We have written, evaluated, and will be revising our Career Reports.
What is one thing that you learned while reading other students reports? What will you or did you change about your report from other student comments? Has writing the report helped you decide what you want to do in the future? If you could change the assignment in one way how would you change it? When you post comments for other students - post for those that you read a report on and give them advice or comments in regards to their reports.
Katie Bohler
4/18/2011 07:36:36 am
I have learned that a lot of careers are very different but the all require one thing. Education. Yeah I know sound like a parent or a teacher but its always been true. Also I learned from, I think, David's report that a car body worker person (sorry forgot the name of it David!) makes like $80,000(?) a year. While the guy who works on the engine and the under carriage makes like twice that amount! its totally makes sense because the inside guy would make more because if the car has something wrong with it he has to take off parts and figure out what's wrong then he has to put it all back together. While the other guy basically just cleans up the outside like scratches and broken mirrors and windshields. Not that he works any less hard than the first guy. (Again sorry David that i forgot the names of the positions!!)
Mackie Monahan
4/18/2011 11:36:43 am
Mackie Monahan
4/18/2011 12:02:43 pm
Max-
Mackie Monahan
4/18/2011 12:05:25 pm
Maria-
Tyler McGreevy
4/19/2011 11:59:46 am
I learned a lot about the jobs they picked, and some of them were kind of interesting. Lot of the students told me that I needed a little more information, and so I added some information, and I think it’s a good report now. My report gave me some ideas but I’m still not interested in anything yet. One way I would change it would be to go on a lot of field trips, and learn about a lot of jobs that could interest you. It was pretty interesting when I read some of my class mate’s reports. I thought some of the jobs that they picked would fit them really good.
Tyler McGreevy
4/19/2011 12:07:15 pm
Evan Wolf- I thought your report was really good but you needed to put your name, Mrs. Millers name, Business lab, and date on the left side. I also thought you needed to fix some of your wording.
Tyler McGreevy
4/19/2011 12:10:16 pm
David- your report was really good but you just needed to fix some of your wording.
Katie Bohler
4/20/2011 01:52:27 am
Kelli! You're report was really good! But remember that there are different spellings for there. Like... There, Their, They're. I'm not trying to be mean hun. It was just something I noticed.
Emma Woodland
4/20/2011 07:42:27 am
I have learned that writing reports does not come as easily to some people as to others. And I guess what I am trying to say is that some people can make their reports flow, and have energy, and be really interesting. Where as other people they don’t necessarily have that same flow. I know my reports are kind of sloppy but getting the chance to read other peoples has helped me understand what kind of things make it flow. Like for instance not always using the same words to start a sentence, or repeating yourself too often. I think that the report writing has also helped me kind of understand what I might want to do when I grow up. Whether the pay is good and what kind of education I would need for that certain job. I don’t think I would change the assignment at all. I think that the way it is makes it simple and understandable. And if you try to change it too much it just makes things a whole lot more complicated.
Emma Woodland
4/20/2011 07:42:43 am
Esther- I liked how you wrote your report. There were some spots where I didn’t understand. But all in all it was a very good report.
Emma Woodland
4/20/2011 07:43:00 am
Shelby- I think that you could have used a little bit more of compare and contrast. And possibly have some more solid information on pastors. But overall it wasn’t a bad report.
Max C. Ruchert
4/20/2011 08:22:33 am
I learned a little from other students reports such as: What jobs they are interested in, How much they knew or how much they looked up, and how interested they were on the two careers. I had to change a couple things about my report. This includes putting the right style of heading on it, and indenting my paragraphs. This report hasn’t really changed my mind about what I want to do when I am older because my future job was not one of the two jobs I chose to do. This is because someone else chose that job before me and I found out that she wasn’t even interested in doing that job in the future. I would change the part where we had to have a Work Cited because I could not get the Internet to work and as a result I could not look up the sites and get the information needed for my Work Cited.
Max C. Ruchert
4/20/2011 08:24:27 am
Emma, i agree to some people writing a report is hard. And it is the Digitools class were we learn those skills.
Max C. Ruchert
4/20/2011 08:26:13 am
Torrie, I didn't see anything wrong with your report. But there were some spelling an grammar errors that you need to look at.
