We'll release Flashlight Online 2.0, our new tool for
web-based surveys, rubrics and other online forms, this
fall. Our beta testers have been giving the system a
good workout,
and high marks.
One of Flashlight Online's specialties is going to be
sharing materials: you can adapt surveys, item banks,
rubics, and other online forms that Flashlight
supplies. Your institution can make forms available for
your staff to adapt. And individual authors can easily
share their materials with other Flashlight Online
users, including (if they want) with authors at other
institutions. Sociologists can share surveys with other
sociologists, for example. Institutional researchers
can share forms with other institutional researchers.
The Flashlight Program will prime the pump by loading
some of our materials, starting with our current
templates and then the Flashlight Current Student
Inventory and Flashlight Faculty Inventory.
This FridayLive begins with a show and tell about what
we're planning on putting into Flashlight Online 2.0.
Then we'll brainstorm with you about how to use such a
system. What would you put into it? And how would you
"tag" the content to make it easier for other users to
find what you had published?
PS If your institution is already a TLT Group subscriber
and you need a beta test account to experiment with uses
of the system this summer, or if you would just like to
chat about how to make use of this pioneering new web
2.0 system, please contact Steve Ehrmann (ehrmann@tltgroup.org)
