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Email issues – the guys are on it!

Careful if you go up to the NOC….

Whew – thankful for a snow day for most of our schools today!  That will maybe give our guys some time to get the issues worked out with email.  They are working with Microsoft to get the Exchange server working again with OWA. (Excuse my French [...]

Ancestry.Com from INFOhio – fun stuff!

If you haven’t tried it out, you really must try out the new Ancestry.Com database from INFOhio!  You’ll be totally amazed at what you can find.  What a great resource for our students! To get to it at school, choose the resources for middle or high school and you will see button for it.

This [...]

Blackboard Training Webinars Special Event

This week our Blackboard Training Webinar is a special event featuring Chris Pope and David Small from Blackboard Mobile.  They will show us ways to use Bb Mobile in the classroom – great tool for schools leaning toward BYOD!

Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/440516590 This week’s webinar is a special event with Blackboard.  [...]

SCOCA Bb Training Webinars

We are not having a Bb Training Webinar this week or next, so you might want to review the previous webinars.

You do not need to be logged in to view the webinar recordings.

WVIZ’s and MAGNET’s Career’s in Manufacturing Awareness Program

Manufacturing offers a wide variety of exciting and challenging career opportunities. Plan for your students, on October 11th, to meet three young professionals who have studied Science, Technology, Engineering and Math and have great manufacturing jobs in Ohio.

Your students will gain information about these careers and what advanced manufacturing looks like today. They will [...]

Free Tickets for Educators to the Storytelling Festival in Chillicothe, Ohio Sept 6-8

Have you heard a good story, lately?  Well, have we got some stories for you!

On the weekend after Labor Day, several nationally known storytellers will be joining regional and local storytellers here in Chillicothe, Ohio for the 9th annual Southern Ohio Storytelling Festival.  The festival starts on  Thursday evening with a special [...]

Blackboard Training for Admins

This session is for the point person at a district who has administrative privileges (Class Administrators) inside Blackboard to create classes, batch upload students, etc.

Date: Thursday August 2nd, 2012 Time: 08:30 am – 12:30 pm Location: SCOCA Lab

Register here: http://www.scoca-k12.org/training/index.php#827

Blackboard: Open Lab

Date: Monday June 4th, 2012

Time: 08:30 am- 11:30 am

Location: SCOCA Lab

Registration:

http://www.scoca-k12.org/training/index.php#766

Date: Tuesday June 19th, 2012

Time: 08:30 am – 11:30 am

Location: SCOCA Lab

Registration:

http://www.scoca-k12.org/training/registerh.php?sessionid=816

Date: Monday August 6th, 2012

Time: 08:30 am – 11:30 am

Location: SCOCA Lab

Registration:

http://www.scoca-k12.org/training/registerh.php?sessionid=817

Date: Tuesday August 14th, 2012

Time: 08:30 am [...]

iPads in our Local Schools

If you’re attending the Mobile Summit on Friday, you’ll love the presentation from Katie Siers and Darren Plessenger, Pickaway Ross CTC teachers.  Recently, ONN was at Pickaway Ross and they aired this story:

http://www.onntv.com/content/sections/video/index.html?video=/videos/2012/02/06/green-ohio.xml

We at SCOCA are very proud to say that their Tech Coordinator, Holly Wagoner, is one of our own! There is [...]

The Flipped Classroom

“The Flipped Classroom,” it’s the new buzz word in education.  Does it work?  Is it effective?  Is it a passing fad?  I still have a lot of questions, but the more I look at it, the more I think this is what our young learners have been waiting for. This is how they live (on [...]