There were 55 respondents to the Participant Evaluation Forms:

1. Overall assessment of the workshop?

*One respondent gave a rating of 3.5.

2. Did the workshop meet your expectations?

*One respondent gave a rating of 3.5.

3. Useful to your work and professional development?

4. Ability to use information on your campus?

5. Are you likely to attend next year?

Part II:

1. Which presentation did you particularly like? Why?

Comments on the KEYNOTE by Randy Bass: 20

Excellent: 2

Like theory and pedagogical emphasis.

Exceptional: framed issues very well.

Terrific!

Outstanding!

Keynote address was challenging us to stretch and grow -- just as we challenge students. As with Brookfield’s critical reflection, Bass urges us to ask specific questions about our practice, such as asking how much the energy we spend on what we SAY is our most important goal. I also enjoyed his humorous anecdotes/comments. He quickly established common ground with us.

His promises about technology and the importance of beginning with the one goal of student learning he values most.

Randy Bass: outstanding. Gave a broad & national perspective missing from most of the separate presentations.

The opening session. It was somewhat inspirational. Made it seem possible to do good things without great technical expertise.

Keynote -- most provocative

Keynote speech -- wonderful, humorous, did a good job of showing the value-added of technology

Keynote speaker -- experience & practical suggestions

Keynote -- comprehensive coverage & he did a good job of settingup the rest of the day

Informal Conversations with Randy Bass: 5

One respondent listed -- relevant subject -- relevant question -- relevant answers

Small groups and casual conversations were great

Sessions that received special comment:

All presentations I attended:

2 responded that all were "special"

"Transforming Teaching & Learning: Visual Communication and the WWW" (Adrienne Christiansen -- Macalester College): 7

Good useful information that can be universally used in a wide array of applications and not simply, "This is what I do for my esoteric use of computers."

This dealt with actual teaching.

Excellent application and explanation of effective use of WWW. Excellent speaker, organized, and provided examples and resources.

Highly creative -- would love to take her course!

Very practical -- good thinking about using technology very practically to support pedagogy.

She's funny.  Great examples.  Good speaker.  Good illustration of points with technology

"Classroom Design: Trends and Pitfalls" (Gregory, Bottemiller, Troyer -- University of Minnesota): 6

Very succinct, authoritative, honest

Provided good information

Useable information

Information that I don’t typically have access to

Practical applications for me

"Notebook Computers: The Effect on the Learning Environment" (William Peterson -- University of Minnesota, Crookston): 5

Very clearly presented with practical suggestions. Presenter was knowledgeable about the complete technology picture on his campus. He shared his practical applications.

Practical, enthusiastic

Relevant topic. General info on required support services.

Fascinating experience and expertise from a faculty person living the "wired" experience; terrific ideas and applications.

Showed a good example of results that a solid effort by a dedicated faculty member could achieve using technology. Many innovative efforts to improve his effectiveness and productivity.

"Redesigning a Music Lit Course" (Kachian, Wieser, Stenger, Schreiber -- University of St. Thomas): 5

Relevant info

Very informative in presenting information on the Web, which I think is the future of educational learning.

"Baulks and Bytes: Merging Pedagogies" (Mark Schuler -- Concordia ): 3

Excellent. Well prepared with accompanying materials and insightful conclusions

Brought keynoter’s scholarship to teaching learning process

Excellent theoretical formulation. Nice presentation. Good reflection and discussion. Exciting prospect for research in teaching!

Added note: Randy Bass attended Mark’s presentation and said he liked it very much. Felt it was honest, forthright -- an interesting presentation of a use of technology that hadn’t worked. Tho’ didn’t agree with Mark’s conclusions as to why the use of technology had failed. Thought he should have been using the technology throughout the entire course.

"Learning Anytime, Anywhere" (Kieser, Nelson -- Macalester College): 2

Great links

Very practical, useful

Gave useful information that can be universally used in a wide array of applications.

"Determining Reliability & Authenticity of Internet Web Sites" (Joe Landsberger and Becky Hagen -- University of St. Thomas): 2

Practical. I will use that Web Site!

Very good.

