Office 365 Refresher
Session
A refresher session for
using Office 365 in teaching was held on Saturday 5 January 2019 from
8:30 AM until 3:00 PM.
Attending were teachers of the Academic Department.
This session was a follow-up on
the three-day Microsoft
365 Cloud-teaching Seminar which was held from 4 to 6 September 2018.
Mr. Imad Shmaitili of Information Technology Leading Services - ITLS
arrived from Beirut Friday afternoon and stayed in JLSS overnight to be
ready to offer the refresher session early on Saturday.
A survey was conducted by ITLS earlier, to asses the needs of our
teachers after using Office 365 for the last four months, and receive
their input on what they expected from the refresher session.
Mr. Shmaitili reviewed using OneNote, Class Notebook, Sway, Forms, and
Teams, and helped our teachers to master various elements of these very
valuable tools.
The morning session included a 30 minute coffee-break at 10:30 AM.
Lunch was served to all participants at 12:30 PM in Maria Schneller
Hall.
The afternoon session was a time for summing up on the morning work, and
the remaining time was used to address the needs of individual teachers.
It was a very fruitful day. Teachers were able to improve their skills
and acquire new ones.
The challenges that individual teachers were facing were also dealt
with.
JLSS teachers are now better equipped and more confident to continue the
shift in their teaching methods to Office 365 and the technology of the
21st century.
We express our thanks to Mr. Imad Shmaitili for his wonderful work.
We look forward to the continued application of all the newly acquired
skills in daily lessons to the benefit of JLSS students.