No, these are not refugees from some female Mafia group! It's our own Lynne and Lisa disguised as...um...Deal or No Deal, case carriers. Actually, this was Tim and Dave's job, but the girls took over! This is just some of the fun we had at the IOT Adv anced Training at Ridgecrest. Check our this brief video montage to see some of the happenings!You can view these and more pictures in the special slideshow in the sidebar on the right.
About 70 IOTs attened the two-day event which preceeded the International Conference. We had folks there from various regions including Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America. It was fun to see old friends and make some new ones! All of the class sessions were interactive and interspersed with fun give-aways. Everyone went home with a heavier suitcase!
Our Instructors' Cafe Live on Tuesday evening was great fun, too. We had good eats and special mugs to enjoy the coffee and tea. Six tables were set up for chats about various subjects of interest to instructors such as, illustrations, intros and conclusions, making classes exciting, etc. Everyone chose a table to start with, then rotated to different tables every 15 minutes. There were lots of good ideas shared and most everyone came away encouraged and inspired to try some new things in their next training opportunity.
One of the things we did at the training was to plug the blog! We really, really encouraged all IOTs to come and visit us here at the Cafe. Hopefully, we will see some new faces popping in here from time to time!
Those of you who were at the advanced training remember, we don't want to let the discussions and idea swapping stop now that we're home. Let's keep the conversation going!
Thanks to all of you who took time to attend. Please click on the comment link below to leave a testimony of what the advanced training meant to you.
7 comments:
Can someone help me be able to post a TCE level One training course on this website? Thanks!!
Hi Cefman and welcome to the Cafe!
We do not post TCE courses on this site as they are too numerous around the country. Also, it is mainly IOTs, not TCE students, who visit this site, as it is designed for instructors.
Info in the sidebars can only be posted by the blog administrators. Our visitors are welcome to post comments, sign the guestbook and leave messages in the Shoutbox.
We're glad you stopped in and hope you will come back and visit often.
It was a wonderful time of watching creative teaching styles. Thanks for all the hard work and great ideas. As always, you folks are so generous and we appreciated all the CD's, gifts, etc.
CMI Team ... You lavished us with the best of everything CMI is known for at the ADV IOT Preconference Seminar at Ridgecrest ... Great tools, inspiring ideas, tremendous instruction and a lot of hearty laughter ... I could have gone home after that totally refreshed! ... The Internet Cafe LIVE was a blast, and the new DEMO CD's for Jesus My Saviour and Friend are worth their weight in gold to my CYIA'ers (we're doing CYIA during the month of May in Phoenix, AZ). I am excited about CMI Online and seeing more people trained and equiped to reach the children. I am also excited to have the IOT Instructors in my area connected to the great people who invest their time, talents, and treasures via this blog. May we encourage each other to PRESS ON in the work of the Lord, and give our very best to Him!
Hey Brian, it was great to see you at the conference. Thanks so much for your very kind and encouraging comments. You have made our day--maybe even our week!
Lord bless!
I really enjoyed the IOT Refresher. Thanks so much for all the ideas, encouragement, and freebies.
I was wondering if there was a list of websites available from the "Illustrations" group at the instructors' Cafe Live? We shared alot of websites, but I would like the ideas shared from the other groups.
Hey Honeycomb, Keep an eye on the blog. We are compiling the info from the illustrations group and will do a post on it soom!
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