"Rubrics for Practical Restructuring and Effective Leadership" (Douglas Johnson & Eric Bartelson -- Mankato Public Schools): 2

Very useful, practical and also honest

Balanced view, doable, applicable, well-organized, realistic

"Producing an Online ‘Zine in Class" (Cass Dalglish -- Augsburg College): 2

Practical knowledge useful for anyone preparing text for Web

Very informative in presenting information on the Web, which I think is the future of educational learning

"Using First-run Movies for Class Discussions of Interpersonal Issues" (Michael Obsatz -- Macalester College): 2

I like film also, and enjoyed the application and catalyst films provide to social topics

Though limited in scope, Obsatz’s session on movies was well-done and sparked ideas for me to implement movies into my classroom.

"Minnesota’s Virtual University" (Bob Rehn -- University of St. Thomas) and "Library Access for the Future: A Look at MnLINK Gateway" (Karen Campbell): 1 person listed both

Informal interaction, most direct to my area

"Using Interactive Listening Guides to Help the Inexperienced Music Listener" (Mark Rhoads -- Bethel College): 1

Very well done

"Another Cyber Exercise: Adding Art Appreciation Slides to a Web Authoring Program" (William Hoar -- Northern State University): 1

Liked the fact that it was a how-to-do-it

Was relevant to me

Well organized presentation

Well illustrated

"Introduction to Web Development for the Classroom & FrontPage Software" (Joe Landsberger -- University of St. Thomas): 1

"Creating Community and Mentoring Students Via the Web" (Linda Reveling Smith -- The College of St. Catherine): 1

Helpful

"Tales from the Wired Humanities Classroom" (Terry Brown -- University of Wisconsin, River Falls): 1

I would like to see you stress to possible presenters that they should try to interact with the audience and not just read to us.  The program called, "Tales from the Wired Humanities Classroom" was a case of misleading advertising.  She did not do what she said she would do.

2. What topics/workshops would you find interesting and useful at next year’s Classrooms of the Future V Symposium?

Specific information on helping students develop Web Sites

Specific information on how to develop cognitive/critical thinking skills using technologies

The integration of technology enhanced moments in a course with the face-to-face discussion type moments

The use of Web materials on PowerPoint presentations -- an ethical and legal concern

I like the mix of technology set up related to practical applications of programs using technology

Quality and rigor in Web based courses

Technology training for faculty

More tech stuff

Resources (grants) available to Higher Ed. Institutions and particular departments (Teacher Education) to supplement budgets that "aren’t there yet"!

What other ways can a department build its capacity so as to get closer to the implementation level

More demonstrations and hands-on activities: 3

Workshop in animation

Faculty development -- how to support the implementation of technology for teaching and learning

Faculty development programs related to technology

How to write grants for faculty development or what is out there already?

Funding sources

Pedagogy

Assessment: Value added: Does technology lead to better learning?

Time: How much time does it take to prep WWW courses and is it worth it?

Tenure, promotion & leaves: relation to

More WBT examples

More examples of actual programs developed for on-line use -- with a variety of topics

Teaching via distance learning totally using the Web -- how to make it interactive

References, websites, interactive -- provide discussion groups

Discussions on topics -- say using computers to teach content vs. to teach process

Update on MnLINK Gateway

MN Board of Teaching Technological Competencies for Elementary Teachers: How we meet them -- Follow up to Bev Schuler’s general overview

Continue "show and tell" presentations of what real teachers do in class

Research supporting theory espoused by Randy Bass

A follow-up (with examples) about the effectiveness of CommonSpace -- Alice Moorhead (Hamline) was superb!

Opportunities to form cross-campus (cross ACTC) teams interested in same topic -- have people meet during the year & report back on progress at COTF VI: Make the conference each year a kick-off for continued work during the year, rather than one-shot. This is a general principle of good practice in teaching/learning -- we should pay heed, too.

The presentations were unique and unconnected. Is there some way to add continuity/coherence across sessions? Common theme?

Everything I couldn’t go to this year

More "Rubrics" type presentations (different constituencies)

A display area for the storyboard/handouts sort of stuff

Web textbooks

Encourage more faculty involvement in presenting their "best practices"

Session of "futures" -- Get Peter Leyden to speak

Digital television implications

A workshop on Intellectual Property Law

Copyright and Licensing Issues for Educators

Distance Learning

Maybe a basic, "How to do a Web page," in a computer lab

Preventing pitfalls in teaching with technology or Teaching with Technology Effectively

Enhancing campus communication via Intranet/Internet

Perhaps some Epiphany Project ideas?

