1. Website recreation grades. I will call you individually into my office. Everyone did a good job with this! Check them out here.
2. Finish infogram and post on class website. Today will be the last day to work on these. Please plan to finish yours and post it on the class website by the end of the period.
3. When you are done with your infogram and have received your grade:
There is a new online tool created by the White House to help students evaluate colleges.
Read more about it in this article, which also includes an infographic comparing the prices of a few local colleges.
Once you have read the article, check out the online college scorecard:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/higher-education/college-score-card
Spend some time with this today. You have several choices:
– Try simply looking up a college by name. See what kind of information is available.
– Try finding colleges based upon your search criteria. You can search by major, location, size, etc. You can search based upon one of those items or as many as you would like. For example, you could try searching for colleges that offer a business major that are no bigger than 3,000 students and that are in California, New York, and Massachusetts.
What do you think? Was this helpful? Would you use this again?
Let’s share some of the information we found. What did you look up? Why?