Exam Review Hour 5

Exam Review Hour 4

Practice Hour 3

3D Printing

New Technology . . . watch the following video.  How do you think this will change our lives?

http://www.wimp.com/printingchange/  3D printing

Teacher Evaluation

PowerPoint Project - Germany

One way to upload your PowerPoint to the web is to save it as jpg file. It will save each slide as a jpg. You can then upload the jpg's to your post. Double click to see full view of a slide. Below are three jpg's from Sammie's Country Project.

Assignment:  Save your country project as a jpg.  Upload all jpg's in order to the same post.  

Work Ethic and Social Media

Professionalism 2.0

 

Most employees are aware that professionalism encompasses their appearance, manners, and conduct on the job. The way an employee looks and acts projects their personal image and reflects on their employer's brand. However, the advent of social media has created a new "frontier" for employee professionalism. Most employees mistakenly believe that their words and behavior on social media sites and other Internet forums have no bearing on their jobs. To the contrary, many employers are already examining applicants' social media profiles as a way of learning more about them.

Thanks to the advent of social media, everyone that has an opinion now has a platform to share it. This platform compels many people to post tasteless, thoughtless, and inappropriate comments and photos to sites like Facebook and Twitter. Some posts even openly criticize bosses or employers. In most cases, these comments and pictures are available for anyone to see, including employers and prospective employers, at the click of a mouse.

 

What's it worth? A 2011 Search Engine Journal survey showed that 53% of prospective employers checked applicant social media profiles before hiring. Those checks revealed that one third of applicants had misrepresented their backgrounds.

 

Employers, quite rightly, take offense when employees' online behaviors cross the line and affect the workplace and the company's image. This kind of unprofessional indiscretion has already cost many employees and applicants their jobs. To avoid this scenario, employees and job applicants need to consider their public social media activities as part of their professional appearance. Likewise, employers should have clear social media policies that outline what is acceptable and what is not for employees' public profiles; especially regarding comments, images, and activities that reflect on the company.

THE BOTTOM LINE:

Online and social media behavior is now taken into account by employers as a measure of professionalism. Employees and applicants need to regulate their online behavior with the understanding that employers are watching. Employers should provide guidelines and policies that let employees know what is acceptable and what is not. 

The above except is taken from:

The Center for Work Ethic Development 2525 16th Street, Suite 214 Denver, Colorado 80211 United States (303) 433-3243

Assignment:  write your thoughts on this topic . . . here . . . due Feb. 27, 2013 no late posts accepted.