Sunday, March 4, 2012

ICE in the rear view mirror

So it has been a little bit since I last posted.  It has been a little crazy in my personal life and then there was the prep I had to do for the ICE technology conference.It has been pretty exciting but draining.  

I planned to do a great job at the ICE conference for my presentation on "Flipping Classes Using Videos and Wikis".   Here is a link to the PowerPoint that I used. I was all set and even did a run through in the room I was presenting in before my session.   Everything looked great and I had about 90 people listening to me.  The first part went fine and then I opened a link and then nothing happened.  So I had to continually try to pivot from showing wiki that I could not show and going over PowerPoint slides that did not have the visuals to go along with them.  Just about everybody stayed for the full session and I still think that they got 3-4 good ideas from the presentation so I guess that it was OK.  But it could have been so much better.  Oh well live and learn and I should try to remember next time to prepare for an internet cataclysm by taking bunches of screen shots to at least show the info to the audience.

Update - Video count is now up to over 5000.  Averaging close to 1000 hits a month now and picking up speed.   I have fallen behind a couple of times on videos and had to have the kids do something else that night.  A lot of it had to do with technological issues that meant that it took longer than expected to record.