Well, at least if the people in question are the history faculty at the Waynflete Private High School in Portland. I participated in a professional development day they held for their staff on Monday as part of a ‘No Child Left Behind’ grant they got. All in all it went really well. If you’re interested you can go to my homepage or to waynlfete.blogdns.com to see an overview of the presentation and links to various related resources, including several that you can actually play around with. Those that are interested are encouraged to check out the Wiki, since I plan to bring one online here.

Of course the best part was my fee, I was paid $250 for my participation and there’s a possibility that more consulting work will emerge from this. It’s interesting, I used to do a lot of consulting back when I made a lot less money than I do now, and I grew to hate it. But back then I was doing mainly desktop tech support and website consulting. I liked the preparation for and process of giving the presentation a lot better. I guess it’s mostly because I have a passion for the material and I enjoy playing around with it and showing folks how it works, whereas with the tech support stuff was just a means to an end, it was about the money and not about the material.