Moms attending IOT: Share your story

Calling all of our great students who are also mothers! Share your story, get a chance to be published, and win $50.00.  If you are an adult education student enrolled in basic skills, high school diploma/equivalent, ESOL, or college transition classes, you are encouraged to submit your story. 

• Write about yourself: Where did you grow up? How old are you? What was your education experience before enrolling in adult education classes? 

• Write about your children. How have they responded to your going back to school? 

• What are your hopes and dreams that caused you to go back to school? What are the steps you are taking to make them come true? Where are you studying and what? 

• What sacrifices have you had to make in order to make education a priority? 

• What do you enjoy about going back to school? Have you already experienced good outcomes from going back to school? 

• What else would you like others to know about you as a mother getting her education? 

Deadline is Friday, March 7, 2014. Sponsored by World Education 

Second day of new module

Mr. B with morning PD class. Welcome! 

Hello to all new students! It's good to see new faces and familiar ones as well. Remember, I'll be coming into Professional Development and Mod 1 Culinary classes to conduct brief LRC orientations. I usually discuss the services and resources we make available to students, including reference help, tutoring, accommodations, print and electronic resources, and more.

Next week, I'll be in the same Professional Development classes to do a writing workshop, and the following week (Week 3 of mod) I'll conduct Vocabulary Development classes, which are great for ANY student, but are especially helpful to Professional Medical Assisting students who will be studying medical terminology throughout the rest of their programs.

Thursday Night, end of mod in the LRC

Ronnie preps his presentation. 

Computer time

More PD presentations! 

It's another end-of-mod Thursday evening here in the LRC, with a happy crowd of students preparing their projects and studying for finals. Best of luck to everyone!

Tuesday's Health & Safety Fair is a Success

Nancy Tiffany's class put on a very successful and impressive Health and Safety Fair last night. 

Thanks to the hard work on the part of the HRA students, great and healthy food by Chef Kelly Baldwin and her students, and professional participation by Jeff Jackson's PMA students, there was high energy and excellent attendance.  Thanks to everyone who attended and participated! 

Professional Development Tower Project

What's going on in PD? Last week, teams built towers out of ordinary supplies to meet certain specifications. Here we have the creation by team The Supreme PD from Mr. Chaney's evening class. They created a lovely design featuring an eye-catching fringe on top. I'm reminded of a wedding cake! Objectives for this assignment included teamwork, effective communication, creativity, and ability to meet criteria set forth by the instructor for construction of the project, such as height, aesthetic appeal, and more. What do you think?

Beginning Word workshop this Friday

Add another bullet point to your resume with a Microsoft Word training. There's still space in the Beginning MS Word workshop scheduled for this Friday, 1/31, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm. Please sign up with Miss Laura by emailing lhughes@iot.edu or sberatlis@iot.edu. We look forward to seeing you there.

Computer Lounge Available!

Want to check your Facebook or email? We're now offering a computer lounge in the Student Success office, just off the main entrance. Feel free to hang out there and check your Facebook.

Please be aware that the priority for computers in the LRC is for student research/class work, so you may be asked to move your fun to the computer lounge when it gets busy in the LRC.