Transcript Webquest on Career Search: “On My Own…”

WebQuest on Career Search:
“On My Own…”
Designed by Carol Keith
Steps In The Process
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Introduction
Task
Process
Evaluation
Conclusion
Credits
Teacher Page
Introduction
Task
 You are using the
internet to take online
quizzes, to do
database searches, do
a virtual interview and
find a job.
Process
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Career interests
Personality type
Learning Style Assessment
Occupational Sort
Explore occupations
Compare to the fastest growing occupations
Select one occupation to investigate AND be sure to use
different resources
Collect information to prepare your report
Prepare six specific questions to ask in an informational
interview
Research Help Wanted Ads
Take a virtual interview
Write your report
Prepare your multimedia presentation
Career interests
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/indes.html
Personality type
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Career Interests Game
http://www.advisorteam.com/ciss/
Jung Typology Test
Myer's Briggs Adaptation
Campbell Interest and Skills Survey at
http://www.advisorteam.com/ciss
Learning Style Assessment
 Index of Learning
Styles Questionnaire
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Occupational Sort
 Use Georgia Career
Information Search
(GCIS) first. It is found on
www.gcic.peachnet.edu.
Our User ID is fultonk12
and our password is
gcis354a.
Explore occupations
 Use GCIS or www.whatdotheydo.com
Compare to the fastest growing
occupations
 http://www.adin.org/lmi/usafast.htm
 Top 10 Forecasts from Outlook 2004
http://wfs.org/forecasts.htm
Select one occupation to investigate
(be sure to use different resources)
 GCIS
 Occupational Outlook Handbook and Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://stats.bls.gov/home.htm
 The 2002-2003 Occupational Outlook Handbooks
 News Items from the U S Department of Labor
 Keyword Search of Bureau of Labor Statistics Web Pages
 Career library at JobWeb
 America's Career InfoNet
 Exploring Occupations from the Student Counseling and Career
Centre at University of Manitoba
 Careers Online Virtual Careers Show
Collect information to prepare your
report
Your report should include information on the
following topics:
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training or education required for the career
prospects for the future in this career,
expected salary range,
unexpected positive or negative aspects of the career
NOTE: Remember, your class presentation is to be a
multimedia (PowerPoint or some other presentation
software) report. While you are collecting information
about the career you chose, make sure you collect
images too.
Prepare six specific questions to ask
in an informational interview
Research Help Wanted Ads
 Determine where you will want to work.
 FREE Zip City Phone at
http://www.mailersoftware.com/keywordsearch/zip
code.htm
 America’s Job Bank at
http://www.ajb.dni.us/index.html
 www.ajc.classified.com
Other job search engines
 Monster.com
 HotJobs.com
 Thingamajob.com
Take a virtual interview
http://interview.monster.com/#
Write your report
– Write about the career of your choice, which you chose it,
what it will take to be successful…i.e., skills, aptitudes,
education, etc.
– From the self-analysis involved, tell me about your
discoveries.
– Include the six questions you would ask in an informational
interview.
– Include the help wanted add you selected.
– Tell me about your virtual interview.
– In learning more about yourself, would you still pick the
same help wanted ad/career?
– What surprised you about your career that you didn’t know
before doing this WebQuest?
Prepare your multimedia
presentation
Evaluation
 grading rubric
(see attached)
 This is a major project
grade.
Conclusion
 This activity was designed to give you the feel of how to
use the Internet to research a new career and to get to
know yourself better.
 Some useful career sources to remember or revisit are:
 The Occupational Outlook Handbook Index from A to Z
 Bureau of Labor Statistics Career Information for Kids
 NationJob Online Jobs Database
 InternetJobs has a list of top ten employment-related web
sites
Credits
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Bernie Dodge’s WebQuest Page at http://webquest.sdsu.edu/.
Tom March’s Best WebQuests at
http://www.bestwebquests.com/
Tom March’s Filamentality at
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
Tom March’s WebQuest Design site at
http://www.ozline.com/ozline_story/index.htm
A technology article from Education World at
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech011.shtml
WebQuest sites at
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/career.htm and
http://www.lr.k12.nj.us/site/cherokee/library/webquest/hughes.
htm
Some links were taken from a co-worker, Rebecca Barria, a
TAG teacher’s web page at Roswell High School’s web site at
http://www2.fultonschools.org/teacher/barriar/ and also from
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/career.htm
Previous teaching material that I developed for my classes
before I knew about WebQuests.
Teacher Page
 On this page I would develop a rubric for
grading this individual project, list all the web
sites used in the above proposal, and give
the logic behind the sequence of the steps.
An alternative plan would be to make this a
group activity.