Cody LaMunyan
4/21/2011 12:59:55 am
One thing that I learned when I was reading other peoples’ reports is that we all have different ideas about our careers and how to write a report. I changed some paragraphs, added a paragraph, made some grammar changes, and fixed my work-cited page. This report has helped me make a decision in the future because I know the annual salary, working conditions, and the skills needed. I would change the careers from two or to three careers just for more choices.
Cody LaMunyan
4/21/2011 01:01:13 am
Max- You had a couple grammar errors and your heading was wrong, other than that it was pretty good report.
Cody LaMunyan
4/21/2011 01:04:07 am
Tori- your report was very good. There were only a couple of spelling and grammar errors.
Esther Scoggin
4/21/2011 01:14:03 am
Cody- you had a great report. However you could have mingled your careers better. Also you could have had more white space to make it easier to read. All in all, I really liked your report.
Esther Scoggin
4/21/2011 01:14:24 am
Shelby- Your report could use a little work. I think you have good information, but you could have put it in more paragraphs to give you a bigger report. I think that you could put each of the five factors in their own paragraph. But you did have good content.
Taylor Lewis
4/21/2011 04:21:13 am
Max - I thought you had a really good report. The only big thing I would include next time is a heading. Good Job on the report!!!
Taylor Lewis
4/21/2011 04:24:10 am
Wyatt - I like your report. You had enough information to meet the requirements, but you need to work on your formatting and a couple grammar and spelling errors. Other then that I thought you did a decent job on the report. Great report!!!
Taylor Lewis
4/21/2011 04:27:19 am
One thing I learned from reading other peoples reports is that jobs can require some of the same education, but can be very different. Like in my report I chose two jobs that require math. One of the jobs works completely inside or in a shop and the other works both inside and outside.
Harley M. Diener
4/21/2011 05:14:39 am
:P Hmm.. I think I learned a little about the person as I read their report. It demonstrated showed what kind of career they want to get into, and for some reports, their dream jobs were shocking. I wouldn’t have expected some of the answers that were in their career report. I changed mostly just the wording of a couple sentences. I had at least five people read mine and they all mostly liked it. I had to change my heading because it was in the wrong place haha. Yes, this activity helped me come to the conclusion that I want to open my own bakery. I might even do photography on the side! I think this assignment was well thought out in the aspects, but I think she should encourage the people to be more personal with this report. I mean heck! This has to do with you future and how you want to lead it people! </:3 That’s all I have to say about the reports. So peace!
Kelli
4/21/2011 05:16:08 am
While I was reading other students reports I learned a lot of stuff really I learned about different careers and what education u need and what it pays. The people that I corrected I thought did very well on there reports. According to the people that corrected mine they all said I did good, but the only thing I was missing was the heading and also I got to watch what there I use. I don’t like that word there’s to many spellings for it. Well it kind of helped me decide what I want to do when I’m older but I still am not sure because I really love animals but I also love working with little kids. There nothing I can think of to change this assignment.
Harley M. Diener
4/21/2011 05:17:43 am
No offence to you Shelby, but when I first read yours, I wasn’t very impressed. It seemed kind of like you didn’t care about the jobs that you were talking about. Over all I think you improved it nicely. So.. Good Job! :3
Kelli
4/21/2011 05:18:01 am
Kayla- you did really good on your report in my opinion.
Harley M. Diener
4/21/2011 05:19:45 am
Kelcey, I liked how you talked about your job. You made it sound interesting and I could tell you want those jobs. Loved reading it! ;)
Esther Scoggin
4/21/2011 05:20:08 am
One major thing I learned by reading others reports is that just about anything is a career. I never thought about some of the careers. I would have never even thought of being a chiropractor. (That’s one of Cody’s careers)
Torrie
4/21/2011 06:01:00 am
I learned it’s very important to list your resources and do the simple things right. For example format and spelling these are two very simple things that can make you loose a lot of points quickly. To change my report I fixed the punctuation and spelling of words and reworded the report to make it more understandable and interesting. Yes writing this report made me realize I really don’t want to be a vet but I do want to be a speech pathologist. To change this assignment I would just have students write about both and tell which one they prefer instead of comparing and contrasting them.
