June 10, 2011

Online workshop evaluation

Greetings friends!

For those of you who attended the 2011 ECAC-SIDA Workshop in Rochester, I hope that you had an enriching and rewarding week with your peers.

Just a quick reminder that we moved our evaluation form online last year in hopes to make it easier for you to fill out and submit. The move was a tremendous success and gave the Board more feedback from more people. The evaluation is a critical component to each year's workshop. The executive board and the workshop organizing committee plan for future workshops using the comments and criticisms that we receive from you, the membership. If you have suggestions for a table topic, want to serve as a panelist for an issue that you feel strongly about, or have an idea for anything else related to the workshop, let us know on the evaluation.

For the first time this year, we are also giving you the ability to nominate for our major awards while the Awards Dinner is fresh in your mind. If you submit a name on the evaluation form and then forget to fill out the full nomination form (also online), you will be contacted and reminded later in the year.

To fill out the online evaluation, all you have to do is visit http://www.ecacsida.org/workshop/evaluations. There is also a link under Workshop in the header that will take you directly to the form.

There are five sections to the evaluation. The first four sections allow for you to rank each aspect on a scale of 1-5 with 5 being excellent and also provide a section that allows for specific comments you may have. Use the N/A if you did not participate. The final section asks some open-ended questions about both the workshop, including the streaming video, and the organization in general.

Once you hit submit on the form, you will have one last opportunity to confirm your evaluation before it is submitted. After you confirm that what you have written is what you want to submit, you must select "Please Confirm" at the bottom to submit the form to the board.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Director of Online Services Luke Stillson at sid@mcdaniel.edu.

David Alexander
College of Saint Rose
2011-12 ECAC-SIDA President