Digital Design by Rifat Rahman

A few days ago, my class was assigned a project where we had to create a website about our favorite teacher for teacher appreciation week. Before we started the project, we had to make a wireframe and a storyboard for the project. The purpose of this was to make a basic layout of what we wanted to incorporate in the project. Once we finished doing this, we started to make the website using HTML and CSS elements. The requirements for the project was to have a minimum of 4 web pages and we had to schedule a interview with our favorite teacher and ask them some questions about themselves. Once we finished the interview with them, we used the information we received and were able to put them into different sections of the website. There were two main purposes of this project. The first one was to see our skills with HTML and CSS because it was near the end of the year, and we wanted to see the progress we had made from knowing nothing to almost mastering the skill. The second purpose was t...

On May 18, 2018 my class and I went on a field trip to a Google office. When we got there, we were greeted by some staff members and they provided us with name tags. After that, we got spilt in three groups, and there was a tour guide in each group showing up some of the floors in the office. My group went to five different floors in the office. And to summarize what I felt about the office was, I thought that it was a pretty cool work environment and it was interesting to see how the workers would be catered to on a typical work day. After the tour was done, all three of the tour groups meet up in a conference room, and we meet with three other workers from the office. After we meet with them, they spoke with us on what their life is like working for Google, and how they benefited by this work experience. After they were finished talking about the past and what they hoped to expect in the future, they opened the floor to us, and we got a chance to ask them questions. Most of the quest...

About two weeks ago, my school had their fifth WBL workshops for their CTE students. This workshop was a mock interview where we practiced our interview skills and see what were our strengths and weaknesses when it comes to interviews. It was six different groups consisting of 7-8 students per group. The way that my group had done the mock interview was we each went one-by-one and we had 3 minutes to sell ourselves to the interviewee. If we were waiting to be interviewed, our task was to observe the person that was interviewing and see what they were doing well and some areas that need improvement. By doing this it would help us to avoid these things when it was time for our interview. After each group was finished, all of the interviewees spoke to everyone about what they observed in their groups, and gave us a few tips on what to do on interviews and what the interviewee is usually looking for. Overall, the workshop was very helpful to us in preparing for these situations when it mat...

So about a month ago, my school had a WBL workshop for all CTE students. This was the fourth one of the semester. During that workshop, our guidance consoler spoke to us something that is crucial and something we're going to need in the future: A resume. We first began the workshop by discussing which students had a resume, and why it's important to have one. Some of the reasons why we said it's important to have one is because colleges might want to see who you are, and what you're about. If you want to work and do internships for companies, they need to know a few background information about the applicant; a resume would be perfect for that. After that, we discussed what we should and shouldn't include in a resume. Some of the things that we said that we needed to include in these are: public information such as; name, address, phone number, and email address. Another thing was our skills, qualifications, and accomplishments. Also attempt the effort to make sure ...

So about two weeks ago, a group a students, including myself, and my teacher went to a convention that was hosted by CS Games-4-All and Microsoft. This convention was for former teams to come and present their games that had previously won the hackathons hosted by CS Games for Change all over New York City. To prepare for the fair, my peers and I created two different poster boards to present at the fair. The first board was displaying the game that we used, and helped us come this far in the levels of the hackathons. The second board was to display our CTE academy: Web Design. As soon as we got there, we had to put our boards on display and present what we had done. We had the board for the game on top of the table, and in front of the board was 4 laptops. Two showing the skills that we learn in Web Design, and the course itself within the three years. The other two laptops was the interactive game so while we present the board and talk about the game, the judges would be able to play...

My high school that I currently go to, Information Technology High School, has two CTE academies: Web Design and Video Productions. So about a month ago, our school's CTE academies got a great opportunity to team up with Junior Achievement of New York to go teach elementary students. This experience included juniors and seniors of both CTE academies, where we had to forms teams of 4, that had 2 students from Web Design and 2 students from Video Productions, and we had to be in the same grade group as our peers. So what my group and I had to do was, we had to teach kinder-gardener students about finical management. We did different activities to learn about the kids, their preferences, and hoping to teach them something. We first started by introducing ourselves to them, and learning their names. Then we started an activity where, the teachers(my peers and I), would list a few items and ask the students to determine whether if it's a need or a want. Then after that, we did multi...