End of Workshop Evaluation

Purpose: Please reflect on this workshop series and let us know what worked and what needs improvement. Your input is valuable to us as we plan future workshops. Your responses to this survey will be kept confidential. We would like you to enter your name below. This will improve our ability to evaluate the program by allowing us to link information about your workshop experience to your responses to other evaluation instruments. The workshop conveners will not see your name.

Your name:

What aspects of the workshop series were the most valuable for you? And why?

Least valuable and why?

How well did this workshop series encourage participation and establish a community that could work and learn throughout the event? Share any thoughts you have for approaches that worked or didn't work as well in this area.

How has this workshop series changed your thinking about teaching? (what you teach; how you teach)

What do you consider to be the characteristics of a strong teaching activity?

How will you use and/or apply what you learned in your professional life (teaching, service, research, or career)?

Website and Technology
In order to move forward with what you learned during this workshop series, what are the one or two things that are most critical for you to find and use on the Cutting Edge website?

Overall, to what extent did the technology function for you throughout the workshop series?

The technology functioned well; everything seemed to go as planned.
There were minor technological glitches, but their impact on my overall experience was minimal.
There were some problems with the technology that negatively impacted my experience.
Problems with the technology were so bad or so pervasive that they overwhelmed my experience.

Please add any comments about how well the technology functioned for you throughout the workshop series. Share any specific challenges you experienced and the degree to which these challenges interfered with your participation.

To what extent do you agree that the format of the event sessions was appropriate for achieving the workshop goals?

Agree Tend to agree Tend to disagree Disagree

Please add any comments about the format (what worked well or didn't work well).

Please share any thoughts about the organization, schedule, and timing of event sessions in this series.

Goals
Please rate to the extent you agree with the following statements with 4=Agree and 1=Disagree.

The pre-workshop communications gave me the information I needed to learn about and prepare for the workshop series.

Materials on the website were useful in preparing for the workshop series.

The design of the workshop series facilitated exchange of expertise among participants.

The events in the program engaged me in active learning related to its goals.

The workshop sessions were well facilitated.

The logistics for the workshop series were well executed.

I believe the goals of the workshop series as stated were met:

a. Create a diverse collection of links to current geoscience online digital datasets that span a range of geosciences, with an emphasis on geoscience topics of particular current societal interest and relevance

b. Demonstrate cutting edge advances in using digital online geoscience datasets and provide participants with understandings in how they are generated, archived, and interpreted

c. Develop effective teaching practices using online digital datasets, including the development of teaching activities and demonstrations that are appropriate for different instructional levels and using current results of learning science that inform learning through the use of the interpretation and analysis of online datasets

d. Demonstrate to participants the use of a variety of software programs codes that can interpret, analyze, and map the digital datasets discussed within the workshop

Please comment on any of your ratings, particularly if you disagreed with any item (rated any a "1" or "2").

Please indicate your current satisfaction with this workshop by selecting the appropriate number (10=Very Satisfied and 1=Very Dissatisfied).

Comments to explain your rating:

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