Professional Development

This past week in DigCit we prepared for our presentations in the teachers professional development. We prepared multiple different apps and ways for them to use them for different lesson plans that they could use during class. I think it went well overall and I hope that many of them took what they learned from us and incorporate it into a lesson plan. I presented a tool called Stoodle, Stoodle is a collaborative whiteboard on Safari. Using Stoodle, a group of people can draw and type anything they want to. We presented the main idea that teachers could give students assignments for each slide and after it was completed the Stoodle, which is always saved as long as you have the URL, could be used as a study guide. 

 I was initially worried about the feedback we would receive about students teaching teachers and whether they would take us seriously or not. Overall, they seemed very interested with the tools and we got a lot of positive feedback which I was very happy with. I think if I could work on something a little more it would be to capture their attention towards the beginning, I think it would have gone a little smoother. But overall, I think it went well and all of the teachers learned a lot of great new ways to teach their students.