Career Data
For this assignment, I had to continue the career exploration project by creating a spreadsheet and graphs in Excel using the projected job growth, years of education needed, and average salary data for each of my seleted careers. In order to complete this assignment, I first had to transfer the data from my career exploration word document to separate charts, format those charts, use the information to create bar graphs, and then format those bar graphs. I feel like I completed all aspects of this assignment easily; therefore, I feel like I did well with all the parts of this activity since I have been practicing these Excel tools for a while now. During this assignment, I did not learn any new Excel tools. However, I did strengthen my previously learned skills and also realized the differences amongst the multiple careers researched. If given the chance to redo this assignment, I do not think that I would be able to make any changes. I felt as if I followed all the directions and effectively formatted the graphs and tables. If anything, I would probably have used even more formatting tools.
Glogster Career Project
For this assigment, I had to create an ad for my top career choice from the career project. I chose a forensic science technician. In order to complete this assignment I had to use Glogster and meet specific requirements for the components of this poster ad. The requirements included having a central title, describing the career and education needed, describing personality types needed for this job, stating the average salary, linking to sites where education can be taught as well as to sites where more information about this job can be found, embedding a video, and linking all pictures to the site where they were found. The part of this assignment that I did well was the creative designing side. I enjoy creating posters, especially when I am able to portray a topic that I enjoy. I also felt like I did well explaining the career, personality traits, and education needed. During this assignment I learned a lot about the tools that can be accessed for multimedia purposes on the Glogster website. However, during this learning process, I did have some difficulties, especially in the area of finding images through Glogster to use in the ad. The tools were also not easy to use because none of them were labelled. So, it was interesting to try and figure out what icons were used for certain tools.
In order to improve this assignment, I think that I would choose different pictures. This is because having all pictures either horizontal or vertical would have allowed me to position all the components of the ad in a more symmetrical way, making it more visually appealing.
In order to improve this assignment, I think that I would choose different pictures. This is because having all pictures either horizontal or vertical would have allowed me to position all the components of the ad in a more symmetrical way, making it more visually appealing.