Career Project

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Career Project

Career Research Assignment

Name: Ezeekyal Trepanier Block:________ Date:________ (2 marks)

Instructions

1. Save this template on you Computer - "Career_Research_Assignment"

2. Complete this assignment on the computer and posted on your Blog.

Completing this assignment will provide evidence and 10 marks towards your Portfolio. See Last page.

To help you figure out which career you would like to pursue after high school you will complete a Career Research Assignment. This will help you plan possible education and career paths.

Part A.

Choose two Focus Areas ONLY IN INFORMATION/ COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

you would like to research potential careers from. Name the focus areas and two possible career choices for each focus area. Use one of the links above to help you decide on the Focus Area and potential careers. These choices are a best guess. (6 marks)

Focus Area

Career Choice

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Part B.

Now to make informed choices. To help you get started on your career research, go to

http://www.educationplanner.ca/

http://odc.scdsb.on.ca/Departments/Co-op/links.htm

Pick one to research – Make sure it is of interest to you!

My career to research is:_________________________(1 mark)

Complete the following questions in complete sentences. (Do Not Cut and Paste)

1. Job Description: brief description of job, any personality traits that are helpful, and special skills needed. ( 5 marks)

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2. Working Conditions: the usual hours of work (shift, overtime, weekends etc), are there any age, gender, or physical requirements? Physical layout of the workplace (office, outside etc.) Hazards or risks of the job. ( 5 marks)

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2. Wages and Earnings: is it salary? Do you get paid overtime? What is the starting wage? Top wage? Average wage? Future wages? Any benefits such as extended medical, dental, insurance etc? ( 5 marks)

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3. Career Path: Where do you begin in this career? How do you move up? What is the outlook at present? What are the different levels? How are they different? ( 5 marks)

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4. Education and Training Requirements: describe the education/training or work experience required for this occupation. Include the type of education, length of training, and cost of training. Do you need special licenses or certificates? Does the work involve technology? ( 5 marks)

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Part C

Identify two post secondary institutions/training schools or on the job training opportunities where you could develop the skills and knowledge required to gain employment in your chosen career. Give a brief description of each one. Use either Education Planner or Career Cruising. Use complete sentences. (Do not cut and paste)

Sample Answer

Post secondary Institution/training location

i.e. University of Victoria

Name of program

Bachelor of Education-focus in Social Studies

Brief Description

This is a five year degree program where I will specialize in teaching at the secondary level, it will also include a practicum.

Why I want to learn/train here

I think I would like to stay close to home so that I can live at my parents, and save money by not paying rent. Also this school does not have tones of students, so hopefully the classes will not be too big. When I graduate I think that I would like to teach in Victoria, so it seems logical to complete my education here.

Post secondary #1 (5 marks)

Post secondary Institution location

Name of program

Brief Description

Why I want to learn/train here

Post secondary #2 (5 marks)

Post secondary Institution location

Name of program

Brief Description

Why I want to learn/train here

Part D Education Path: identify the courses SJC offers that best fit you focus area/career choice. List 5 possible electives that you would consider taking in grades 11 & 12. (5 marks)

Electives 1._______________________ Grade ____________

2._______________________ Grade ____________

3._______________________ Grade ____________

4._______________________ Grade ____________

5._______________________ Grade ____________

Part E Work Experience/Volunteer Experiences/External Courses

Often you have performed valuable skills that assist you in pursuing your chosen career. Briefly describe two community programs or projects that you could be involved in to gain additional skills or experience related to your career choice. (4 marks)

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H. Bibliography (5 marks)

Create a bibliography, using the proper format, to record where you collected you information from. You must include you source other than an internet website. Your bibliography should be typed and then attached to your project.

CD Cover Project Proposal

Original Album Cover

I plan to design my own new creative cover for this album. I will create a scene of a gun in the air with a white flag attached to it.

