Technology Assessments

There is a a lot of information on technology that I do not know. The one area that I need to concentrate on is creating a spreadsheet. I do not know how to work an Excel spreadsheet very well. Once a spreadsheet is developed, I can work with it, but I cannot develop one. I know the basic software applications functions. I do not know how to delineate between the carious digital file formats. I have done this once, but do not remember how to do this. I cannot capture digital files while conserving memory. My picture files are always so large. My husband is always complaining that the pictures I send him are too large. He has yet to teach me how to make them smaller. I have recently learned how to us Boolean search strategies in the research class. It make searching for items so much easier. I have known for a long time that I need more professional development in technology. Our district provides professional development every so often, but it is one session and there is never any follow-up. I would like to have high quality professional development that teaches us how to integrate technology into the classroom. I would like for this professional development to be year round. We get information in a one time setting and then it is never used because their is never any follow-up. I recently took a technology class on photo story and windows movie maker. The presenter gave us great handouts to use and refer back to so we can follow the steps when creating new presentations. It is always helpful to have refernces to use when re-creating things already learned.