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General
Information
| Lead
Teacher(s): |
Barry Davis -
Teacher
(bdavis@calvin.stemnet.nf.ca) |
| School: |
Laval High School
Placentia, NF
A0B 2Y0
Tel: (709) 227-2041 |
| Number of Students: |
30 Senior High students (2 Career
Education Classes) |
| Grade Level: |
Senior High (Level I
- III) |
| Project Start and
Finish Dates: |
January 6 - June 13,
1997 |
Project
Overview
This project is intended to introduce the participants
to the technology available for both local and global job
search, and the value of the Internet in today's work
world.
The students will be trained to log on to the Internet
via a LAN, and access the following forums:
- WWW search engines
- E-Mail
- Newsgroups
Through these forums, the students will gather
information on employment search, job interviews, the job
market, trends, new technology, and the expanding realm
of information technology. The students will be exposed
to the latest, most up-to-date information pertaining to
today's job market, and the expanding role of information
technology, in both job search and modern careers. In
doing so, the students will learn, and be evaluated on
the following tasks:
- Logging on to a LAN
- Connecting to the Internet
- Using E-Mail
- Subscribing to newsgroups
- Reading news items and replying to news threads
- Using WWW search engines and following hypertext
links
- Bookmarking locations
- Uploading and Downloading files
Curriculum
Connections
Career Education:
The students will increase their
knowledge of computer technology as it relates to the
modern world of work.
Information Technology:
The students will acquire the
knowledge and develop the skills to use state of the
art communications equipment to send and receive
information.
Resource
Connections
- This project will permit
educationally sound and extensive use of a LAN
and all other computer peripherals in the school.
- Information collected and/or
bookmarked will be available to all teachers and
students in the school for later use.
Evaluation
- Evaluation will be performance based.
- Students will be evaluated on their ability to
carry out the tasks mentioned in the project
overview. (fig. 1)
Performance Based Evaluation
- Logging on to a LAN
- Connecting to the Internet
- Using E-Mail
- Subscribing to newsgroups
- Reading news items and replying to news threads
- Using WWW search engines and following
hypertext links
- Bookmarking locations
- Uploading and Downloading files |
- At the end of the project the students will be
required to hand in a paper on a chosen topic
related to a researched career.
- At the end of the project students will be given
a questionnaire which will help evaluate the
impact of the project on the school and the
curriculum in general. This will include a
section for comments on how to improve the
project for the following year.
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