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=Opportunities and Reminders: =


 * BCTAL IDs - Have you paid for yours? $10.00 If you have one from last year you may return it for a $5 discount on the new one.
 * Parking Passes - $10.00 if you are driving a vehicle to BCTAL
 * MONEY MONDAY - Here's what is due!
 * Permission form packet - Remember, two of the forms require notarization. Your packet is not complete until copies of your license, liability insurance (if you drive) and your medical insurance card are copied. These can be made at BCTAL.
 * Supplies for this class. There will be a supply check.
 * Club dues
 * Shirt orders
 * Name badges
 * Cookie dough fundraiser

College Tip of the Week:

 * Seniors - the ApplyTexas college application came online August 1. [|applytexas.org]
 * Begin working on yours if you plan to apply to any in-state public colleges. There are a number of parts to the application - the profile, the application (which includes a resume) the essay section (3 prompts) and scholarship application (which pops up for each college to which you apply). Set up your account, then work on it a bit at a time. Total time to complete the application is 4 - 5 hours.

TAFE/Educators Rising Update:
Keep selling a lot of cookies! If you plan on running for a TAFE/Educators Rising in BCTAL - Birdville/Haltom chapter, you must turn in your self-nomination form by Wednesday. Voting will take place on Friday. A link will be posted to vote electronically.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Offices: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">President: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Vice-president TRA (Teaching, Recreation and Appreciation of Teachers) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Vice-president LES (Leadership, Education Awareness, and Service) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Vice-president Contests/Competitions <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Secretary/Treasurer = = =// Monday //=

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">PIEMS <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Complete Mac Attack! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; line-height: 1.5;">Let's finish the Mac Attack. View and work through all requirements. You will be expected to configure some things on your Macbook as you work. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">BCTAL Contracts

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">It's Geek Week! Bring out your pocket protectors! A.M. Class Complete the following information survey to help me get to know you quickly. [|Click here to complete the survey!]

//**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It's Geek Week! Bring out the Pocket Protectors! **// Using technology in the classroom requires responsibility - both professional and personal. Are you aware of the "rules of the road" in navigating the digital highway? Find out your responsibility in the EAT classroom.

What will we be using? There are many digital tools available to make communicating and managing information easier for you. We will be using those listed below. Hopefully they will help you establish good habits that you carry into your college and professional lives. It isimportant that you are present in class to set up your tools and learn the expectations for use so you will be successful this year. Do not race ahead -- improper setup could result in a snafu later in the year.

Important tip: Each time you set up a new account, be sure to record the username and the password on your password sheet. Do not assume that you will remember them -- you won't. Use the suggestions given in class for keeping up with your account information. If you lose access to your accounts because you have lost or forgotten your passwords, you may have to recreate much work accumulated from throughout the year.

You will be setting up accounts that will help you read, write, think and speak. You will use these in the EAT classroom and at your field site classroom. They will help you manage your school work, and they will help you manage your field site classroom work.
 * google
 * Blogger
 * Gmail - professions
 * bisd gmail (to use with Google classroom)
 * Wikispaces, Wix or Weebly (professional portfolio)
 * Dropbox or Google Drive (Cyber storage)

= Google: =

You will learn to use some features of google this year. Let's start with google's version of email called gmail.

You may already have one or more email accounts. Can you use them for this class? The answer is no if they do not meet the requirements for a professional account. You will establish a gmail account just for this class (which may be used for other school-related communication, also). You need to think about setting up an account that can be identified as yours without a cutesy or tasteless name. This account is for the professional you. Here are some examples on how to name your account.
 * Acceptable Names || Unacceptable Name ||
 * barbsmith@gmail.com || cutiepie@email.com ||
 * b.smith@gmail.com || sexybabe.@emailcom ||
 * ba.smith@gmail.com || soccerchick@email.com ||

Year I Students: Visit [|Gmail] to set up your account. View this video on composing email [|How to compose gmail] Learn the "rules of the road" when using email professionally. Set up your professional signature: Send a proper email to Mrs. Kallas with your google account password in it.
 * Your first and last name
 * Birdville ISD Education and Training Intern
 * Your high school

Year II Interns: Verify that you have access to your google account. Check out this site [|Email Etiquette for Students] Work with a team member to create a skit, rap, slide show, or other presentation that depicts the "Top Ten Rules for Sending Email." Present to the Year I students.

Quiz: How much do know about professional email. Test your knowledge of the information presented. [|Click here to take quiz]

Assignment:

 * Set up your professional signature
 * First and last name
 * BCTAL Education and Training Intern
 * Haltom High School
 * Texas Association of Future Educators
 * Educators Rising
 * Compose an email to Mrs. Kallas. It will be regarding "Field Site Placement". In the body of the email, indicate the name of the schools at which you would like to be placed. (Prioritize top 3) Indicate at least two grades or content ares in which you would like to be placed. You may request a teacher if you know he/she teaches at a particular school. Explain concisely why you think your request is the best option for you. REMINDER: Before you send have you done the following?
 * Included a proper salutation?
 * Ended with a closing?
 * Used a professional signature?
 * Checked spelling and grammar
 * Double-checked the email address?

EXAMPLE:
To: kkallasbctal@gmail.com Re: Professional Email Example

Mrs. Kallas;

It was not until recently that I started thinking about my career choice. I know many people are inspired to be teachers at a young age. I became interested in teaching when I was working as a camp counselor this summer. I loved the progress I saw among my campers in the archery class I taught.

