Happy Thanksgiving Business Educators!

During Thanksgiving, I would have my classes create cards for all of the faculty saying "thank you" as well as a banner for the teachers' workroom and my FBLA chapter would bring in treats for the teachers' mailboxes to say "thank you".

I always had my students work on a community service project the days leading up to Thanksgiving. We did a "Warm Up for Winter" clothing campaign to bring to the shelter. My classes worked on the promotion of the project (flyers, e-mails to the teachers, notecards, table tents, hallway decorations - mittens hanging from the ceiling, created boxes for the clothing to go in, and a spreadsheet to tally what items we received as well as their estimated tax value.

For their reflective journal that week, we would read the "Giving Tree" and they would reflect one someone in their life who had giving up everything for them to be happy. Some students wrote poems or notes to that person instead of a journal and gave their work to the person on Turkey Day.

Please share what you have done with your students to instill the value of thankfulness.

Happy Teaching,
Georgia Business Education

National Business Education Month

November is National Business Education Month!

Visit NBEA's website for more information on products and promotional items. Items include the National Business Education Month Posters (FBLA Advisers will receive from GaDOE at FLC), Promotional Kits for Schools, and numerous other publications.

www.nbea.org

Ideas to promote Business Education:

Business Professional Dress Day = have students and teachers in the department wear professional business attire. To promote, put a PSA on the school announcements "Did you notice anyone wearing professional dress this morning? It is never to early to plan your future...sign up for a Business Education Course for 2010-2011!"

Screen savers in all computer labs and Media Center = convert all the screen savers on every compter in the school to be a promotion of Business Education and/or FBLA.

Business = $$$ stickers for teachers and students to wear = create a sticker in Publisher to promote Business Education as a "money maker". If students still have their sticker on at the end of the day, the can come by your room for a treat.

Business Lunch Meeting = create a space in the cafeteria for all business students to eat lunch and have a guest speaker...run a video of all the cool projects students complete in the courses.

Lunch Table Tents = create a table tent in Publisher about Business Education opportunities and place on the lunch tables in the cafeteria.

Promotional Cards in Teachers' Boxes = other teachers are your biggest helper if you are doing "teachers as advisers" because they might not know about all of the electives. Create an ad in Publisher, cut it out and attach it to candy to place in teachers' boxes in the mail room. I liked to use Pay Days ("Help the students get to their Pay Day" promote Business Education).

Please add a post on ways you promote Business Education and/or FBLA in your community and school in order to increase participation and awareness of our programs.

Happy Teaching!
Business Education Georgia

Great Teacher Pages

This week we are going to be sharing amazing teacher web pages that are available for public access. Please share any that you have come across or even your own personal teaching webpage for teachers to gain ideas.

Tonya Skinner
http://lessonplans.btskinner.com/

Mr. Miller
http://www.themrmiller.com/concepts/

Misty Freeman
http://www.barrow.k12.ga.us/wbhs/teacher10/index.html

Ruby Ann Sawyer - Middle School
http://brantley.ga.schoolwebpages.com/education/staff/staff.php?sectionid=865&sc_id=1216919806

Mr. Grant (CISCO)
http://webs.rps205.com/teachers/tgrant/

BJ's Internet Projects
http://www.angelfire.com/va2/bjenglish/index.html

Lyman's ITE Network
http://www.lymansite.net/index.htm

Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers
http://www.essdack.org/tips/index.html

Mr. Yates
http://www.thekjs.essex.sch.uk/yates/ks3.htm

Mrs. Green
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/cabinjohnms/comp/indexca.html

Carole Tauber
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/cabinjohnms/lessons_cjms.html

Alex Vlachakis
http://www.sandycreekhighschool.com/fastpages/vlachakis.html

Happy Teaching!
Business Education Georgia

Better (Photo)Shop Around!

This week we are going to be talking about digital image tools and projects for students to manipulate images like Photoshop.

This site offfers projects for a subscription price but this is the sample and it deals with a digital scrapbook http://www.technokids.com/documents/senior/photoshop-lesson.pdf
In case you didn't know, Adobe has an instructor's page with tons of lesson plans as well (most of which are co-curricular) with podcasting, storyboarding, etc http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/adsc/ they also have forum for teachers to share information http://forums.adobe.com/message/2298487

This lesson plan goes along with our FBLA State Project - Main Street, FBLA - the lesson is making a brochure to attract people to your community http://www.digitalwish.com/dw/digitalwish/view_lesson_plans?id=3144

Other good sites:
http://www.wyckoffschools.org/eisenhower/teachers/olejarz/staffdev/dilinks.html
http://schools.scusd.edu/sacnewtech/classes/digmed/index.htm
http://alex.state.al.us/lesson_view.php?id=24789

Have a picture perfect day!

Happy Teaching,
Georgia Business Education