Last week was my final staff meeting to teach about the Mobi and Interwrite Workspace. A few days prior to the meeting I sent out another reminder about the meeting letting the participants know they would need to have something they created to share. I also said that I would be available for assisting anyone that needed help with their template or lesson. One person did approach me the day before the meeting and I met with her to help her come up with ideas and show her a few things she could do with the software. The day of the meeting most participants came about ten minutes late, which disappointed me again. I asked in the email for everyone to arrive on time so we could share. Seven of the ten original participants showed up.
Once everyone arrived I asked for people to share what they created. No one volunteered but eventually I did get one staff member to show what she had done. I also had a couple of people practice using the Mobi with that lesson. No one else would share and I did save three templates that were created to a flash drive. Overall I left the meeting feeling frustrated again. I tried to offer support to the staff to instruct them in this software and interactive tablet but many of the participants really didn't care to learn about it.
Later in the week the staff development coordinator I had been working with asked me about the session and I explained to her my frustrations. She understood and asked all of the session leaders to email her and say if they were interested in teaching a second session of the same staff meeting or a different technology meeting. I wrote back saying I was not interested due to the lack of participation and respect from my co-workers. Fortunately the other staff members agreed to teach a different session so there will more opportunities for the staff to learn about some of the software we already have on our computers. I also found out a few days ago I will be presenting what my participants created at a whole staff meeting on Monday. We will see how that goes. . .
