Travis R. Martin, CPA, MBA

If you’re looking for a nice little spreadsheet project that ties into the Holiday Season, you might like this. Students use spreadsheets to analyze prices of popular gifts of their choice before, during, and after Black Friday. They then analyze the data to make a recommendation as to when the best time to shop would [...]

Hands-on project designed for Computer Applications and Media Literacy classes. Students test Pandora’s music recommendations using project based learning.

In this activity, the students research and recommend hotels based on a set of criteria I give them. The students then pitch their hotel ideas using a PowerPoint presentation. From these presentations, I pick my hotel room. The winning student (or group), gets a “mystery gift bag” from the hotel, which consists of everything I can take from the room and lobby without going to jail.

Nearly all teens are into tunes (some so much that they stay tethered to their iPod 24/7). With this in mind, I like to work a few music-related activities into Computer Applications.