Daily Agenda, Friday 2/6/09

NOTES:
Charece, I still need your new blog address. Please leave me a comment on my blog post today.
Would someone in 1st period make sure she does this.

Would someone in each class period, make sure that the newest members of our class set up a blog TODAY, and leave me a comment on my blog so I can connect to their blogs.

I STILL THINK THERE ARE MANY OF YOU WHO ARE NOT READING THE BLOG EACH DAY, COMPLETELY OR ARE JUST NOT FOLLOWING THE DIRECTIONS. PLEASE START DOING THAT ASAP!!

WARM-UP:
IT IS VERY POSSIBLE THAT I HAVE SOME OF YOUR TIMESHEETS. I WILL LOOK WHEN I GET HOME TODAY. IN THE MEANTIME, JUST WRITE YOUR WORK HOURS ON A SHEET OF PAPER AND PUT IT IN THE TURN IN BOX UNTIL I GET BACK WITH YOUR TIMESHEETS.

1) check your mailbox
2) update your time sheet (all should be in your folders)
3) make copies of your pay check stubs if you brought any in
4) update your yellow pay check stub record sheet
5) update you weekly work schedule on to your blog if your work schedule as changed

CLASS ACTIVITIES:

6) NEW ASSIGNMENTS FOR TODAY

a) Print out this document 1st, before you go to letter b
You will be completing this worksheet and turning it in to the turn in box BY THE END OF THE PERIOD TODAY.
Business Marketing Worsheet

b) You need to go to this website and read the information to help you complete the worksheets that you need to download and print out.
http://www.moneyinstructor.com/lesson/busmarketing.asp

c) Once you finish the worksheet I want you to complete the following:
- Create a New Post on your Blog
- title the blog post: MARKETING INTRO
- Think about your favorite place to go shopping or favorite place to go eat at.
(Example: McDonalds®, Nike®, 7-11®, etc...)
I want you identify that company's target market and marketing mix and tell me all about it on your blog post. YES THIS WILL BE GRADED.

I WILL SEE YOU ALL ON MONDAY! PLEASE COMPLETE ALL WORK I HAVE ASSIGNED YOU.
THANK YOU FOR NOT DISAPPOINTING ME!!! :)

HAVE A GOOD DAY AND REMEMBER MY MOTTOS:
1) NO SCHOOL/NO WORK (hours can't be counted)
2) MAKE WISE DECISIONS.

Daily Agenda, Thursday 2/5/09

NOTES:
Charece, I need your new blog address. Please leave me a comment on my blog post today.
Everyone else, please check to see that the link with your name on my blog (right hand side) is working. Is it going to your blog page. If it is not, please leave a comment on my post today so I can add your page to mine.

If your name doesn't appear on the right hand side of my blog then that means I do not have your correct blogpot url. Please leave a comment on my blog page, so I can add it to mine.

There are several of you who have not posted your work schedule yet, please do so TODAY.

WARM-UP:
1) check your mailbox
2) update your time sheet (all should be in your folders)
3) make copies of your pay check stubs if you brought any in
4) update your yellow pay check stub record sheet
5) update you weekly work schedule on to your blog if your work schedule as changed

CLASS ACTIVITIES:

6) FINISH TYPING THE WORDS I GAVE YOU YESTERDAY, IN A NEW BLOG POST. The words and procedures are listed below. Please complete numbers 6 and 7 correctly and completely .

