Week 9: Learning Express

I found it very easy to set up an account in Learning Express.  There were several tabs down the left-hand column of the page with the following sections: Elementary, Middle School, High School, College, Popular Software Tutorials (which included Adobe, Microsoft and Windows based courses), GED Prep, Job Search, Job Careers, Skill Building for Adults (this included Math & Reasoning, Personal Finance Skills, Public Speaking, Reading, Science, Statistics, Trigonometry, Writing & Grammar Skills Improvement), and U.S Citizenship!

Not because it is a strength (because math is my weakness. . . I'm a literary girl), but knowing our students have a need to boost their test scores, I opted to check out the 4th-grade Assessments.  There were a wide range of skill assessments to choose from which all seem to be aligned with topics learned in forth-grade.  I opted to try the Math Diagnostic Geometry.  The test had 15 questions and included nice graphs.  Upon completion, I clicked "View Answers".  Much to my embarrassment, I discovered I need to refresh myself on the word 'perpendicular' and couldn't remember the method for reading the coordinate grid.  I found myself with a 50/50 shot at whether you start up and to the right, or vise versa.  Well sorry to say, I guessed wrong!  The good thing that came from my errors, was the opportunity to discover which questions you got wrong and each question came with a detailed explanation.  I think these tests would be very beneficial to our 4th and 5th grade students!!!!

When clicking on Job Search and Workplace Skills I noticed the topics to choose from were, Business Writing, Job Search, Resumes, and Interviewing, WorkKeys Preparation and TOEIC Preparation (the last two choices were practice tests for people taking TOEIC and WorkKeys Applied Math Assessments).  I chose Job Search, Resumes, and Interviewing.  I discovered  whole host of helpful information including conversations you might have in an interview, determining what you might want from your career, job search and networking skills, how to succeed in the workplace, and social networking.  Also, offered was how to create great resumes and cover letters.  I typed  marketing in the search box and found 12 test items, 1 course, and 16 eBooks.  I selected Search Smart and Get Ahead as my eBook.   My book had 20 chapters and 219 pages on business research.  Many of the chapters dealt with methods you might use to obtain information (phone interviews, Internet, library, etc) as well as what to do with data collected and how to give a presentation.

This was an informative assignment that I will sure to share with teachers at our school!!!