D. Michael PloorTeacher and AuthorHillsborough County Public Schools and Goodheart-Willcox Publisher
Microsoft and Adobe
CertificationMagic
• Name: Mike Ploor
• Role: High School Teacher in
Tampa, FL
• Strength: Author of Microsoft
Office CORE Certification
Guides and Adobe CORE
Certification Guides
• Project: Adobe Creative
Cloud (CC) Photoshop,
Dreamweaver, Flash,
Illustrator, InDesign
• Weakness: Taking on too
many projects.
• Status: New Orleans
Food and Fun Adventures
Who is this Character?
• Motivation: Bringing FUN and
EASY curriculum to create
future employable students
with HIGH TECH skills. Keep
high tech jobs in country!
• Purpose: Extend the student
enthusiasm from my
classroom to others in the
USA.
• Methodology: Demonstrate
product use and classroom
integration
• Evaluation: Laughter and
applause
Character Elements
MOS Certifications
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This week!
Start Here
Test Here
Start on Monday… Test on Friday
Start on Monday• Microsoft Office
Specialist (MOS)• 3 to 4 hours of
activities• Explores content and
covers essentials• Builds from scratch
New! Office 2013
Practice Test
included*
* Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access
Test on Friday
• Word• PowerPoint• Excel• Access• Outlook
Start Week 1 Monday• Adobe Certified
Associate (ACA)• 8 to 12 hours of
activities• Explores content and
covers essentials• Lesson Review
Questions are the review for the exam
Test end of Week 2
• Photoshop• Dreamweaver• Flash• Illustrator*• InDesign*
* Coming Soon
Can be done in
Start on M
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Test on Frid
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Are you surprised that it worked?my name is Ralph Watkins I attended your seminar at the AME conference. You sent me a few Certification Prep books I'm writing specifically about the Adobe Photoshop CS6 book. For the last three week I have been completing the questions, doing the labs and vocabulary over and over. Anyway purchased an exam voucher and took the test
I received a 96 percent wow! So I'm emailing you to first tell you what an awesome book and resource you have created and secondly to say that I will be ordering class sets of the Photoshop and Dreamweaver books next year and hope to become a testing center as well, see what you have started! You do great work keep it up. Also and finally I found two errors but unfortunately I could only remember one so here it is. Lesson 2 answer 7 bitmap tracing you correctly state the definition it in the chapter but your answer in the back of the book has it backwards so check it out if you haven't already corrected it.
Ralph WatkinsCarson High School
Successfully Motivating Classroom Audience
1. Set Goalsa. 80% of classroom total or more
2. Display Goalsa. Make it visible
3. Measure ita. Allow for change
4. Make it personala. Have students sign itb. Display certificates
5. Show VALUEa. Not just a gradeb. TJ Maxx Employment Applicationc. College Applicationsd. College Credite. Success stories
6. Rewarda. Hat Dayb. Mancakes!!!c. Sundaes d. Administration Support
Goal
Insanity
• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins133991.html#ixzz1KgH3jq4T
• Do not dumb down.• Make the learning process simpler and more
effective• Reverse engineer from desired outcome• Scaffold learning to achieve objectives
Are we making students dependent?Are we teaching the test?Can students perform at a workforce ready level?Challenge studentsDo not make them dependent on your help!Prepare them as life long learnersHow do we do this?????
Why it Works!• Quick turn around
– 1 to 2 weeks from start to exam• Focus on knowledge level skills
– Explore all features quickly• Narrow testing deadline (this counts!)
– Focus learning and accountability • Review questions are the study guide for the
exam– No simulation software to memorize answers
• Project based remediation– Engage all learning styles
Better Tools & Project Based Learning• Lessons designed 15 years ago
– No textbooks were available– Not teaching to a test
• Cooperative learning failures– Exhausted– 5 groups asked the same questions– Why not teach basics first
• Step by step instructions• Certification testing came about
– Updated materials to standards and software
Not reverse engineered
from the Exam
Certification Cycle
Certification Guide
Review questions or
Mastery Simulation
Certification Test or Gmetrix
Remediate and Enrich
Review and Retake
Implementing in a Classroom• Step 1: Use skill building courseware
– Unlike Gmetrix or other test prep, focus on teaching the skills not the test.
– Use to teach the software first• Step 2: Review using the test or questions
included with the guide.• Step 3: Certification test or Gmetrix• Step 4: Remediate and enrich learning
using project based learning.• Step 5: Review and retake if needed.
Implementing in a Classroom• Step 1: Use skill building courseware
– Unlike Gmetrix or other test prep, this teaches from no prior knowledge.
– Use to teach the software first• Knowledge level learning• No prior experience or skill needed• Creates something from scratch (not templates or
modification)• Authentic learning model so students can use the
software from a blank page.– Works great even if you don’t give
Certification Exams
Implementing in a Classroom• Step 2: Review using the test or questions
included with the guide.– Use the review questions (Adobe) and end of
book Mastery Simulation Post Test (Microsoft Office 2013) provided with the guides.
– Adobe: Create a post test using the review questions to prep for exam.
– Microsoft: Review the Mastery Simulation project to acquaint students to the exam format and answering correctly (Download from G-WLearning.com)
Implementing in a Classroom• Step 3: Certification test or Gmetrix
– Give the Exam or Gmetrix practice test in Exam mode as quickly as possible to maximize retained knowledge level learning.
– Use Gmetrix properly (measure, not teach)– I do not use Gmetrix prep “Learning” mode
materials as they are too closely aligned to the practice exams. • Students can memorize the answers to the practice and take
the Gmetrix Exam and pass it. This is not representative any learning, just memorizing. This is why so many students are failing the Certification Exam that asks different questions.
