Week of August 12

Monday 8/12

Housekeeping Items

• PHS School store/DECA membership

Picture presentations(summer vacation)

• moviemaker
• webtool link(see last week's blog)
• photostory
• powerpoint

Tuesday 8/13

• finish up presentations
• review/preview syllabus(see posted in under pages)

                     Computer Applications II
                     Intro Business Technology

 Employability Unit

Download CA2_2 Career Information form
Download CA2_2 College Information Sheet




Wednesday 8/14

• Computer Applications II- Integration of Office 2010 Applications (w/Employability Skills)

College & Career Readiness Unit
Download CA2_2 Career Information form
Download CA2_2 College Information Sheet
Download Copy of CA2_5.3_College Enrollment
Download CA2_2 College Recruiter Project
Download CA2_2 Career Newsletter Project (1)

Download 12 Key Parts of a Newsletter

Download Collegecareerpresentation

Post-secondary box- create and design your own box IN CLASS(bring small-medium sized box to class..all other supplies will be provided)for post-secondary choice NO LATER THAN MONDAY 8/19)

• empty shoe box (w/top...no top inside will also have to be designed as a dorm, barrack, etc. space)
• tissue box

* If getting a box is not feasible, students may partner with someone  to design box who has selected same post-secondary option*

Intro Business & Technology(Business Communications & Employability)


Employability Unit

Download CA2_2 Career Information form
Download CA2_2 College Information Sheet

 Business Communication Unit
SLIDESHOW
Download Cev70533
PACKET
Download Vocabulary Handout
Download Crossword
Download Billboard Design Project
Download Glittering Generalities Activity

 

"Glittering Generalities" ...who? what? when? where? why? (see communications styles packet)

• commercial...not just a video (audiovisual presentation) - PowerPoint, MovieMaker, or Photostory
• advertisement (hard copy document)- Publisher OR WORD

commercial presentation and advertising printing

communication graphic organizer...CHOOSE ONE

Download Venndiagram

Download Tchart

• oral vs written
• memo vs business letter

Download Communications
 http://www.informationbible.com/article-difference-between-letter-and-memo-83412.html
 http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/K/Michael.L.Kent-1/PDFs/BusinessLetters&Memos.pdf

create your own business letter/cover letter to company or post-secondary  institution of choice

Thursday 8/15 - please see beginning of unit project on Wednesday 8/14



Friday 8/16 -please see beginning  of unit project on Wednesday 8/14

Elevator pitch
pitch about your career/college goals in one minute
http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/careers/pitch/

Wordle your  unique and suggested words to create a gallery

http://www.wordle.net/