Thursday Morning

Good Morning.

Bell Work: ·        What is the most interesting aspect of the m&ms’ company you found in your research?

Today, as you work in pairs, you should continue to create charts in excel, based on your data collection from the m&ms project. If you have finished the excel portion, the next step is to create a survey. Each member of your team should ask five other students their opinion on which colors to keep, which colors to remove, which to add, which flavors should be added, etc.

After the survey, your team needs to write a personal business letter to Mars, offering your suggestions to the company on how they could improve their product--based upon your survey, research, and personal opinion.

After the letter, your team needs to put together a PowerPoint presentation that reinforces visually the points you made in the letter.

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Wednesday Work

Bell Work: What is the best way to test a new product? Is your way cost effective?

Awesome Students, yesterday we dabbled with some research with m&ms. Today we are going to collect our data and put them into a spreadsheet program. Your assignments for the rest of this week is in the handout titled "Don't Eat the Data." This project consists of at least five separate pieces:

1. create a spreadsheet in Excel with charts that show the color distribution of the m&ms your team counted on Tuesday.
2. Create and take a survey that asks at least 10 other persons what colors they would want added and/or removed.
3. Create a Personal Business Letter to Mars Company trying to persuade them how they could possibly improve their product by following your suggestions, based on your survey results.
4. Create a 5-10 slide PowerPoint presentation that emphasizes your letter that includes the graphs and survey results.
5. Answer all the questions in the three "Explore Further" sections of the handout (this part is done individually--not as a team.)

This assignment is worth 250 points. You will be graded on thoroughness, neatness, completeness, accuracy, persuasive ability, designs of spreadsheet and PowerPoint, and as individuals as well as a team.

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Tuesday at BMHS

Surprisingly, many students thought it was illegal to refuse to hire someone because of the applicant's poor credit. Those students were, of course, the ones who just guessed and did not do the research. It is legal to refuse to hire someone based on the applicant's credit rating. Employers often see a poor credit rating as a person who can be a security risk.

 From Visa: According to the survey, "only 20 percent of Americans know that it is legal for employers to refuse to hire job applicants with low credit scores. Fully 52 percent of Americans mistakenly believe it is illegal for prospective employers to use credit scores as a hiring criteria and another 28 percent of survey respondents are unsure."

 Today, bell work: What are the qualities that make a company great?

 Objectives: • do research on a company • use excel for mathematical distribution

Monday Mornings

Somewhere in the world is the world's worst doctor, and somebody has an appointment with him first thing Monday morning." (George Carlin) Bell Work · How is launching and running a business like or unlike being a parent? Today, Read Real-World Business Profile, pages 490-491. Do self-assessment check list on page 491. Write one paragraph about preparation for a career, using any five terms from the Academic vocabulary words on page 486. Crossword Puzzle. Write a summary of what you like about GeoMagic's business concept. Close: work in pairs and develop an idea for a software or iPod/iPad app program. Develop an advertisement for the software. Use Publisher or Word to design the brochure that communicates info about the software. Mr. Burd

Friday Finishes

Bell Work: Can employers legally refuse to hire someone based on the applicant's credit score? If they can, do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer. Read this. Today, awesome students, we should be ready to record our Public Service Announcements (PSA). 30-60 seconds on any aspect of credit that was covered in the Unit 9 of our textbook. Do Hard Things R. Burd

Thursday, March 23

Bell Work: What is the lowest credit card APR you can find online? Federal Trade Commission web site: a good source of accurate information for doing your Public Service Announcement. (PSA) Today and Friday we will be scripting our PSAs on credit. You need to be in team's of three. One person will be on camera, one person will video tape, one person will help with the microphone and set-up. This announcement should be between 30-60 seconds. Your audience is BMHS students and staff. -- Do Hard Things,. Computer Apps Blog Intro To Biz Blog

Wednesday Work

Bell work: What are some alternatives to bankruptcy when faced with credit problems? Today is our last day on the study of credit. We will: identify sources of credit fraud and precautions that can prevent it discuss ways to repair credit problems we will also watch a PowerPoint from Glencoe, visit the site www.insideidtheft.info, visit the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) site, and students will write a 200-300 word report with a summary of the content of an article related to credit counseling, debt management, or credit repair. On Thursday and Friday, students will work in teams of three, and prepare a 30-60 second Public service announcement on any of the aspects of credit that we have discussed. Mr. Burd

