Action Learning Workshop

I presented my workshop the other day and it didn't really go as well as I wanted it to. It seemed like most of the folks were there to learn what I had to share with them. However I had one person that made my job a little difficult. It seemed like she was trying to point out every mistake I made in front of everyone. I felt belittled and came away from the workshop feeling very bad about the way it went. She embarrassed me in front of my colleagues and I'm not really sure why. I'm also not really sure why she was there because she is a tech guru who definitely knows Photo Story. Nevertheless, I guess it went better than I thought because one faculty member stopped me in the hall the next day and told me that she and her teammate were so impressed with the program that they were going to incorporate it into a lesson very soon. That made me feel great. I worked very hard on preparing the tutorial and the annotated list of web resources (lesson ideas in every subject area) and after hearing that it seemed like my efforts weren't wasted. It was a learning experience for sure and I definitely won't make the same mistakes I made the first time. I did, however, feel like it was a little early on in my graduate studies to be giving workshops, though. I felt like I didn't really know enough just yet and I wish I would've gone with a different approach. I'll know better next time.