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=Welcome to Economics=

This online independent study Economics course is intended for upperclassman who will soon accept adult financial and economic responsibilities. Such responsibilities include, but are not necessarily limited to food, shelter, clothing, transportation, education and financial duties. Successful accomplishment of the independent study Economics coursework requires effective time management, and your consistent best daily efforts during and outside of class time (homework) to research, document and learn about real-world economic responsibilities.

Economics is a one-credit required social studies course focusing on specific consumer economics issues applicable to a young adult's life. Upon completion of the course, students will have exhibited an understanding of economic concepts an skills by studying and producing projects for each of the following five main topics:
 * 1) purchasing, financing, insuring and operation of a vehicle
 * 2) renting and living in an apartment
 * 3) financial services, credit, and income taxes
 * 4) post-secondary education and training
 * 5) budgeting your money

Throughout each unit you will work through a series of assignments and activities. These activities may include visiting specific businesses involved in the topic of the unit. If there are transportation issues with these assignments, please talk to me and we can make arrangements to do these activities during school time with a staff member. You will each create your own Economics blog where you will be reflecting on what you learned in class. These blogs are public for anyone to see and I will be sharing them with my friends and colleagues to help answer your questions and further your knowledge. The units are found on the right hand side of the this page. Please follow each unit in order from top to bottom and complete the work in each unit from top to bottom. This will keep both of us organized. Each assignment will be graded on a completion basis. If any section is left incomplete the assignment will be returned to the students to complete fully. Once the assignment has been fully completed students will be graded on how thoroughly they completed the activity, using this rubric.

Once you have completed all the coursework, outlined on the right, you will then sum up your learning in a final project. Create a Prezi, Google Presentation, or Google Site. You will include in this presentation your plans for your future. After learning about independent adult living, what decisions have you made for yourself? Where are you going to live? What school do you think is best for you? What car is the best option for you? Look even further down the road, after college, what income do you expect to get? How are you going to live off this income? You will then share this project with three teachers and two adults in your life. Get their feedback and write a final blog post that includes a link to your presentation and a paragraph reflecting on the adult feedback.



Creating your blog:
Go to @http://www.blogger.com. You will be asked to retype your password (Google just wants to make sure it is you). You will first title your blog. This can be whatever you want it to be..."So & So's US History Blog" or "My Teacher Made Me Do This.." I don't care what the title is as long as it is school appropriate. Next you have to pick your blog's address or URL. This has to be unique to you, so you may need to try a couple times until you find one that works, again, I don't care what it is as long as it is school appropriate. Finally, pick a design template for the overall look of your blog and then click "Create blog!" The next page you will see is your blogger dashboard. Click on the orange button with a white pencil on to create your first blog post. It will open to an editor page, similar to Word. Here you can edit your words, change fonts, colors, add pictures, and videos. For your first post, title it, "About Me." Then type a couple paragraphs about yourself. What are your interests and hobbies? What do you like to do outside of school? Any favorites you would like to share? This post is to give you time playing with Blogger. Change the font, colors, add your favorite YouTube video (again...school appropriate), pictures, and hyperlinks. When you have finished your post, publish it and then view your blog. Highlight and copy the URL. By this time you should be an approved member of the wiki, refresh the wiki page, and click Edit at the top of the page. An editing page will open up, scroll down to the table and type your first name last initial and paste the URL to your blog in the second column.

Links to Individual Blogs

 * Name, First & Last Initial || Hyperlink to Blog ||
 * Shyla C || [] ||
 * steven b. || http://econimicsss.blogspot.com/ ||
 * Sarah B || http://drizzynovocane.blogspot.com/ ||
 * Abbey D || http://www.wellthisiseconclass.blogspot.com/ ||
 * Megan G. || http://hateeconomics.blogspot.com/ ||
 * Rae M. || http://alifepaidfor.blogspot.com/ ||
 * Sarah B || http://drizzynovocane.blogspot.com/ ||
 * Abbey D || http://www.wellthisiseconclass.blogspot.com/ ||
 * Megan G. || http://hateeconomics.blogspot.com/ ||
 * Rae M. || http://alifepaidfor.blogspot.com/ ||