Tuesday at BMHS

Bell Work: What are the only three reasons a person can be denied credit, according to the ECOA? Tuesday: Credit. Federal laws that protect consumers. -- Do Hard Things,. Computer Apps Blog Intro To Biz Blog Mr. Burd

Monday 21 March

Bell work: What would you do if you had a complaint against a credit card company? Today, we will: discuss state and federal regulations of credit. And, describe federal laws that protect consumers. -- Do Hard Things,. Computer Apps Blog Intro To Biz Blog Mr. Burd

Advice on Interviews

7 Things not to say in an interview: click here.


or, teacher tube

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Friday Finishes

Credit Card Assignment

Conduct research on the Internet to locate 3 different credit cards [must be a combination of private label (e.g., Nordstrom’s, Dillards), & general label companies, (e.g, Chase Visa, Bank of America Discover)] and record the following information in excel:

ü     Company name

ü     Interest rate charged – introductory rate

ü     Annual fee (yes or no)  if yes, how much

ü     Fraud protection plans  (describe what they offer)

ü     Do they offer a rewards program (yes, no – describe)

ü     Credit range available (limit-dollar amounts)

ü     Grace period

ü     Late fees

Thursday and CRT

Good Morning. No bell work.

CRT will be handed out at the beginning of class. Open book.. Open notes. Open policy. 

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Wednesday Work

Awesome students, initially I was going to finish chapter 26 and start our video commercial on credit. However, after looking at some of the grades, I was incredibly disappointed to see how many assignments were missing. We are going to use today as a make-up and review day. ONLY if all your work is in will you be able to access the computers.


There is a CRT on Thursday. Chapters covered will be those we went over in the textbook, Chapters 5 and 6, and 25 and 26.. 

Bell Work: What is the difference between a "down payment," and the "principal" of a loan?
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Tuesday Morning at BMHS

Awesome students,
We might have some fellow students posting to our blog. If you're interested in posting your thoughts, ideas, quality work on here, let me know. You must have a Google(gmail) account to post. I can help you with that, also.

Today, we will be working on the continuing study of credit. Credit, like most things in life, is neither good nor bad. How you use it makes the difference.

Bell Work: Why might it be a good idea to have more than one credit card?

Tuesday, we will be finishing Chapter 26 by watching the PowerPoint, completing the Graphic Organizers, and doing the self-check in the handout.

If time permits, we will start a three-person team project that involves making a 30-second commercial on video. If not, we will begin that on Wednesday.

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Monday 7 March

Today, Monday, we will be working on the Unit 9 Credit series. We will be finishing Chapter 25.2 and beginning Chapter 26.1.

Power Point and handout. 

Bell Work: What are some incentives you have seen offered to get people to try a credit card?

Thank you,

Mr. Burd

Friday Finishes

Friday: 

Bell Work: Why are credit card companies interested in college-aged customers?

Today, We will finish Chapter 25,  Credit basics.

There will be a handout and reading in text (on-line edition link on blog), pages 449-453.

If any sophomore or junior is interested in being a LINK crew member next year, please let me know.

Have you ever heard of a debtor's prison? That's right. If you borrowed money and couldn't repay, they used to put you in prison until the debt was satisfied. Check it out on Google, because....The Best Students are the Ones Who Never Quite Believe Their Teachers.

Write that down. That was brilliant. (I stole it from someone, of course.)

Peace.

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Thursday Morning

Welcome Back. I hope your AIMS testing went well.

Bell Work: What do some consumers do when they need money?

Do you have a blog? Would you like to post thoughts on this one? Would you like to post thoughts and things of interest on your own blog and link it to ours? See me if you're interested.

Today we are starting a Unit on Credit. So we will have handouts, a PowerPoint, and a read/write assignment.

Good Morning. Today, we were going to go over supply and demand. But, even though S & D is one of the most important concepts in business, you don't need to deal with it in a small business environment. What you need to deal with is your people skills. How can you go beyond satisfying customers and get "raving fans?" Apple is an excellent example of a company who has "raving fans."

So, today we will go over credit. Its uses, misuses, abuses and confusses. (I made up that last word.) 

What did Apple announce yesterday? Who made the announcement?

Peace.

Mr. Burd