ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation

Source: Create Monthly Calendars Tool (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

Flickr Toys, also known as Big Huge Labs, is the Website for doing creative, fun projects with digital images that the user uploads, or by using Flickr images, Photobucket images, or entering the URL (Web address) for an online image.

By uploading a photo, a wide range of special effects can be added, including adding a museum-style matte, making a jigsaw puzzle from a photo, making a mosaic from several pictures, adding photo frames, giving a photo a Warhol effect (a la Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pop art—see sample below), transforming a photo into bead art, making a cube of photos, making a photo collage, and creating a pocket-sized photo album.

For literacy, ABE, and other classes, the site's other image tools can be used as the bases for writing and speaking assignments. The types of projects both instructors and students can do using the site are numerous.

For this activity, have students make a monthly calendar with a class photo.

Source: California Career Zone Homepage (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

For this activity use the site California CareerZone to help students explore, decide and grow their career future.

With the current state of the economy, more and more adult students are facing layoffs and unemployment. As a result, they are enrolling in adult education programs to retrain for new jobs or gain basic skills and technical abilities to keep their current jobs, or are exploring other career possibilities. These students may come to you with vocational and career-related questions, and the following online resources could be of assistance in answering their questions, or you may choose to incorporate job search and career exploration into your curriculum.

The document, Career Exploration, and Information Sites explore several useful sites, many of which have personality and skills inventories to help students find a field that suits their abilities, experiences, and preferences. Many sites also have videos showing people on the job, interviews, and current labor market information including demand, pay, and education or training required. The resource gives great guidance on how to organize your job preparation lesson plans.

Sites include:
California CareerZone, other budget, and salary-related sites, sites for personality and other types of self-assessments, sites to help students investigate a specific career, sites that use online classified advertisements, and other occupational online resources.

Use ChatGPT to help students understand complex texts within prospositions during upcoming elections. 

Use the citation tool in Google Docs to cite an article from ProCon.