Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Teacher Academy

Date: Sep 28, 2017 Start Time: 9:00 AM

Join us for the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Teacher Academy to learn more about Microsoft’s hottest tools and resources to empower your students to achieve more!  Bring your own Windows 10 device to this one-day professional learning experience to learn how to maximize your use of Windows and take an immersive deep dive into the new Microsoft Classroom in O365 for Education. You will get the opportunity to explore tools such as OneNote Class Notebooks, Docs.com, Microsoft Forms, Sway, and Office Mix, including how to provide your students with learning experiences beyond the 4 walls in your classroom using Skype in the Classroom and the online Microsoft Educator Community.

Targeted Audience: MEEC Members

Presenters

David Kakos/MIE Trainer

MICROSOFT PREMIER SERVICES

MEEC has a new Premier Services agreement with Microsoft Services since August 2017

The agreement is managed directly with Microsoft Premier Services and supports all Microsoft Products to MEEC members. 

Sales Account Managers– Primary Contacts for Pricing, Quotes, Ordering or Additional Licensing Information

Steve Seaforth – stseaf@microsoft.com – 203-710-5161 

Microsoft Premier Services-Education

Janet Immink – jimmink@microsoft.com – 410-913-5408 or 301-771-8249 

Microsoft Client Director-Education

Agenda:

10:00    MEEC Leadership introduction

10:10    Microsoft Premier Services overview

10:25    Premier Services Customer testimony-HED and K12 TBA

10:40    The Role of a TAM-Technical Account Manager

10:50    Your Microsoft Account Team

10:55    Q&A

*Steve Seaforth-Premier Services Solution Specialist

*Janet Immink-MEEC assigned Account Manager

*Scott Walker-Premier Technical Account Manager(TAM)

CanvasCon WPI 2017

Please join us for our 2017 CanvasCon at WPI! CanvasCon is a one-day, regional event that we’ve specifically designed for our northeastern educators. Everyone is invited, from the Canvas-curious to the expert user! 

 When: Friday, October 20th 

Where: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 

Who: Higher Ed and K12 Educators/Executives

Time: 8 AM - 5 PM

Cost: $49 

We’ll discuss hot topics trending in the Ed tech world and host Canvas-specific sessions. We’ve jam-packed the agenda with awesome sessions from educators, innovators, and thought leaders in both Higher Education and K12. There will be separate tracks for Higher Ed and K12, and plenty of ed-tech goodness—new skills and techniques, networking, collaboration, idea-sharing, and other fun—for Canvas users and non-Canvas users alike. We promise there’s something for everyone! 

Contact:

Daniel Erickson, MBA | Regional Director

E: derickson@instruture.com

M: 480-262-8518

Description

From document approvals, forms, signing, accepting, and acknowledgement, Adobe can help your institution easily automate your processes end to end. Increase workforce productivity by moving away from paper and manual processes while decreasing print and mail costs across your institution. Reduce compliance and risk when it comes to your students, faculty and staff while meeting FERPA and HIPAA requirements. Come learn what Adobe Sign and the MEEC agreement can do for you!

Targeted Audience
Human Resources, Procurement, Student Affairs, Admissions, Development, Finance, Contracts Management, IT / CIO - anyone that wants to automate processes and move away from manual transactions!  Please share with your colleagues looking for document sign-off, approval, and workflow solutions.

Presenters

Dana McAlexander, Product Marketing Manager, Adobe Document Cloud Business Unit
Suzanne Jennings, Account Manager, Adobe Education
John Bowers, Sales Director, CIA

The Higher Education & Research Google Cloud Platform team would like to invite you to a 45-minute webinar next month to learn about how Google’s public cloud can complement and extend your campus HPC to best serve the campus research community.  You have made significant investments in high performance computing, however meeting ever expanding computing needs and supporting the latest technologies available can be difficult and expensive. Join us to learn how GCP can further enable your campus community to think bigger and reach insights faster.

The webinar will take place on Thursday July 13th at 1pm EST/10am PST. Click here to register.

During this webinar we will cover the following:

·  Why Google’s Cloud?

·  High Performance Computing & GCP

oExtending your environment for batch processing

oInnovative Technologies: GPUs, TPUs

oPrice to Performance Advantage: Preemptible Machines, Custom Machines, Discounts

·  Spotlight: MIT Principal Research Scientist, Andrew Sutherland,  shares his GCP experience

·  Answers to your questions

Join the MEEC Office for a brief orientation of our two latest contracts May 10^th, 2017,10am.  We will discuss each contract and offer time for your questions.  Library eResources was awarded to CDygert Solutions, LLC, to provide MEEC Members with a variety of services related to the licensing and management of library e-resources.   The MEEC Hardware Agreement is a multi-vendor award for 5 functional areas relating to IT Hardware.

**Targeted Audience….All MEEC Members

Presenter

Tamara Petronka, Executive Director of MEEC