Got to the Civic Center at 8:00 and got my new camera! Yea. Then I went to welcome with Vicki Allen A.D. Office of instructional technology. The next session I went to was the new Thinkfinity website presented by Mark Moore. This session was very enlightening, unfortunately, it was too short to explore the actual site, but rather we were given a broad synopsis of the site.
The next session was the camera introduction presented by Mary Purdue. She was very knowledgeable and engaging, however, I have been using digital cameras at home and in my classroom for several years now, so the information was a little redundant. This was followed up by The digital project introduction by Ms. Wilson, although the session was enjoyable, I came away with more questions than answers about the goals of the project.
Then I went to the Hands-on Podcasting session presented by Anne Meadows. This was my favorite session for the day. The information was delivered in a hands-on, interactive method and I learned many new tricks to have my students incorporate into class projects. Then we broke for lunch.
The next session I went to was the ePortfolio session with Bruce Cole. The information was good but due to technical difficulties, there was very little hands-on time, which hampered the learning and enjoyment of the material.
The next session dealt with the WV Writes information and did not have a direct impact on my duties at this time. It sounds like they have made some very beneficial changes to the program. However, I will withhold judgment until I hear feedback from teachers and students in a real-world application.
The last session I went to was the interactive white board presentation. I really liked this session; however, it made me even more depressed that we have mnemonics boards in my school instead of a true SMART board! All in all this was a great day; I hope the rest of the conference continues like today!
Chuck Parker
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