Masters Certification

Late last school year Marian , my wife, and I took a course that enabled us to do Level 1 and Level 2 courses for SmartNotebook. The course required that we do some of the webinars, reading case studies, precourse activities, three days training and finally a video of us teaching part of the course.

So we went to work in the first week of July in a school with no air conditioning during one of the hottest weeks of the year to do some video work. In the end we were successful and both are now certified to do Smartboard sanctioned sessions.

We did a session on Oct. 4th for the ETC (Educational Technology Council of the ATA) in St. Albert. We had 30 plus people sandwiched into a classroom with laptops. We were very nervous and initially were told there would be 16 teachers. So when we heard that there would be nearly 40 we got very nervous.

The good news is we lived, but barley. The lesson we learned is to make sure people taking a course like this have used the software before. In the future we would like them to complete some challenges and before hand. That way everyone has a base to build on. We found that in the class we had people who could be teaching the session and some that were having problems running their computers.

We are hoping to do another one in Grande Prairie on the 29th of November.