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=**iSquad Professional Development**=

Workshop Details
December 3rd - OETM: Middle School /High School Technology Liaison Workshop - Partnering with our Digital Natives to Launch a 21st Century Student Empowerment and Tech Support Team December 10th - OETM: Elementary-Technology Liaison Workshop - Partnering with our Digital Natives to Launch a 21st Century Student Empowerment and Tech Support Team
 * Registration Dates and Details**
 * Workshop Time:** 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

=**AGENDA**=

**8:30 Welcome and Introductions**
Join Share (140 verbal characters or less)
 * [|iSquad / Mouse Squad] group
 * Why you want to start an iSquad in your school.

**9:00 iSquad Overview**

 * Creating a common definition
 * [|What is an iSquad?]
 * Share and post your response.
 * iSquad Goals and Benefits
 * What are the top three listed that you are most excited about?
 * What would you add to this?
 * Read (comments encouraged)
 * [|Starting a Student Support Team in Your School]
 * [|5 Innovative Ideas for Student Teams that Support 21st Century Teaching & Learning]
 * [|Creating Tech Wizards]
 * Services an iSquad might provide
 * [|What are the three services you want to focus on for having iSquads provide at your school?]
 * What would you add to this?

10:30 Planning for Your iSquad

 * [|How will you recruit students for your iSquad?]
 * [|Here are some ideas]
 * [|What are the three services you want to focus on for having iSquads provide at your school?]
 * You can read what other iSquads are doing [|here].
 * [|Share your iSquad Fact Sheet]
 * Read other iSquad Tech Support Team Fact Sheets here

**11:15 iSquad Lessons** Overview

 * Overview of iSquad Lesson Site

** 11:30 Planning for Your iSquad Meetings **

 * Explore and review lessons
 * Create a Squad plan using iSquad Curriculum Rollout

**12:15 Ticketing Form**

 * [|Sample Ticketing Form]
 * [|Sample MOUSE Squad Help Desk Ticket]

12:30 Tech Talk

 * Felton Thomas, MOET Tech provides advice about how students can best support your school's ticket incident reports.

12:45 [|Tech Liaison Meeting Open Discussions]

 * Reply to the discussion you want to participate in or add a new discussion
 * Roundtable Guidelines
 * One person designated to take notes should post in the open discussion forum

1:30 [|Computers for Youth (Leigh Anna Ridge, CFY Program Manager)]

 * __Become a CFY School__

**2:00 - What Does it Mean to Be a MOUSE School?**
1. MOUSE Squad Youth Development Model 2. MOUSE Squad Video 3. History & Growth 4. Youth Development Methods and Tools a. Learning Cycle b. MOUSESquad.org c. Beyond the Help Desk 5. Status Checklist 6. MOUSE Squad Resources 7. Q & A 8. Next Steps
 * [|Training Modules]
 * [|Technician Skills Tracker]
 * [|Troubleshooting Simulator]
 * [|Download, Print or Order MOUSE Squad Materials]
 * [|Local Trainings: Students, Faculty & Trainers]
 * [|Quizzes]