Reflections
Wow! It has been a crazy past three weeks for Recess TEC. A good kind of crazy. We have visited quite a few different school districts as well as hosted our first “summer series” of technology workshops at EIASE….and now it is time to reflect. It is very important for us to share anything new that we learn while hosting professional development sessions so I think I will start there. During our first day on location at Lake Land College where we were privileged to train high school teachers on the implementation of SMARTBoards within their classrooms, I was asked how to re-size a circle in Notebook software with perfect h/w ratios. Of course this question came from a high school math teacher where perfect circles are a MUST. The answer could not be “eyeball it”. I told her to be really careful while dragging the mouse while resizing and it shouldn’t be an issue. HOWEVER, one of our other participants was kind enough to share a tip that I had never seen. My mom knew about it, but I sure didn’t. Robin informed me that you could click on the little white circle on the bottom right corner of any shape, hold down the shift key, and then drag to keep the shape in proportion. I love it when I learn something new from our participants! Thanks Robin!
