Parents and Friends Meeting

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Last night I had the pleasure of presenting at our school’s Parents and Friends Association meeting. I was invited some time back to inform parents of the great things happening with technology at St. Michael’s in 2007. My 20-30 minute presentation went significantly overtime, but as Anne said to me afterwards, there’s so much to tell, and I couldn’t have gone any faster.

So our small group of parents in attendance can follow up from the meeting, I posted the presentation to SlideShare, knowing also that other parents who couldn’t make it could also access it. Not happy with that alone, my desire to share what I wanted to say (as my PowerPoint presentation, like all good PowerPoint presentations supported my talk and was not a visually-displayed transcript), I decided to make it into a video as well.

The result is the video embedded below, which I posted on TeacherTube – essentially at YouTube for educators. Remember how we were all into the program Photo Story a few years back? Well, I saved all the slides at images (which is really quite easy), put them into Photo Story, recorded a narration for each slide, then exported it and uploaded it to TeacherTube. It really is quite easy. In fact, if we’re using PhotoStory in class, TeacherTube would be an effective way of sharing students’ work with parents and friends over the Internet.

I also created a del.icio.us page for the parents that contains links to what I discussed and related resources. All in all, I think those who were there were pleased with what we’re achieving.

Download: Posted by E=2>stmbtech at TeacherTube.com.