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How my students and I sign up for in person training?
MOUSE offers trainings throughout the school year so that students can earn their [|MOUSE Squad Certification.] To enroll in a training session, please visit our [|calendar.] We've enabled [|online registration] for training sessions. It's up to faculty advisors to ensure that students have the appropriate school or parental permissions to attend these workshops.

How do we access online learning?
Can't make it into a training session? You'll find all of our training materials [|online,] including:
 * MOUSE Squad Basics: everything you need to start up your school's MOUSE Squad. After you have read through each section, watched every video and flash animation, be sure to take the Help Desk Quiz in the Check Your Knowledge section.
 * Tech Skills: In this section, you can access the knowledge & tools necessary to address any Level 1 troubleshooting scenario. In the Check Your Knowledge section, you can take a Technical Tutorial, a Technical Quiz and try out the Troubleshooting Simulator.
 * Certification: Becoming a MOUSE Squad technician requires a high level of enthusiasm, a commitment to developing new knowledge and skills, and a willingness to meet all of the requirements for certification.

What Should I do with my MOUSE Squad?

 * Respond to requests for help (tickets)
 * Have students lead peer training sessions
 * Organize student led training sessions around using a particular application

In addition, there are many good suggestions at http://oit.wikispaces.com/iSquad+Responsibilities.

Our Blog: [|The MOUSE Squad Wire]
The MOUSE Wire is a blog featuring “News, Resources and the Voices of MOUSE program participants,”–which means that it’s going to have content written by staff at MOUSE that we think is of interest to our community–links to scholarship or grant opportunities, short articles on educational technology and announcements. But you’ll also be hearing from students and teachers as they post about their experience in MOUSE programs and help build this community. For example, this summer, several students posted reflections on their experiences at UBS and EMI.

What’s a Blog?

The dictionary defines blog as, “a Web site on which an individual or group of users produces on ongoing narrative.” The MOUSE Wire is a blog written by MOUSE staff and program participants. You and your MOUSE Squad may:


 * Write a post.
 * Leave a comment on a post that someone else wrote. (Click comments on any post.)
 * Submit a link to an article that you think will be interesting to the MOUSE community. We’re using del.icio.us to manage these collaborative contributions. If you come across something you think would be interesting, just tag it using for:mousenyc and it will magically show up on the Wire.
 * Add a picture via Flickr–a similar approach. You upload your pictures and tag them mousenyc and they’ll show up in the magical flash sidebar.

For more, please see our [|writing guidelines.]

Help
Still need a hand? Just send us an email: help@mail.mousenetwork.org]