Saturday, April 7, 2012

Career Project Steps #3 &  #4
Step #3
Careers Project
Power Point Presentation
You must meet the following requirements for your presentation will be 10 slides: The requirements are listed under each slide.  Remember to use creativity of different colors, fonts, formatting shape, pictures formatting, shape effects, design style background and create a background styles (patterns, textures, gradient, picture, and solid).  The animation features of entrance and emphasis (no motion or exit) is to be used on the text or graphics/auto-shapes on each slide.
One slide for each the following:
  1. Title slide: 
    1. Title : name of the career (Word Art)
    2. Subtitle: name, Computers/ICT, date, period number
    3. Clip art/Gif/or Picture representing the professional link to informational website
    4. Background Design
    5. Animations entrance and emphasis of text and graphics
    6. Slide transition
  1. Job Description Slide – 
    1. Specific and detailed bullet points
    2. You must have a link on this page
    3. Action button link to career information
    4. Text link
    5. Animations entrance of text 
    6. Background: Gradient
    7. Slide transition
  1. Video slide
    1. Input a video that relates to this career 
http://www.youniversitytv.com/careers has different career video but they do not download
    1. Make sure that you link the video back to the website you used
    2. Background: any
    3. Slide transition
  1. College Slide:
    1. Name the College you would like to attend –address and tuition information
    2. clip art/Photo representing the school - link to the home page for the school
    3. Animations of the Clip art/Gif/or Picture entrance and/or emphasis of text and graphics
    4. Animations entrance of text
    5. Wordart
    6. Background: Picture 
    7. Slide transition
  1. Education Requirements Slide:
    1. State the major with description 
    2. What requirements are needed: internship, tests, continued education, and training for your profession? 
    3. Text Link to the major page of the school website 
    4. Include Links to sites for tests and training
    5. Animations of the text
    6. Background: Different Design
    7. Slide transition
  1. Salary Slide:
    1. How much money can you make?
    2. Create a salary chart using information from  BLS, Payscale.com or Kuder. Compare salary with 2 other salaries with occupations or geographical locations
    3. Clip art or animated clip art
    4. Action button to website used
    5. Word Art
    6. Animations entrance of text
    7. Background: any
    8. Slide transition
  1. Personal Characteristics, Skills & Abilities 
    1. Clip art, graphic
    2. Animations of the text and Clip art, graphic
    3. Background: Pattern or texture 
    4. Slide transition
  1. Occupational Outlook
    1. What does this job look like in the future?
    2. Will there be job openings in the future?
    3. Clip art, graphic
    4. Text or url link to web site used
    5. Wordart
    6. Animations entrance of text 
    7. Background: Different Design 
    8. Slide transition
  1. Conclusion/Summary Slide 
    1. Tell us what the job is about!!!
      1. Description
      2. Salary
      3. Schooling
    2. Background: any
Decorate this slide however you would like.
Use word art- auto-shapes -textboxes- pictures -gifs -colors -fonts -styles -layouts
  1. Sources Slide:
    1. Where did you get your information? 
    2. A minimum of 5 to 10 career/occupational sources
    3. Clipart
    4. Action button of home to first slide
    5. Wordart
    6. Animations entrance of text 
    7. Background: any 
    8. Slide transition
Step #4



Project Evaluation Form


* Each slide is worth 10 total points + you will give the presentation and overall grade for appearance out of 20 points, for an overall total of 100 points.
  • Slide #1 – Title Slide _____ points (10)
    • Slide Includes – Title (word Art), Subtitle, background
  • Slide #2 – Job description _____ points (20)
    • Slide Includes – Link, background
  • Slide #3 – Educational Requirements & College Slide _____ points (20)
    • Slide Includes – college major w/description, ed. requirements, background 
      college, location, cost, background
  • Slide #4 – Salary _____ points (10) 
    Slide includes a graph\
    • Graph compares at least 2 salary related items 
    • Graph is formatted properly
    • Graph is easy to read
  • Slide #5 – Job Outlook _____ points (10)
    • Slide Includes – Description about the future of the job, background
  • Slide #6 – Sources _____ points (10)
    • Slide Includes – sources, background
  • Slide #7 – Summary Slide _____ points (10)
    • Slide Includes – All major points about the career

