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Sign in and out EVERY Day with your Advocate! Thanks Log In, Check Email and Open wiki first thing when you arrive. Please don't wait to be told. Personal initiative is crucial to your success at FP!
 * Happy Tuesday!! **

Work on Math or other classes - if you have extra time.

__**Goals for Today:**__ >
 * Give About Me presentations
 * Finish (work on) Career documents and send to Michelle Griswold - TR ICE Notes, 3 Careers Notes, Learning and Careers PPt, and Resume. Please have all 4 open.


 * You will need to have[| I Have a Plan]website open.
 * Do formulas in excel and look at data on starting and average salaries - [[file:Salary - Average and Starting Jan 12.xls]]and [[file:Salary comparisons educ levels.xlsx]]
 * Personal Responsibility
 * Personal Responsibility


 * Keytrains - workforce training website - [] - will do Locating Information today


 * Gene's website (weebly) - [] - Please use to look at other student websites(blogs) Please make comments on other students blog posts and read the comments on yours. Respond as seems right.

Garbage Heap for now :-( :-)

CAREERS Please sign in to I Have a Plan.Finish exploring 3 careers! Place the notes in the **3 Career Notes** doc

Do last 2 sections of **TR ICE Notes** doc (10-15 years and next steps)

Work on **About ME PPt** and **Learning and Careers PP**t - This will involve creating and inserting content into the power points. Work on design features of PPt once content is complete.

Your Blog should include:

Learning is Fun Big Picture - image and narrative Living outside Iowa - image and narrative. Hero (Day 8)

__ **Today - Blog post - 2 quotes** __


 * "If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got."


 * "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Insert these two quotes into blog - put each in a quote box. Find out who is credited with the quote. Note the source in blog.

Write a reflection on what this two quotes mean to you and your life. Is it enough to "want" something really intensely? Will desire "make it happen"?

FILES

Please examine your files and file storage. I'll give you a list of files you should have at this point.

You may have files in Skydrive, on Desktop in your documents or in your downloads. We need to get them into ONE location. Suggestion TR folder in Desktop; then upload to Skydrive.

You MAY have multiple files; be careful make sure you are using the MOST up to date. Many files in download will be original files - your content may or may not be in it....

Learning Styles []

Learning Styles

Open "My Credits" - - We will examine the classes you need.

Please complete this survey - - average vs entry(starting) salaries [|https://docs.google.com/a/fpdmtr.org/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dFp3MmpoaTNRVm5vcXNaTlEteTZCbEE6MQ#gid=0] - you will need to have your Career Notes Matrix open - you will use some data from that document. Thanks

Use the yellow hightlighter pen and hightlight key points.
 * O **pen, save and read - [[file:Study says students need more career options PtP Harvard.docx]]

Please copy and paste respond to these 4 questions in 2-3 paragraphs. Career Options - Please write in sentences and check spelling, etc.
 * What is the main point of the study reported in the article?
 * What are 2 pieces of evidence in the article that support that point?
 * Do you wish you had more career oriented classes in school?
 * What from this article do you want to remember as you make your career decisions?

**Blog Post** :
 * · Please describe the steps you took to put the puzzle together. (order and detail – steps)
 * · At 10 minutes in, your team got the picture of the assembled puzzle. Did it help? Was it faster after receiving the picture?
 * · In life, does having a picture of what you are trying to accomplish help?
 * · Did folks on your team do different tasks? Did one person take charge? Did you feel part of the team? Elaborate

Garbage Heap for today - maybe another day!!!!! FP Projects - Project cycle -

A science project -

Charts for About Me PPT We have created files you will need open: 1. My First TR Charts - an excel file 2. Learning Styles - a one page word doc with YOUR results pasted into it. 3. Interests and Values - a word doc with the results of YOUR I Have a Plan surveys on Interests and Values

Please have all three open. Also please have IHAP website open and be signed in. (May need to use it!) If you can NOT find these files, please ask BEFORE we start!)