I enjoyed it. First session was better than the second.<\/p>\n
My district\u2019s instructional technology department put on an event today to teach technology. Called it 21st Century Technology Conference.<\/p>\n
They had on hands sessions in the computer labs \u2013 I did two, repeating the same topic \u2013 and they lasted 1 1\/2 hours. They also had regular sessions that lasted 45 minutes.<\/p>\n
I was asked very early to present and I think I am getting paid for it.<\/p>\n
I gave them the choice of two, and they accepted Snag\/Camtasia. TechSmith sent me some freebies which were a real hit. I covered Screencast.com, Jing, SnagIt and Camtasia, which was probably too much and gave everyone time to play with each part. I think they enjoyed it \u2013 one teacher complained to the workshop coordinated that I didn\u2019t spend enough time on Camtasia so I did it at the beginning of the second session and mentioned it again at the end.<\/p>\n
One of the teacher unions (ATPE I think) provided lunch, but oddly lunch or passing periods were not put in the schedule.<\/p>\n
It was about equal to teaching the AP kids last week (face it, it\u2019s hard to get over children saying thank you!)<\/p>\n
Right now I\u2019m hanging out waiting for the closing session \/ door prize session (okay, I\u2019m waiting for a door prize but didn\u2019t get one, not that I needed anything they were giving \u2013 I already had one of everything they were giving). A teacher from my school won a Smart Board.<\/p>\n
And as I just told the director of the department \u2013 right now I have the best of both worlds. I still have my own classroom but I get to influence the rest of the district through curriculum design and teacher staff development.<\/p>\n
And it looks like I\u2019ll be doing the middle school camp. Was warned about that today also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I enjoyed it. First session was better than the second. My district\u2019s instructional technology department put on an event today to teach technology. Called it 21st Century Technology Conference. They had on hands sessions in the computer labs \u2013 I did two, repeating the same topic \u2013 and they lasted 1 1\/2 hours. They also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}