T/TAC Project Site
Fall 2003 - Group 1

 


Team: Shirley & Leslie
Source:  Mary Wilds, Statewide Coord. for Distance Education, VDOE
Date
(Planned, Completed)
 9/25/03
Summary:  

We need to make it possible to easily upload webshops ASAP. Many staff are apprehensive about uploading. Process involves turning each Powerpoint slide into a jpg, uploading it, & adding the text so that its is accessible. There has to be a better workflow, perhaps one that can utilize the text on the PowerPoint slides without having to type it again.

Staff don't understand what a webshop is. We need a webshop on what eLearning is & one on how to design a webshop.

If not made more useful by May, funding of TTAC online may be cut!

She would like to come visit with us. She gave Leslie some possible dates.

Questions:  

Note: in the text below, "T/TAC Staff" refers to the subject mater experts how provide content vial T/TAC Online.

Goals/Priorities 

What is the most important enhancement we could make to T/TAC before 2004? Why?

What are next most important enhancements? Why?

User Characteristics

Describe the levels of computer expertise found among the T/TAC staff.

Describe the levels of interest or willingness among the T/TAC staff to provide their content to T/TAC Online.

How well do the T/TAC staff members understand how to translate their current content into a format that will work well on the web?

Describe the levels of computer expertise found among the educational professionals who will use the content on T/TAC Online.

Describe the levels of interest or willingness found among the educational professionals to use the content to T/TAC Online.

Uploading Content

We have heard that you have uploaded content to T/TAC Online. What was good about the process of uploading content? What was difficult about the process?

Do you know of anyone else who has tried to upload content? If so, could we contact them?

Content Characteristics

What do you think is the most common format that T/TAC staff use in the materials they would like to upload, e.g., PowerPoint, Word? What are other formats are they employing?

From the standpoint of the teachers looking to T/TAC for information, what do you envision a good webshop would consist of or what would be its characteristics?

From the standpoint of the teachers looking to T/TAC for information, what do you envision a good online course would consist of, what would be its characteristics?

Content Topics

What would be the first webshop you would like to see added?

What would be the first course you would like to see added?

Other

Do you foresee the use of any kind of certifications for people who access the content on T/TAC Online?

What kinds of usage data would be beneficial to collect, e.g., number of webshops accessed each month?

Could you give us the names of other T/TAC staff that we could speak with?

Answers:

contact: TTAC-Grp1_Webmaster
last updated: October 13, 2003