Further Workshop Discussion - Moody & Koch

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:34:59 -0500 (EST)

From: "Jennie L. Moody" 

To: usercomm@unidata.ucar.edu

Subject: Further Discussion



Just thought I would circulate Steve's message, which only
came to me, and my brief reply.

On Mar 16, 17:35, Steve Koch wrote:

> Subject: Re: Revived Workshop Discussion

>  Jennie:
>  
>  Thank you for attempting to clarify and explain your concept for this
>  workshop; this was most helpful, and perhaps there is more common
>  ground there than I understood there to be.  

Good.

>  however, I still believe that a
>  workshop can only be justified if the participants gain valuable
>  information that will help them to improve the way that they do their
>  business as educators, and yes, I do mean within the UNIDATA
>  data/applications environment.  

Okay, I don't think anyone would disagree with this.

>  Nevertheless, I restate my argument that we
>  must assist the participants in methods for accomplishing such
>  pedagogical objectives, not just gee-whiz the attendees with what 
>  everyone is doing with the data, software, and display systems.  

No argument here, I agree with you.  Again, thats why I use the word 
applications....there's more to this than pretty pictures or "electronic
wallpaper", its how we _use_ it that matters.

>  There must be some measure of practical benefit to be gained by
>  attendance at such an NSF-funded workshop, in my opinion.  We will need
>  to carefully define what is to be gained from this experience, and how
>  we will accomplish stated goals.  Good meat for the meating.
>  

Right, its this definition of goal/approach/content etc.
that we need to zoom in on....

>  Steve
>  
>  
>
  Email:       Steve_Koch@ncsu.edu 

> -- End of excerpt from Steve Koch 

Jennie