Journal Week 18

Monday
- Went to BallMedia.com to find templates for CD Cover Project
- Picked a CD to use for Project: New Surrender, Anberlin
- Started to work on CD Cover Project
Tuesday
- SNOW DAY
Wednesday
- Worked on CD Cover Project
- Posted Project Plan
- Found a font for CD Artwork
Thursday
- Finished front cover
- Started back cover
- Mr. D talked to us for a bit
Friday
-Worked on CD Cover project
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Web Page BrainStorm

Journal Week 17

Monday
- Mr. D taught us about the difference between Mac and PC
- I finished the Main Page of my Website
- I works on my "About Us" and "Locations" Pages
Tuesday
- We did the Final Flash Project Test
http://www.lanoie.com/classes/Flash/Toolbox/questions.html
Wednesday
- We wrote the Final Written Test
- I worked more on my Webpage
- I showed Chad what he missed
Thursday
- We watched "Inception"
- I worked on my Webpage
- I finished my Website completely
Friday
- AWAY

DreamWeaver Note

What is WYSIWYG?
What You See Is What You Get

What Are 3 Reasons to use DreamWeaver?
Speed, Convenience, and Organization.

Besides a WYSIWYG editor, what other kinda of editor does DreamWeaver have?
An HTML code editor.

What does FTP stand for?
File Transfer Protocol.

Why is having FTP capability in DreamWeaver convenient?
You don't have to use a separate FTP program.

What are the main steps in the DreamWeaver web design process?
Defining a Site, Creating Templates, Content Creation, Publishing.

What is a "Site" in DreamWeaver?
The folder that contains your Website and all its files.

What does a template allow you to do?
Create one master page that other pages are based on.

What does DreamWeaver do with HTML code unless you tell it otherwise?
Rewrites it.

After you change your preferences, how are errors presented?
Highlighted in Yellow.

What happens when you press F12 in DreamWeaver?
It opens up whatever Browser is your default browser, and previews the web page you are working on.

Video Production Note

1. Charge-Coupled Devices (CCD) change light and colour into electrical signals.
2. A Tripod is a tree-legged device used to hold the camera steady during shooting.
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5. Both monitors and television receivers display images by shooting electrons from the back of the video tube.
6. A TV changes electrical signals back into pictures.
7. The electron gun is inside a Video Monitor
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9. The microphone picks up the sound and turns it into electrical signals.
10. Correct production sequence:
11. The actual shooting of the video takes place during the production phase.
12. The Script is written early in the pre-production.
13. Who is not on the production crew? Advertising Sponsor
14. Who is most involved in pre-production? Video Editor
15. Editing happens during the post-production phase.
16. Music and sound effects are added during the Post-Production phase of a video.
17. The design Brief
18. The people who will watch the program are the audience.
19. The people who play in the movie are the talent.
20. The producer takes care of the budget for a video production.
24. A storyboard is a picture outline of everything that will be seen or heard on the video.
25. The first person to work on a video is the Director.

PhotoShop Questions #2

1. Name of the image, width, height, resolution, and the colour space or mode.
2. .psd
3. Because editing your images in 24-bit colour allows you to have a greater number of colours available which means the image is not as likely to lose colour information and appear lesser in quality.
4. The Magnification control is used to zoom in on a portion of an image and the Navigation controls allow you to move the preview of the magnified image around to see different parts of the image.
5. Double-clicking the Zoom tool automatically sets your image to 100% magnification.
6. Holding down the space bar makes the Hand tool available no matter which tool you are currently using.
7. The thumbnail image that appears in the History panel represents a snapshot of that image at a particular moment in time.
8. A record of all changes made to the image or snapshot.
9. The states below will disappear unless you have turned on 'Allow Non-Linear History'.
10. If you hold down the Alt (Option) key while clicking on the document information section, a pop-up window will display it.  
11. The Rasterize Generic EPS Format dialog will be displayed and you must set the width, height, resolution and colour mode you want to work in. Once you set these options and click OK, Photoshop will convert the vector image to pixels.   

