Class+Videos

= Class Videos =

To learn more about each class, read the course description and watch the video:

Accounting
Accounting involves understanding, analyzing, and recording business transactions and preparing, analyzing, and interpreting financial reports as a basis for decision making. Students will learn accounting practices for a service business organized as a proprietorship and a merchandising business organized as a corporation. This course will provide you with a solid foundation in accounting principles for employment in office jobs and studying business in college, as well as provide a general understanding of the financial side of business. This class is articulated through Iowa Western Community College. media type="youtube" key="TZNqNkEMK6k?version=3" height="315" width="420"

Personal Finance
Personal Finance prepares students for successful management of their personal finances. It is a project-based course that addresses the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors associated with the management of family economics and financial education. Students will participate in activities that require them to consider their future financial and career goals and how their current money management practices may impact their goals. Topics covered include: values, goal setting and needs vs. wants; career development; spending plans, paychecks, and taxes; saving and investing; housing and transportation; and credit and <span style="background-color: transparent !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border: none !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif !important; font-size: 13px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-variant: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: auto !important; line-height: 19px !important; margin: 0px !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;">. media type="youtube" key="2htpSFxn-XA?hl=en_US" height="315" width="560"

Intro to Computers
Introduction to Computers consists of a hands-on introduction to microcomputer hardware, operating systems and application software. Students enter, modify and manipulate data with word processing, presentation, spreadsheet, and database programs. In addition, students will use <span style="background-color: transparent !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border: none !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif !important; font-size: 13px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-variant: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: auto !important; line-height: 19px !important; margin: 0px !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> and other Web 2.0 tools to complete tasks. If taken in junior or senior year, students have the opportunity to earn three college credits through Iowa Western Community College. media type="youtube" key="HpGv0afUtYU?version=3" height="315" width="420"

Web Design
Web Design is a hands-on class that provides instruction in the principles of web design using HTML/XHTML and current/emerging software programs and tools. This project-based course gives students the opportunity to learn the principles of good design and apply those principles to web page creation. Students will create their own web site during the course. If taken in junior or senior year, students have the opportunity to earn three college credits through Iowa Western Community College. media type="youtube" key="Ifve3DCxlqg?version=3" height="315" width="420"

Intro to Business
Intro to Business helps students understand how the American business economy operates and to help them prepare to make decisions as consumers, wage earners, and citizens within that economy. Topics covered are economics, finance, marketing, production, management, and entrepreneurship. The course combines explanations of business and economic concepts with practical applications of these concepts to the real world of the American business economy, including participation in the Stock Market Game. media type="youtube" key="shB8NVHKxYI?version=3" height="315" width="420"

Marketing
Marketing is a business course that provides a basic introduction to the scope and importance of marketing in the global economy. Students will analyze the impact of marketing activities on the individual, business, and society and learn to recognize the customer-oriented nature of marketing. The course examines consumers and their behavior, external factors affecting marketing, the marketing mix, marketing research, and marketing plans. media type="youtube" key="GUmCY-pEbm4?version=3" height="315" width="420"

Multimedia
Multimedia introduces students to a variety of media tools in order to communicate a message in today’s technology-driven society. Students will work with a variety of software including programs used for sound and video production, multimedia presentations, print and web publishing, and photo & image editing. This course incorporates lecture, tutorials, and hands-on activities, which build skills and techniques for a variety of software programs to create and edit multimedia content. Once students have developed proficiency with these software programs, they will complete individual and group projects utilizing interactive methodologies to turn their creative visions into projects. (video coming soon!)