Online Activities

Can't make it to meetings?

Try one of these options:


Attend a Meeting - Virtually

• View the meeting agenda and minutes (available on Pipeline and here on the blog) and listen to the podcast of the meeting. Blog here, on facebook, or on our Pipeline Discussion Board about the meeting.

Participate in a "Scholarship" hallmark activity ONLINE:

• Book/Movie Club - Read one of the Books we are all reading or watch one of the movies we are watching. Read/View and blog here or discuss on our Pipeline Discussion Board.
• Satellite Seminars - Go to our Pipeline Group for instructions on how to view the satellite seminars. They will only be available online until January 15 (then we will have them on DVD on campus and will have them available at the Library in El Dorado and Andover.
• Become a mentor - Get involved in the mentoring program at Coleman Middle School (or at your local school whereever you live - Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Scouting, 4H groups always need help (or coach a kids soccer, football, basketball, or baseball team.) There are lots of great mentoring opportunties. If you have ideas for this or are helping with one of these things please blog about it and share your experiences.
• Becomes a tutor - Volunteer for Peer Tutoring once a week (you can also get paid for this.)
  
  If you are doing anyof these type of scholarship programs, email ptk@butlercc.edu before the end of the semester and tell us how many hours you have participate in these activities throughout 2008. We would like to honor the students in our "Member of the Month" program for doing the most Scholarship activities.

Participate in a Leadership Hallmark Activity :

• Take the Leadership Development Studies Class online.
• Participate in the Leadership Challenge program (attending 4 leadership summits offered this year.) These are on campus, but not during our regular member meeting - so try to make it to at least one of these programs. They are free!
• Step up as a leader on campus, in your community, regionally, or nationally.
  

Tell us what Leadership positions or activities you are doing by the end of the semester.

Participate in a Service Hallmark Activity:

• Help pick up cans (in the Habitat for Humanity boxes) around campus (this can be done on your own schedule. Just contact ptk@butlercc.edu to let us know that you are doing this so we can tell you what to do with the cans. The money from this project goes to Habitat For Humanity of Butler County.
  
• Help beautify or work on a Litter clean up program (like Adopt a Highway) in your community. Contact Keep America Beautiful at http://www.kab.org for more information about activities in your commmunity.
  
• Participate in Relay For Life or other fundraisers for the American Cancer Society (or other worthy causes). Phi Theta Kappa (the whole international society) has a goal of raising $10 million for the American Cancer Society by 2018 (our 100th anniversary of being an Organization). We jhave raised about $2.3 million so far (our chapter has helped Butler Students raise over $75,000 since 2006!)

Participate in a Fellowship Hallmark Activity:

• Participate in our Facebook site and/or this blog. Tell us what you are doing in the areas of Scholarship, Leadership, and Service. Get to know your fellow members.
• Set up times to get together with Phi Theta Kappans in your area.

I hope this has given you some food for thought! There are many ways to get invovled, even if you live in Council Grove, Kansas - Houston, Texas - Baton Rouge, Louisiana - or Paris, France. I would like to honor the active members who live the farthest away from El Dorado, Kansas. Email me at ptk@butlercc.edu if you are actively participating in these activities as a member of our chapter. I will award a $25 in Recognitions items for the most active member who lives the farthest away and participates in one of these online activities listed above. This will be announced at our member meeting in January, so participate and get your activity list to me by December 31, 2008.