A Presenter's Worst Nightmare
A couple of weeks ago, our innovation team was in charge of running a PD afternoon. Every Tuesday, students are dismissed earlier, and teachers stay a little longer. This time is dedicated to professional development or other staff needs. Since we continue to support the blended learning goal we decided to offer workshops about tools that aligned with this. We invited three innovator teachers to participate as well, for a total of five sessions on: Brainpop, Flipgrid, Adobe Spark, Creation of Gifs, and Flippity. I was going to run the session on Flippity . As the site describes it: "Easily turn a Google™ Spreadsheet into a Set of Online Flashcards and Other Cool Stuff" . I thought the teachers would love to create online resources with which the kids could interact, and it's so simple to use. The day came. We divided the afternoon in two and would repeat the 5 sessions in each block of time. We had sent out a Google Form with the description of each tool so teachers c