CAREER PREPAREDNESS
UNIT TOPIC: ACADEMIC PLANNING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENTLESSON PLAN #:1/1
Title of Lesson:Digital Resume / Total Time on Task: 600minutes
Content Standard:
- Generate an electronic portfolio using digital tools (e.g., Webpage, wikis, blogs, podcast), including a cover letter; a current resume; a completed job application; interest, aptitude, and achievement assessment results; curriculum samples (e.g., academic research, educational projects); four-year high school educational plan; education/career preparedness checklist; and other examples of academic and career preparedness achievements (e.g., student organizations, club memberships, honors, credentials, certificates, awards, community service experiences, recommendations).
- Utilize advanced features of word processing (e.g., outlining; developing forms; applying tracking changes, hyperlinking, and mail merging).
- Create presentations using effective communication skills and advanced features of multimedia, including photo, video, and audio editing.
Lab Access:Required for Students☒
Optional for Students☐
Not Needed for Students☐
Overview/Annotation:
In this lesson students will create a digital resume. Landing a job means you need to showcase your skills and abilities using multimedia software to create a digital resumethat you present to the class. A digital resume is more dramatic, personalized, and informative than a paper resume and can be uploaded to the internet for prospective employers. I will go over “Tips for Creating and Delivering an Effective Presentation” before we get started. I will demonstrate how to use PowerPoint for creating your digital resume.
Students will enhance their digital resume presentations by editing pictures, importing or embedding a video, and downloading, inserting and editing audio.
Essential Question(s):
What is a digital resume?
How do I create a digital resume?
How is multimedia software used to enhance informational presentations?
How often do I update my digital video?
How is multimedia software used to enhance informational presentation?
How is an image edited in PowerPoint?
What is a Slide Transition?
What is audio editing?
How is a video embedding into PowerPoint?
Learning Objective(s): The students will:
- Create a presentation using PowerPoint.
- Upload images from the internet.
- Insert images into a slide.
- Use a photo as a background in PowerPoint.
- Createtheir digital resume.
- Design of their digital resume.
- Research digital resumes and collect images through the Internet.
- Evaluate their strengths, interests, and skills to showcase in theirpresentation.
- Enhance a presentation in PowerPoint by using the Picture Ribbon.
- Enhance a presentation by adding slide transitions.
- Insert audio in PowerPoint.
- Edit audio in PowerPoint.
- Add a video to a PowerPoint presentation.
Conceptual Outline:
- Technology Skills
- Tips for Creating and Presenting an Effective Presentation
- How to Create a PowerPoint
B.Title slide
C.Images
i.From the Internet
ii.Insert into a slide
iii.Set as a background
D.Typing words over image
- Create Digital Resume
B.Images to go along with words
- Locating
- Saving
- Enhance a PowerPoint Presentation
B.Apply slide transitions
C.Audio file
- From the Internet
- Insert into a slide
- Edit start and stop points
- Play the duration of presentation
- From the Internet
- Insert into a slide as an embedded file
Materials, Equipment, and Technology Resources:
Materials:
- Students’ resumes
- Students’ career research
- Power Point #1:Tips for Creating and Presenting an Effective Presentation
- Handout #1: Tips for Creating and Presenting an Effective Presentation
- Handout #2: Applying Transitions in PowerPoint 2010
- Handout #3:Editing Pictures in PowerPoint 2010
- Handout #4:Audio Files in PowerPoint 2010
- Handout #5: Inserting Videos in PowerPoint 2010
- Assignment #1: Directions and Rubrics for Digital Resume and Presentation
- Computers with Internet access and MS PowerPoint
- Projector
- Document camera
- Don McMillan: Life After Death by PowerPoint
- GCF LearnFree.org: PowerPoint 2010 Inserting Videos
Procedures/Activities:
- This lesson will require reserving a computer lab.
- Class Discussion: Have you ever seen a bad presentation? What made it a bad presentation? Write students’ answers on the board and briefly discuss. Provide students with a copy of Handout #1. Today, we are discussing how to create an effective PowerPoint presentation and how to present it to the class. Show and discuss PowerPoint #1.
- Teacher Information: A YouTube video is embedded into PowerPoint #1 to reinforce what not to do while creating a PowerPoint.
- Guided Practice: Demonstrate and guide the class in creating a digital resume.
- Demonstrate how to choose a slide design. Make sure the design is consist to your career goals.
- First slide is a Title Slide to introduce yourself and the presentation.
- Demonstrate how to go to Google Images and save the picture.
- Demonstrate how to insert an image into a slide and making it a background.
- Show students how to type over a picture.
- Guided Practice: Using Handouts #2-5 demonstrate how to enhance a PowerPoint presentation by adding slide transition, editing pictures, inserting audio files, and inserting a video.
- Class Discussion: Provide students with a copy of Assignment #1. Review directions and rubrics. Ask for questions and understanding. What parts of the assignment do you not understand? Use students’ answers to review and teach the next day (formative assessment).
- Student Lab: Students createdigital resumes.
- Using the Internet, research samples of digital resumesand/or digital CV’s to get ideas.
- Plan and organize the design and layout for your presentation.
- Gather all the information, images, and documents you will need.
- Evaluate your strengths, interests, and skills that you want to showcase in your digital resume. Make a list of the words. You only need words.
- Use rubric as a guide for each slide tomeet expectations for creating your digital resume.
- Organize your information so it is professional, well organized, clearly stated, and uses appropriate business language.
- Correct all spelling, grammar, and capitalization.
- Save often.
- Students presentdigital resumes. See Assignment #1 for presentation rubric.
Assessment:
- Daily participation in class while creating digital resume.
- Assignment #1 product (digital resume) and presentation.