5 Sites Students Can Explore to Learn About Career Options

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br/><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ETF0f_X0_2VE4GbcOmwigwcsPWb8CYkXF2qtFD1Work0whXwwFB0iab_MbDkW29HthUnYhNMBddKrp7LtIFlZ3x3UTnA88zsDPVyBmsizkNdJcZDEGSdhlOWAhy9k9biKzkRzT8P7mk/s1600/ball-93118_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ETF0f_X0_2VE4GbcOmwigwcsPWb8CYkXF2qtFD1Work0whXwwFB0iab_MbDkW29HthUnYhNMBddKrp7LtIFlZ3x3UTnA88zsDPVyBmsizkNdJcZDEGSdhlOWAhy9k9biKzkRzT8P7mk/s1600/ball-93118_640.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br/>One of my favorite parts of having a student advisory group of sixteen to eighteen years-old students was talking with them about their college and career aspirations. One of the great things about the web is that students can quickly discover and research career options as opposed to having to consult a few books in the school library or career center. Here is a handful of sites that students can use to learn about career options.<br/><br/><a href="http://careerthoughts.com/" target="_blank">Career Thoughts</a><br/> is a site that aims to help students make informed career decisions. On<br/> Career Thoughts students can find career profiles that outline what a <br/>person in a particular career field actually does, the education <br/>requirements for that field, salary ranges, and employment prospects. <br/>The <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCareerThoughts?feature=guide" target="_blank">Career Thoughts YouTube channel</a><br/> provides even more information through video profiles of careers. <br/>Students who are ready to start applying for jobs will find plenty of <br/>resume writing, job hunting, and interviewing tips on Career Thoughts <br/>too.<br/><br/><a href="http://icould.com/">iCould</a> is a UK-based website that <br/>features videos of people sharing their career stories. The stories <br/>cover people in all types of careers and at all phases of their working <br/>careers. One of the the main purposes of <a href="http://icould.com/">iCould</a><br/> is to expose viewers to what different types of jobs really entail. <br/>Visitors to iCould can search for stories by job type, life theme, or <br/>keyword tags.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.insidejobs.com/" target="_blank">Inside Jobs</a> is a<br/> site that offers information about careers and the training required <br/>for them. On Inside Jobs visitors can search for career information by <br/>keyword or browse through categorized collections of information. Each <br/>career in the list has a short video featuring someone in the industry <br/>explaining what they do and how they got into the field. Inside Jobs <br/>provides lists of schools that offer programs related to the careers <br/>that students are interested in. (Note that the schools do pay to be <br/>included on Inside Jobs).<br/><br/><a href="http://www.careersighted.com/#home" target="_blank">Career Sighted</a><br/> is a new website designed to help students learn a bit about jobs in <br/>careers they have an interest in. The videos introduce students to the <br/>essential functions of each job and education needed for it. The videos <br/>feature real people talking about their jobs and what they like about <br/>them. Career Sighted is only a couple of months old so at this point it <br/>only has a few dozen videos, but hopefully they'll be adding more over <br/>the next few months. <br/><br/>The Atlantic has a great article titled <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/what-people-dont-get-about-my-job-from-a-rmy-soldier-to-z-ookeeper/244231/1/">What People Don't Get About My Job</a>.The<br/> article is comprised of 26 contributions from readers explaining what <br/>most people don't understand about their jobs. There is one job for <br/>every letter of the alphabet. In the article you will find jobs like <br/>Kindergarten Teacher, IRS employee, zookeeper, and even unemployed. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/>Come learn with me at the <a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/come-relax-and-learn-with-me-this-summer.html/"">Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp.</a> <br/><br/><i>This post originally appeared on <a href="http://freetech4teachers.com/">Free Technology for Teachers</a><br/></i>.</div><div class="feedflare"><br/><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=Si4-wVhyQjE:slk4myjViio:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=Si4-wVhyQjE:slk4myjViio:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?i=Si4-wVhyQjE:slk4myjViio:F7zBnMyn0Lo"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=Si4-wVhyQjE:slk4myjViio:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=7Q72WNTAKBA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=Si4-wVhyQjE:slk4myjViio:qj6IDK7rITs"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=Si4-wVhyQjE:slk4myjViio:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?i=Si4-wVhyQjE:slk4myjViio:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=Si4-wVhyQjE:slk4myjViio:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?i=Si4-wVhyQjE:slk4myjViio:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=Si4-wVhyQjE:slk4myjViio:I9og5sOYxJI"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=I9og5sOYxJI"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=Si4-wVhyQjE:slk4myjViio:bcOpcFrp8Mo"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo"></img></a><br/></div><img height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/freetech4teachers/cGEY/~4/Si4-wVhyQjE" width="1"/><br/><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freetech4teachers/cGEY/~3/Si4-wVhyQjE/5-sites-students-can-explore-to-learn.html" rel="nofollow">Free Technology for Teachers</a>