Torrie
4/21/2011 06:04:15 am
Mackie - I really enjoyed your report because you made it very clear and easy to understand. You made it interesting and clearly stated each career and how you felt about it. So GOOD JOB! :)
Torrie
4/21/2011 06:06:27 am
Emma – I liked your report a lot however the only thing you needed to improve on was your compare and contrast and it was a little choppy but it was so interesting and I think you will excel at either of the jobs you chose! So I think you will get a good grade on your report because you seemed really passionate about each one.
Evan Wolf
4/21/2011 06:11:58 am
In our class we are doing reports so what I learn from reading other peoples reports are that every one has there own ideas and sometimes they like keeping there own ideas to them self and sometimes they like changing it to your ideas. I personally did not learn a lot from these report that we read for the different people in our class. Writing this report has made me wont to do this career more then before I did the report on farm equipment mechanics. I would not change the assignment one bit because I like the way it is and I think Mrs. Miller did a good job on making this assignment for use because it teaches use to look more into the career we want to do and makes use realize what is out there to choose from.
McKenzie Uto
4/21/2011 11:10:38 am
Reading other people’s reports showed me things I could improve on. One thing I learned was how to make things flow better in my report, Maria had an awesome report that helped me with the flow of my report, and it gave me ideas on how to write something that had good transition. I changed my grammar and I also tried to work on my flow between subjects.
McKenzie Uto
4/21/2011 11:16:40 am
Mackie, I read yours and I thought you wrote a great report, you didn't really have anything that needed a lot of improvement, you got all your information and made it flow very well. Really the only thing I can say is just make sure to format your work cited correctly.
McKenzie Uto
4/21/2011 11:20:03 am
Maria, I don't really have anything to say as far as improvement except make sure your work cited is formatted correctly. I learned a lot from reading your report, it was so organized. It was a great example of a report that was interesting and organized!
Katlyn McClain
4/21/2011 02:07:25 pm
I learned many things from the reports I read. I learned that most careers are the same but yet different in many ways. But now that I’m writing for the blog I can’t remember anything I learned from the reports because they weren’t jobs that I was really interested in. I made some spelling, grammarcal, and formatting changes. No writing the report didn’t help me chose what I want to do for my career. There are too many to choose from right now but I know that I want to be in the medical field or in the entertainment business. I’ve always wanted to do one of the two since I was a little girl I remember wanting to be a singer or a doctor then I would change my mind and choose something else in the two categories. The only change I would make was to have the resources be simpler and have had my report submitted in time for it to count.
Katlyn McClain
4/21/2011 02:20:56 pm
Torrie – I love your idea of having the students write which of the two careers they would like to actually do for a career one day maybe. I completely agree about losing points on spelling and wording of the report cause if it sounds weird or if it doesn’t run smoothly then they will doc you points. I haven’t ever been really good at spelling so without the spell check I would be out of luck. It’s so cool that you wanna be a Speech Pathologist. Don’t the Speech Pathologists observe and test kids with special speaking problems and try to understand how their brains work when they are speaking the way they do?
Katlyn McClain
4/21/2011 02:39:26 pm
Harley M. Diener – I didn’t get to read your report and now I’m curious about it. I would love to go to your bakery and see the photos you take. Just tell me were the bakery is and I’ll be there as fast as I can be. =) I agree with you saying that we should have been able to choose what career we wanted to do that actually interested us because it is more personal and more interesting to us. So we would be able to write excitedly or happily about the report instead of being being less entertained by the two jobs we had to choose. I love how you say your personal opinion and make sure that it isn’t rude. =) I was also shocked by some of the careers people wanted to do because I never even knew they like that kind of stuff. I <3 your post it’s amazing. =)
Maria Meyers
4/22/2011 05:30:35 am
When reading other students reports, I realized that pretty much every career had to have some sort of education, even though some were just High School Diplomas or GED’s. There aren’t a lot of full time careers you can pursue without finishing high school. I think this is a good thing because it gives students goals. When we have goals, we try harder. When we try harder, we are more successful.
Maria Meyers
4/22/2011 05:34:19 am
Harley-
Maria Meyers
4/22/2011 05:36:41 am
McKenzie-
Dustin Roosevelt
4/22/2011 07:41:49 am
What i learned when doing this report is that sometimes its not about how much money you can get out of doing a certain job is about if you like the job or not. even if that job that you do only pays 66,400 a year and you work for a garbage company. well hey if they like picking up garbage well then thumps up for them ya it might not be the best job for some people but someone has to do. so i think this helped figure out what kind of job would interest me.
