Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 16:09:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Melanie WetzelTo: workshop@unidata.ucar.edu Subject: BAMS article on Workshop Well, congratulations to everyone for the workshop! I have looked over the exit survey comments, and the success of the workshop is quite evident. I mailed the surveys to Sandra, so if anyone wishes to read them, please ask her to send a copy to you. Those people who will be writing the Bulletin article sections on workshop evaluation and conclusions would be particularly interested, I think. In our committee meeting, I had made suggestions for people to be in charge of the primary (or least preliminary) writing of each article section. We can change these if you wish. I recall that Michael had proposed a change for one section. Here are my original suggestions: 1. Introduction (workshop history, motivation, overall design, description of organizers and participant groups) [Wetzel, Dempsey, Ramamurthy, Fulker, Nilsson] 2. Plenary speakers on scientific content subject [Wetzel, Moody] 3. Presentations related to instructional design, instructional technology and assessment [Marlino, Murphy] 4. Panel discussions related to instructional design and development [Yarger, Ramamurthy] 5. Subject-area lab activities [Dempsey, Knight] (should Recorders do this?) 6. Workshop evaluation [Morgan, Vietor] 7. Conclusions [Dempsey, Koch] Acknowledgements [Wetzel, Nilsson] References [Wetzel, Marlino] A small group of workshoppers were talking at breakfast one morning, and a suggestion was made to 'keep the article to two pages'. I am all for the idea of making it brief and to the point. What are your ideas on this? We can condense certain material. For example, we can have a table listing the workshop leaders, such as: Workshop Chairpersons: David Dempsey, Melanie Wetzel Lab Moderators: David Knight, Steve Koch, Charlie Murphy, Mohan Ramamurthy Recorders: Sally Bates, Jennie Moody, Michael Morgan, Doug Yarger Instructional Designers: Brian Heckman, Mary Marlino, Tom Reeves, Woody Wang Author/Programmers: Pete Boysen, Matt Hicks, Mike Taber, Dan Vietor Unidata Systems Experts: Steve Chiswell, Don Murray, Tom Yoksas Subject Matter Experts: Greg Byrd, Katy Ginger, Grant Petty, Tony Mostek, Melanie Wetzel And, we could have another table listing the speaker names and titles of their presentations. Some photos would be great, and perhaps a 'screen capture' of one or two of the modules that resulted from the labs (with authors permission, of course). Also, I would like to suggest a schedule for the article preparation (it has some slack in it to accomodate busy summer schedules): By July 25: We have email discussion to decide who will write which sections, and discuss overall format of the article By August 25: All primary writers have submitted their sections to the group as a whole, gotten some feedback, and made revisions By September 25: Final draft is complete and ready for final review by everyone interested By October 14 (or whenever the UserComm meets next): Final manuscript is ready to submit; copyright form is signed by everyone and article is submitted