Idea: Sharing Speaker Evaluation Comments from 2009 EMS Expo
One of my 2009 highlights was speaking at the EMS Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. I presented two sessions:
- Trends in online education for emergency responders
- Understanding and using social networking for personnel communication and education
At the end of each session participants were asked to fill out a conference evaluation which was a combination of likert scale questions. I don’t give much weight to the likert scale questions, but I always appreciate participants that take time to write free text comments. Since I am presenting both of these topics again today at the Arrowhead EMS association conference in Duluth, Minnesota I have spent some time reviewing the participant comments as I fine tune my presentations.
So my idea is to share these comments. Maybe there are some gems or ideas for you as you prepare to deliver a conference, classroom, or online presentation. I am also interested in how you use participant comments as you prepare presentations … especially when you are delivering the same topic over and over?
Trends in Online Education Participant Comments
69 participants, 55 completed evaluations
Ways in which the session might have been improved.
Comments:
- Handouts, he’s a fast talker
- Do not let people in after the class has started. There were people coming in 30-40 minutes after the start and were disruptive. How does one get full CEU’s for 1/2 a session?
- Have computer session where we actually get some of the online info and how to implement it
- Show some of the processes. How do I put together a podcast, etc.?
- I would like to learn how to set up these programs and applications
- No note pad in goody bag, how come?
- In the past handouts were available
- A little more information on online education technology
- A little more basic, please, you lost me in many areas with terminology I’ve never heard before
- Ask the audience more direct questions
- More actual examples of existing education websites. Show us URL or websites of good existing learning sites for EMS.
Additional participant quotes and comments:
- Excellent topic and presentation, Greg’s discussion of this topic is timely and highly applicable for providers
- Interesting class. Good speaker, enjoyed lecture!
- Great presentation
- Excellent presentation
- This guy is great. Very useful information
- Thanks
- Overall very informative
- Very informative. I really enjoyed his lecture showing new ways of learning
- I am new to e-learning and use of it in my classes but this course gave me very useful tips and was fairly easy to follow. Love the Monday morning training tip.
Understanding and using social media
51 participants, 37 completed evaluations
Ways in which session might have been improved. Comments:
- Handouts with room for notes. Maybe a pre-conference class on how to do aspects of developing use of social networking
- Lecture is broad and sporadic. Expected less on media networking and more on interpersonal networking
- Didn’t know this was going to be about totally socializing online. Thought it was going to be about networking by other means as well
- I would like to learn how to open an account, work on a page (technically) even if I know it’s a conference and it’s hard to realize!
- More basic discussion on how social networking sites work
- Please be careful of blocking the screen. It’s distracting
- More specific examples of implementation.
Additional participant quotes and comments:
- Outstanding
- Perfect, very good
- I could listen all day, but stop standing in front of the projector
- Positive start-up and organization of topic throughout. I am assessing our service’s ability to use video. I found the topic and presentation to be thought-provoking and well worth my time and attention. Thank you for the opportunity to learn.
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