Judy Robinson discussed podcasting resources and taught Audacity for audio editing. Half of the those attending this hands-on computer session were our JEA mentors. Yesterday they learned to record audio files. Today they learned how to download the files to a computer and edit the files.
Teamwork – Babs Erikson (Illinois) and Katharine Swan (California), in stripped blouse, download audio files they’ve recorded at the JEA/NSPA convention as part of audio training for mentors.
Georgia and Wayne Dunn recorded sections of the JEA membership meeting. Georgia was trying out the H2 Zoom that the mentors received as part of their audio training. Georgia and Wayne are mentoring in Ohio and were selected to be part of the first mentoring group. Their work is funded by the Ohio Newspaper Association.
Peggy Gregory, Linda Barrington, myself and Bill Flechtner at the close of the Mentor Forum. The day-long session included hands-on audio training with Judy Robinson. We’re looking forward to mentor podcasts.
Patty Turley (Oregon) and I led a session on Mentoring at a Distance (DM on the chart) using a Jeporady game approach. These were our categories. Before the session I went to iTunes and downloaded the Jeporady theme music to play to get us in the spirit. A few tips from the session: Face-to-face contact […]
Peggy Gregory (on left) and Bill Flechtner (Oregon) led a morning of discussion at the Mentor Forum, attended by mentors from both the 1st and 2nd mentor groups. Lots of problem solving and idea swapping.
JEA Mentoring Committee members met to prepare for Mentor Forum & board meeting tomorrow. Bill Flechtner, Steve O’Donoghue, Linda Barrington, Peggy Gregory and Norma Kneese.
Swapping mentoring stories – Mentors & friends enjoyed dinner and talking about mentoring in their states.
Martha Rothwell (North Carolina) and I started the audio training while in the Charlotte Airport waiting for our flight to St. Louis. Judy Robinson and I ran into Martha and Kay Phillips in the airport and didn’t want a learning opportunity pass us by. We were en route to the JEA/NSPA convention, where one of […]
Just three weeks ago in my graduate teaching course, one of the class presentations was on Discipline Problems in the Classroom. The members in the class were most interested in the topic, as all had either been a teacher or a student in a class when a discipline problem occured. The almost-a-discipline-incident in my last […]
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