Preparing with Teachers for lessons

The past few weeks have been extremely busy and exciting here at Digital Bridges. The teachers are each working on their individual projects with me. We are getting materials together and all are very excited to see the final projects up on the Smart Board and working! I cannot wait to see the student reactions to the lessons on the board which I will take as an opportunity to gauge the student, teacher, and parent reactions.
The past weeks have had great attendance at the Library classes, and I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to actually teach rather than assist this past week. The class went really well, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves while learning about how to search the internet and navigate the internet.
My time at the center has also been wonderful when I get the opportunity to work with individuals and see them learn something new about computers and technology. I have been gathering information for the teacher projects and pulling materials together. I also had the chance to help out with a different computer class on Thursdays which is teaching about Word Processing.
All of this is very interesting, and I am loving my time here at Digital Bridges. Every day has a different set of problems to solve, and I get a chance to learn new stuff about technology as well.
(20 Hours)

The Summit at Digital Bridges

This week Digital Bridges hosted the Entrepreneurial Summit at the new center with drinks and food from all of the best restaurants in Milledgeville. At the gathering, Digital Bridges had the opportunity to show off our new amazing facility, talk about our progress, and introduce people to the projects that each of us has going on here at this time. There were over one hundred and fifty people at this event, and it was quite a success.
In preparation for the event, I worked on having posters and preparing the space. I canceled my time at Gnets for the day so that I could be fully devoted to the needs of the center. On the day of the event, I arrived early to put on all of the final touches, answer questions, hand out gift bags, and introduce people to the center. We cleaned up after the event, too.
For the rest of the week, I worked on the teacher lessons, tried to locate new materials for the lessons online, work the receptionist desk at the center, and worked with individuals who came to the center. This was really rewarding to see when people got excited about using the computers that they checked out from our center.

(10 hrs)

Round 2 Continued

This week I continued to do introduction to Smartboard lessons with the teachers. I am working on making a cheat sheet of the Smartboard tools and what they do for the teachers. This was a great suggestion from one of the teachers who has trouble remembering what each icon does. Introduction to computer classes went very well this week with a high number in attendance. One of the students actually came to the Digital Bridges Center to practice her typing skills later on during the week. At the office, I helped a lady work her computer and become more comfortable with a touch pad. I also worked on my presentation for Tuesday when the Small Business Entrepreneurial summit which will be having their reception at the Digital Bridges building. We are very busy preparing and excited for this event.
(10 hrs)