Hi Doug, I like the idea of the newsroom wall "staying" up after the first event and growing with each subsequent conversation (of course, you'll likely have to take it down between events, so it makes set up a little more labour-intensive. Another option is to produce a mini-book after each mini-event and have copies on participants' chairs when they arrive - but this is more costly and uses lots of paper.)
The reality with healthcare work (ie shiftwork) is that you almost always have to have a couple of event opportunities in order to allow all who want to attend to show up - I think your vision of one event in three time slots is a good one - and healthcare workers are used to having to make this type of accommodation. Another argument for keeping the theme from event to event is that folks attending will "butterfly" in the healthcare community, so people may arrive at the 2nd and 3rd events with some very deep thought on the theme, having had some time to mull it over, even if they were unable to attend the previous sessions. In fact, no matter what the theme, people will certainly talk about what matters to them. Best, Laurel. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas D. Germann, Sr." <76066....@compuserve.com> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 5:25 PM Subject: Continuity of week-apart sessions? > Judi, Alan, Brian, Laurel, and all-- > > Thank you all for your examples and questions. > > Laurel--Thank you for the heads up on healthcare people--valuable advice. > > Brian--Well it is interesting that some folks open the sessions each time, > and others do not. I am curious, Brian, how close in time were your > sessions to each other? > > Alan--The reason the sessions are a week apart is that the sponsor is > trying to accommodate healthcare workers, many of whom in our community > have late Wednesday afternoons off. Hence the short 3 hour time slots, too. > > My question for you Alan, is if you would have different themes each of the > three days? > > My sponsor is pushing for separate themes, but so far I have resisted. > Laurel suggests one theme, no sub-themes, too, in order to get deeper > conversations. What is your experience? > > All--I have been picturing this as one OST with folks having the chance to > post topics for all 3 Wednesdays on Day 1. Then on each of the successive > days they could post more topics for those days. Does that make sense, or > should I just have them post only for Day 1 on Day 1, Day 2 on Day 2, etc.? > > :-Doug. Germann > http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, > Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
