I'm DONE LIKE A TURKEY!!

It feels good to be finished! Today I had my Informational Technology Workshop after school from 3:15 - 4:30. I had 11 participants. Everything seemed to flow really well that was planned. I wish we had more time to show everyone a little more about all of the equipment, but the whole point of this workshop was to inform everyone of the many things we can do with the technology we currently have. I opened the workshop with letting everyone know what the workshop was for and encouraging them to be more proactive with technology. I felt like it was all worth it, when one teacher said, " OH..I didn't even know we had an LCD projector that you can check out!" I think everyone walked away with a little excitement about using technology. We started out with a demo of the LCD projector, then to GPS units, and information on Microsoft Publisher. I thought it was great to talk about Publisher because it was just recently installed as of this past Monday. So maybe the word will spread about that. The next presenter spoke about United Streaming and everything that is cabable with this program, such as sounds, lesson plans, video clips, and much more. He also briefly touched on Windows movie maker. I was the next presenter with talking about Wiki's. I actually didn't make one, but I had an example to show everyone and how it could be best used. And where to find how to make on our county website. The server was actually down to show our example of a blog, but another presenter talked about how she incorporates into her classroom. The last presenter finished everything up with an Intergration technology power point. She showed examples of how she adds sound clips, movie clips, and much more. This teacher actually has her own Mimeo Board from a grant that she received. Many of the teachers were impressed with this equipment. This presenter also showed everyone an example of a claymation project her students made last year.
Once the workshop was all over with, I received a lot of good feedback from everyone. They thought everything was really interesting. I was so appreciative of everyone that came and everyone that helped me to present this workshop. One teacher gave me the idea if I have to do anything like this again, then she would like a whole workshop on just one area. Maybe I will be able to do that in the future. That is actually something I think a media coordinator should be required to do is offer certain learning experiences with the technology that is available.