The Great Depression parallels of today?

The Introduction to Business students just completed a unit from the St Louis Federal Reserve about The Great Depression economic lessons, in September 2012.  These included topics such as the Federal Reserve as out Central Bank, Monetary Policy, Inflation & Deflation, the Money Supply, Unemployment, GDP and other topics.  These were discussed in correlation to how they effect the economy and how the government can influence these factors.  All 18 students took a pretest and then completed a post test on each of the six sections with the scores increasing an average of 32% on the post tests.  This is the first time Mr. Kuhlers has used these specific materials in his class and plans to use them again next year with a few modifications.  The information is located at http://bts.stlouisfed.org.

FBLA Officers have been busy!

Check out the following Alburnett FBLA Marketing tools to start the year:

Zach Hoyle created the chapter logo

Katelyn Burns-Thompson created the recruitment brochure and meeting reminder:

Alburnett FBLA 2012-13 Recruitment Brochure

Alburnett FBLA 2012-13 Meeting Reminder


Christine Ries created twitter account @alburnett_FBLA and will be updating the cell phone application, scan the below qr code to install:

Creating & Using Cell Phone Applications

In the Spring of 2012 my Desktop Publishing students created cell phone applications using www.mobile.conduit.com which is free.  This summer I have had time to develop and learn more about the program and load the two samples below; one is for my FBLA chapter-I have found that my parents check our chapter website but students use their cell phones more and then app will be a great tool for them to get information and the second qr code is to download my application for my classes with some basic information.  If you want to know more I have also attached a .pdf file to check out or drop me an e-mail at kkuhlers@alburnett.k12.ia.us

Alburnett FBLA App                            Mr. Kuhlers Class App
                                         
If you have ideas or other information you feel should be included on either of these apps please let me know, thanks. 

Summer Enrichment 2012

WOW! How time flies when students are engaged and learning.  This year we invited the top 10 students, based on an average of math & science test scores from Iowa Tests & MAP, from each of the grades 6, 7 & 8.  We had 17 students participate.  Students spent time blabberizing at www.blabberize.com, learning Arduino circuit board technology, making a movie in Office 2010 MovieMaker Live, and creating video games with Gamemaker 8.1.

Our camp ran from Wednesday, August 1 to Wednesday, August 8 from 8:30a.m. to noon.  The last day students showcased their projects to their parents and relatives, check out the pictures in the slideshow below, some of the video games students created will be posted.

Games will be published shortly