Yes, and exceeded them (8 people): details Yes
and no (6 people): details Yes
(4 people)Based on 18 responses (9 high school faculty; 9 college faculty)
1) Did the workshop meet your expectations? If not, why not?
Yes, and exceeded them (8 people): details Yes
and no (6 people): details Yes
(4 people)
2) What were the most valuable features of the workshop from your perspective?
Community building (11 people): details
Quality of training, including affective as well as technical support
(11 people): details
Focus on pedagogy and assessment (8 people): details
Development of computer skills and increased comfort with technology (7
people): details
Practical, project-based training (3 people): details
Intensity and focus (2 people): details
Discussion of Web-related copyright issues (1 person)3) What suggestions do you have for improving future workshops?
Unscheduled
time and/or a longer workshop (7 people): details
Some small-group instruction, sorted by skills levels (4 people):
details
More pre-workshop information (3 people): details
More guidelines for participant presentations (3 people):
details
Structure, organization, and content of training sessions (3 people):
details
Hold different types of workshops in the future (1 person):
details
More publicity (1 person): details
Single project (1 person): details
None (2 people)4) What were the most significant things you achieved during the workshop?
Skills learned (14 people): details
Ideas for teaching with technology (9 people):
details
Solid start on building and/or project (7 people):
details
Sharing and community (2 people): details5) Were you unable to achieve anything that you had hoped to accomplish? If so, what could we have done to help you accomplish this?
Less progress on building/projects than anticipated (8 people):
details No
(6 people): details
Certain skills not mastered (4 people): details6) What do you see as the most valuable features of the VRoma Project as a whole?
Community and collaboration (14 people): details
Teaching resources (12 people): details
Virtual Rome; contextualizing knowledge (8 people):
details
Familiarizing students with technology (1 person)7) What potential problems do you foresee in the project? Do you have any suggestions as to how we might solve these?
Size of project and necessity for continued commitment (9 people):
details
MOO-related difficulties (5 people): details
Varied nature of building sites (4 people): details
Technological difficulties (2 people): details
Difficulties with collaboration (1 person): details
Duplication (1 person): details
None (1 person): details8) What type of follow-up support would be most useful to you as you continue to develop VRoma materials and use these in your teaching?
Reunions, real life and/or virtual (12 people):
details
Technical information and support (7 people): details
Feedback and encouragement (5 people): details
Official commendation (1 person): details
Conference panels (1 person): details
Increasing number of images in the archive (1 person)9) What follow-up, dissemination, and publicity activities would you (either alone or with one or more partners) be willing to undertake on behalf of the VRoma Project? Please add relevant details.
Making a presentation at your school or writing a news release for a
local publication (14 people)
Running a one-day VRoma workshop for high school and college teachers in
your area (13 people): details
Making presentations at local, regional, or national meetings or
conferences (13 people): details
Building on the MOO (11 people): details
Holding "office hours" on the MOO (8 people, plus 3 more who
wrote "depends" or "maybe")
Other (5 people): details