Prepping

Now that I am finished with my pre-internship portfolio, I have been working a lot on making preparations for my professional development sessions. I have created some PowerPoints for three or four of the sessions, sign-in sheets, agendas, and some other odds & ends that I will need when I lead a session.

The more I talk to my department this summer, the more I realize that our need is ASPEN and not Web 2.0 applications. While I am still going to lead on those for a small group of non-department staffers, I think that I may have to change what I am doing with my department. The good news is that I do not have to reinvent the wheel. There are already resources created by the county for these. While there are no formal presentations, there are hand-outs and online tutorial videos. It will be easier to teach on ASPEN by showing what I am doing on my computer while it also appears on the LCD.

The first week back for staff, I will be leading two sessions.  The first session will be on PlanbookEdu for my staff and the second will be on setting up the ASPEN gradebook for my language department. I am excited about helping my staff with technology but a bit nervous about presenting in front of my colleagues. I do so much better in public when I'm with my students!