Spending time at the drop-in sessions was worth it

We've hosted three all-day drop-in sessions for faculty and staff this month and had some very interesting discussions. One of the many interesting things that came out of the conversations was the increase in the use of wiki's in courses. There were some that had set up their own wiki's and others who were investigating it. Those that had found wiki's useful told us that the ability for a group of students to develop a piece of work collaboratively was very beneficial. The great thing about wiki's is that instead of students sharing a word document which involves attaching the latest version to an email, sending it off, having someone download the attachment, work on it, upload it again ... and so on -- wiki's allow the composition of a document in one spot. Wiki's are on our RFI and in our surveys. It will be interesting to see these results in the surveys.

- Katrina Espanol-Miller

Process framework presentations

Katrina and I presented the LMS selection process framework and our progress to date (pdf file) at the monthly LTAC meeting today. A number of us have conversed with various interested individuals and groups across campus in the past few weeks. The largest benefit to the group presentations is that invariably one or two people contact us at the end of the presentation wanting to set up some time to meet individually. It is truly encouraging that people are interested in talking to us about the process. More importantly, with every conversation, we learn more about the diverse needs on campus.

- Laila Bastedo