Dustin Roosevelt
4/22/2011 07:48:42 am
Evan-
Dustin Roosevelt
4/22/2011 07:52:25 am
Katie Bohler-
Carol Entrup
4/22/2011 09:22:28 am
I learned many things by reading others reports. I learned about different careers and how similar and different they all are. In my report I would make it shorter. Many said that mine was wordy. The only thing I would change is the length. I didn't really choose what I wanted to be. The report, though, helped me narrow down my choices. I would change the assignment by not having us compare two jobs and just writing about our jobs.
Carol Entrup
4/22/2011 09:26:35 am
Maria Meyers- I also saw that many jobs require education of some sort. That's why education is important to me. This assignment didn't really help me either.
Carol Entrup
4/22/2011 09:30:47 am
McKenzie Uto- Reading other peoples reports helped me with mine too. I would have liked to actually get to pick a more selective pick. I think you did a really good job!
Shelby Fuchs
4/22/2011 09:44:24 am
Well I learned that we all have very different ideas of what we want to do in the future. With my report I made it bigger and better able to read. At first I made it simple and to the point. I'm glad that we did it the way we did because I wouldn't have realized to make it more detailed. I felt bad when I read all the other reports because mine was so incorrect compared to the others. Yes it has helped me. It has gave me a better understanding of a biochemist. I have done several reports on a biochemist and each time I get more and more interested in it. I wouldn't want to change anything because the way we did it helped me so much on revising that it doesn't need to change any.
Shelby Fuchs
4/22/2011 09:46:48 am
Cody- I would honestly say that I think you would have gotten a good grade on just your rough draft. I am curios what your final report looks like because of the way you made your RF.
Shelby Fuchs
4/22/2011 09:52:54 am
HARLEY! Hey great job on your report. I think that the two you picked really suit you well. I can see you as a baker because your always calling and asking mom about baking. Also a photographer suits you because cameras and you make a good combo. Also you take good pictures like the moth pic a few years ago.
Consuelo Arteaga
4/22/2011 09:54:04 am
One thing that I have learned on reading other people's reports is how to word things better. I also have changed many things on my report. I have changed the words at the beginning of each paragraph into more exciting and interesting words. Writing this report has helped me a lot on deciding what to do for a career. I think that I would like to look into FBI more that I would like to look into nursing. If I could change anything from this assignment it would be making it into just one career where we can just tell you about it and have it in detail. All in all I think that writing these reports have helped me a lot.
Consuelo Arteaga
4/22/2011 09:57:02 am
Evan- I think that you did a very good job on your report. You explained everything right and had a lot of detail in it. One thing though is that you had a lot of trouble on wording things and spelling things. I noted on some of the words you messed up on.I hope that the tips that I gave you helped you on finishing up your report.
Consuelo Arteaga
4/22/2011 10:00:13 am
Tyler- I think your report was really good. Your career choices sounded very interesting. You had a little trouble with wording things right but with the rest of the report I think you did great. I gave you some tips on your report so I hope they helped you. Good job Tyler!
Kelcey
4/22/2011 10:06:47 am
Mackie,
Kelcey
4/22/2011 10:09:41 am
Katie McClain,
Kelcey
4/22/2011 01:56:47 pm
One thing that I learned from reading about the other students’ reports, is that every single career, whether it be a job at McDonalds, or a job working as a rocket scientist, needs some level of education.
Taylor R. Prince
4/22/2011 04:19:00 pm
I have really enjoyed reading, writing and evaluating others, as well as my own Career Report. One thing that I have learned while reading others reports is that we all have different opinions and we all want to have different careers. So, when reading these there were a couple things I could learn and take from theirs one being, trying not to make mine as long and trying not to make it boring or repetitive. I am still not sure what I want to be in the future, however, having to write this paper has made me think differently about these two careers and has shown me if I was truly as interested in them as I thought I was. Oh, and if I were asked to change one thing about this assignment I would say, nothing. I may not have enjoyed doing ALL the research but overall it wasn’t that bad at all and I feel I learned a great deal from it.
Taylor R. Prince
4/22/2011 04:33:58 pm
Tori –
Taylor R. Prince
4/22/2011 04:43:31 pm
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