Answers to Question 10 (how could the institute have better met your needs?):

• Build in reflective time between sessions
• Better logistics. One session started late and one lunch late.
• Afternoon sessions were too long. They were interesting, but too long.
• Well done! I want to participate next year! Hope to take Jennifer's Online course. Excellent info & resources
• Go back to 3 days rather than 4.
• Excellent conference. Could probably shorten to 2 1/2 days. Drop Thurs morning. Some of us are still in school.
• Some sessions were too long. Shorter sessions. More comfortable chairs.
• It met all of my expectations.
• Better plenary sessions, better rooms for breakout sessions, having a discussion in a lab was impossible, need better audio mics
• Evening activities or workshops.
• Condense the time spent here. Could have fit in 2-3 days, rather than 4. Too much idle time.
• Some sessions were too long. Shorter sessions. More comfortable chairs.
• I don't know how. It was very well done.
• More in depth workshops on actually developing a course.
• Keep the same.
• Rules for teaching deaf folks in the classroom are: pausing after showing something until you get eye contact, don't talk while directing attention to the computer screen or board, don't talk, demonstrate & point at the same time. The hearing folks benefit
• Didn't really know I had any needs until after the sessions.
• More face to face with others in my field (composition). More critique of possibilities & responsibilities. More on the quality of education that technology enables.
• More time to work with the consultants on a machine with real problems.
• Vegetarian food
• Provide opportunity to create a mini module or home page individualized.
• Provide time to sit with others and actually work through general step by step set up of their online courses.
• What I'd like is for next year's conference to have "tracks" for breakout sessions, i.e. a FrontPage track or online courses track. People who sign up for a track would go through all 5 sessions. Also, one concern is that less prepared faculty participant
• This was a positive experience and I'm already looking forward to next year. Very well done. Especially appreciated was the variety offered in the program!
• More hands-on with WebCT. I guess I thought this was the "software" of choice for ION??
• By considering a session driven by teaching/learning issues in the face of "can do" technology. (addressing the should do issues) Same presentations as last year-NO. Maybe not totally-interesting, but...I'm way beyond good info, new info useful.
• If it were possible to have the breakouts in one area. I dealt with a physical disability. Many places did not have elevators. All sessions were good and we should be able to link or have handouts from each.
• I also enjoyed the online over sessions, hands-on training. I'm a tactile learner. Fine job. I want to come back next year after I have taught online. This, of course does not answer the above question. You did a great job!
• Having access to computers at ISR in the evenings, so we could practice what we learned. More cave tickets. I wasn't informed prior to registration. Have evening sessions/seminars.
• Plenary session-very uncomfortable wooden straight back chairs, placed too closely together.2) For poster session, use Gateway projection screens (31" +) on tall carts.
• Specific track/sessions for tech support staff.
• Encourage the use of handouts by all presenters. Use a portable microphone for plenary session presenters.
• Make it 3 days-1st day could include a breakout session (even in the evening) The heavy hors d'oeuvres were plenty. Start at 1:00-opening keynote-dinner-do a session/2nd day-omit plenary-do sessions all day/3rd day-finish
• More presenters with faculty experience using online technology. This will come with time.
• Institute participants would be better served if learning tracks were used instead of the hodge podge of courses used now. Too much material was crammed into a very short time frame in some cases.
• The food was sooo good. I ate way too much.
• I would have liked to have seen more with respect to tools, such as course management systems. While the presenters and staff of the ION demonstrate a great deal of passion with respect to this mode of deliver, I am still not convinced that it is what we
• The JavaScripting breakout did not teach much beyond what I already knew but it was all that could be done in the time available. For a topic like this you might do a morning & afternoon session to give a more in depth presentation of this topic.
• More comfortable chairs in the lower dining room at ISR.
• Nothing--great job!
• More discussion/critique of difficult issues (e.g. some raised by Dr. Sanders) and less cheerleading and its effective uses/non-uses.
• Offer a few modules that carry a mini-training course over 3 days (say T,W,Th a.m.)--develop project, etc. over 3 days/maybe brainstorming on a particular topic.
• Shorter afternoon sessions. Also, I think all disciplinary sessions should be held in conference or class rooms to make discussion easier. (no computer labs). I would have liked to have had 2 shorter afternoon sessions with more repetition of the break-o
• Excellent as was!
• Good show--better than last year. The longer sessions were a good idea.
• Well done.
• Condense into 3 days.
• Hand-on 1/2 day or more sessions on WebCT. I really appreciated the sessions with Jennifer. She got me thinking about ways to get my students involved and thinking.
• Total package of online materials from all sessions.
• Plenary sessions seating awful. Could we sit around tables? Have more breaks? Can't see screen.
• Last an entire week.
• Could not have--Well done!!
• I would have been happy to use the evenings for the FSI and be done sooner. It didn't need to be a 4 day event as it was. Could have put more into the 4 days if that was a preset.
• It was okay.
• I can't imagine.
• Better tracking of people with different skills.
• No help on assessments; no handouts/limited web access to notes; not very practical nor evaluative, wants more descriptive. Put the next conference on a web board and make it one of the 1st sessions.
• I wanted to attend more hands-on sessions. There were conflicts and not enough of them. Perhaps 6 or 7 or even 8 sessions would be better.
• Separate classes for slower & classes for more advanced students-more time to work with programs.
• Yes, by shortening the sessions times!
• Sessions where disciplines could meet and shave ideas/software techniques.
• Just do another next year and let me come.
• Had there been a session on the creation of instructional CD-ROM, preferably interactive, but also presentational, would have benefited more directly.
• Handouts and web pages a post conference web board
• Limit afternoon breakout sessions to 2 hours and end at 4:00.
• More hands-on experience; less lectures
• More real discussions for technical issues.
• More discussion with other schools on what they are doing with online courses.
• Compact into 3 days instead of 4.
• Can't think of anything.
• Smaller breakout sessions
• Needed elevators running. Although not in a wheelchair, my arthritis makes stairs difficult. Busses could run earlier, some sessions got finished early.
• Offer a discipline-based session with someone who has more experience than me.
• More hands-on.
• Plenary sessions handout or outlines.
• It was very well done.
• Do away with the plenary sessions--at 8:30 am I'm ready to begin training!! However the last plenary session on copyright was very helpful and enjoyable. I appreciate being made aware of these significant issues.
• Improve the sound system.
• More hands-on workshops; let us do more, try things out. 2-2 1/2 hours is too long to sit still, even for us academic types; Advise your presenters that Power Point is overrated, especially if the audience also gets a hard copy of the presentation; this r
• Redefine what beginner means; ask people more specific questions to determine if they are really beginners.