After the presentation is over, you get questions, or comments, and have a few nice discussions, but then its time to pack up so the next presenter can set up. You make that long trip back to your hotel room, lugging all of your materials and reflect on how everything went, and then on with the rest of the conference.
As a presenter, what you don’t see is the impact your story makes on someone. You don’t see the changes you help make in someone else’s classroom. Today I was able to see the follow up to a presentation, and it was a good feeling.
Last spring I attended an Ed Camp in Detroit. I facilitated a discussion on Skype in the Classroom. I talked about the grant I received from MACUL (Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning) in 2016, how I build two Skype Carts in my elementary schools, and using Skype in the Classroom. After the presentation I had a nice conversation with Zach, a teacher from Troy Michigan.
A few months later Zach messaged me Twitter letting me know he received this year’s MACUL grant, and he was building his own Skype cart. Today I was mentioned in a one of Zach’s Tweets, his cart is done and he’s ready to introduce his students to Skype in the Classroom.
It was nice to see how a presentation I gave several months ago sparked change in a classroom.
Check out Skype In the Classroom