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Maribeth Lawrence Active Learning with Excel, Careers, and Wikis Slide 2 Computer Applications I 10 th, 11 th, and 12 th graders 13 students total Full Year Microsoft 2007 Slide 3 No prior Career Prep Course Introduce students to: www.pacareerzone.org www.bls.gov Have students create a wikis and understand wiki etiquette Get students to think about their future Incorporate Excel into the exercise Slide 4 After an introductory unit on Excel and a discussion on career choices, students will research careers that interest them, create a spreadsheet with five career choices and the details of those careers, and then select their top two choices and create a wiki page. Students will demonstrate these skills through the correct completion of these activities with 80% accuracy or higher, teacher observation and discussion. Slide 5 Pennsylvania Career Zone Quick Assessment Based on Interests and Likes Offers information on many careers Verify info found with Bureau of Labor and Statistics Familiarity with other resource Reinforced findings Slide 6 CareerEducationSkills Wages Outlook Verified with BLS Entry-levelAverageExperienced Advertising Sales AgentOTJ Troubleshooting, Management, Persuasion $23, 460.00 $50,960.00$64,570.00Growth Average Wages $62,570 Compensation and Benefits Manager Bachelor's Degree or higher Problem-Solving, Mathematics, Persuasion$45,080.00$74,400.00$89,060.00Significant GrowthAverage Wages Court Reporter Bachelor's Degree or higher Writing, Learning, Monitoring$32,700.00$40,490.00$45,600.00Significant GrowthAverage Wages Flight AttendantLong-term Training Monitoring, Negotiation, Instructing$38,070.00$42,500.00$47,400.00Significant GrowthAverage Wages Travel AgentVocational Monitoring, Critical Thinking, Mathematics$20,300.00$34,610.00$41,760.00ConstantAverage Wages Slide 7 Benefits Collaborative Tool Many contributors many ideas Content constantly being updated Creating Our Wiki Set-up an account with Wikispaces Join garcomputerapps.wikispaces.com Understand Wiki Etiquette Slide 8 Slide 9 Slide 10 Have Fun! Describe Top Two Career Choices Let this page reflect your likes Insert two links to other pages Insert two photos Embed a video www.garcomputerapps.wikispaces.com Slide 11 Students really enjoyed activity This is fun! This is better than Excel! Students were more interested in career choices Exposed students to career websites and wikis Students took pride in their work Slide 12 One or two students put little effort in and played on the internet One student wanted to be walked through the entire process Students could not embed videos because they were blocked Slide 13 Review Wiki Etiquette Fully develop the wiki home page Know how to navigate in your wiki page Be prepared to quickly reinsert home page content Disabled discussion settings Slide 14