7) * Create a new blog post
* your blog title should be --> Employment Terms
* Type the following list of words and define them.
Use your resources to find the definition of the words. (dictionary.com, search the web, the textbook, etc.)
* format for terms and definitions: type the term in ALL CAPS followed by a colon :
example of format --> EVALUATION: an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
1. EVALUATION
2. ASSESSMENTS
3. BACKGROUND CHECK
4. BENEFITS
5. COLD CALL
6. COMPENSATION PACKAGE
7. GROSS PAY
8. FICA
9. OSHA
10. NET PAY
11. DEDUCTIONS
12. INTERNSHIP
13. OUTSOURCING
14. NETWORKING
15. OCCUPATIONAL OUTLOOK HANDBOOK
16. SALARY
17. TELECOMMUTING
18. TEMPING
19. THANK YOU LETTERS
20. WORK-PLACE VALUES

I found a bunch of these words at the following website; check it out: http://www.quintcareers.com/jobseeker_glossary.html

8) NEW ASSIGNMENTS FOR TODAY
* Get a purple Office Applications textbook from the back bookcase. (3rd shelf) Make sure you return it at the end of class (DO NOT LEAVE IT OUT SITTING BY YOUR COMPUTER).
* Look in the Table of Contents and locate the activity titled "POWERFUL POWERPOINT". I do not know the page number (as I only have the teacher edition, not student version and the pages don't match.)
* Complete the exercise exactly as they appear on the page. Show me what you know about PowerPoint.
* Be sure to save it to your server. Then save it to the Electronic Turn in folder on the J:/ drive. (ask for help if you don't know how to do this).
* I will be grading this assignment using the rubic listed in the book at the bottom of the exercise directions. The Reflection portion is worth 6 points. I would like for you to POST YOUR REFLECTION TO YOUR BLOG.
* title your reflection post: POWERFUL POWERPOINT REFLECTION

9) BONUS POINTS: "Bubble Share" is a free program, site that we used last year to take a PowerPoint project and post it to our blogs. Bubble Share is blocked, but I quickly found this site: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/09/embed-powerpoint-slides-as-flash.html but have not had time to really look at it. Major bonus points for this project, if you can figure out how to convert your PowerPoint project in to a file that can be posted to your blog, and then post your project to your blog with your POWERFUL POWERPOINT REFLECTION reflection.

PLEASE BE SURE TO COMPLETE ALL THE ASSIGNMENTS I AM LEAVING YOU. I AM AFRAID THAT SOME OF YOU ARE VISITING AND PLAYING TOO MUCH AND NOT GETTING YOUR WORK DONE. PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T DO THAT.

HAVE A GOOD DAY AND REMEMBER MY MOTTOS:
1) NO SCHOOL/NO WORK (hours can't be counted)
2) MAKE WISE DECISIONS.

Daily Agenda, Wednesday 2/4

I am a little bummed that only 7 people out of 38 actually read my blog and completed the Comment Assignment that was #6 in the Warm-up. That shows me just how many of you are truly reading and following the directions I list on my blog. Oh well, it was an ASSIGNMENT THAT WAS TO BE DONE ON TUESDAY, 2/3. Maybe after the everyone but those 7 receive a zero, maybe people will start reading directions more carefully.

WARM-UP:
1) check your mailbox
2) update your time sheet (all should be in your folders)
3) make copies of your pay check stubs if you brought any in
4) update your yellow pay check stub record sheet
5) update you weekly work schedule on to your blog if your work schedule as changed

CLASS ACTIVITIES:
If you weren't in class on Tuesday, be sure to read my blog post for that day and complete the work assigned.

6) FINISH THE WORKSHEET ASSIGNMENT FROM YESTERDAY. You had 2 handouts you were to print and complete. If you didn't get them completed, you have today to do so. Please work quickly.

THERE WILL NOT BE ANY ADDITIONAL EXTENSION.

7) New assignment for today -->

* Create a new blog post

* your blog title should be --> Employment Terms

* Type the following list of words and define them. Use your resources to find the definition of the words. (dictionary.com, search the web, the textbook, etc.)

* format for terms and definitions: type the term in ALL CAPS followed by a colon :

example of format --> EVALUATION: an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.

