Blogging on the topic of peer
mentoring over the past few weeks has already provided me with the elements to
be incorporated into the webinar I will present on the 14th
March. Luckily I am not too apprehensive
about presenting my findings online having consulted customers on how to host
and facilitate webinars during my time at WebEx, but I still have an entire
activity plan created to ensure that it is a success.
The success of any webinar is in
the way you market it and this will be done by posting my blurb as an announcement
to all cohorts on my course, but also to other cohorts who frequently use
another university site- The Edinburgh Napier Education Exchange. This was
already in my activity plan and I will also be running a discussion after my
first webinar to understand what my peers think of the topic of peer mentoring.
It is all about gather more information to support the proposal I plan to
present during my 2nd webinar.
I will use the Universities Online collaboration tool Elluminate, which
I have some experience of using. Thankfully most of the online collaboration
tools available have almost identical features sets. It is how you use these features, which
contributes to the success of any webinar regardless of the topic.
Yes, I have attempted to write a
blurb and what do I hope to achieve by doing this? Well, I hope that it will
spark some interest to join the session and not only take away something new
about peer mentoring, but also contribute through feedback during and post webinar to a possible implementation of a mentoring
scheme for cohorts on the MSc BOE. I am
not sure what to expect qua feedback, but will create moments in my webinar for
responses and the next few days will be spent thinking about the questions to
pose to the cohorts after they have attended my 60 minutes of fame. My 60
minutes of fame as a guest speaker will need to be evaluated and I am also
looking at possible question to add to my evaluation questionnaire as well as
thinking about the number of questions, the question types and how I will use
this feedback.
There are a number of tools out
there and I have already been toying with the idea of using one of the
following:
- SurveyMonkey
- Google Forms
These are two tools that I
already know and I will opt for a tool I am comfortable using for this first
webinar, but one of the opportunities I could take advantage of is to try other
tools, but rather than me searching for a suitable tool I decided to tap in to
the Social Networking world and pose a question to one of the communities I am
a member of on Yammer to see what a group of 1, 280 members has to say about
evaluation tools. The feedback brought with it an interesting mix of tools
Through doing some research it was stated that the two were regarded as basic survey tools and SurveyMonkey also featured here too. Two other tools mentioned were regarded as lower class integrated tools:
Through doing some research it was stated that the two were regarded as basic survey tools and SurveyMonkey also featured here too. Two other tools mentioned were regarded as lower class integrated tools:
Evaluating the success of a mentoring scheme will include some type of evaluation and this is certainly feature in my list of recommendations to the programme leaders. Which tool is going to be the interesting question and challenge I now have.
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