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May's Digital Meet-Up starts TODAY at 3:30pm EST and will focus on making video tutorials!

If you have a Google+ account you can click here to join the meet-up. Otherwise, check out the livestream via YouTube below, or come back and watch it later! And be sure to click here to see notes from today's meet-up and join the conversation via chat.

This Meet-Up will be led by JoJo Farrell, the Coordinator for the P.S. 161 Mouse Squad at P.S. 161 Pedro Albizu Campos in Manhattan. JoJo and his Mouse Squad will share their experience making tutorial videos. In addition to instructional screencasts, this Squad has also had senior members film themselves working on tech tasks, and then edit these films into training videos for new Squad Members! Tune in to hear all about their process, preferred tools for filming and editing, and the great videos they have created!

Do you have experience creating tutorial videos--or video projects of any kind--with students? We hope you'll join us and add to the conversation!

Details for the May 20th Mouse Squad Digital Meet-Up

• WHEN: The live meet-up will be held at 3:30pm EST on Tuesday, May 20th.
• HOW DO I JOIN?: This meet-up will be held over Google On-Air. Fill out the short registration form below, and you'll get an email shortly before the meet-up begins with a link to join via your Google+ account.
• WHAT IF I DON'T HAVE A GOOGLE PLUS ACCOUNT? You can create one here, or you can come back to this post and the YouTube livestream will be embedded above (you just won't be able to join the conversation). Please fill out the registration form below to get a reminder email before we begin.
• WHAT ELSE? If you can't join us during the meet-up you'll be able to watch a recording later on YouTube. This post will be updated with the link to the recording after it's over.

Remind me--what's a Mouse Squad Digital Meet-Up?

Starting in Fall 2013, Mouse Squad Digital Meet-Ups will be held most months during the school year. At each Meet-Up, you'll have the chance to hear a featured Mouse Squad Coordinator and their students talk about the work they're doing, how they run their Squad, and the best practices they've uncovered for tackling great projects at their site. Many meet-ups will also feature a focused discussion on a theme of general interest, either tied directly to Mouse Squad or related more generally to tech-ed, public education, digital media, etc.

For new Mouse Squad Coordinators, these meet-ups will be a great opportunity to hear from experienced Coordinators and begin to plan for your new Squad. For both new and experienced Coordinators, we hope that these meet-ups will be a forum for you to network with colleagues across the country, collect new project ideas, troubleshoot challenges in your Squad, and more.

Click here to see Wire posts that include recordings of past Meet-Ups.

Preview of June's Digital Meet-Up: Share This Year's Stories!

The June Digital Meet-Up will be held on Wednesday, June 11 at 5:00pm EST. Instead of having one Coordinator host this meet-up, we're asking everyone to come with your stories from your year! What went well? What do you want to change? What do you want to do next year? What would you recommend to someone just getting ready to start a Mouse Squad? Let's celebrate this year's successes together before we head off for the summer!