Troup County School System

Technology Staff Development

Class Information:

To schedule training in your building, please click on the appropriate icon and give us a couple of dates that you would like us to look at:

As teachers we need to be integrating technology into our lesson plans. In 2006 not only will teachers need to be technology certified, but we need to include our students and make sure that they are developing using technology. Two documents to look at are:

Troup County Technology Plan – Appendix B (Educator Technology Competencies)

Troup County Technology Plan – Appendix E (Student Technology Competencies)

Georgia Technology Standards for Students

Frequently Asked Questions and Tips:

Program	Question
Microsoft Word (word processing)	I’m trying to create worksheets with capitalization errors in them so my students can practice correcting them, but Word keeps making automatic corrections. How can I prevent this?
	My daughter's name is Ari, but every time I run Spell Check on a document with her name in it, her name gets flagged as being misspelled.
Microsoft Excel (spreadsheet)
Microsoft Access (database)
Microsoft PowerPoint (presentation)	How can I add sounds to my PowerPoint presentation?
Novell GroupWise (e-mail, calendar management, document management & task management)	How do I get a description of what the icons are on my toolbar?
	How do I look to see if my e-mail has been received?
GradeQuick (gradebook program for Middle School and High School) NovaNet Lexia BLT