Journal Week 16

Monday
- Brainstormed for Slogan for project
- Worked on Splash Page
- Worked on Main Page
Tuesday (MY BIRTHDAY)
- Today we had a Supply Teacher 
- Worked on Splash Page
- Finalized Slogan
Wednesday
- We took a note on PhotoShop again
- I worked more on my Splash Page
- I worked on my Main Page
Thursday
- I finished my Splash Page
- I worked on my Main Page
- I added a "Locations" and an "About Us" page
Friday
- We took a note on DreamWeaver
- I worked on my Main Page
- I worked on my "Locations" and an "About Us" page

TV Standard Note

Incompatible Broadcast Standards

A TV program produced in one country can't automatically be viewed in many other countries without converting it to a different technical standard. These technical differences relate to both incompatibilities in equipment and in the approach to broadcasting the audio and video signals.

Some 14 different SDTV  (standard definition) broadcast TV standards have been used at different times throughout the world. They can be reduced to three primary groups:

• NTSC (National Television System Committee)
• SECAM (Sequential Color and Memory)
• PAL (Phase Alternating Line)

Within these there are two major differences:

• the total number of horizontal lines in the picture (525 or 625 for standard definition or SDTV) and 1,125 and 1,250 for high-definition TV (HDTV)
   
• whether the transmission rate is 25 or 30 frames (complete pictures) per-second 

Aspect Ratios

Although the number of scanning lines may have varied, until recently all television systems had a 4:3 aspect ratio. The aspect ratio is the width-height proportion of the picture.

The 4:3 ratio (note red box in the photo on the right) was consistent with motion pictures that predated the wide screen aspect ratios used in CinemaScope, VistaVision, and Panavision. When the HDTV standard was introduced it also made use of this wider (generally, 16:9) aspect ratio.

In the picture here, the wider area (just inside the blue borders) represents the 16:9 ratio used in HDTV. Compared to the 4:3 ratio, this aspect ratio conforms to the wider perspective of normal human vision.


Major Microphone Designs

 There are six common microphone designs:

• hand held -- the type held by on-camera talent or used for on-location interviews
  
• personal mic (lavaliere / clip-on mic) -- Whether hung from a cord around the neck (lavaliere) or clipped to clothing, these are all referred to as personal mics.
  
• shotgun -- used for on-location production to pick up sounds a moderate distance from the camera
  
• boundary effect microphone -- also called PZ or PZM mics These rely primarily on reflected sounds from a hard surface such as a tabletop
  
• contact mics -- which pick up sound by being in direct physical contact with the sound source. These mics are generally mounted on musical instruments.
  
• studio microphones -- the largest category of microphone. These include a number of application designs that we'll discuss.

These six categories include different transducer types, or approaches to converting sound waves into electrical energy. 

Directional Characteristics

In an earlier module we talked about the angle of view of lenses -- the area that a lens "sees." Microphones have a similar attribute: their directional characteristics, or, you might say, the angle of view that they "hear."

In microphones there are three basic directional categories:

• omnidirectional
• bi-directional
• unidirectional

  

Journal Week 15

Monday
- Brainstormed for Logo, and Slogan.
- Worked on Logo on Illustrator
- Worked on Website on DreamWeaver
Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
- Worked on Culminating
- Designed Splash page
- Brainstormed for Business
Friday
- NOT HERE

Arizona Ads

Journal Week 14

Monday
- Brainstormed idea for another Ad
- Started a new Ad
- Found a background
Tuesday
- Watched a video about 9/11
- Finished Arizona Ad #2
- Published Arizona Ad #2
Wednesday
- AWAY
Thursday
- Brainstormed for Culminating Project
- Decided to do a Day Care
- Brainstormed business names and logo ideas.
Friday
- Worked on Culminating Project
- Watched a Fireworks tutorial
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What is an Entrepreneur?

Not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur and run their own business. Being an entrepreneur requires specific characteristic and skills that are often achieved through education, hard work, and planning.

