Monica Hagler

Advanced BTA

UNIT TOPIC: Presentation Applications1/22/18-1/26/18

Title of Lesson:
Business Tech Careers and E-mail / Total Time on Task: 5 Days
Content Standard:
9. Utilize various Internet search engines to research business topics.
14. Determine career and entrepreneurial opportunities, responsibilities, and educational and credentialing requirements related to business technology professions.
15. Utilize e-mail features safely and effectively.
  • Applying skills for organizing the inbox and filtering junk mail
  • Scheduling meetings, recurring appointments, and tasks
16. Analyze e-mail data obtained from spreadsheets or databases.
Lab Access:
Required for Students☒
Optional for Students☐
Not Needed for Students☐
Overview/Annotation:
Students will continue research on a business tech profession since we had a 2 day work week last week and then they will present their Sway presentations to their peers for a project grade. After presentations are completed we will being working with Outlook and work through a unit in iCEV while we analyze data from spreadsheets and databases with a scavenger hunt type assignment.
Essential Question(s):
  1. How do Business technology careers affect our society?
  2. How to you obtain these type of careers?
  3. What will this career look like 10 years from now? Will it still exist?
  4. What responsibilities does this career entail?
  5. In what ways do our personalities dictate our careers?
  6. Will this be a satisfying career for your personality?
  7. How do most professionals utilize emails?
  8. How has emailing a co-worker changed with all the different technologies on our cell phones?
  9. Why is the calendar feature on your emails a plus?
  10. Why is organizing your inbox important?

Learning Objective(s): The students will:
  1. Research credentials and requirements for a business technology career.
  2. Discover how their personality drives their interests.
  3. Research business topics online.
  4. Utilize various search engines in their research.
  5. Determine career and entrepreneurial opportunities in business tech fields.
  6. Utilize e-mail features safely and effectively.
  7. Apply skills for organizing their inbox and filtering junk mail.
  8. Analyze e-mail data obtained from spreadsheets or databases.

Conceptual Outline:
  1. Sway Presentation on Business Tech Profession and present.
  2. iCEV unit on Outlook

Procedures/Activities:
Day 1
Finish up Sway Presentations
Day 2
Present Sway projects
Day 3
  1. Student Activity: get logins setup for iCEV and begin working on Outlook units
Days 4-5
Continue working on iCEV units
Assessment:
  1. Sway Presentation
  2. iCEV Outlook units
  3. Scavenger hunt email

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