We have now completed two different projects using Microsoft office. The first was a travel brochure and the second was our news report on the events of Hurricane Irma. It is important for us to diversify our classroom work and in effort to do so we will change gears a little bit at the end of this week. Students will make a blog post discussing what they think their strengths are. The students should include what they are interested in, what subjects they enjoy and excel at, and also what subjects they think they need to work on. The students should also consider what they may want to do for a career in the future and what attributes go into being successful in that field. Once the students have done this they will take the free personality tests on my-personality-test.com/. Once the students complete the tests they will add their results and what they think about them onto their Weebly blog post that was started earlier. The goal here is to be conscious about their strengths and personality traits. This is important as it will help us keep these things in mind as we explore the career pathways side of the course.
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We began our travel brochure project on 9/1 and will be finishing the project by uploading onto our Weebly pages by 9/19. You may be thinking that surely a brochure should not take so long! Well, our school has been closed and used as a shelter during the massive hurricane Irma that hit the whole of our state. As a result, many within our community were without power for an extended amount of time. It is possible that some are STILL without power, and while our area was very lucky and dodged the most severe parts of the storm there are still those affected by the strong winds the storm brought. Some students evacuated along with their families, and others hunkered down. In short, everyone's experience with Irma has been different and it is important to express those experiences. The assignment will be to create a news report on their storm experience during the week off of school. This can be accomplished through a short video recap or in the form of a newsletter. This will allow the students to express their experience either through speech, writing, or visual art.
Friday 9/1/2017 marks the date our webpages have been completed along with a one paragraph introduction about ourselves. We will introduce the next project today, which will be to create a travel advertisement brochure using Microsoft word. The students will be free to use the brochure template, and can build the brochure based on a place they have been, a place they want to go, or even a fictional location. This assignment will tie in the ability to search for and insert images into word documents, basic research on the location the brochure will feature, basic persuasion techniques among other skills relating to a well rounded student. After the brochure is complete the students will upload it to their webpages and make a blog post outlining the project and the steps they used to complete it.
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