I would like to be placed in a fourth or fifth grade classroom for my internship experience. If possible, I would like to be placed at Pleasant Valley School because I have fond memories of my elementary school experience there. If that is not possible, I would be happy at any other elementary you choose for me.

Respectfully,

Stuart Dent Education and Training Intern Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning

= Example of what not to do!! JK, LOL, HA!! =

//**<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">[[image:Unknown-2.jpeg width="129" height="94" align="left"]]It's all about the blog! **//
Learn how to express your thoughts and knowledge in an electronic journal. What comprises a good discussion? You will be using what is learned to blog throughout the year.

Ways you will be blogging this year:
 * You will use your own blog to follow the happenings in your field site classroom.
 * You will comment to articles posted on Mrs. Kallas' blog throughout the year.
 * Year II students will comment on a common book on their personal blogs.

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Resource: [|Blogs by Commoncraft]

The blog used to e-journal in class is: [|Blogger.com]

Need help with your blog? [|Blogger Help]

[|Getting Started on Blogger]


 * [|Details]
 * [[file:kkallasbctal/64 Interesting Ideas for Class Blog Posts.webarchive|Download]]
 * 7 MB

Good teacher information blogs to follow: [|Edudemic] [|Freetech4teachers] [|Larry Ferlazzo] [|Kathy Schrock's guide to everything] [|Edutopia]

[|EschoolNews - Top ten Education Blogs]

Year 1
Blog Assignments: Create a welcome message for your first post on your blog. Invite others to follow your adventures in exploring education as a career throughout the upcoming year. [|Link to Mrs. Kallas' Blog: Blog in Education and Training 901] You will need to check this blog every week! Bookmark Mrs. Kallas Blog on your bookmark bar!

Year 2 Second year interns will peer assist first year interns while 1st year interns are setting up their blogs. Year 2 interns will continue to use the BLogger account they opened last year. Be sure you can access your blogger account from last year. You will need to search the TAFE and Educators Rising websites. Search for contests and competitions you are interested in doing this year. Save the file or files you are interested in pursuing for competitino. Save in either Dropbox or Google Drive. On your blog - you will need to write a narrative or list with discussion of what you are thinking of doing for competition. This is due by Friday, Sept. 4

List steps to get started ...


 * Individual, team or class project - who will be working with you?
 * What you will need to be successful?
 * How long do you think it will take you to achieve your goal?

Year 2 interns will search the available scholos for teachers/site schools where they might like to be placed.
 * Check the school
 * Check the teacher's schedule
 * Be sure they are in class when you will be there.
 * Give details: subject, grade level, etc.
 * Live hidden links to the school and teacher's website.
 * Send me a professional email with your suggestions and why this might be a good fit for you. This is due by Friday, Sept. 4.
 * Remember, a professional email has a subject
 * Remember, a professional email has working links
 * Remember, a professional email doesn't have poor grammar or misspelled words

= Portfolios =

You will have three choices from which to create your e-portfolio this year.

Throughout the year, you will be documenting and archiving materials you have created or obtained that pertain to your future career as a teacher. Your portfolio will be one of the most important items you can have as you journey towards your first teaching job. It will show what you have done, are capable of doing and will showcase skills you have obtained. Since it is electronic, you will be able to add to it, update it, and edit it as you see fit. Future employers will e impressed with your work. When you are in college, you will be able to look back on things you did in this class.

You will be given more criteria for creating your portfolio as it is made available. We will be focusing on the TAFE rubric for categories. It is not available at this time.

Wikispaces Click here for an example [|Weebly] [|Click here for an example] [|Wix][| Click here for an example]

Create a "Home" page that includes the following elements:

(Students may navigate to this sample page Sample Home to see an example of what it might look like.)


 * Your Name (first and last, no nicknames)
 * Photo of you - professional - not silly
 * Name of your High School / Hyperlinked
 * Digital Essay about why you want to be a teacher. Less than 1 minute. Embedded on page.
 * Any Educational video - under 3 minutes from You Tube - embedded on page.

Skills taught: Your wiki is only as strong as its weakest LINK!
 * Page set-up
 * Hyperlinking
 * Embedding
 * Inserting images/files
 * Use of text enhancement features

Year I Interns

Create a page of links on your wiki that you will be using continuously this year.


 * 1) Open your Wiki[[image:kkallasbctal/images-6.jpeg align="right" caption="images-6.jpeg"]]
 * 2) Create a page. Name it "Web Tools."
 * 3) Hyperlink the links to the following web tools you will be using on a regular basis:
 * Mrs. Kallas' Wiki - EAT Internship in BCTAL 901
 * Your Wiki
 * Your Blog
 * Dropbox.com
 * Your Gmail account
 * Mrs. Kallas' school email: karen.kallas@birdvilleschools.net
 * Email to turn in assignments: kkallasbctal@gmail.com
 * TAFE: tafeonline.org
 * FEA: futureeducators.org


 * 1) Click on Edit Navigation
 * 2) Type in "Web Tools" and highlight it.
 * 3) Click on the link tool.
 * 4) Save when the "Web Tools" page is listed in both fields

Complete the Technology Tool Kit Checklist.

Make sure you have completed all tasks on it as it will count as a grade.

You may have to work on this outside of class if you are behind.

Year II Interns - New blog component!

You will be reading selections from a book and sharing your opinions on your blog this year. Check out a book to use during the year from Mrs. Kallas. Then find out how you will be adding this extra component to your EAT blog.