I served on an accreditation visiting team last year and we did all of =
our work in Google Docs. Indeed though the self-report format the =
school came to us as a word doc., we immediately uploaded it into Google =
docs which allowed us to divide the work Nd make annotations which we =
wove into our reports.
Google docs are easy to share outside of your organization as needed, =
and can be exported as Word or RTF for final formatting as required by =
your accreditation body. Google Docs gains formatting features by the =
month, so you may be able to use that for a final or nearly funnel =
draft. =20
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On Sep 12, 2010, at 5:10 PM, Seth Battis <seth@battis.net> wrote:
> Folks --
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> We're gearing up for our accreditation process, and starting to think =
about
> how to put together our self-study. A wiki (or Google Docs) leap to =
mind as
> an obvious way of creating such an extensive collaborative document.
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> But, we're the cautious sort, and wonder what the unanticipated =
"gotchas"
> are in using an online tool for generating a document like this. Has =
anyone
> else done this recently (on either end of the accreditation process) =
and
> have words of wisdom to share?
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> We're looking particularly at two questions:
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> 1. Longevity? What if we need to access these documents... say, ten =
years
> down the road for another self-study.
> 2. Presentation? Just pass the accreditation committee a link and =
shrug?
> Download and laboriously reformat (thereby losing some efficiency =
that we
> might have gained...)?
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> Thanks for your insights and reflections.
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> -- S
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> Seth Battis / http://battis.net / seth@battis.net / @battis / (323) =
638-7384
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