Patty Sarkady
Job Trends in America
This lesson was designed by Sandie Leonard, Jessica Olsen, and Patty Sarkady. After attending the DVR Workshop, Reading in the Content Area, we were given time to create an engaging student-centered activity.
Using a Web Tool for a Presentation
In this activity, students are introduced to PowToon – an animated slideshow tool. After they complete their work, they will upload it to our PADLET page.
Creating an Ad Mailer
Students will use their knowledge in Photoshop to create a 2-sided ad mailer. The attached folder has three different activities. The first two give video tutorials on how to make a shadow in Photoshop and how to “Past-Into” a selected area. The last activity is the actual assignment for the ad mailer.
Basics of Photoshop – Creating Web Banners
This unit was designed to show Web Design students the basics of Photoshop. In the first two lessons, students are shown how to swap a background, feather an image and change part of the colored image to black & white. The students are then required to create 5 different web banners to place on one web page (last lesson in the folder).
There are video tutorials attached in the first two activities for the students to follow along with.
Prior to these activities, I gave a “live” demonstration on different types of web banners and what components go into creating them.
Career Preparation – Filling out an Application
This lesson has students completing a real company’s job application.
Understanding Business Ethics
This culminating activity was created as a wrap-up to business ethics.
Instead of asking students to take notes during the presentation, I assigned exit slips after each class period.
Web Design – Introduction to Dreamweaver Challenge
This project is the first student challenge using Adobe Dreamweaver.
The online discussion and research portion is to be done at the start of this project.
The step-by-step instructions help the students with the second part of this project.
A simple rubric is also in the folder – this rubric was borrowed from u.arizona.edu. I just added the title of the project and the grading information below the rubric.
Topic: Color Challenge
Please note that I did zip the folder so that all of the files will remain together.
Math in CTE – Business Education
This lesson was designed in conjunction with Math Teacher Patty Young.
In all of my business classes, I always have a data collection lesson dealing with whatever topic we are discussing at the time.
Instead of using software (ie. SurveyMonkey or Google Forms) to analyze the data, we thought it would be beneficial for the students to understand how to dissect the findings themselves.
This lesson has been created to enforce math concepts learned in Algebra.