Friday, Sept 11, 2009 Blast

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Middle School Latin Powerspeak recently made upgrades to all of its elementary and middle school level world language courses. One of those courses is Middle School Latin (Years 1 and 2). A coordinated, switch to the new versions of the courses caused a disruption for many students access. Currently, the Powerspeak and K12technical teams are working together to resolve the issues. We expect the issues to be corrected by next week. When they are corrected, students who click the Powerspeak button from the their OLS accounts will enter their MS Latin courses as usual, and (if they were originally assigned to the older version of the course) will see a the new, improved version of the course. If you experience issues with other elementary and middle school level world language courses, please continue to bring them to the attention of the Powerspeak help desk at 800-596-0910.

FEDERAL SURVEY CARDS HELP HTA RECEIVE FUNDS TO SUPPORT EXTRACURRICULUM ACTIVITIES AND FIELD TRIPS. If you have not completed a Federal Survey card for each student enrolled at HTA please contact McKenna to complete this card. ALL FAMILIES SHOULD COMPLETE THIS FORM. Even if you are not military associated.

The Italy meeting will be on Tuesday, Sept 15th at 12:30pm in classroom #2 and again online in my elluminate room at 7pm that same day. https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/ launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=559&passwor d=M.873493085DEFA1667E60A5484935C2

YEARBOOK 2009/2010 Forms for purchasing the yearbook (pre-sale - $20) will be at the front desk of the school starting Mon. the 14th. Please turn all money into Ms. McKenna, Ms. Karen or Mrs. Tollefsen. Sale runs till Nov. 6th then the book goes up to $25. Also correction: the yearbook signing party will be available to everyone.

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Scholastic Book Orders….Now online! Give online ordering a try! Scholastic Books has ageappropriate books for ages pre-k through high school. Book prices start at only $1, with many books cheaper than you can get at Borders or Amazon.com. And shipping is FREE! It’s fast, easy, and you get instant access to hundreds of additional titles plus online-only specials and discounts. Best of all, our class earns a FREE book for our school library every time a parent places their order online! To order online, go to the Web address below and enter our class’s personalized user name and password in the sign-in fields on the right side of the page. Note: You do not need to create your own user name and password. www.scholastic.com/bookclubs User Name: htabooks Password: cluborders

TECHNOLOGY NEWS…. We are in the process of updating student accounts for the Mac Server (Oahu Only). All duplicate accounts and accounts with incorrect names will be deleted. It is strongly recommended that students and staff back up any files that they have saved onto their server accounts to a flash drive. Mrs. Tollefsen and Mr. Imoto will be also creating new accounts for the new staff and students. We will be doing the updates and new accounts on Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. Please pardon any inconvenience that this may cause. We are working hard to help things run more efficiently in our network. Thank you for your support and patience.

Mr. Imoto and Mrs. Tollefsen, technology teachers/support

HTA Cookbook needs your recipe’s HTA PTSA Cookbook Recipe Forms are available via HTAPTSA website, http://htaptsa.googlepages.com. Please complete the form and submit to [email protected] . MAHALO!! Questions?

Brynne Cook 805-766-4028 Donna Marcantel 808-744-7804