We had our annual MACUL officers retreat in May where we worked on MACUL and SIGMM planning for the upcoming year. Steve Schiller will be moving from SIGMM Director to the MACUL Board, congratulations Steve! Lisa Wickman (Haslett) will be the new SIGMM Assistant Director and Melinda Waffle (Union City) will be the new Communications Officer. I will be replacing Steve Schiller as the new SIGMM Director. As always SIGMM will be seeking input from our Steering Committee and any other SIGMM/MACUL members who care about multimedia in education.
Leslie Fisher is lined up for another SIGMM all day precon(s) for the MACUL Conference in Detroit 2009. I shared many e-mails and conversations during the last few months about SIGMM workshops we can do ourselves either in the summer or the fall. Some of the ideas included: GarageBand, Digital Storytelling, Adobe software (Flash, Photoshop, Premiere, etc) and video workshops. Scheduling in the summer has proven quite difficult as many computer labs are being updated, cleaned, and replaced, or trainers/presenters are not available. There is also a challenge of geographical locations. We had several gracious offers of labs, so we are still working on offering at least one or two workshops in the late summer or the fall. Our other challenge is finding good presenters/trainers. If you or someone you know may be interested please contact me and we can discuss the details of what may be possible.
I hope everyone has a great end-of-the-school year and enjoys their summer break! Check your e-mail as we will occasionally keep you updated of SIGMM plans, discussions and ideas.
Michael Rio
SIGMM Director (elect)
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