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Join Together Advisory Board Evaluation Team Report

Join Together Advisory Board Evaluation Team Report. Donna Mertens Katrina Bledsoe Heidi Holmes Pauline Ginsburg ACE-DHH Conference Denver, Colorado February 2006. Join Together Evaluation Team. Yr 2 Evaluation Team. WWW.DEAFED.net. Methods Online survey Treasure Hunt (Heidi Holmes)

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Join Together Advisory Board Evaluation Team Report

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  1. Join Together Advisory BoardEvaluation Team Report Donna Mertens Katrina Bledsoe Heidi Holmes Pauline Ginsburg ACE-DHH Conference Denver, Colorado February 2006

  2. Join Together Evaluation Team

  3. Yr 2 Evaluation Team

  4. WWW.DEAFED.net • Methods • Online survey • Treasure Hunt (Heidi Holmes) • And the results are…

  5. What is your primary status in terms of deaf education? (results from deafed.net survey)

  6. How often do you visit www.deafed.net?

  7. How often do you use the following features of www.deafed.net?

  8. Most frequently used features • Job search • Post/search for documents of interest • Read Bulletin Board entries; respond to BB threads • Visit Help and FAQ areas • Search calendar of events • Communication with team members

  9. Rate the following features in terms of ease of use

  10. Recommended Improvements • “Mostly very happy; items barely mentioned: accessing bulletin boards & findings what I’m looking for” • “Quality of documents” • “Remember my password; login frustration; internal links broken” • “Post choice entry; post documents” • “Too much text; make it friendlier & more transparent – e.g., change ‘documents’ to ‘Resources and suggestions for teacher’”

  11. Best Experiences • “It is wonderful to have a one-stop point of reference to refer people to. I feel like it is the BEST place to go for anyone interested in deaf education. We've needed something like this for a long time. I'm proud of our collective work to bring the site to fruition and continue to refine it.” • “Finding other teachers of the deaf and making connections. It's a wonderful resource!!” • “Working with Michelle Hoversten. She is always positive, very helpful and personable.”

  12. Year 2 Report • Reporting Form Changed by US Department of Education • Survey of TTLs and Interviews with Project leaders • Review of www.deafed.net • Project leaders and evaluator met for 2 days to construct the first draft of the report – followed by electronic communications • Report is now at www.deafed.net

  13. 1. Project Objective - Topical Team 1.1 Technology Infrastructure: Create an efficient collaborative network of consortium members (CM), institutes of higher education (IHE), State educational agencies (SEA) and local educational agencies (LEA) that results in empirical evidence regarding the impact of Web-based video conferencing (VC) to reform d/hh teacher preparation.

  14. Year 2 report included Goals for Year 3 • Each TTL has established goals that include dissemination and measurement of effects of grant related activities • Priorities established: • Engagement with deaf community strengthened • Video based products captioned • Research teams supported by evaluation team

  15. Quarterly reports • TTLs interviewed re: accomplishments, challenges, support needs, spin offs; Project leadership interviewed. • Document reviews: Executive Advisory Board and TTLs phone conference minutes; TTL postings to www.deafed.net ; review of email records re: cyber mentors and master teachers. • Evaluation team supporting research of project teams

  16. Synergy • Teams are working together • Year 3 represents synergy of teams toward achievement of overall Join Together goals • Sustainability is a major issue • Any chance for voice recognition software to provide real time captioning for video conferences?

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