As we enter the last two weeks of this course, I am thinking of ways to incorporate what we have learned into my business education classes at North Junior High. Here they are:
- The embedded Google Docs custard demo was fascinating in that I could poll my students on their thoughts about our courses, their research on stocks for our stock market simulation, or sharing their findings when comparison shopping in our budgeting and consumerism unit.
- The website I am creating for our final project will serve as an introduction to StocksQuest, the free online stock market simulation we switched to last semester. Not only could I instruct my students on how to create accounts and execute trades, but this website and linked pages could also be used to teach students about relevant stock and investing terms and strategies. I will be evaluating age-appropriate sites that pass the rules we created in our "What Makes a Good Website?" group project.
On a personal note, I checked out the Microsoft Office Templates for Teachers link on John's blog. Our district did not allow the necessary Media ActiveX Control for downloading the Education Credits Tracker or Substitute Teacher Instructions template. I will try to download these useful-looking templates at home. It will be nice to become more organized in these two areas. Thanks for the tip!
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Those templates can be great starting points for your own work, especially the excel and access templates.
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