Final Project: Family Life Simulation

Lessons for final project have been moved to a website:

WELCOME to the Beginning of the END:

We will be engaging in a Family Life Simulation. You will likely be paired with another classmate, and you will work together--as if you are a married couple.

Don't WORRY! it'll be a short life!

You and your partner are engaged, you are 26 years old and have completed you Bachelors Degree and are now working in your occupation of first choice (the one you wrote about from the Idaho CIS data). You are salaried, at the lowest salary reported in Idaho CIS, as is your soon-to-be "spouse". Your initial expenses are listed in Lesson #3, right now you are living with roommates to keep your expenses down. After all, you are both have just one year to save enough money to cover your Wedding Plan Budget.

Life moves quickly you will: Get married, Buy a car, Buy a House, Complete several budgets, Have a baby, and plan for your retirement.

So, the time has come for you to move on into your new virtual marriage, good luck! The directions are located at a website that I have developed. please "click" the Huskies BUTTON to begin. You can also reach the directions page through the WINKELMAN GATEWAY PAGE.

REMEMBER:  Of the numbered lessons (Chronological number in the title of the lesson) are lessons where you will need to post to your BLOG and submit that post through GOOGLE CLASSROOM (links are also on the WINKELMAN GATEWAY page.

Also, it is essential to keep an eye on your budget, creating a budget will help you determine your "Disposable Income" and you are going to need that; wedding, car, house, baby... is all adds up, and it is EXPENSIVE!

IMPORTANT: Each of you will provide an evaluation of your "Spouse" and their level of participation in the project. At which time, if you are very dissatisfied with the assistance provided by your "Spouse" you can seek an Annulment of the Marriage from the Courts.

In extreme cases of inadequate participation, the Judge may grant an Immediate Annulment to be effective immediately. Ladies and Gentlemen, manners matter, each of you should have high expectations of your "Spouse" to treat you and behave toward you in accordance of the "Manners "Matter" that we completed before this Project.

© ed-tek: Mark Winkelman 2017

#17. The Day You Were Told: "GROW UP!"

Everybody is so PROUD of YOU! Congratulations!

Everybody knew that it was eventually going to happen, that you were going to grow up, go to college, get a degree, meet an awesome girl, get a job, get an apartment, buy a car, plan a wedding, get married, find a new place for both of you, have children, raise your kids, go to work, and then eventually retire...I mean EVERYBODY knew that it was going to happen.

So why not just get it all
over with and do it NOW!

Please read the following articles and explore the links that are attached to them:

FOR THE MEN: Etiquette Tips for Men

FOR THE WOMEN: Etiquette Tips for Women

WHAT YOU MUST DO: 

• Create a POST in your BLOG. 
• TITLE: "Proper Manners for the Modern (Man / Woman). 
• WRITE down a complete list of proper manners. 
• Many will be in the links from the article.
• COPY and PASTE your LIST into an email, and send that list to your partner.
• COPY and PASTE your partners LIST into your POST
• At the TOP of their LIST give the LIST a TITLE:
• Etiquette by ________________ (partner's name)

REMEMBER: Really scour this article and the sub-articles through the links, you will NEED to have a complete list, so find them all!

FINALLY, At the end of your LIST write a review, write your review like you would an article in a newspaper, magazine, or BLOG. Discuss the importance of good manners, refer often to specific manners from your list. Or, which manners you think may no longer be applicable. Before completing your article, discuss the subject with your PARTNER, reflect on their opinion, what you agree with, what you might disagree with. Your partner is writing the same thing in their BLOG so this discussion will benefit both of you.

Introducing Your Final Project

PERSONAL FINANCE FINAL PROJECT
Comprehensive Assessment - Fall Semester 2017

Congratulations on your upcoming
wedding and marriage!
I am certain that you will be blessed
with a child very soon, as well!
I am so happy for you.

You and your partner will be starting a “Family Simulation” project for class.  Each couple will create a shared BLOG that is separate from the regular course lesson BLOG. Both will have "ADMIN" rights, so the BLOG will appear under each partner's BLOG list. the Project BLOG will contain daily posts on those days that the class meets. Some posts will have several documents to be posted. ALL documents created in this simulation will be EMBEDDED in the shared Project BLOG. It is then necessary to SHARE all documents where both partners have "EDIT" rights to the document. There will be SAMPLE documents in the direction, so that you may know the expectations for this simulation.

