Billings has an evolving digital presence designed to provide information to prospective families, students, parents and other schools. This week, the sixth graders looked at and discussed 3 different Websites designed for the Billings community:

  1. Billingsmiddleschool.org -The school’s public homepage
  2. Billingsmiddleschool.org/start – Student start page with quick links
  3. Billingsmiddleschool.net – TechLab sharing site

We also talked about Microsoft (located in Redmond, Washington), its founder (Bill Gates) and the company’s effect on our city, the Northwest and the entire world.

We reinforced last week’s learning by logging in to their personal computer accounts accessing their network storage folder and then learned to access our school email account from anywhere using Internet access. Students were also introduced to the various send options (To, Carbon Copy, and Blind Carbon Copy).

Using their email accounts, students delivered their first assignment to Jac via email.