Thursday, April 25, 2019

8. Unit 3 Project


  • Upon completion of your podcast, you will write a three-sentence summary for your 8th blog post.
  • Include your podcast in your post
  • 3 Sentence Summary Explained
    • The first sentence is a synopsis that summarizes the text or story in a nutshell.
    • Imagine that you are responding to the question "What is the podcast about?”
    • The second sentence describes the central points of the podcast.
    • The third sentence is summarizing the storyline into one sentence


7. Creating a Podcast Reflection


Then create your 7th blog post.  Addressing the question in the “Reflect” part of the Creating a Podcast hyperdoc for steps 2-4.

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

6. What career path would you consider to take within the housing, interior design, and furnishings industries?

Step 1: Describe what happened or what you did.

Step 2: Interpret how things went by using one (or more) of these sets of terms:
  • Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Successes and Setbacks

  • One of these words: meaningful, significant, important, relevant, or useful.

Step 3: What have you learned due to this experience?

Step 4: Answer one (or more) of these questions:
  • What can you do to improve your learning?
  • How will you extend your learning past what is expected?

5. Guest Speaker


Answer the following in your blog.
  • What questions do you still have?
  • What are 3 things you learned from this presentation?
  • How could you use this information in the future?

4. How do you prepare to have the best job interview?

Write a summary about what you learned about job interviews.  Each word cost $.10 do not go over $3.00.

3. Cover Letter


Part I – Key Points of Project
  • Identify three key points you learned from this project.
Part II - Analyze
  • On a scale of 1 to 5 identify the number that best represents the events of the project.
    • Scale Value:    1= Never       3 = Neutral     5 = Always
    • I was well-prepared for this project
    • I understand what is expected of me in the preparation and participation of the project.
    • I feel encouraged to participate in section and respond to others.
    • The instructor treats students with respect.
  • Identify the advantages of the topic and suggestions on how to make it better,
  • Identify the disadvantages or negatives and suggestions on how to make it better,
  • Identify those aspects of the topic that don’t fall into either positive or negative categories but are interesting.  
Part III - Application
Answer the following questions with complete responses:
  • How can I apply what I learned from this project to my life?
  • I was surprised...
  • I should be concerned about this topic because... 


2. Career Research Mind Map


Include a list of the major steps of the project in your reflection.

In your reflection please include the following about yourself:

  • What is the most important thing you learned in this project?
  • What do you wish you had spent more time on or done differently?
  • What part of the project did you do your best work on?


In your reflection please include the following about the project:

  • What was the most enjoyable part of this project?
  • What was the least enjoyable part of this project?
  • How could your teacher(s) change this project to make it better next time?




1. Should I be an Interior Designer?

Use the Google Doc you created from yesterday for your first post. It should summarize what you learned about an Interior Designer and if you should be one in at least 50 words.