My Ultimate Role Model

This morning we offered a wiki workshop in Tuscola. We have been looking forward to this workshop for quite a while since we knew it would be a small group who would receive a lot of individualized and assisted work time. This is fun for us and fun for participants as they end up leaving the session with a “make and take” that can be fully implemented into their classrooms.

Last night I went to school to set up the snack area and run through the presentation and to recheck the links. The links worked, everything was ready.

Did I mention that was LAST NIGHT?

Twenty-five minutes prior to the official workshop start time, I logged in to the main presentation computer and noticed the lower right hand corner was flashing “Could Not Connect to Network Drives”. YIKES! Mom was trying to log in to the student computers with equal success. The network was down. And there was absolutely nothing we could do about it. I put in a phone call to our technology coordinator, but was never successful in making a connection (no pun intended). What to do? Invite the participants to walk across the street and sit at my kitchen table to create their own wikis. Thank goodness the number of participants was low. And thank goodness my husband had left his laptop on the kitchen table before heading out to school this morning.Gumby

Note from “Mom”:
This included a quick trip home and back to pick up my laptop to give us a fourth computer.
Lesson learned:  ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS bring my computer.
(And that there are a lot of unmarked state police cars between Tuscola and Mattoon.)

It ended up being a pretty pleasant morning. Each participant left with a wiki that was ready for school on Monday. And they all seemed pretty excited. After all, they stayed 35 minutes past the official workshop schedule and no, we weren’t holding them captive!

I think there was definitely a lesson learned today, and it had absolutely NOTHING to do with wikis.
Be flexible.

Oh, and back to the title.
My ultimate role model?

Gumby.  He is all that.

A special thanks to my PLN on Plurk who shared some wiki links with me to use as examples.

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One comment

  1. Corrina says:

    The wiki workshop was great! I learned so much that day in a very beautiful and relaxing environment. I look forward to the next workshop.

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