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On Sep 12, 2010, at 8:36 PM, Peter Gow <pgow@bcdschool.org> wrote:
> Having been involved with putting together a few of these reports, I =
would
> say the wiki would be a great idea for doing this work; so would =
Google
> Docs, which would give you a bit more control over formatting.
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> I think it will be a necessity for some time to come to format and =
print off
> copies for the committee--or at least give members a choice--and for =
the
> accrediting organization, no matter how digicentric or green you would
> prefer to be. I think they will still want hard copies, so I think
> formatting and printing is pretty much unavoidable. (As a visiting =
committee
> member, I'm afraid I really want a hard copy on which to make notes =
and
> would appreciate the idea but not the fact of having only a link to =
take me
> to the report. I live and edit on my screen for most things, but I =
don't
> think it would serve for this.)
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> (Of course, you could do your report up in ePub or, better still, some =
slick
> format that allows some kind of by-hand screen annotation and provide =
all
> your visitors with the doc and a reader or tablet, perhaps as a lovely =
piece
> of swag to keep. I'd like an iPad, please.)
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> And you could always burn the whole thing to a CD or make up a couple =
of
> flash drives and hope that in 10 years one or the other will still be =
a
> viable medium; I think you would also be well advised save a couple of
> copies at different places in the cloud and remember where they are in =
case
> the business model of one or the other becomes unsustainable. The CD =
would
> have worked 10 years back, now that you mention it.
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> But the wiki/Google Docs concept seems ideal for assembling the many =
section
> reports most accreditors require. You can download the manual and =
section
> questions from many/most/all(?) accrediting bodies to get folks =
started.
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> Good luck, and suddenly wondering when I'll see the paperwork from the =
visit
> I'm supposed to be doing next month--Peter Gow
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> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Seth Battis <seth@battis.net> wrote:
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>> 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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