Tech Yes | Week 1 9 th Grade

What is TechYES?  In the future, you’ll need to use and understand different kinds of technology for work and school -- going beyond just texting and adding hashtags to your latest selfie  TechYES is an opportunity for you to learn, explore, build, communicate, and design with technology  The goal is for you to build your skills with technology  You’ll be completing a college/career project this year in Advisory and a science project in MedSci 9  STLs (Student Tech Leaders) are available to help you

Project Introduction  Over the next 10 weeks you will be creating a digital project about your college/career path

Your Job: promote a certain job or career path using social media

What would you like to be?  You must  choose and research a career or career field you might be interested in pursuing  create one major advertising tool (60-90 sec youtube commercial, digital poster or flyer) to promote your career or job field  create one social media tool (e.g. Instagram, Vine, Facebook, Twitter) to help recruit new employees for your chosen job or job field

What you get out of the project  a realistic view of what you have do now to get the future you want  more involvement in planning your own future  an understanding of how your current choices and life situations affect you later  an opportunity to be creative and learn through social media  a chance to use technology in new ways

When will I work on this?  Advisory MONDAY and FRIDAY  if you are late or absent, you are still responsible for deadlines  you may continue to work on this project before or after school (work documents will be available online)

Major Deadlines (due by 5pm)  Record these in your agenda!  Friday, Week 1 (1/31) – project brainstorm due  Friday, Week 2 (2/7) – project plan due in TechYES site  Friday, Week 4 (2/21) – project organizer due to STL  Friday, Week 6 (3/7) – complete draft due  Friday, Week 8 (3/21) – final draft due

Today – Monday [15 min]  Begin brainstorming what you might want your project to be  In a new GoogleDoc, answer the following questions in complete sentences: 1. What career are you interested in researching? 2. Where can you find information about that career? 3. Which medium (YouTube, poster, Twitter, etc) would you want to use to do this project? Why did you choose that medium? 4. What do you think you will need help with?  Naming Protocol: Last Name, First Name Brainstorm  ex: Wolf, Joe Brainstorm  Due Friday

Today – Monday [10 min]  Introducing your STL  Creating a shared folder in Google Drive  Name your folder: Last name, First Name TechYES  ex: Wolf, Joe TechYES  Share with: STL (+ Advisory teacher?)  Add your brainstorming document to this shared folder

Today – Friday [20 min]  Registering for the TechYES site  hsahs.techyes.org  bookmark this site. we will use it often.

Today – Friday  Additional time? Finish answering your brainstorm questions