ETxDLA Meeting Preference Survey Results



• 60.9% voted for Friday meetings
• 34.8% voted for ¾ day meetings with lunch provided
• 34.8% voted yes to vendor provided lunches if the presentation is less than one hour

We also got a good response for breakout topics (listed below) at our next meeting. In the meantime, links are listed to help provide information on some of the topics. If you have additional links, please send them and we’ll get them posted, too:

Breakout Session Topics

• Integration into curriculum
• How to design better websites
• How to best create teaching principles into a web course
• Online instruction
• What one should have on a good DL website

http://www.netnet.org/instructors/coursedev/webcourse/

• VCT topics/issues
http://www.netnet.org/students/dualcredit.htm

• Topics like the NASA Live one (at UTT) so we can incorporate our distance learning labs more for daily use
http://www.netnet.org/instructors/design/interaction/strategies/vftwebquest.htm

• Faculty training & development methodologies
• Team building & collaborations training

http://www.panola.edu/instruction/dl/training/Default.htm
http://www.netnet.org/instructors/

• Delivery strategies, i.e., how to teach via ITV
http://www.netnet.org/instructors/coursedev/itvcourse/index.htm

• Better serving high schools
http://www.netnet.org/students/dualcredit.htm
http://www.netnet.org/students/dualcreditcounselors.htm

• Community Events / continuing ed. with Distance Learning for the general public
Several high schools are currently involved in setting up such community events. Keep checking the site – we’ll post more information as it becomes available.

• Student Support
http://www.netnet.org/students/index.htm

• Fun things to make your class MORE interactive and involved
• Tips and Tricks for instructors who teach in the ITV world

http://www.netnet.org/instructors/design/interaction/strategies/

• Real experiences and best practices
• Success stories

http://www.netnet.org/instructors/introduction/showcasearchive.htm
http://www.netnet.org/instructors/introduction/gettingstarted.htm

• Content providers
• Course availability

http://www.netnet.org/courses.htm (A new interactive catalog will debut this summer)

• Distance Learning structures of institutions/ Make-up of DL departments and responsibilities of each person (e.g. Do they have a DL Director, Technical Positions, Faculty Training, etc.)
We are compiling a list of what members send in re: their own DL structure. The submissions are posted on the Administrator's Page.

Library Services examples of good practices
http://www.libplans.ws/standards/default.asp?keyword=all
http://www.mla.gov.uk/action/framework/fw_casestudies.asp
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/libdist.htm

• New technologies
http://distancelearn.about.com/b/a/076380.htm (this is on about.com so turn on your pop-up blocker!!)

• XML & Metadata repositories
http://ifets.massey.ac.nz/periodical/7_2/8.html

• How to get campus ID cards to distance users

(At some schools, if students are unable to visit the campus, they may print the ID registration form, complete it, and mail it with a photocopy of their drivers license to the Circulation Department. Others schools require DL students to submit a recent portrait-style photo with the students full name, social security number, and birth date written on the reverse side with a photocopy of a state-issued photo I.D. (i.e., driver’s license) to the Dean of Student Services.)

• Quality control issues
http://www.netnet.org/instructors/design/assessment.htm

• Equipment choices
• Connection choices

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/vidconf/equipment.html

• Proxy servers
http://www.researchchannel.org/program/displayevent.asp?rid=2077 (If you’re not familiar with the Research Channel, check out all their offerings – they have some great stuff, and it’s free.)

• How to test college resources with other I.P. providers
http://www.dnsstuff.com is
an excellent overall testing page. It contains multiple testing tools as “seen from the outside”

• Technology "how to" sessions
• Advisory board issues
• Some sort of spontaneous "share session" where part of the session is pre-planned and the rest is a spontaneous sharing of good and/or bad practices.