Within your Google DRIVE, you will create a Folder titled "Personal Finance Fall 2017". Within this Personal Finance folder you will need to create a folder for each of the below categories.  There will be many documents that you will be working on, so staying organized is essential to your success with the project.

Create folders with each of the following titles:

Planning a Wedding

Family Budget

Renting an Apartment

Buying a Vehicle

Selecting Insurance

Starting a Retirement Account

Having a Baby

Investments

All of the forms and templates that you will need will be provided for you through a link to shared documents from your instructor. This link will be provided in the direction post in the COURSE BLOG just as usual instruction for the course is provided. 

IMPORTANT: You MUST be logged into Google with your North Star Charter email address, or you access will be denied. 

When writing your summaries for each activity be certain to write each part consistently in the third person, as if you are telling a story about two people. When writing about one of your fictional character always use their first name never the word “I”.  Keep in mind, when you are talking about the entire family, you may use “we” or the word “our”.

#16 College or University Slide Presentation

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:

• In the previous lessons you selected THREE (3) occupations that you were interested in studying further. you were to have saved those three occupations to your CIS Portfolio in the Career Information Systems website, and then you wrote a report that included all three occupations.
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• Select ONE of the three occupations and go to that occupation's information page in CIS (remember the URL is in your Works Cited page of your report).
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• Follow the link "Course of Study"
• CREATE a SLIDE in Google Slides that outlines major courses that you would need to study for this occupation
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• Follow the link to either "In State" or "Out of State" colleges or universities
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• SELECT a college of university of your choice
• CREATE a SLIDE introducing the school to your audience
• CREATE a SLIDE on the city where the school is located
• CREATE a SLIDE on activities that are at the school (student life)
• CREATE a SLIDE on total costs for attending the school
• INTRODUCTION: A general description of the content of the paper
• Housing (Room and Board)
• Books
• Tuition
• TOTAL cost over four years
• CREATE a TITLE SLIDE for the entire presentation
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• Embed your slideshow in your BLOG

SAMPLE SLIDESHOW:
COMING SOON!

#15 Occupations Paper

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:

• In the previous lessons you selected THREE (3) occupations that you were interested in studying further. you were to have saved those three occupations to your CIS Portfolio in the Career Information Systems website.
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• Write a report in MLA format that details the following for each occupation:
• Describe duties and responsibilities
• Describe schooling, training, or course of study needed
• Describe salary and other opportunities that are potential with this career, including advancement into other positions or careers
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• Include a WORKS CITED page with the URL of the page for each occupation.
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• The final paper should include:
• HEADING: Name, Teacher, Class, Date
• TITLE: Centered following heading
• INTRODUCTION: A general description of the content of the paper
• SUBTITLE: for each occupation
• PARAGRAPHS: For each required item, under each occupation subtitle
• CONCLUSION: Summation of why you selected these occupations
• WORKS CITED: Simple version (see example)
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• EMBED the final paper in your BLOG

SAMPLE PAPER:

#11 through #14 Career Information Systems: Idaho CIS

Time to create your PORTFOLIO

A PORTFOLIO is like a profile.
Here is where you will save all the data you collect.
That data can be Personal Attribute Assessments,
results of study tools that help
determine needed salaries, lifestyle desires,
colleges and universities, and it will

even help you plan course schedules,
starting right now and all the way through
graduate school as well. NEED SCHOLARSHIP MONEY?
Idaho CIS can also help with that
Working alongside your school counselor
with using Idaho CIS in assistance
you can be more involved,

and more informed about the decisions being made regarding...

YOUR FUTURE!

Scroll down the page and Scan the content
Click on "LOGIN" link on the Career Information Systems TAB
Username: "Northstar1"
Click on password content box and enter "careers".

You will be creating your own personal Login,

so you will only need to use this login

information this one time. You will ALWAYS
login with your personal login, for future access.

Click on "Create my CIS Portfolio" and follow the directions.

