Volume 3, Issue 6
November 14, 2014
Microsoft IT Academy and WVDE
Inside this issue:
By Laura Mills
Common Core Conundrum
2
Paperless
2
Shakespeare
2
Is It June Yet?
3
Catch Those Moments
3
Brain Pickings
3
App Talk
4
Digital Citizenship Week
5
Upcoming Events
6
EDITOR Laura Mills, Business Education, Woodrow Wilson High School Greg Morgan, Teacher, Greenbank Elementary-Middle School Josie Burch, Special Education, John Marshall High School
As everyone knows ,WVDE and Microsoft have teamed up to offer high school students, as well as teachers, the opportunity to attend the Microsoft IT Academy.
It you are a TIS or are thinking of getting your TIS certification this would be an opportunity to learn
If your work in career and technology center (CTE) or a high school, contact your TIS or ask your principal .
The IT Academy provides every teach and administrator with the chance to enhance their skills using application software. This program affords everyone the opportunity to become a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS), a Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA), or a Microsoft Certified Professional.
with word processing, spreadsheets, presentation software, and databases are necessary.
For all others ( elementary and middle school, county level employees, or a RESA employee, a form must be completed and submitted), contact Becky Butler 304558-7880 (bbutler@k12.wv.us) for more information. something you and your faculty and staff will utilize.
For more information go to http://tinyurl.com/nf8cfc5.
In most, if not all fields, some sort of knowledge
Microsoft Office 365 - Android and iPhone By Laura Mills
Microsoft Office 365 is a wonderful tool to use as many of you have found. However, on the other side of the coin are the staff members that tremble at the words “we are going to a new email system.”
This means the email on your android, iPhone, and all of your other electronics will need to be changed. If you check the WVDE of education website, they offer a quick start guides to changing your email, mov-
ing your email, and putting your email on your Android and iPhone for those of you that check your email on the run. For more information go to http://tinyurl.com/jvhq7ly.