Use these items to help you grade each slide. If there are other items to grade, use these as well as the items listed. 
    • Each slide includes graphic
    • Slide includes transitions (2 points for each slide)
    • Slide include animation (2 points for each slide)
    • Action button to home page
    • NO motion paths or emphasis (2 points off for each time used)
    • Customized bullets if included
      • Is the text easy to read (colors)
      • Is the text big enough to read
      • If the background is a picture does it relate to the topic
Please give a grade for the projects overall appearance. You will grade this based on 20 points. 
_____ points (20)
Total Points given 
(Value of each slide + overall appearance points)
____ points out of 110
Please list at least 3 comments (constructive criticism) that would help make this project better.
1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________


Coach Ramer's Computer & Careers 4 Part Blog Assignment


Class:

Today you will be starting a 4 part assignment that will allow you to research, find and explore a possible career for you after you graduate from high school.  I will be providing you four main areas to focus upon while you research, look into and most of all, discover what you might like to do for a job, career and or schooling after graduation from high school.  

Step #1

Career Project  Steps #1 & #2
Job Description
You will write a ½ - 1 page “job description” on your chosen career. You will need to provide details for the following areas of your career choice, desired positiuon of field of work: ( This will provide me of what exactly you know about your career choice.
  1. Job Description – What a person would do on a day to day basis in this particular career.
  2. Yearly Salary – The average amount of money a person would earn in one year.
  3. Education – Any education that a person would need in this particular career.
  4. Career Outlook – Are there going to be any jobs in the future? Are job openings in this particular career field going to increase or decrease in the future?
Please follow this assignment as I have provided you a detailed description of the assignment in class this past week.  If you have any questions, please refer back to your KUDER results that I provided to you.  If you have lost or misplaced your results, please log onto your KUDER account and re-submitt your request for another copy of your results.

Step#2
Worksheet
Occupational Information Student Worksheet

Complete the following questions.  Find information about your specific career choice using the internet or any of the career websites that we have been using. Make sure you find DETAILED information for each questions: You can write your answers on a separate piece of notebook paper.  List at least 5 bullets (minimum) for each question.
1. Job Description and responsibilities of the job, what do they do on a day to day basis? What types of tasks do you perform, what is the nature of work?:
2. Educational Requirements and continued education and training (What kind and how much education do you need for this type of career?) Do you need any licenses, certifications or any other qualifications?:
3. College: name of college, location, description of declared major – use www.kudernavigator.com
(The college that you are using must have the major that will lead into your specific career.)

4. Salary description (How much does this job pay on the average?) You will need to compare this  to 2 other related job in the field or to the same job in a different parts of the State or Country (compare 3). This is the slide that you will use for your graph:

5. Personal characteristics, skills, and abilities needed for this Career 

6. Occupational Outlook and possibility for advancement (Are there any job openings for this career, what is the outlook?) Will therebe any job prospects in the future, will the demand for this career be increasing or decreasing?:

7. At least 5 address minimum where I could find further information

Career Project – Slide Description

Slide #1
Title
Slide #2
Job Description – Summarize the job
Slide #3
Video Slide – Insert a related Video
Slide #4
College – Description of the college and major needed to obtain a job in your chosen career
Slide #5
Educational Requirements – What kind and how much education
Slide #6
Salary Description (Chart/Graph)
Slide #7
Personal Characteristics
Slide #8
Occupational Outlook – Increase/decrease in jobs
Slide #9
Conclusion/Summary – Summarize your career and any education/training needed
Slide #10
Source Slide



Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Facebook Help!!!!

We need to get new and improved apps on Facebook!  Mark, C'mon man, listen to us little folk, us Teachers!  We need you to support us in the areas of integration into our classrooms!

Monday, February 20, 2012

Facebook

Just playing on Facebook today!  Had a great conversation with an ols classmate!  We were discussing the different things that Facebook has to offer and we talked about educational devices that could possibly be developed by facebook to benifit the end user, us!  Great conversation!!!