I think this is a very cool idea, Holly.  When I tried to start up a blog
for ESL teachers here in SD, it limped along and then finally expired.  A
few teachers complained that they didn't know how/couldn't figure out how to
sign up and post comments.  Many never even tried.  We should have
introduced it at a F2F session, and then required everyone to sign up and
practice posting.  Your idea sounds very intriguing, even if it isn't
fleshed out yet. . .

Missy Slaathaug
Pierre, SD


On 5/14/07, Holly Dilatush-Guthrie <Holly.Dilatush-Guthrie at ccs.k12.va.us>
wrote:

>

> 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

>

> "No matter what our attempts to inform, it is our ability to inspire that

> will turn the tides."

> Holly Dilatush

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