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<Logistically, it's easiest for me to keep track of each of your responses if you just provide your answer directly next to each question line. Thanks.>
YES or NO? PLEASE RESPOND ASAP to the 8 questions below.
Question 1: Do you still plan to participate in our ongoing collaborations to co-create and actualize global Virtual Mentoring Communities (VMC)? YES or NO?
If YES, please forward this EmailMEMO to any potentially interested parties that you deem appropriate.
If NO, STOP here. Please return to me by using the Email "Reply" option. Thanks anyway.
Question 2: Are you also interested in collaborating to co-create and actualize community-based VITAL Centers (in conjunction with VMC or standalone)? YES or NO?
Question 3: Have you registered yet (FREE) at http://www.eot.org/moodle/login/signup.php for our NCSA-managed Virtual Mentoring Moodle (http://www.eot.org/moodle/ ; Moodle TUTORIAL: http://www.eotepic.org/MoodleTutor/)? YES or NO?
Question 4: Which modes of Virtual/Remote group communications would you use for our ongoing VMC collaborations [please provide a YES or NO response for each communication mode]
Moodle? YES or NO? Wiki? YES or NO? Access Grid? YES or NO? Teleconference? YES or NO? Videoconference (via Desktop Webcam)? YES or NO? or?
============== BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
How transparent/collaborative do you want our VMC communications to be? This will determine the medium/venue.
1. One possible extreme is to create one or many VMC Wikis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki] -- easily created, nimble, LIVE "webpages" (password protected) that enable wide-open, far ranging, ongoing brainstorming discussions anytime, anywhere on one or many distinct/disparate topics of interest to one or more of our VMC constituencies. This would be somewhat equivalent to the kinds of honest/open face-to-face conversations we have whenever we travel to our expedition outposts to meet with subsets of our VMC constituencies. Miscreants can be excluded from a Wiki.
For a Wiki primer/example, see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CommunityLearning_CWE/ConferenceCalls_2006_03_03
2. Another intermediate approach is to set up a controlled-access Moodle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle ; http://moodle.org/] that also enables wide-open, far ranging, ongoing brainstorming discussions on one or many distinct/disparate topics of interest to one or more of our VMC constituencies, but requires somewhat more deliberate effort for participants. Miscreants can be excluded from a Moodle. NCSA's FREE Moodle-in-a-Box (http://revitalise.ncsa.uiuc.edu/resources/moodleinabox/) -- a FREE collaboration/discussion software package that enables anyone anywhere to set up their own Moodle -- is easy to install/use on any computer anywhere and can be accessed by anyone/anywhere (password protected access). For a Moodle example, see: http://www.eotepic.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=2
3. Access Grid (http://www.accessgrid.org/).
4. At the other extreme is a static webpage that does not allow VMC's constituents to see each others' thoughts about a specific matter (somewhat sterile).
What do you want to accomplish?. ==============
Question 5: Are you willing to collaborate to organize/coordinate a Virtual Mentoring and Cyberlearning Symposium for next year's SACNAS National Conference (Oct. 11-14, 2007; http://www2.sacnas.org/confNew/confClient/; see guidelines for special Conference Sessions at http://64.171.10.183/confNew/confClient/current/session/ProposalInfo.asp)? YES or NO?
Question 6: How often do you want to have a REAL-TIME (same time), ACTUAL (same place) face-to-face meeting to discuss our Virtual Mentoring matters?
Once every 3 months? YES or NO? Once every 6 months? YES or NO? Once per year? YES or NO? Never? YES or NO?
Question 7: How often do you want to have a REAL-TIME (same time), VIRTUAL (different places) face-to-face meeting to discuss our Virtual Mentoring matters (e.g., via Access Grid, Videoconference, Teleconference, etc.)?
Once every 3 months? YES or NO? Once every 6 months? YES or NO? Once per year? YES or NO? Never? YES or NO?
Question 8: How often do you want to have TIME-SHIFTED, VIRTUAL discussions (anytime/anywhere) to discuss our Virtual Mentoring matters (e.g., via Moodle, Wiki, Email, etc.)?
One or more times per day? YES or NO? Once per week? YES or NO? Once per month? YES or NO? Once every 3 months? YES or NO? Once every 6 months? YES or NO? Once per year? YES or NO? Never? YES or NO?
ALL 123 Addressees (A-Z): Renato J. Aguilera; Omar Ahmad; Daniel Akins; John F. Alderete; Rafael Alvarez-Gonzalez; Cathie Atkins; Art Bacon; Earnestine B. Baker; Cecilio R. Barrera; Rosalinda B. Barrera; Roger Bauer; Bayliss, Frank; Juliette B. Bell; Walter E. Bollenbacher; Jerry L. Bryant, Jr.; David Burgess; R. David Bynum; Judit Camacho; Liza Cariaga-Lo; George Castro; Vint Cerf; Mildred Chaparro; Chapman, Dee; Benjamin L. Clarke; Deborah L. Colbern; Crews, Phillip; Tiffany Cunningham Donaldson; Sonsoles de Lacalle; Marino A. De Leon; Anthony L. DePass; Debra I. Diz; Keith Donaldson; Dunbar, Joseph C.; Thom Dunning; El-Messidi, Kathy; Douglas C. Engelbart; Gladys Escalona de Motta; Gladys Escalona de Motta; Ron Forsythe; Linda Frazier Moss; Ed Furshpan; Michael Gaines; Elma Gonzalez; Carlos G. Gutiérrez; Hall, Joseph; HARO, LUIS S; Sandra Harris-Hooker; Dudley R. Herschbach; Katie Hirning; Robert M. Hoyte; Freeman Hrabowski; Karen Hubbard; Ray Ivatt; Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena; Gilbert John; Byron C. Jones; Lovell A. Jones; Prem Kahlon; Ronald E. KALIL; BARRY R. KOMISARUK; Kuehn, Glenn D.; Robert Langley; Cynthia Lanius; Scott Lathrop; Yuan Tseh Lee; Henry.LewisIII@famu.edu; Maria de Fatima Lima; Lasse Lindahl; Susan A. Linnemeyer; Marigold L. Linton; Tony Madu; Therese (Teri) Markow; Andrew O. Martinez; Marsha Lakes Matyas; Isaac Maya; Etheleen McGinnis Hill; MCGINNIS, MARILYN; Bharati Mehrotra; Earl Mitchell; Mario J. Molina; Mario Morino; Luis Mota-Bravo; Carol B. Muller; Kate Mulligan; Bonnie Neas; Robert M. Panoff; Lori A. Paserchia; Manfred Philipp; Pepion, Kenneth; Robert Pozos; Joseph W. Rachlin; T. Joan Robinson; Laura J. Robles; Victor Rocha; Eloy Rodriguez; Lucia B. ROTHMAN-DENES; Matthew Schure; Herb Silber; Gayle R. Slaughter; Ed J. Smith; Susan.Smoter@irs.gov; Jack Suess; Joseph H. Suina; Michael F. Summers; Fedora Sutton; Richard A. Tapia; Cecil W. THOMAS; Susan Tucker; Linda Tunstad; Lynda L. Uphouse; Maria T. Velez; Merna Villarejo; Jennifer Teig von Hoffman; Bailus Walker; Isiah M. Warner; Margaret C. Werner-Washburne; Leslie Y. Whiteman-Richardson; Edee Wiziecki; Daniel A. WUBAH; Wyche, James H.; David M. Young; Zahra Zakeri; Maria Elena Zavala; Lee Zia. |