Last week was a very busy few days.
On Tuesday, I drive to New Haven, CT to speak at a plenary session of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning at Yale University's Center for Language Study. The topic was using Adobe Connect Pro (their desktop web conferencing program) for delivering instructional content to students. This is a subject that I am very familiar with, so I had a good time presenting about it as part of the Consortium's proceedings.
After my presentation, I climbed back in the car and headed home to Hughesville.
Thursday morning I had some chores to do around the house before leaving for Shippensburg and the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association state track and field championships. My speaking engagements weren't over yet.
That afternoon I had to switch gears and become a track and field coach again to present a coaches clinic on the high jump. As a coach, i have had pretty good success with my high jump athletes, and the associate executive director asked me to present a 1-hour session on coaching the event. while the crowd wasn't nearly as large (perhaps 15 people), I had a good time doing it. It was fun to get back into the coaching realm and try and share my understanding of the event with other coaches.
Friday was a light day - kind of. I spent the entire day scouting the 14 different field events at the state championships to prepare for my NEXT speaking gig - color commentary for the statewide broadcast of the championships on the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN). This is my 3rd year broadcasting for them, and I had a great time.
On Saturday, after doing my homework and preparing my information based on Friday's results, I got behind the microphone for about 30 minutes of commentary and review of the events from the previous day. It was easy since I had watched at least a part of the events that I was asked to comment on. The second segment, which dealt with the events from Saturday, was a bit tougher, but I still felt that it came off well.
A busy week, but a fun and good week. It's tough completely changing gears to go from speaking to academics about technology, to coaches who are wanting to learn how to help their athletes, to the general public who are looking for results, information and a little back story to what they are seeing on TV. Hopefully, I pulled it off - but only the recipients will know for sure, and I don't think that there will be any crossovers who heard all three speaking engagements.
On Tuesday, I drive to New Haven, CT to speak at a plenary session of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning at Yale University's Center for Language Study. The topic was using Adobe Connect Pro (their desktop web conferencing program) for delivering instructional content to students. This is a subject that I am very familiar with, so I had a good time presenting about it as part of the Consortium's proceedings.
After my presentation, I climbed back in the car and headed home to Hughesville.
Thursday morning I had some chores to do around the house before leaving for Shippensburg and the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association state track and field championships. My speaking engagements weren't over yet.
That afternoon I had to switch gears and become a track and field coach again to present a coaches clinic on the high jump. As a coach, i have had pretty good success with my high jump athletes, and the associate executive director asked me to present a 1-hour session on coaching the event. while the crowd wasn't nearly as large (perhaps 15 people), I had a good time doing it. It was fun to get back into the coaching realm and try and share my understanding of the event with other coaches.
Friday was a light day - kind of. I spent the entire day scouting the 14 different field events at the state championships to prepare for my NEXT speaking gig - color commentary for the statewide broadcast of the championships on the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN). This is my 3rd year broadcasting for them, and I had a great time.
On Saturday, after doing my homework and preparing my information based on Friday's results, I got behind the microphone for about 30 minutes of commentary and review of the events from the previous day. It was easy since I had watched at least a part of the events that I was asked to comment on. The second segment, which dealt with the events from Saturday, was a bit tougher, but I still felt that it came off well.
A busy week, but a fun and good week. It's tough completely changing gears to go from speaking to academics about technology, to coaches who are wanting to learn how to help their athletes, to the general public who are looking for results, information and a little back story to what they are seeing on TV. Hopefully, I pulled it off - but only the recipients will know for sure, and I don't think that there will be any crossovers who heard all three speaking engagements.
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