Today we wrapped up the training. Tim went over some points again, and I expounded on more free Web 2.0 applications. After Stephen's talk on photography, I showed the participants how to open and use a Flickr account. As with the You Tube account, I stressed the importance of including your Web site's address in the description area. Although we primarily use You Tube and Flickr as media repositories for our Web sites and blogs, many more people can access our media from the actual site that hosts the media. We need to make sure those viewers can access our site for more information.

I have to say how pleased I was to see George Arende, one of the participants, ask to assemble a plan of action... next steps, as it were. After sharing his plan for how he was going to train others in what he learned, assemble a group to start projects, and listing how many people he planned to assemble, George then asked each participant to state out loud what they planned to do with the training and equipment they had just acquired. He then wrote it down. I was very impressed. It was exactly what Tim and I had wanted to do, but I think it was a whole lot more effective, and more accepted, to have one of the participants spearhead this. George is a huge asset to the KELC, and to the family of God.

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