 Characteristics:
- Risk Taker (Businesses take risks. Minimize with research, planning and practice)
- Perceptive (View problems as opportunities/challenges)
- Curious (They take initiative and pursue the unknown)
- Imaginative (Creative)
- Persistent (Press on, receive criticism)
- Goal-Setting (Seek to accomplish dreams in the future)
- Hardworking (Not deterred by overwhelming/disheartening circumstances)
- Self-Confident (Believe in yourself)
- Flexible (Adapt to changing circumstances)
- Independent (Desire for control and ability to make decisions)

Skills:
- Research skill (Identify what to know, and how to learn it)
- Gather Information (books, databases, Internet, Periodicals, Consultants, Professionals)
- Using Information (Sort data by relevance)
- Management Skills (Organizing, Directing, Controlling)
- Planning (Financial, Production, and Marketing strategies)
- Organizing (Time-Management)
- Directing (Motivate staff, Encourage initiative and self-direction)
- Controlling (Develop budgets, keep accurate records)
- Marketability (How will it sell? Who are potential customers? How long will it last)
- Profitability (Must ensure that revenue exceeds all costs. Expected revenue and expenses)

Journal Week 13

Monday
- Transferred pictures to all of our computers
- Picked best pictures
- Began to edit one of them using PhotoShop
Tuesday
- Worked on Photo Project
- looked for backgrounds
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Wednesday
- Picked a background
- Added it to Photo project, on PhotoShop
- Looked for final font
Thursday
- Worked on Photo Project
- Got final Font
- Finished Photo Project
Friday
- AWAY

WebPage (DreamWeaver)

Splash Website Home Page

Splash Website Index

Journal Week 12

Monday
- Watched "The Pianist"
Tuesday
- Watched "The Pianist"
Wednesday
- Finished "The Pianist"
- Worked on WebPage (DreamWeaver)
- Finished and Published WebPage
Thursday
- Brainstormed ideas for our Photo Project
- Used SmartIdeas5 to get our ideas down
- Discussed our "Game Plan"
Friday
-We took pictures for our Photo Project
- I modeled fiercely
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"The Pianist" Movie Summary

Speelmen is a famous pianist living in warsaw, Germany.

Journal Week 11

Monday
- Answered PhotoShop questions
-Worked on the Evolution of Technology questions
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Tuesday
- He taught us about DreamWeaver
- Put together first webpage
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Wednesday
- Started the second web page
- Added the Gallery
- Linked the front page
Thursday
- Linked the Gallery
- Added Index of projects
- Linked the index of projects
Friday
- FUN TIME

PhotoShop Questions

What does Resolution mean?
The number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture

How can you use the crop tool in photo Retouching?
You can resize image, cut unwanted parts of image with crop tool, or cut at some specific proportions you need for purpose of image.

How can you adjust the tonal range of an image?
You can use the black, white, and gray triangles below the Levels command histogram to control the midpoint and where the darkest and lightest points in the image begin, thus extending its tonal range.

What is saturation? How can you adjust it ?
Saturation is the strength, or purity, of color in an image. You can use the Sponge tool to increase the saturation in a specific area of an image.

Why would you use the Unsharp Mack filter on a photo?
The Unsharp Mask filter adjusts the contrast of the edge detail and creates the illusion of a more focused image.

What are the three main components of Photoshop's workspace?
Menus, Toolbox and palettes.

Which menu is used to open and close (or show and hide) palettes?
Window menu.

What keyboard shortcut is used to hide/show all palettes at the same time?
Press the Tab key.

Why is it important to remember and use keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop?
Keyboard shortcuts will allow you to work faster and more productively.

How is tool in the Toolbox selected?
Either by clicking on its button in the Toolbox or by using its keyboard shortcut, which is a one-letter keystroke.

Can palettes be grouped together?
Yes.

Which palette's options change depending on the tool that is active?
Tool Options bar.

What functionality does the Navigator Palette offer in Photoshop?
 Navigator Palette allows you view you image at reduced or enlarged sizes and move around your image when magnified.