Kal+Mannis

Diffusion of Innovation Multimedia Presentation - Web Conferencing/Synchronous Professional Development

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I thought I'd skip the story board idea and just get started on the PPT. So here is the 'in progress' presentation - I've started compiling data and resources for this project. I'm working on the layout, thinking that I may need to move more data into the notes section and just summarize in the slides. I haven't tackled the conclusion section yet, but I hope to have that roughed out by Wednesday. I'm going to change the name of the file for the next upload. Please let me know what you think.



'S' curve dilemna

Just a note about developing the S curve. I'm having a heck of a time finding valid data to use to develop the curve. I finally went to some of the research companies cited in some of the documents I'm using and emailed them. My hope is that I can get something useful without having to pay a huge amount to a consulting firm. I looked at the rubric too and it really doesn't seem very well aligned to this project - since we are mainly focusing on emerging technology. What do you two think?

PPT update - Still cleaning up the details, but I think I've most of the raw material. Just need to get the data for the s curve..... Please comment. thx, Kal



I spoke with the sales manager of a web conferencing company this afternoon. He was kind enough to provide me with estimate of users for the last 10 years. I'm going to try to get the same data set from at least one other company to have a comparison. But I can now create an S curve! Here is a copy with the S-curve and a few updated slides.



I'd like to think this is a final product before audio. Please let me know what you think. I have to go to a conference on Saturday (peer coaching for tech integration) but will check back in on Sunday. It has been a very stressful week. I am the district's Academic Coaching coordinator/and Mentor - and I have been dealing with some folks new to the district who really don't get the art of teaching. I'm sometimes amazed how closed minded some teachers are to professionalism!



I created a ppt version with audio but the file is almost 8mb, it ends up being about 14 minutes long but I skipped over a number of slides including all of the case study slides. If I covered everything the audio would have been over 20 minutes, which I think would probably be too long. As for the layout I did take LeAnn's suggestion and shifted the case study slides so that they had fewer items per slide.If you will take a few minutes to review my work and give suggestions I'd appreciate it.