Email and Calendar Basics

Clock Hours: 3

Description:

Learn the functions of email and calendar to maximize communication and document sharing with students, colleagues and parents.  Learn to use the Outlook calendar to schedule meetings and appointments.  This two-session course will provide foundational understanding and skills to apply email and calendar basics to personal and classroom work.  Participants will build upon the following powerful teaching and learning strategies:

• Teachers provide a classroom environment that actively engages all students in learning

• Teachers differentiate by using a variety of instructional strategies based on the assessed strengths, needs and interests of their students

Objectives:
Participants will be able to:

• Understand elements of Outlook
• Explain and follow district and legal guidelines for e-mail use
• Send, receive, reply, forward, save, delete messages; manage spam
• Create folders and organize messages
• Create short, simple, concise messages
• Use appropriate e-mail etiquette, including subject line
• Create, send and save attachments, using virus protection strategies
• Print messages, documents, files
• Use Outlook calendar for personal / professional schedule
• Create appointments and meeting requests
• Code appointments for purpose, reminders, and recurrences
• Edit and manage appointments and meetings
  

For more information contact Instructional Technology and Libraries

at 676-6526 or Techworkshop@bham.wednet.edu

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