What is Gmetrix?www.gmetrix.com
What is Gmetrix?Gmetrix offers:• Courseware
• Practice Exams with the answers• Limited teaching as remediation lessons only• No use of the actual software from scratch
• Practice Exams• Measures readiness to Certify only• “Learning” mode questions are the same as
“Testing” mode questions• “Learning” mode gives them the answers• Students think they can memorize these to pass• Students fail Certification when memorized
answers are NOT on the Certification Exam.
Implementing in a Classroom• Step 4: Remediate and enrich learning
using project based learning.– Print out the score report from all students
that took the Certification Exam. – Analyze the data to determine where students
are struggling– Design projects to practice those skills
Adobe Score Report
Microsoft Score Report
Implementing in a Classroom• Step 4: Remediate and enrich learning
using project based learning.– Print out the score report from all students
that took the Certification Exam. – Analyze the data to determine where students
are struggling– Use project based learning (Application and
Synthesis level) fun activities to support the knowledge learning in the guides.
– Use integrated group projects (Cooperative Learning) to support struggling students with successful peers. All learning types included.
Successfully Motivating Classroom Audience
Make it FUNTeach Content – CORE GuidesIntegrate Student Interest (project based learning)
Build from one success to anotherAnimationsCharacter DevelopmentDrawingGamesCreating - - not just doing!Let the Bears forage on their own!Student becomes unteachable - independent
Integrating Office Technology• PowerPoint Games
(Quiz show and Maze)• Microsoft Word Asset construction
(2D and 3D art; Design Documents)• Microsoft Excel Games
(Crossword ,Tic-Tac-Toe, Battleship)• Microsoft Paint or Open Office Draw• Create Presentations, Brochures, Letters,
Charts using Office products for marketing• Get away from the memo or other less exciting
activities and engage the students• Many activities in the Video Game books.
MOS Industry
Certification
Activity 3-4:Physical Dexterity Puzzle
Objective: Students will be able to construct a simple puzzle game. Students willdemonstrate hyperlink and mouse over game features. Students will use a variety of tools to build games. Students will understand the benefits of a physical dexterity training game.
Situation: The Really, Really Cool Game Company needs to create a few puzzlegames to teach users how to correctly use a stylus (digital pen) on a handheldorganizer. Your team will create a prototype sample puzzle to test the concept of ahand-eye coordination training game.
Each team member will create a different maze concept.
Click START to begin.
Follow the maze to get the cheese.
Avoid touching the
red or the cats.
Please Try Again
Winner !
More Examples
Battleship Array Programming Vector Drawing
Crop coin image to edge.Change line color to match coin.Rotate to 3D.
Implementing in a Classroom• Step 5: Review and retake if needed.
– Use an in-class review (individual or team based)
– Use the questions or skills from the Adobe review questions or Microsoft Mastery or Gmetrix if available as a class activity.• Kahoot! (Kahoot.com)• Near pod (Nearpod.com)• Jeopardy• Etc
– Set retake date– Retake and pass
Implementing in a Classroom• Step 5: Review and retake if needed.
– Go to nearpod.com• Illustrator Join session HECBO • InDesign session LTMOB• PowerPoint session KZMWP
Teacher in Control• Knowledge base is formed at the beginning.• Knowledge is reviewed and tested.• First exam provides data on remediation
needed and project based learning needs.• Groups are formed to support “fail” students • Fun projects and group projects support
kinesthetic learning styles
You Can Do It• What scares you the most about Industry
Certification
College Credit for Industry Certification
Certification Return on Investment
American Council on Education
• Recommends college credit for each exam• Create an official transcript• Not all exams listed• Not all schools recognize the ACE credit
– Similar to AP tests • Schools can refuse credit or apply to other elective
credits as they see fit• http://www.bismarckstate.edu/current/learning/credit-for-industry-training/
Appling Credit to Major
• School based decision• Must complete degree to have credit
awarded• Grade of “P” or Pass awarded prior to
degree conveyance• http://www.umuc.edu/students/support/exams/industryspecific.cfm • http://www.spcollege.edu/CCIT_Credit_for_Industry_Certifications/• http://www.mdc.edu/main/academics/certificationprocess.aspx
• Certifications do expire!– Usually valid for only 4 years
ACE Transcript ProcessAs with the Internet, things change. Please check the links below for accuracy as some may have changed.
American Council for Education – www.acenet.edu Can provide you with an ACE transcript for your university based on the certification test you have passed. Create an Accounthttps://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseaction=REGISTRATION.getRegistration Certiport Exam Correlations:http://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseaction=browse.getOrganizationDetail&FICE=300514 Click on the exam you passed and it will give a description and the credit ACE recommends.
Also, this lists the exam components and amount of content covered in each exam.
ACE Transcript Process #2
My Courses
ACE Number
Click to add
Adding a Course to your Transcript
1. Log in to begin the course addition process2. https://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseaction=transcripts.main 3. From the Home page, click My Courses in the left side navigation
box.4. Click the [Add New Course] red button on the My Courses page.5. Type in the ACE Number for the Certiport exam you passed
(example: CPRT-0049 for Outlook 2010)
ACE Transcript Process #3
Click to Add to your transcript
6. Click the Exam Title to open the exam description.
7. Click the [Add To Transcript] button to have the certification reviewed and added to your transcript.
ACE Transcript Process #4
Enter date on certificate
Submit for review
•Enter the date from the certificate you received when you passed the exam. (can access that information from the www.certiport.com website after you log in)•Click the [Submit For Review] button to have ACE verify the information and add it to your transcript.•Wait a few days and check your transcript for updates.
ACE Transcript Process #5
Request a Transcript (Transcripts are $40.00 each)1. Log in to begin the transcript process2. http://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?page=transcripts3. See the sample transcript4. See FAQ section5. Complete form to get a transcript from ACE sent to you
or your institution.
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