I noticed that as an Instructional Technology Training Specialist, I am getting a wider variety of questions this school year.  The questions seemed to be more advanced in nature and the answers seem to require more time.  I think this is to be expected.

Teachers at my school are acquiring more and more technology integration skills.  As this happens they see more and more ways to apply and use the technology solutions.  Their imaginations are more fertile.  As they imagine ways to use the technology to benefits their classes, they see a need for more and more skills.  For example, using the Smart Notebook software, they can create movies of their presentations.  Now they want to edit their movies and add more narratives.

So Office 7 and Notebook 10 help illustrate the shifting of teacher knowledge of the technology available to them.  The software evolves and matures and it requires some update training.  But once trained the software opens the door to new opportunities and “how to” questions.  This means the Instructional Technology Trainer needs to not only keep up with software revisions, but needs to understand the evolving growth in the nature of the questions they will face on a daily basis.