TIE 2008

Heidi and Diane completed the two classes we presented at the Technology in Education Conference at Copper Mountain Resort. Now that it is over, we are breathing a collective sigh of relief. The first class we presented on Wednesday, Intro to Google Docs, became quite a challenge when TIE's wireless network went down at the beginning of class. We were prepared with a download we completed before class started that enabled us to show and work on Google Docs offline. We received some positive feedback about the class itself and about how we were still able to teach a class on web resources without the web!

Our last presentation was Thursday afternoon on iGoogle, Google Reader, and Google Calendar. For this class we thankfully had the internet, so things went much better. We even received applause at the end (I think it was for Heidi's stellar presenting skills, but it might have been partly because we finally had the internet up and the group could finally interact on the site instead of just watch!).

We have come away feeling tired and yet energized by the experience. Look for more Heritage Tech Academy Classes on these types of Web 2.0 tools when we come back in the fall.