On the Road in April

Most people look forward to the month of April for the flowers that bloom or sound of the crack of the baseball/softball bats. Educators on the other hand see the "Spring Break" dates on the school calender. This presents a challenge for the traveling "regional teacher educator." Seeing the various dates that differ from county to county, good planning is key to being effective during the month of April.
During the visits and observations, I found opportunities to expose the CTE instructors that I serve to some of the new sites that I discovered working with the 23 Things activities. The website GO2WEB2.0 has the most possibilities for the CTE instructors.
For those who are taking college classes, the end of April is the target date for final assignments due and finding time for study for Final Exams. As a college professor, my spring challenge has been the conversion of a course from a seminar based delivery to an online course. CTED 308/ATE 548 Application of Basic Skills is one of the required courses for the CTE permit and had previously been a 6 class meeting seminar course. I had the cooperative help from fellow staff member Brenda Tuckwiller to convert the course to a online delivery system using "Thinkfinity" as the online platform. We found that initially the CTE instructors were not as adapted to this mode of instruction but as the semester continued they become confident and acceptable to the delivery system.
The next step is to convert the entire program to online delivery.