Administrative Office Management (AOM)

• Do you want to be a professional? Do you enjoy hands-on learning? Do you like working on the computer and being in charge of your own destiny? If you would like working and studying in a realistic office environment, then Administrative Office Management is for you!
• Two hour business course
• Use the latest software (MS Office 2010; Adobe: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Be on the “cutting edge” of your future
• Wide variety of office-related skills; teamwork a must
• Train in printers, scanners, laminators, digital cameras, in-the-cloud saving, and copiers
• Run a real business providing services to teachers and administrators
• Demonstrate skills through local, state, and national competitions if you become a Business Professionals of America (BPA) member; co-curricular club

Dual Credit Information

Desktop Publishing

Do you want to create designs for brochures, newsletters, T-shirts, product packaging, flyers, letterheads, and much more? This course, using the latest software, will help you do just that as well as create other current business documents.

• Study elements of design, fonts, color, and layout while using Adobe CS6 InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop software.
• Create the marketing documents for a Ben Davis design competition.
• Compete throughout the year with other BD classes to create the winning designs for BD T-shirts, mugs, and much more. The products (with the winning designs) will be sold in the BD Spirit Shop for everyone to purchase!
• Join and actively participate in the co-curricular club, Business Professionals of America, so you can demonstrate your skills in local, state, and national competitions.

Interactive Media

• Use technology to design logos, web sites, and/or videos
• Learn Adobe  programs such as Dreamweaver, Flash, and Photoshop
• Learn MS Office PowerPoint and Movie Maker
• Students are encouraged to join Business Professionals of America co-curricular club
• Create and design videos, websites, and a video game

Academic Standards for Success

• Write routinely over a variety of time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
• Use vocabulary skills, context, roots, prefixes and suffixes to determine the meaning of words.
• Identify how to order the elements of a sentence or paragraph to improve clarity, meaning and the progression of ideas.
• Connect ideas from different areas of mathematics (particularly geometry and algebra) to state or solve abstract or applied problems.
• Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.