Tutorials Short bursts of learning onsite are perfect for busy teachers. Fifteen minutes here. Ten minutes there. Brief lessons on discrete skills and maneuvers offered by a trusted colleague in a comfortable, small group setting. Two or three days a week there are early morning lessons on simple tasks like organizing bookmarks files or printing form letters or labels.
Tutorials offer comfort, convenience, usefulness and immediate results.
Many teachers worry about technology breakdowns, disappointments, embarrassments and jams of various kinds. They hear horror stories and don't want to experience them. We know that many students of our students are quite capable when it comes to making technologies perform the way they are intended. When you get stuck, you pick up the phone, dial a number and ask . . . Many districts wisely install phone systems at the same time they install data networking.