1. EVALUATION
2. ASSESSMENTS
3. BACKGROUND CHECK
4. BENEFITS
5. COLD CALL
6. COMPENSATION PACKAGE
7. GROSS PAY
8. FICA
9. OSHA
10. NET PAY
11. DEDUCTIONS
12. INTERNSHIP
13. OUTSOURCING
14. NETWORKING
15. OCCUPATIONAL OUTLOOK HANDBOOK
16. SALARY
17. TELECOMMUTING
18. TEMPING
19. THANK YOU LETTERS
20. WORK-PLACE VALUES

I found a bunch of these words at the following website; check it out: http://www.quintcareers.com/jobseeker_glossary.html

8) Make sure you have completed all worksheets assigned to date and that you have turned them all in.

Thank you and have a great day.

DAILY AGENDA, TUESDAY 2/3/09

REMINDERS:
* Even though I am gone this week, you must still call or text me if you are going to be missing school for whatever reason. Just because I am gone does not mean you get a "free pass" on communicating with me.
Thank you to those of you who did that on Monday. Way to go!

* I am gone all week.
* Be on your best behavior all week please.
* Your folders are back in the big black crate and they are in the correct alphabetical order. Please be sure to keep them in the correct order.

* W-2 FORMS ARE DUE NEXT MONDAY, FEB. 9TH. BE SURE TO BRING THEM IN AND MAKE A COPY AND PUT IT IN YOUR FOLDER.

* New students please be sure that you get help with copying your paycheck stubs, recording your hours on the time sheet, and recording your paycheck stub information on your paycheck stub record sheet (yellow sheet). Everyone should have a folder in the crate. If you don't, please leave a comment on my blog and I will get you one. Everyone should have a box with their name on it. Please let me know if I have left you out. In addition, please make sure that you have corrected a blog and have left a comment on my blog so I can add your blog address to my blog.

* MAKE SURE YOU CHECK YOUR MAILBOX EACH DAY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CLASS PERIOD.

WARM-UP:
1) check your mailbox
2) update your time sheet (all should be in your folders)
3) make copies of your pay check stubs if you brought any in
4) update your yellow pay check stub record sheet
5) update you weekly work schedule on to your blog IF you were not here yesterday or if your schedule has changed. (Please see Daily Agenda, Monday 2/2/09 posting for week # and formatting example if you do not remember.)
6) COMMENT ASSIGNMENT: EVERYONE IS TO POST A COMMENT ON MY BLOG TODAY. POST THE COMMENT TO TODAY'S BLOG POST. TELL ME 1 THING YOU HAVE LEARNED THUS FAR FROM STUDYING THE OSHA-TEEN WORKERS SAFETY IN RESTAURANTS WEBSITE.

Points off for every day this in not posted correctly, completely or not at all.

CLASS ACITIVITIES:
* More work on the OSHA Teen Workers Safety in Restaurants website. I will probably be coming to collect what was turned in today, so you better make sure you complete all the work I have assigned yesterday and today.
* If you were absent on Monday, please see Daily Agenda, Monday 2/2/09, post and complete the assignment made on Monday, before beginning today's assignment.

6) Complete yesterday's worksheet, if you have not yet done so. OSHA-Teen Workers Safety in Restaurants_Serving-Handout2
7) Turn in Handout 2 once you have completed (should not take all period today).
8) Click on the following links. New handouts for today(you have 2 to complete today, because they are not very long at all -->

OSHA-Teen Workers Safety in Restaurants_Clean-up-Handout3_Electrical Hazards
OSHA-Teen Workers Safety in Restaurants_Clean-up-Handout4-Strains & Sprains

* Open the document and print it out.
* This is the worksheet you must complete during class TODAY. AND YES YOU WILL BE TURNING IT IN SO I CAN SEE WHO DID WHAT TODAY.
* If you do not follow directions, you will lose points off your Weekly Professional Development points.

* Please make sure you have completed yesterday's and today's worksheets by the end of the period, completely.

