{"id":74,"date":"2008-01-31T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chestercomix.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/multimedia-mantua-elementary\/"},"modified":"2013-04-15T13:37:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:37:56","slug":"multimedia-mantua-elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/multimedia-mantua-elementary\/","title":{"rendered":"Multimedia Mantua Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"Mantua<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this month I spent a day at Mantua Elementary in Fairfax County – a wonderful neighborhood school in a wooded, older and quieter section of bustling Northern Virginia. My presentation needs are simple because I travel with my own overhead projector, but Mantua’s library was tricked out! There was a digital projector for me, several computer stations and even a scanner (the tech I use all the time to get my hand-drawings into a digital form). It was tantalizing (I’ve used whiteboards at schools and shown my PowerPoint to civics groups) but I stuck with my old overhead because it allows me to work the magic of drawing and still face my audience.<\/p>\n

The funniest tech interaction was between me and the signers who came to two of my four sessions. The school has several hearing-impaired students, one who needed me to wear a mike so he could hear. It all went well – I asked the hearing-impaired students some questions directly as I did my Phil Donahue routine in and around the audience. But the poor signers had to figure out what to do with my active style. I literally walked circles around one signer. The other one decided to trail me when I went to the back of the audience for one questioner, and she and I got back and forth just fine.<\/p>\n

And the snowfall that day gaveth and tooketh tech away: school wasn’t cancelled, but I spent too long talking to teachers after my presentations and got stuck behind the afternoon bus line. A PT Cruiser’s car wheels won’t get me around big buses in the snow! So I just stayed in the library – where some of my earlier audience members discovered me and gathered around my Mac laptop to see me coloring one of my new cartoons. That was a fun day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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