Career Data Excel Charts
During this assignment, I created three Excel charts incorrporating the data I reasearched from my career exploration project. This provided a clear comparison of each occupation on its percentage growth, educational level, and average salary. To be able to complete this assignment I had to know technology skills such as knowing how to create column charts, adding color and other effects to the chart, applying borders to cells, moving charts to different sheets, and changing the tabs of different sheets. Some things I've learned from this assignment are seeing how charts can compare data to provide a more effective and clear way to help decide on which top three occupations I would choose. With the information all together allowed decision making become alot easier. Also, a simple new skill I've learned in Excel is how to change the color of a sheet tab. I feel as though I did well on organizing the data in a neat way and making the charts eye catching to allow the title and data to pop out. Although, if there would be something I could improve on it would be accomplishing the assignment quicker.I took a little longer when editing the design of the charts because I was searching around for where everything was.
Career Glog
In this assignment I created an advertisment in Glogster to convince others to pursue my top career choice, which was a Dietitian/Nutritionist. I included the information I reasearched through my career exploration assignment. The technology skills I applied in order to effectively complete this was being able to apply various tools of Glogster to plan, create, and edit, know how to add link into my blog for websites & picture credits, how to embed a video, and know how to use multimedia software. From completing this assignment I learned how to use multimedia to advertise and appeal others in order to grab their attention on the topic being informed, in this case advertising a job. I also learned how to use Glogster and the many tools incorrpated in the website that could help me for future purposes. Also, I successfully accomplished advertising a carreer ad for a Dietitian/Nutritionist with the different effects, picture, videos, and adding the information to catch the audiences' attention. During this assingment I feel as though I did well on grabbing appeal to the audience in an organized and creative way, but in order to go above and beyond on my work I could have added more interesting facts/ information that was not required, about my occupation that the average person may not know.
Multimedia
Overall the Multimedia unit was effectively successful, enjoyable, and great learning tool that incorrporated the new technology available to us. The pixorial project allowed us to create a short video involving a topic related to are final career choice. Being open to many ideas, creativity was used to be able create an effective video. Also, not only pixorial is a program that can be used on smart phones as well as the internet. Therefore, filming the video on our smart phones taught us different tools that can be used for future need. For example for future education purposes, pixorial can be used to create projects that are portrayed in a fun, but information based way with the many tools. Pixorial offers to people free available background music, being able to put together short clips that can be easiy downloaded and edited online, and different simple video editing tools. From being introduced to many different multimedia tools our education can use more of these easy and available tools to make learning enjoyable and a different environment. Many times people want to shut out multimedia from education, however if used appropriately it can be successful, such as Pixorial. Therefore, I think Pixorial and other multimedia tools should be used more in other classes in the future too.