ENTER CORRECT DATA in all fields, and CLICK on the button that says YES, I will allow my teacher to view my portfolio.

Once completed you will be returned to the HOME PAGE.

You may note, that you can change your portfolio avatar picture. Please do this.

What You Need to DO:

• FIRST, Edit your Portfolio Avatar.

• CLICK on VIEW under GET STARTED:
• READ "Create a Portfolio" no need to CLICK on it as you have already completed this.
• READ  "Career Plan" when finished CLICK on "Go to Career Plan"
• READ "What is a Career Plan"
• CLICK on the BLUE TAB "Getting Started"
• READ "Getting Started" when finished click on "Know Myself" in the left side menu in RED text.

• KNOW MYSELF (There are several separate assignment here, however, you will post all your responses in the same POST in your BLOG)
• READ "Know Myself" <DO NOT CLICK ON THE DOCUMENT LINKS>
• CLICK on the link "Reality Check" complete the assessment at the end be sure to take a screen shot of the results; and also, CLICK "Save to Portfolio" or "Save" and also add you personal comments when you consider the results.
• CLICK on the link "Career Cluster Inventory" complete the assessment at the end be sure to take a screen shot of the results; and also, CLICK "Save to Portfolio" or "Save" and also add you personal comments when you consider the results, in these comments select THREE occupations that have your interest, and write them into your comments.
• CLICK on the link "Occupations", look up each occupations from above and read and explore the content for each as well; and also, CLICK "Save to Portfolio" or "Save" for EACH occupation that you find you have interest in, also, add you personal comments when you consider the results.

• Take another screen shot of your Portfolio. It should contain the following saved items:
• Reality Check 
• Career Cluster Inventory
• Occupation One
• Occupation Two (included with one)
• Occupations Three (included with one)
• Other Occupations that you also saved

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:

• CREATE FOUR SINGLE POST in your BLOG that have all of the following:
• TITLE: "Reality Check: Career Information Systems of Idaho"
• Screen Shot of the Reality Check (10 points)
• TITLE: "Reality Check: Career Information Systems of Idaho"
• Screen Shot of the Career Cluster Inventory (10 points)
• Screen Shot of Three Occupations that you have interest in from the top three Career Clusters (10 points)
• Answers to Questions on the "Know Myself" page that are following the above links.  (10 points)
• From the HOME menu -- Hover over PLAN -- Move and Click on "Getting Started" under "How to Build a Career Plan" -- Move and Click on "Know Myself" at the top of the left column.
• Your answers can be just typed into the POST or COPIED from the PAGE

How to Make a ScreenShot

TAKE A SCREENSHOT?

What's a SCREENSHOT?

As you may know that on your cell-phone you have the ability to take a picture of what is on your screen--this is called a SCREENSHOT or a SCREEN CAPTURE.

Back in the olden days of computers, you often needed to print what was on your screen so that you could go back and look at it later. So a BUTTON was put on the keyboard called "PRTSCR".

Today, that button no longer will send what is on your screen to the PRINTER--but now it takes a PIC of your SCREEN and puts the image on the CLIPBOARD. From there you can PASTE the image anywhere that you want it.

I usually PASTE it into PAINT so that I can CROP the image to the part that I am most interested in. Here's a video of how this is done.

THIS IS HOW TO DO 
THIS LESSON ON A PC or LAPTOP

STEPS to TAKE for a CHROMEBOOK

1. Make sure that what you want to be in the SCREEN CAPTURE is on your screen.
2. Hold down the "CTRL" key and Press the key at the top of the keyboard press the "reduce frames" key
   like this: 
   
3. Now open your BLOG and CREATE a new POST
4. Title your POST "Internet Screen Shot"
5. In the BODY of your post select the "insert picture". CLICK on the "choose files" button and then SEARCH for the image to upload--the SCREEN SHOT that you took will be found as a JPG file in your DOWNLOADS folder.
6. Once the image of your SCREEN SHOT uploads, CLICK on it to select it and then CLICK open.
7. The image is now in your POST. CLICK on the image and select X-LARGE to make it fit the entire width of the post.
8. CLICK "publish"--You're Done!