log
Entry Format (View Sample
Log Entry) (This 2004 log entry template
supercedes all earlier versions)
Name:_______________________________
Park/Site:____________________________
(Block-copy from this point forward
to start a new log entry page. Use "N/A" in
spaces that do not apply.)
Log Entry #:
Park/Location/Setting:
Audience:
How was the interaction initiated?(For example: visitor question; you
initiated the contact; spontaneous circumstances; other)
Time Constraints, if any:
Special Circumstances, if present:
Describe the interaction by answering the following
questions:
What
were the initial audience needs? (orientation,
information, interpretation, other)
What evidence from them suggested this?(visual cues, questions, comments,
etc.)
What response options were available to you?
Did resource protection or visitor safety
concerns affect your decision?
What park references or documents supported
the option you chose?(For
example: policies, procedures, research material)
How did you provide for the initial
visitor needs?
How did the visitor(s) respond? (visual
cues, questions, comments, etc.)
If you chose to continue the contact at this
point, why and how did you proceed? (Describe
the remainder of the contact; use visual cues, questions,
comments, etc., from visitors that prompted your decision
path to continue or conclude the contact. Did you attempt
to move the encounter toward interpretation or decide
not to? How did audience cues inform your decision?)
If you decided it was appropriate to move
the encounter toward interpretation, then...
Analyze and describe if, how, and why you think
your responses provided opportunities for the
audience to form their own intellectual and/or emotional
connections with the meanings/significance of the resource.(Which intangible meanings/universal
concepts did you attempt to introduce? How did you attempt
to develop those meanings by selected interpretive techniques?
How did you attempt to relate the meanings of the resource
to the interests of the visitors? Do you feel that you
provided opportunities for intellectual connections
that tend to provoke discovery, insight, revelation,
comparison, etc -- and/or opportunities for emotional
connections that tend to evoke empathy, concern, awe,
wonder, etc? How did the visitors respond?)
