I survived the 90 minute presentation! After the first 5 minutes, it was quite easy. Talking about something that you love for any extended period of time is a rare opportunity. I was at ease and felt that I fielded questions confidently and accurately. In hindsight I don't know what I was worried about. Every geek approaches technology differently. And presenting on my tech the way I was comfortable with was a great experience. I have teachers asking me for tools all the time, rarely am I given the opportunity to talk about it for more than 5 minutes. I hate to admit it, but I enjoyed lecturing on my research and how I felt about it.
I took the last 20 minutes of my presentation to discuss the three webtools that I use on a daily basis, twitter, google reader and diigo. For me it is difficult to discuss one without the other. You find information on twitter, save it on diigo, and read the updates on google reader. Makes sense to me, hopefully to others as well. I was surprised to see how little technology the grad students used or even discussed in their presentations. Isn't it the focus of all education right now? Oh no, thats just me. :) One presenter uses a wordpress blog to hold all assignments for his math class, he also fields questions from students there as well. I think this is a great medium to use in terms of technological communication. I use wiki, and all of my students have a wiki as well, and that is where they keep their work and where I can comment on it. Everybody uses tech differently and becomes an expert with some form of it. That is the key to tech usage, become an expert with one or two webtools, and then branch off from there.
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