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Three Ways Students Can Explore Space From Their Desktops

Someone recently emailed me after reading <a href="http://www.android4schools.com/2011/12/31/use-google-sky-to-know-what-youre-looking-at-tonight/" target="_blank">this post about Google Sky for Android</a> to ask if there were similar tools available for use on laptops. The answer is yes. Here are three tools that students can use to explore space from their desktops.<br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br/><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH6QdHH6jLyYD2lK6e__Q6ZsQeaADxNmu51ikSZ-Znrn9uXTux9vNOpu0cAdQLbCX0l_3IcghiqagNIws6aNFtvmodd6aauuIJxXLjCfq9aHrvXOhFsF3F8mYI2ih36hN7hz82uHOWsEg/s1600/space-54999_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH6QdHH6jLyYD2lK6e__Q6ZsQeaADxNmu51ikSZ-Znrn9uXTux9vNOpu0cAdQLbCX0l_3IcghiqagNIws6aNFtvmodd6aauuIJxXLjCfq9aHrvXOhFsF3F8mYI2ih36hN7hz82uHOWsEg/s1600/space-54999_640.jpg" width="530" /></a></div><br/><br/>The <a href="http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/" target="_blank">Microsoft WorldWide Telescope</a> makes very detailed, high resolution images (scientific quality) from space available to anyone with access to a computer and an internet connection. The goal of the WorldWide Telescope is to enable users to use their computers as virtual telescopes. The WorldWide Telescope can be downloaded and run on Windows-based computers. Mac users will have to use the web client to access the WorldWide Telescope. The <a href="http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ExperienceIt/ExperienceIt.aspx?Page=Educators" target="_blank">educators page</a> on the WorldWide Telescope site has lesson resources and ideas for middle school and high school use.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.shatters.net/celestia/index.html">Celestia</a> is a<br/> free space exploration simulation program. Celestia is a free download<br/> that works on Mac, PC, and Linux systems. The advantage of <a href="http://www.shatters.net/celestia/index.html">Celestia </a>over<br/> other satellite imagery programs is that in addition to seeing the <br/>Earth's surface, students can zoom in on moons, stars, and planets. The <br/> user controls what they see. Operating the program is easy enough to be<br/> used by students as young as six or seven. The user guides for <a href="http://www.shatters.net/celestia/index.html">Celestia</a> are very thorough and available in four languages. <span style="color: #006600;"><span style="color: black;">There is a companion website to Celestia called the <a href="http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/">Celestia Motherlode</a> that features add-ons to Celestia and educational activities that teachers can use in their classrooms.</span></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #006600;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.google.com/sky/">Google Sky</a> allows you view images of space in your web browser. <a href="http://www.google.com/sky/">Google Sky</a> offers great images of outer space captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and the <a href="http://freetech4teachers.blogspot.com/2008/02/free-technology-for-teachers-skyserver.html">Sloan Digital Sky Survey</a>. <a href="http://www.google.com/sky/">Google Sky</a> has images that have captured x-ray and infrared wavelengths. The <a href="http://www.google.com/sky/">Google Sky</a> web browser also has some more basic images in a collection referred to as "backyard astronomy." </span></span> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/>Come learn with me at the <a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/come-relax-and-learn-with-me-this-summer.html/"">Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp.</a> <br/><br/><i>This post originally appeared on <a href="http://freetech4teachers.com/">Free Technology for Teachers</a><br/></i>.</div><div class="feedflare"><br/><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=KAZfsvKkeRI:a65BPya4GEE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=KAZfsvKkeRI:a65BPya4GEE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?i=KAZfsvKkeRI:a65BPya4GEE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=KAZfsvKkeRI:a65BPya4GEE:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=7Q72WNTAKBA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=KAZfsvKkeRI:a65BPya4GEE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=KAZfsvKkeRI:a65BPya4GEE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?i=KAZfsvKkeRI:a65BPya4GEE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=KAZfsvKkeRI:a65BPya4GEE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?i=KAZfsvKkeRI:a65BPya4GEE:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=KAZfsvKkeRI:a65BPya4GEE:I9og5sOYxJI"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=I9og5sOYxJI"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=KAZfsvKkeRI:a65BPya4GEE:bcOpcFrp8Mo"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo"></img></a><br/></div><img height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/freetech4teachers/cGEY/~4/KAZfsvKkeRI" width="1"/><br/><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freetech4teachers/cGEY/~3/KAZfsvKkeRI/three-ways-students-can-explore-space.html" rel="nofollow">Free Technology for Teachers</a>

Three Ways Students Can Explore Space From Their Desktops

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