Thought/Idea?:   Many PD opportunities (if not most) conclude with some sort of evaluation -- and often the style/format of those evaluations are similar/repeated -- perhaps the evaluation portion of direct, face-to-face PD opportunities could (fairly easily) be online and planned during the last half hour of an event, with registration onto online component a required task during the break/lunch/etc and then the RE-entering of the site (good practice, and we all know repetition helps!) to complete the evaluation could be the final task of the day.

This would help ensure that participants left their correct emails, provide a database of contact info of confirmed participants, give a 'teaser' of what an online experience could be -- and provide evaluation.

A very simple Moodle could be set up -- with the evaluation including a link to a survey AND a question or two on an interactive discussion -- 

and with minimal adjustment -- it could be used again and again -- setting up new groups on the same Moodle or (easily) copying the outline/framework of one course to another new Moodle.  

Has anyone tried anything similar?  What do you think?   FYI, this idea came to me while reading posts today -- it is not a well-thought out idea -- does it have promise?
Holly 

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Holly Dilatush
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