Technology Advanced Institute–Day 1
Today we began our first (annual) Advanced Institute for Technology at CWP. It is an exciting day for me, because the idea was spawned in July last year at Technology Matters, an NWP event. We, Sonja and I, flew to California for this fabulous training. While there we were coached, challenged and supported. I found out that what we at CWP had been working on was indeed cutting edge. Our inservice offerings, our Tech Day and many of the applications we were exploring were all cutting edge. We were truly leading the way…not trailing behind.
At this event I began to realize that it wasn’t that we were behind (because as I just said we were definitely not), but that I couldn’t do it all myself. I realized the problem was that one person can not be expected to lead, support and troubleshoot for an entire Writing Project Site. It takes a team of people to do all of those things. So…I started to brainstorm with Sonja about how we could make this team come to life. We decided that an advanced institute would be a good way to start.
