One of the technologies that qualify as an online experience and could be used with my students is Career Cruising (www.careercruising.com) which is under the section of career planning tools. I have actually already used this website with 8th graders while teaching an exploratory class about careers. In this course we introduced students to many different careers and to exploring their interests and personality traits that would benefit them for certain careers. Career Cruising was a great website to use for this class because it starts out by having students take a personal interest test. After the test was taken, the program would use each student’s results to give them a list of jobs that matched their interests. Finally, students could explore these careers to find out which ones they were interested in. Using Career Cruising, students can compile materials and keep track of their EDPs (Educational Development Plan) online.
The pedagogical strategies that I used with Career Cruising were to have students look over their results from the interest inventory and choose their three top careers from Career Cruising’s generated list. Students would then have to do research about each of the jobs they chose and list the pros and cons of each to eventually choose their top choice that they will complete a report on at the end of the class.
The technologies that would be harder to use with my students are any type of Interactive Discussion like podcasts and video conferencing. I think these would be more difficult to use in my classroom because it would be hard to find time to fit this type of program into a lesson and it would be hard to tie it into the curriculum.
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