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Ideal Career WebQuest

Your Ideal Career

Introduction
We have spent some time this semester thinking about what we would like to do for a career.  Early on we printed a few jobs from Oregon CIS, and we thought about what type of careers matched up well with our skills.  Now we are going to take the next step in the process by actually researching a career.  At this point I hope that you have a few careers in mind, but if you have yet to come to a decision, then the time is now.  One of the expectations for your final project is to discuss your career choices.

Step One -Log into DDHS Pages
You will be creating a web page based on your ideal career.  In order to create this web page you will need to log into your account.  Here are the steps for logging into DDHS Pages and creating a new web page.
  1. Hold down the control key and click on this LINK 
  2. Click on "Open Link In New Tab"
  3. Now you have created a new tab with the DDHS Pages log in screen
  4. Enter your username and password (User=Grad Year+Last Name+ First Name / Password= Student ID)
    1. Example 93kellergreg  
  5. Once you have logged in you will be creating a new web page by clicking on this button
  6. You will want to create a new "web page"  
  7. Name your page "My Ideal Career" and put it on the "top level"
  8. Now you will need the information for your ideal career, so please start working on step two below.

Step Two -Finding your career
You will be logging into Oregon CIS today in order to find a career.  This is something that you have done several times this semester, but here are the steps.
  1. Hold down the control key and click on this LINK 
  2. Click on "Open Link In New Tab"
  3. Now you have created a new tab with the Oregon CIS log in screen
  4. You will log in using the following information.  Username: ddouglas Password:ddhs
  5. Now that you are logged in to Oregon CIS you will need to select an occupation using the "Occupation" Section
  6. Once you are in the occupations section you will need to find a career that you are interested in.  The careers are all listed in alphabetical order.
  7. Once you have selected a career you are ready for step three
Step Three -Finding and information
Now that you have picked a career to research, you will be gathering some information about the job.  In addition you will be answering some questions, and all of the information will be put on your "My Ideal Career" web page.  You will be using the following sections from your career to do the research:  Overview, Specific Work Activities, Working Conditions, Skills & Abilities, Helpful high school courses, Wages, and Resources.
  1. You will create a section on your "My Ideal Career" web page for all of the following categories.  Overview, Specific Work Activities, Working Conditions, Skills & Abilities, Helpful high school courses, Wages, and Resources.
  2. You will be using copy and paste for some of the information, but you will not be copying the entire page.
  3. Move to step four
Step four -Questions for each section
Please answer the following questions for each section
  1. Overview
    1. Please write a summary of the overview to start your page.
  2. Specific Work Activities
    1. Read through the activities and identify pros and cons
    2. Make a list on your web page of the pros and cons (you can copy and paste them)
    3. Copy & paste this question to your site and answer it
      1. Which of these activities do you think you will most enjoy, explain your answer
      2. Which of these activities do you think you will least enjoy, explain your answer
  3. Working Conditions
    1. Read through the working conditions and identify pros and cons
    2. Make a list on your web page of the pros and cons (you can copy and paste them)
    3. Copy & paste this question to your site and answer it
      1. Which of these conditions do you think you will most enjoy, explain your answer
      2. Which of these activities do you think you will least enjoy, explain your answer
  4. Skills & Abilities
    1. Read through the skills & abilites and identify pros and cons
    2. Make a list on your web page of the pros and cons (you can copy and paste them)
    3. Copy & paste this question to your site and answer it
      1. Which of these skills & abilities do you think you will most enjoy, explain your answer
      2. Which of these skills & abilities do you think you will least enjoy, explain your answer
  5. Helpful High School Courses
    1. Read through the helpful high school courses and identify pros and cons
    2. Make a list on your web page of the pros and cons (you can copy and paste them)
    3. Copy & paste this question to your site and answer it
      1. Which of these helpful high school courses do you think you will most enjoy, explain your answer
      2. Which of these helpful high school courses do you think you will least enjoy, explain your answer
  6. Wages
    1. Please copy and paste all of the wages information into your page.
    2. Copy & paste this question to your site and answer it
      1. Do you think these wages will support your lifestyle.
  7. Resources
    1. Please create a page that outlines the different resources for your ideal career.
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