Facilitating the HS Resume writing classroom
High School students learning to write resumes can easily be successful when using Google Docs and Microsoft Office Templates. After seeing one resume model and discussing formatting students can use Google Docs to brainstorm the sections of their resume.
An example:
First, I simply presented a model of what their brainstorming sheet (using a published Google Document). should look like. Because they have some experience with Google Docs they easily followed my lead and figured out how to make a table and jot down their accomplishments and experiences.
Next they browsed through Microsoft Templates. They found them on the web with no link provided just simple verbal instruction from me stressing Microsoft Templates as the keywords. Not one student had trouble searching Google via Firefox (built in search and tabbing back and forth to Google Docs) to find what they needed. To me that means students’ ability to use a search engine is improving ( and search engine intuitiveness is refining).
Browsing this page and templates helped my students format a resume with ease. One revision later students were printing.
Some students downloaded the templates as Word documents. Others used the format examples from Microsoft and created their resumes in Google Docs. Using this application, students don’t need to take this important document off of a school drive to have it at home. It is with them as long as they have/use their Internet Google account on the web.
