I was fortunate to present at the Eastnet Expo last Wednesday. View the slideshow and supporting materials below. Despite some technical hiccups I thoroughly enjoyed presenting using skype and the share your screen facility. The idea behind my workshop was to share my recent journey into Action Research with other professionals.
In organising this workshop I reflected upon my experience from last year's workshop eLearning for Little People at the 2009 Eastnet Cluster Expo and tried to progress from that experience. I took a different approach when preparing my slideshow this year where I incorporated some aspects of Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds and also video examples to share with the audience. The workshop began smoothly with the setting the scene clip Piano Stairs from http://thefuntheory.com/ :
The idea behind this being that when learning is fun, children are engaged. Shortly afterwards the audio started fluctating on skype which was disappointing. Possibly it was a bit ambitious to expect to be able to share my screen and talk for 50 minutes without any problems. So we quickly went to plan B: I rang the classroom that the workshop was being held in at Elm Park School and spoke on speakerphone. Once we'd turned down the volume on both my laptop and Belinda's, who was helping me at the NZ end, from this end it there was a bit of an echo but not at the other end which is a relief! Fortunately this didn't mean I ended up running over time and I was pleased I didn't get flustered, probably because I'd already thought through all the possible problems and was prepared! There's a lot to be said for practise and preparation before presenting.
I hope the attendees at the workshop found it worthwhile. I am excited to see if anyone adds to the Discussion section of my wiki and have created a How to sheet to support them to do this.
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