Re: FW: IOUG Session Evaluation Results

  • From: "Howard Latham" <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: chris.grabowy@xxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:34:08 +0100

Looking at those results I'm pretty impressed.
Don't forget that your audience contains a huge mix of people some who need
you to go slow and some like me who has heard most of it before.
I think your scores are pretty damn good. And the nit pickers - why don't
they present eh?

2008/6/12 Grabowy, Chris <chris.grabowy@xxxxxxxx>:

>  I give up.  I keep taking feedback from previous conferences and
> incorporate them into my future presentations, and I still can't get them
> right.  I was "slow", well, the last few times I was "too fast".  I took the
> time to make sure everyone got the point for each page of my presentation,
> and I get dinged for it!  I had addressed most of the comments during my
> presentation, and I still got dinged on them.
>
> Did anyone else get "great" feedback from presenting at IOUG????
>
> I just can't see myself spending all that time working on anymore
> presentations.
>
> Perhaps, I'll skip the mowing tonight and go straight to the drinking
> part....
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Speakers@xxxxxxxx [mailto:Speakers@xxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:43 PM
> *To:* Grabowy, Chris
> *Subject:* IOUG Session Evaluation Results
>
>
>
> Dear Chris Grabowy,
>
>
>
> Thank you for speaking in Denver at COLLABORATE 08 – IOUG Forum and for
> generously sharing your time and expertise!
>
>
>
> It is through the quality content provided by our speakers that COLLABORATE
> attendees increase their knowledge, their skills and their network.
> Needless to say, you greatly contributed to the success of our conference
> and presentations, such as yours, are what make COLLABORATE the premier
> learning experience that it is!
>
>
>
> Currently, we are in the process of putting all conference proceedings into
> our LoOk (Library of Oracle Knowledge) member area.  If you made any changes
> to your paper or presentation after you uploaded it, please send the updated
> version to speakers@xxxxxxxxx  We want to ensure that we have the final
> version.
>
>
>
> Please find the results of your session evaluations below.  The overall
> mean at COLLABORATE 08 – IOUG Forum was 3.48.  That puts the majority of
> sessions into the Very Good to Excellent rankings.
>
>
>
> Thanks again for your continued support of the IOUG; please look for the
> Call for Speakers notification in late August.  We look forward to seeing
> you in Orlando, Florida for COLLABORATE 09 from May 3-7, 2009!
>
>
>
>
>
> Peter Smith
>
> IOUG Director of Education
>
>
>
> Jon Wolfe
>
> IOUG Technical Session Chair
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________________
>
>
>
> IOUG Evaluation Report:
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>
>
> Session: #611: Wiki this Way!!
>
>
>
> Question 1:  How well did the abstract for this presentation describe its
> contents? (4=Very Accurate, 1=Not Accurate)
>
>
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> Your score:      3.73
>
>
>
> Question 2: Was the level of technical content appropriate to the objective
> of the presentation? (4=Very Appropriate, 1=Not Appropriate)
>
>
>
> Your score:      3.5
>
>
>
> Question 3: How effective were the presenter's audio visual materials?
> (4=Very effective, 1=Not effective)
>
>
>
> Your score:      3.26
>
>
>
> Question 4: Would you recommend this session to others? (% Yes is shown)
>
>
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> Your score: 97
>
>
>
> Question 5: How would you rate the presenter's knowledge of the material
> presented? (4=Excellent, 1=Poor)
>
>
>
> Your score:      3.55
>
>
>
> Question 6: How would you rate this presenter's speaking style?
> (4=Excellent, 1=Poor)
>
>
>
> Your score:      3.23
>
>
>
> Question 7: Overall, how would you rate the quality of this presentation?
> (4=Excellent, 1=Poor)
>
>
>
> Your score:      3.42
>
>
>
> Overall Mean - Average of means for questions 1-3 through 5-7.
>
>
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> Your score:      3.45
>
>
>
> Written Commentary:
>
>
>
> • A walk-through of how Chris built the Wiki for his team.  Screen shots
> would have been good.
>
> • Lessons learned were very helpful!  Thank you!
>
> • Opening could be shortened, defining a wiki needed less time.  Spend a
> little more time on why you selected a particular Wiki.  Do a bit more
> research… OSX Server has a Wiki built-in for example.  Info on hosted Wikis
> was very helpful. ie: exit strategy
>
> • Slow
>
>
>
>
>



-- 
Howard A. Latham

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