Using the templates for tasks pages is helping us organize who is doing what
and keep track of notes. We will still have to pull everything together in
to one document to submit, but we can do that on a CD rather than mailing in
a binder.
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:37 PM, David <davidwithrow@harfordday.org> wrote:
> Paperwork? Or info? Hmmm, we are a habit of environmental history. :-)
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> 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.
> >
> > 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.)
> >
> > (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.)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Good luck, and suddenly wondering when I'll see the paperwork from the
> visit
> > I'm supposed to be doing next month--Peter Gow
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Seth Battis <seth@battis.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Folks --
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> We're looking particularly at two questions:
> >>
> >> 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...)?
> >>
> >> Thanks for your insights and reflections.
> >>
> >> -- S
> >>
> >> Seth Battis / http://battis.net / seth@battis.net / @battis / (323)
> >> 638-7384
> >>
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