Career Planning Students access the Occupational Outlook Handbook from our classroom server and select a career about which that have some interest. They then develop a presentation, using PowerPoint, which they present to the class. Web Page Design Students work in a team to research, design, and produce an educational page for the World Wide Web. Students learn about copyright issues, research techniques, Hypertext Markup Language, and graphics software. Their finished work is displayed in the Student Pages section on our classroom Web Server.
Some students come to the class with a high level of ability in the area of technology use.
Opportunity exists within the class for these students to explore topics that are not as highly structured as those listed above. Has a great list of links to Tech Ed resources. Since I was more interested in linking the study of technology to career choices, I hit upon the idea of modeling the program around jobs that one might find in any modern city. The activities that we use in the class, listed above, form mini-internships in these businesses. I see Technology Education as a course that will be ever-changing, like technology itself.