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Congratulations!!!!
Congratulations, you have begun the school year. Now that you have started with the OLS/LMS curricu-
lums, there is much to do, learn and use. To help you through this process remember your seven habits:
1. Homeroom Planning (Keep Attendance, Plan your day)
2. Know your tools (OLS/LMS)
3. Know your students learning style
4. Know your limits
5. Use your partnerships (Teachers, staff, HTA ohana)
6. Use the Learning Center (Register for your classes)
7. Be Creative!
In addition to all these sources, communications will have a LIVE Elluminate schedule for OLS/LMS specific
questions. This schedule will come out on August 15 with all the other Elluminate schedules.
INSIDE THIS
ISSUE:
Box Tops 2
Accessing powerspeaK12
Kauai Sports News 2
To access powerspeaK12, families must first login to the OLS with a student account user name and
password. To create a student account, parents must:
HTA-PTSA 3 1. Login to the OLS with the learning coach user name and password.
2. Select My Account in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
Google Calendars 5
Oahu Interactive 6
Open House
New Website 8
3. On the My Account page, parents are able to create a student account by selecting the blue Edit
button in the Student Accounts box.
4. Once the student user name and password has been created, parents will want to navigate back to
the OLS Home page and select New Log-In for a new login screen to appear. Once the new screen
appears, the family will be able to enter the student user name and password that will take them to
the student view of the OLS were they will be able to access the world language course.
Once logged into the OLS via the student account, students/families will then want to select power-
speaK12 on the side of the screen to access their world language if enrolled in a world language
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Kauai News
Scantron testing August 5th - all Kauai Students:
9:00 am - 12:00 pm - session 1
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm - session 2
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm - session 3
Testing will be conducted at the Kauai Learning center
Princeville Center (upstairs) suite G204
Mr. Piontek will be having a meeting with the new students to let them know a little more on
what to expect with their new adventure with HTA. We will also be taking pictures for their stu-
dent ID cards, as well as taking their scantron assessments.
Please Contact McKenna Marich, HTA Office Manager, for scheduling. Either by email, or call
Fun Fact: (808) 676-5444.
A car traveling
100 mph Aug 5th, Wednesday Kauai Scantron Testing
Aug 11th, Tuesday Face to face meeting with Kauai Teachers
would take
Aug 18th, Tuesday Learning Centers Classes begin in Kauai
more than 29
million years
to reach the
nearest star.
Kauai HTA Sports News
Seven HTA students will be representing Kauai at Hawaii
State Junior Lifeguard Championship, Saturday, August 8th
at Ala Moana Beach Park. Almost a third of Kauai's team are
HTA students! GO HTA STUDENTS!!!!
A schedule of
Elluminate Electives,
specifically targeting
the neighbor
island students (Oahu
Box Tops For Education
student are encour-
Here's a way to earn money for our school, with the products you might already
aged to enroll as buy and have in your homes--
space permits),
will be sent out Thurs- There are three ways to earn $ for HTA using Box Tops for Education.
1. Clip from products you use at home (go to: http://www.boxtops4education.com/AllAboutBoxTops/
day, Aug. 13th. products.aspx to see the variety of products) and bring in ziploc back with your last name to collection
box in front office. There will be MONTHLY worksheets printed to glue box tops onto- take one home
and turn in to PTSA mailbox (will be there before the Learning Center courses start). Their site has cou-
pons also so you can save $ on the products that will make $ for the school!
"You teach best what you 2. Sign up online at boxtops4education.com and designate HTA (zip: 96797) as your school for other
most need to learn." chances to win credits. Log in and participate in contests like The Big Clip (going on now) where they
give away $25,000-$50,000 worth of box tops!
-- Richard David Bach
3. Go to boxtops4education.com and log-in before shopping at Barnes & Noble (Reading Room), or
other online stores (Marketplace- lots of options) where a % will be credited to HTA for your purchase.
Let's see how much we can raise during the school year!
HTA-PTSA NEWS
Mahalo to all who helped the PTSA have a wonderful start to the new school year.
We had 47 people become members of the PTSA during orientation week. You can still become
a member. There are applications at the LC. Please fill one out and ask McKenna to put it in the
PTSA mailbox. Membership fee is $15 for adults/ $10 for students.
Over 200 people attended the Back to School Beach Bash at Bellows. The Bash was a success
thanks to Carmen Perkins, Jeff Piontek, Libra Forde and of course all of our guests.
Due to some wonderful dishes at our Beach Bash, an HTA Cookbook was suggested. We will
have more information about that in the next Blast. Please start gathering your favorite recipes!!
Sarada Wright:
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Schedule of Events
• August 3—first day for OLS/
LMS
AUGUST 2009
• August 3-14— First Face-to-
Face conferences with teachers Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
• August 6—Trip To Italy; Mrs.
Au’s Ellumnate @7:00pm. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
• August 13— Oahu Interactive
Open House; 12-3
• August 15—History Day Kick 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Off; Chaminade University; 10-
2:30pm
• August 17—Learning Center 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Classes begin
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Elluminate
Schedules
will be available
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8/15 and classes will
start 8/17.
These are a open to
ALL HTA Students!!!
Materials Link...
The access the Materials Link:
Keep your students Go to our hawaiitechnologyacademy.org
moving and do not stress about Click on Customer Service (Top right corner area of the
PE. We will have more specifics screen
on a PE schedule by the 17th of Click on "Materials List"
August. Click on "Virtual Academy"
Click on k-8 or HS
Click on Hawaii Technology Academy
Sort by Subject
Click on the appropriate grade level and viola!
Literacy Corner
Welcome to Hawaii Tech- I am very excited to be Once again, wel-
nology Academy. My working with you and come to HTA. We
name is Jozette Linhart your child here at HTA. have a rewarding
and I will be the Literacy My goal is to provide an and educational year
Specialist, working with enriching learning envi- ahead us!
The goal of phonics
kindergarten through fifth ronment in which your
graders. I have 13 years ex- child and I can grow to- Ms. Linhart instruction is to teach
crucial element in
on: phonemic
awareness, decoding,
Is your K-8 child enrolled in a world language course? Accessing the spelling, and fluency
course is simple.
1. Log into the OLS via the student account
2. Select PowerSpeak12 on the (right) side of the screen to access the
course. (It should be listed under "My Info".)
Like to Travel?
Mrs. Au is organizing the First HTA International Trip to Italy, If
you like to travel find out more information through the
Thursday, August 6 at 7:00pm Eluminate.
Go To:
URL: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?
sid=559&password=M.873493085DEFA1667E60A5484935C2
K12 introduces a 24-hour customer
support helpline:
1-866-512-2273
STUDY ISLAND
Eight Keys to Information at HTA Study Island will not be
There are eight communication forums available to each HTA Ohana. available to students
These eight forums are considered the "Eight Keys to getting in on the until sometime after
Know".
August 17th, For now,
HTA families should
1. Direct email contact (School, Teachers, Communications) disregard any daily ref-
2. Log-in website (www.hawaiitechacademy.org) erence to Study Is-
3. Information Archive Website (www.HTAOhana.org) land. Your access
4. FRIDAY BLAST code will be provided
5. Monthly Newsletters to you in a few
6. Homeroom Teachers Google Calendars weeks. For now, focus
7. Elluminate Rooms with Homeroom Teachers primarily on the core
8. Facebook
Your HTA Ohana should be familiar with all of these keys. HTA Ohana's have eight opportunities to gathering
information. You can choose all or some of these forums as your virtual information tools.