Web-based Career & Technical Education

Ten years ago, smartphones were still in their infancy. Today, over 77% of American adults own a smartphone. And for many of us, we can’t imagine life without it. How did we check the weather, look up directions, or hail a cab in the pre-smartphone years? Believe it or not, there’s another relatively recent invention that some would argue has...

When was the last time you wrote a haiku? How about a book report? Unless you’re a poet or a book critic, the chances you’ve written either of these in the past few years is pretty unlikely. When it comes to writing assignments we do in school, there are some that are more practical than others once students get to...

You know that colleague who sends the unprofessional, typo-ridden emails to the entire department? So does everyone else. Communicating effectively in the workplace isn’t impossible, but it sure doesn’t come naturally for lots of people. While human beings are constantly communicating with one another both verbally and non-verbally (through facial expressions and body language), it’s written communication that is often...

I challenge you to make a list of the top 10 word processing skills you think all students should master by the time they finish high school. Did creating a table make the cut? For many of us, whipping up a table in a word document is something we do so frequently that it has become second nature. Students, though,...