Where Do I Go With Speech and Debate?

Degree Key
H = high school diploma
A = associate degree
B = bachelor's degree
M = master's degree
D = doctoral degree

You may take them everywhere. Such as the government, acting, sales, broadcasting, the law, speechwriting, counseling, library, public relations, and corporate trainers.

Setting Her Sites

Robin Liss, 23, did not have to buy a good suit, pound the pavement, and sit through interview after interview to land a job. that's because she already had a job - as the chief executive office (CEO) of her own company, Reviewed.com. It's a job the 2006 graduate of Tufts University had throughout her high school and college years.

Working on the Railroad

Sharon Carlquist's is a conductor for Metro-North Railroad, a passenger line used daily by thousands of commuters in New York and Connecticut. She works four hours in the morning and than has four hours off. She might go to a park, see a movie, read,nap, or do whatever strikers her fancy. Then she puts her final hours before heading home.
Carlquist was conducting a southbound train headed to New York City on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

E-Learning: The Anytime, Anywhere Option

There are some people who like to earn their college credits without leaving their houses. A visual communications major at Georgia's Savannah College of Art and Design has taken several speech and computer courses online along with his regular classroom studies.
Even though take online classes seems easy, these students are working hard. These students are earning credits at their own pace, on a schedule and in a setting that works for them.
E-classes fall into two categories:
- Synchronous classes allows the instructor and students to log on at a prearranged time and conduct class through chat rooms or streaming video.
- Asynchronous classes allow students to log on anytime within an assigned time frame to trn in and receive assignments, take tests, or post to message boards.
"E-LEARNING IS ON THE RISE."

Remote Access

The beginning of this reading, I read about 32 year old Jacqueline Colligan; she has a very busy schedule everyday because of her job and the traffic that delays her schedule back 20 minutes. She is a part time telecommuter, working from her townhouse in Weymouth, Massachusetts, several days each month.
More Companies Step Up
Telecommuting has grown steadily since the 1980's, when the idea originated in response to the energy crisis, transportation issues, and environmental concerns. today, those same issues, as well as work life balance issues, drives workers to choose telecommuting, even if just part of the time.

Building Pages

Career World explores a day in life of a Web site producer.

Today we are using various resources to help us find facts about our topic. However, we are mainly using the Internet because that is the first resource that we think about when we are asked what are we going to use. There are also numerous websites that we are able to look at to find out about the topic. So basically what I am saying is we are dependent on resources because they help us with what we want.

WEB SITE PRODUCER: THE FACTS Training: Bachelor’s degree; computer skills, including HTML, Photo shop, and experience with a content management system. Salary range: $30,000 - $90,000, depending on experience and size of company. Outlook: Good, with the Internet growing bigger and more important every day. Dress code: Varies by company: casual to business casual Walsh’s advice: “Always pay attention to Internet news and cool new sites and technologies. Things are changing so fast that if you stay current, you can know as much as people who have studied and worked for years! Also, it’s not that hard to learn HTML, Photoshop, and other popular programs by playing around with them. That will give you a big head start in school. Try to get an internship in order to get office experience.”

Protect The Digital Frontier

A member of a secret society of hackers called the Botmaster Underground got caught for invading computer systems and gained complete control over the affected computer or computers. The defendants name is Jeanson James Ancheta, 20-year-old drop out student from Downey, California. Online criminals cost U.S. organizations $11.9 billion a year. And not just money is being lost. In conclusion, the computers that were affected also had to be replaced because the system was stolen. "When will we have a cyber Pearl Harbor? -Terry Benzel
The Might Mouse
The U.S. Air Force formed a Cyber Command, a group of computer security experts whose duty is to defend against enemies on the frontier in 2006.
Do not anyone use your computer.

'NET WORKING

Navigate the Web to connect and communicate with people who may lead you to a job.

Linked In to MySpace
When you are using MySpace and other social networking sites you do not have a lack of support by people that you hardly know for making wise decisions.
You.com
A personal Web site also is a phenomenal tool to accomplish a goal. "I see the Internet as an endless possibility of making connections with anyone and everyone." -Jamelle Williams
Please Leave a Message
A good strategy if to find message boards that center around the industry you're interested in and watch the posts.
Blog it

When you are blogging , your post has your prospective and an outlook on the topic. It should be clearly written and understandable.
Connect Carefully
Do not give out and personal information about yourself (confidentiality). If you do this there will be no killing or other type of stuff happening to you or others.
Today I learned a couple of new information about what to do and what not to do. I will take what's been taught to me and take it into consideration.

Teen Close-Up Jacob's Cool Computer Program, Web-Search Woes, & The IT Factor

Article About Jacob Komar
It must be very interesting to be Jacob Komar because he can get lots of money for what he is doing for our society. However, it must be a challenge because computers are hard to work with if you hardly know how to use it.
You have to have long-term memory, organization, and patience to put computers back together. "Jacob's goal is to help solve what he calls the greatest challenge facing the United States today - the digital divide." -Career World.

Web-Search Woes
"The Educational Testing Service (ETS) asked 6,300 high school seniors and college students to evaluate a set of five Web sites for objectivity, authority, and timeliness. Fewer than half the students idenitified the one Web site that met all the criteria." -Career World

The IT Factor
Besides dot com there is dot org, or dot net. However, I do not know what they mean.