“Technology used as a tool can serve as a means to seek and process information, and to reflect on one’s understandings, beliefs, and thinking processes” (Boethel and Dimock, p. 17).  The goal of my Career Development Website is to educate and prepare students for their future.  Students will start off by finding a career that best suites them and then perform research on it.  They will then learn about different interviewing techniques and lastly create an E-Portfolio.

    My homepage provides an index to the website.  On the top of the web page, I have created a welcome message for my students. It provides a quick overview of the course. It will contain links to the Career Development Course, this page, contact information, a survey, a comments section and a resource section.  The contact information will include my name, e-mail address and office hours.  The survey will be for students.  It will center on the Career Development Course and students will complete it at the end of the course.  The comments section will allow students and visitors to leave me feedback on the course as well as the website.  Lastly, the resource section will contain all the resources that I used to create the course as well as the website. 

    The Career Development Course link will connect them to the course.  In the course they will find three different modules. Module 2 and 3 are still under construction. For ETAP 622, we will be concentrating on Module 1.  In Module 1 students will have to read articles, take a career assessment questionnaire, perform research using the recommended websites, post to a discussion board, complete a video using Microsoft PowerPoint and Wondershare using the researched information, complete an exercise and present their Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation to their classmates.  To support the course, I will be developing a tutorial, a mini-lecture on finding a career, creating an exercise and providing resources and readings for students.  This class will be offered in a traditional classroom but students will be interacting as if it was an on-line class. Not only will this class educate them about careers but it will expose them to an on-line style class.  Lastly in this section of the website, it will contain my lesson plan. My lesson plan will center on this module and will incorporate all of the activities I mentioned above.  This course will “engage students by completing the various activities and help build on their current interests” (Boethel and Dimock, p. 15).

    The entire website will contain a collection of examples of the software and programs that we touched on in this class.  A few of the programs that I will be using in this website will be WonderShare, Audacity, Camtashia, Hot Potatoes, Photo Story, and Snapshots.  My website will meet the ADA requirements.  The images will contain text and each web page will contain links to each section of the website.  This website “has the potential to expand information sources, provide for individualization and help students and teachers make interdisciplinary connections” (Boethel and Dimock, p. 27).

                                                                         Resources 

Boethel, Martha. and Dimock, K. Victoria.  Constructing knowledge with technology: A Review of literature.  Retrieved November 17,     2007 from, http://www.sedl.org/pubs/tec27/constructing.pdf