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Ocotillo Retreat 99
Flagstaff, AZ
May 18-19, 1999
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A summary of responses to the retreat evaluation.

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Post-Retreat Evaluation

This is a summary of the retreat evaluations; see the raw listing for individual comments.

1. What worked for you at this retreat?

  • Cafe discussions, format,timing, exchange of ideas (43)
  • Networking with colleagues, diversity of participants (14)
  • Planning, organization, "best ever" (10)
  • Blackboard demo (9)
  • Location, conference facilities (8)
  • Large Group discussions (7)
  • Lionel Diaz, Bond demographics presentation (4)
  • Flashlight discussion (2)
  • Alfredo's "big Picture" presentation (2)
  • Addressed assessment questions (1)
  • Paper Printouts of summaries (1)
2. What would you suggest changing?
  • Food (16)

  • Closer Location, in town? (8)
  • keep in north location (2)
  • Flashlight session vague (1)
  • Lack of facilitator on second day (1)
  • More on demographics (1)
  • Provide questions before retreat, shorter, fewer questions (3)
  • Meatier topics, more in-depth discussions (2)
  • Need laptops for note taking (1)
  • More evaluative data, less sales pitch from Blackboard (1)
  • More like format of retreat 1998 (1)
  • Use Open Forum Process (2)
  • Vendor show (1)
  • Forum to identify emerging issues (1)
  • Followup focus groups during upcoming year (1)

  • Start earlier first day (3)
  • End Earlier first day (11)
  • Start later second day (2)
  • Provide more content for two days of time (2)
  • Too much activity in short time (3)
  • Report outs too long (1)
  • Too many large groups, too much time in large groups (2)
  • Have evening social time, free time to explore, recreation (4)
  • Went off schedule second day (2)

  • Acknowledge, value input of District Staff (2)
  • More participation of key players (Presidents) (3)
  • More inter-college interaction (2)
What directions would you like Ocotillo to go next year?
  • Followup with action, report back on this year's recs (15)
  • Present/showcase/demo projects that are working, separate event? (7)
  • Develop tech plans, prep for bond tie common elements, district more leadership role in tech planning (7)
  • More "holistic" view of tech use (less division of instructional vs academic computing), more integration at dist level (5)
  • Continue focus on issues, instructional focus (4)
  • Continue college focus, more leadership in TLTRs (2)
  • Promote cross campus collaboration, sharing (2)
  • develop tools/process for Assessment/evaluation (2)
  • hands on tech lab (2)
  • more input from students, PSA, Craft, Board, Legal dept (3)
What issues that were not discussed here would you like to addressed next year?
  • Budget, district < - > colleges, how tech money spent (4)
  • Tech funding ideas, alternative, partnerships, non-bond approaches (4)
  • Chancellor/Board vision for tech, leadership (4)
  • Integration/bridging of "academic" and "instructional" computing, more perspective of IT support staff (4)
  • identify student uses/benefits of tech (2)
  • Dist "council" for technology (1)
  • Improve communications district < - > colleges, centralized vs decentralized (2)
  • impact of demographics trends (1)
  • student services & technology (1)
  • distance learning/ pedagogy (1)
  • equity issues (1)
  • Employment, employee relation issues (1)
  • Discipline specific issues
  • support (2)
  • professional growth issues (1)
  • More collaboration (1)
  • More report on what works/does not work in tech plan (1)