No response from 22 participants; 1 "Not Sure"

3. Do you have comments you would like to add? (Lunch comments listed separately)

Make sure you have a map of the campus

Better maps -- driving directions and campus maps. Maps on Web Site and posted were not clear. Maps had numbers but nothing for Humanities.

College map on Web is confusing [where is North?]

Registration data wrong -- it said College was NORTH of I-94.

Poor signage. Could not find rooms. Unorganized.

Signage and registration were awesome.

Great signage!

E-mail/Web address of presenters would be very helpful

This is my first time at one of these conferences. I have found it very stimulating.

This conference was very timely. We are addressing many of these issues in our program.

Excellent conference. Keep it going!

I really liked the humanities content of the conference. There seemed to be more faculty than in previous years, which is good.

Variety, peers, cost -- they were all good

The keynote speaker was enjoyable and likable but I felt the presentation was not a strong opener -- needed to be shorter

Tech staff person for "Tales from the Wired Humanities Classroom" should have been more helpful to that presenter. The session was something of an example of faculty on their own and stranded.

A small, but important suggestion. If you are going to begin at 8:00 a.m., or for that matter before 10:00 a.m., schedule the opening in a space where food and drink (coffee) are permitted or make an exception. Secondly, if not workable, post "No Food or Drink" below "No Smoking" and add garbage cans in appropriate places. Additionally, I don’t care to be desperate for caffeine whilst the tech crew is enjoying behind glass. Thanks for reflection on this highly important matter.

On a personal note -- please have beverages other than coffee available. I’m allergic. There should have been more directional signs and good, clear maps of the campus would have been helpful. .

Macalester did a nice job with arrangements.

Good venue for this symposium (Macalester) -- very comfortable.

Great job!

Randy Bass’s presentation was very good. I agree with his statement that we need to move beyond the classroom of the future to the classroom of today.

Thank you.

It’s tough to choose! I’m grateful for the people who gave URLs, anbd for the link to the keynoters site that will be provided by COF. Can you provide that for all sessions where a URL is available?? If that’s your plan, it would have been comforting to hear that at the outset and have the COF URL prominently displayed in the program.

Many of the sessions seemed very specific to particular disciplines. Sessions with more general applicability would have been more useful. Or, if based within the discipline, presenters should be encouraged to think more globally in their pitch, show generalization possibilities, etc. It would have been useful to have individual evaluation sheets for each presentation session. Overall -- technology worked well throughout the conference.

Keep up this very important work. I think we attendees are even willing to pay a fee for the meals & breaks. Your timing for sessions was quite good -- except for lunch.

Wonderful mix of participants from different schools and different geographic areas.

Nice job!

Perhaps create some opportunities for teams of people from individual schools to work together on skill development or a strategic issue.

Maintain the high quality of the program. Thanks for a beneficial day.

I’m glad to know about this symposium!

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you so much!

Once again the conference was a refreshing experience.

Try holding this conference "on-line." Practice what you’re preaching.

Volunteers friendly

Randy Bass was a good informative speaker.  The technology seemed to work very well.

No response to this question on 20 forms.

And then there was Lunch ...

Lunch line too slow

Plan for 2 to 4 lines for lunch. Great lunch tho’

Need faster lunch service

Lunch was disastrous. Surely when you know 300 people are coming, you can design a more efficient system -- e.g., box lunches, several lines, etc.

Lunch, as you know, was a problem

Lunch line was pretty much of a downer

Need a better arrangement for lunch -- too much time in line and food dried up

Lunch arrangements needed much improvement

Unfortunately, lunch line didn’t flow very quickly, though food was good

Be better prepared for the lunch crowd

There should have been more food lines

Box lunches were on the program. They would have speeded up the long lunch line.

If you had had box lunches, it might have facilitated the line at lunch. Keep sandwiches without condiments and have packets or a condiment bar -- that allows for special diets. I really did appreciate that there were veggie and no/mayo choices available.

Lunch: Needed better set up to feed people more quickly.

Your timing for sessions was quite good -- except for lunch.

Quality of food was disappointing.  Of course, it was free to us.  Shouldn't complain.