Blog #4 Professional Development Process/Presentation Day

As of today, I have now fully completed my 100 instructional hours. The professional development was met with challenges, but the overall experience was very educational. In the beginning, learned how to adequately communicate with the latent print examiner on her educational needs for the students regarding her intentions on how to present the A.F.I.X./A.F.I.S. programs. By sharing ideas on what format should be done to deliver the presentation was very beneficial in determining what web point 2.0 tools would efficiently work in showing the programs. So, I took her feedback and started working on ways to deliver the programs outside the agency to the classroom. Initially, began the development process by just taking screenshots and going back over those screenshots to show the fingerprint process. Notably, after I created the first presentation, explained the concept to the latent print examiner who was somewhat impressed by how the video presentation was heading. However, I felt there could be a more suitable way to present the material interactively. So, I decided to redo the entire presentation by having the latent print examiner working in real time on a case to show the process from start to finish. Unfortunately, around the 20^th of September, our computer systems crashed, and we were unable to use our computers for some weeks. Well, during this downtime, continued to work with the latent print examiner to understand how the programs interacted with the fingerprint process. In communicating with the latent print examiner, learned that there was no way to recreate the applications to have the students simulate the process. That is when I decided to embed quizzes within the presentation to have students actively participating in understanding the applications through a question and answer session. Recording the videos with a phone was met with additional challenges because once the videos loaded, for some reason they rotated sideways when reviewing the video at work. At this point learned to research my issue online to discover that using a camera phone will cause this dilemma. Fortunately, use the web 2.0 tool Camtasia Studio to re-record the material to show up right in the system. Surprisingly, this method worked to upload the videos in the correct direction successfully. At this point, recreated the slides to include information regarding the purpose and process of the fingerprint programs. Once the literature was embedded, I looked for free pictures on Google Images to enhance the presentation. I went back to the latent print examiner with the revised version of the presentation, and was told this was what she needed to be able to show her students in the classroom. Furthermore, attempted to create the evaluation form on Google Forms but that format did not allow me to generate the feedback portion I wanted on the evaluation form. So, I used a word document to recreate the evaluation form for the student to use. The evaluation form turned out to be what was needed to provide the necessary instructions on how to fill out the form. Ultimately, the students had an opportunity to see the actual latent fingerprint process through a real application of the programs. For the most part, the students paid attention but at some point, did drift off. I wished there could have been a way to have the students simulate the process, but the programs were not set up to be able to remake the process. Notably, the students took to the embedded question/answer sections within the video to reflect on the programs. Overall, the instructor and students were happy with the video presentation. Majority of the students gave a high rating on the evaluation forms presented after the video presentation. However, I had a few students who would have liked the video to explain how each button worked with the programs but due to time constraints per the instructor, this could not be done. Notably, the instructor was impressed with my content material and stated she would be using the information for her next class she teaches.