Office Mix allows you to turn your PowerPoints into
interactive online lessons or presentations. You the ability to record audio, video, and handwriting, and
insert interactive elements like quizzes.
Once your presentation is ready just click “Create Mix.” Your presentation is then turned into an interactive document. From there, just share the link, and your students can watch it on just about any device with a web browser. You can then check student progress online and see who watched the presentation, and how they did on your quizzes. |
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Office Sway is a presentation web app part of the Microsoft Office family of products. Sway allows users to combine text and media to create a presentable website. Users can pull content locally from the device in use, or from internet sources such as Bing, OneDrive, YouTube, and Facebook. Sway works any any device through the web browser or it is an app in the Microsoft Store.
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Career Portfolio - OneNote |
Workplace Ethics |
A career portfolio is a visual representation of one's abilities, skills, capabilities, knowledge, qualities - and it represents potential. Physically, it's a collection of things - tangible materials - that represent work-related events in one's life. The portfolio provides "evidence" of a students potential by demonstrating what they accomplished in the past. The Huntley Project CTE Department is using OneNote to have students complete their Career Portfolios. Link to Student Portfolio.
Rubric for Student Portfolio |
good work ethic tells future employers what they might expect from someone on the job. But did you know it can also set you up for success? A good work ethic can be the determining factor in just how well you’ll do in school –and in life. You can use this rubric weekly, bi-quarterly or quarterly to help your students understand and develop good work ethic.
Free Employability Curriculum Huntley Project Work Ethics Rubric |
Financial Literacy
- Foundations in Personal Finance: Dave Ramsey—author, talk show host and personal finance expert—has a simple message for people who want to change their financial lives: It will be hard work, but it will be worth it! No matter where you are in your Total Money Makeover, we're here to help you take that next step. The curriculum is taught on videos by Ramsey and his daughter, Rachel Cruze, to teach students how to avoid debt like the plague, budget with intention, invest and build wealth so they can live like no one else.
- Practical Money Skills for Life: Financial literacy curriculum for 9 – 12 graders features engaging design, student-centered activities, research projects, discussion points, and tools and resources–all designed to engage students in learning the personal finance skills they need to succeed in life after high school. Educators can use the 22 free, standards-aligned lessons in sequence or on an individual basis. Download the curriculum or get the free iBook for iPads on iTunes.
- Money Instructor: Free lesson plans and personal finance activities
- Core Concept Cards: Free teacher resources by the Federal Reserve
- The Mint: Hands-on activities, expert advice and creative ideas for learning how to navigate the financial world.
Record and analyze financial information for student projects. Over 5 million people use Mint. Has app for handheld devices. - Hands on Banking: The Hands on Banking online financial courses include free instructor guides with classroom lessons and activities that will help you guide students through real-life scenarios, group discussions, and other activities designed to teach valuable money management skills and help them take control of their finances. All without endorsements or commercials.
- Jump $tart: Jump$tart is a national coalition of organizations dedicated to improving the financial literacy of pre-kindergarten through college-age youth by providing advocacy, research, standards and educational resources. Jump$tart strives to prepare youth for life-long successful financial decision-making.
- The BetterMoneyHabits.com site contains resources and videos relating the topics of using credit, home buying, and saving & budgeting.
Tech Tools
ZoomIt
ZoomIt is an excellent free presentation tool for the classroom that allows instructors to quickly zoom items, draw on screens, and quickly display a break or activity timer without the need for interactive display or annoying toolbars on your desktop. This program runs in the Windows tray leaving it out of sight until needed. Works on all Windows machine including Windows 8 & 10.
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SMART Maestro
For those using SMART® Interactive Boards with SMART® Notebook Software, this Add-In is a must have for iPad users and makes the old AirLiners and CPS Chalkboards obsolete! Users can finally have the mobility of controlling and writing on their interactive display with being tied to the front of the classroom.
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ClassFlow
ClassFlow is cloud-based teaching software designed to make lesson preparation easier and lesson delivery more dynamic. It is a tool for more engagement by providing interactive and collaborative use of classroom devices, digital curriculum and assessments for learning. For Promethean ActivInspire users, you can push your lessons out to most any device with ClassFlow.
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TouchCast
Entrepreneurship/Business Management/Finances
The Men Who Built America
Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford are names synonymous with innovation and big business in America. They all built empires and created advances in technology. They helped shape the country in its early days by doing things such as developing the models for modern railroads, creating the modern financial system and making cars accessible to the masses. The men came from meager beginnings to build their respective empires, which helped formulate the concept of the American Dream. This series profiles the lives of these early visionaries and includes perspectives from such modern business icons as Mark Cuban, Alan Greenspan, T. Boone Pickens and Jack Welch. This video series is a great resource for any Entrepreneurship or Business Management class.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford are names synonymous with innovation and big business in America. They all built empires and created advances in technology. They helped shape the country in its early days by doing things such as developing the models for modern railroads, creating the modern financial system and making cars accessible to the masses. The men came from meager beginnings to build their respective empires, which helped formulate the concept of the American Dream. This series profiles the lives of these early visionaries and includes perspectives from such modern business icons as Mark Cuban, Alan Greenspan, T. Boone Pickens and Jack Welch. This video series is a great resource for any Entrepreneurship or Business Management class.
America's Financial Educator through the use of movie clips.
Peter Bielagus, America's Financial Educator.For almost a decade now, Peter, CEO of Wealth Educators International, has been criss crossing the world, speaking with groups about how to secure their own financial future. Everyone can benefit from sound financial planning and Peter engages audiences of all backgrounds in ways to help them.He has helped tens of thousands of individuals, from high schools and colleges, to the United States Military, to teachers and professionals, dramatically improve their financial knowledge.
Peter Bielagus, America's Financial Educator.For almost a decade now, Peter, CEO of Wealth Educators International, has been criss crossing the world, speaking with groups about how to secure their own financial future. Everyone can benefit from sound financial planning and Peter engages audiences of all backgrounds in ways to help them.He has helped tens of thousands of individuals, from high schools and colleges, to the United States Military, to teachers and professionals, dramatically improve their financial knowledge.