Hard Lesson to Learn
I always tell my kids that it’s OK to make a mistake. The important thing is to learn from it. I am personally learning just how hard that is. My presentation “Weblogs in Education: The Possibilities Are Limitless!” included visual and verbal portions. The visual portion, the projection, was blurry and unreadable because my fonts were too small. Then as I surfed to different weblogs, they too were unreadable. Will told me afterwards that he always makes screen shots. I never thought to do that. OK that’s Lesson 1.
Then on my video clips, my sound was not loud enough, even though I had it at top volume. I guess I just assumed everything would be set up since I was in a session that was going to be filmed. Lesson 2 - Never assume. Cover all bases. I didn’t.
So I just tried to carry on and tell the good story of weblogs. Lesson 2 is that even if I know what I’m talking about, if my visuals aren’t top notch, it really doesn’t matter. I do apologize to my co-presenter.
I was disappointed because I felt I had let my educational blogging cohorts down. After a night’s sleep I decided to try to practice what I preach to the students. Get over it. Learn from your mistakes. Today I’m jumping back in!
That said, I’m picking myself back up and will keep on trying. Weblogs won’t be hurt by one presentation. If any of the session participants happen to read this, I do want to direct you to the informational website. It is a terrific informational source for those wishing to learn about weblogs.
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