MAKE SURE YOU PUT YOUR NAME ON ALL PAGES OF THE WORKSHEET, IN CASE THEY GET SEPARATED. (points will be taken off if this is not followed)

7) You will need to go to the following website in order to fill in the worksheet you just printed. http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/youth/restaurant/index.html
* Click on the Clean-up tab
* The worksheet covers Electrical Hazards and

8) TURN IN YOUR WORKSHEET TODAY - MAKE SURE YOU ARE DONE WITH YOUR WORKSHEET.THERE IS NO OTHER BLOG POST ASSIGNMENT ACCEPT FOR POSTING YOUR WEEKLY WORK SCHEDULE.

Have a super day and Please remember my MOTTO's:
1) NO SCHOOL/NO WORK (hours can't be counted)
2) MAKE WISE DECISIONS.

Daily Agenda, Monday 2/2/09

REMINDERS:


* I am gone all week.
* Be on your best behavior all week please.
* Your folders are back in the big black crate and they are in the correct alphabetical order. Please be sure to keep them in the correct order.

* W-2 FORMS ARE DUE NEXT MONDAY, FEB. 9TH. BE SURE TO BRING THEM IN AND MAKE A COPY AND PUT IT IN YOUR FOLDER.

* New students please be sure that you get help with copying your paycheck stubs, recording your hours on the time sheet, and recording your paycheck stub information on your paycheck stub record sheet (yellow sheet). Everyone should have a folder in the crate. If you don't, please leave a comment on my blog and I will get you one. Everyone should have a box with their name on it. Please let me know if I have left you out. In addition, please make sure that you have corrected a blog and have left a comment on my blog so I can add your blog address to my blog.

* MAKE SURE YOU CHECK YOUR MAILBOX EACH DAY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CLASS PERIOD.

* People are starting to make poor choices again. Please remember my MOTTO's:
1) NO SCHOOL/NO WORK (hours can't be counted)
2) MAKE WISE DECISIONS.

WARM-UP:
Students new this semester, if you are not sure how to do any of the warm-up items listed, please ask a neighbor to help you out.

1) check your mailbox
2) update your time sheet (all should be in your folders)
3) make copies of your pay check stubs if you brought any in
4) update your yellow pay check stub record sheet
5) up date you weekly work schedule on to your blog. I will be checking for these (TODAY)MAKE SURE THAT YOU LIST EACH DAY OF THE WEEK AND THAT YOU LIST EACH DAY'S DATE.

Remember if you are unemployed, you must still make a post on your blog and tell me where all you have gone to put your application in, so I can follow up.

See below for example or go to AmandaM's blog (located under 2nd period).

Title of your blog post should be: Work Schedule Week #22

Monday, 1/26: off
Tuesday, 1/27: 3 pm - 10 pm
Wednesday, 1/28: off
Thursday, 1/29: 4 pm - 11 pm
Friday, 1/30: 5 pm - 12 am
Saturday, 1/31: 10 am - 4 pm
Sunday, 2/1: off


CLASS ACITIVITIES:
6) Click on the following link.
OSHA-Teen Workers Safety in Restaurants_Serving-Handout2

* Open the document and print it out.
* This is your worksheet you must complete during class TODAY. AND YES YOU WILL BE TURNING IT IN SO I CAN SEE WHO DID WHAT TODAY.
* If you do not follow directions, you will lose points off your Weekly Professional Development points, which as you should remember, is 10% of your average.
* There is no reason you should not be able to complete this entire worksheet during class today, BUT if you don't, put your worksheet in your folder for safe keeping until tomorrow.

MAKE SURE YOU PUT YOUR NAME ON ALL PAGES OF THE WORKSHEET, IN CASE THEY GET SEPARATED.

7) You will need to go to the following website in order to fill in the worksheet you just printed. http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/youth/restaurant/index.html
* Click on the Serving Tab.
* The worksheet covers Workplace Violence and Cuts/Knives

8) TURN IN YOUR WORKSHEET TODAY - MAKE SURE YOU ARE DONE WITH YOUR WORKSHEET.

THERE IS NO OTHER BLOG POST ASSIGNMENT ACCEPT FOR POSTING YOUR WEEKLY WORK SCHEDULE.