Sample Presentation Outline/Agenda
for 1.25 or 1.5 or 1.75 hour session

2:15pm  Welcome, introductions

2:20pm   Steve Gilbert - Play RoboDemo/Presenter audio-narrated slideshow prepared by advance phone interview of <Someone local?  National?> and on site photos, recordings of local folks made day before event - emphasis on roles of local "Compassionate Pioneers" and related local professional development activities, resources

[show/describe links to "Ain't Broke...." and TLTG tailored Web page]

Give brief tour of Tailored Website, explain how it will continue to be available for at least several months

2:35pm  Perspective

• It Ain't Broke - It never was. Can't "fix it";  can improve it - forever!

• Historical

  • Long ago (pre-1980): Options for teaching and learning were very few.  

  • Not so long ago (1980s): Options for teaching and learning were still very few.

  • More recently (mid-1990s to present):  Options for teaching and learning are many and increasing rapidly.

• Why Bother?  From Access to Community?- new "Dashboard Dial" slides

• New challenges: Move forward without adding time or money!  How?

• Incremental Steps - LTAs  EMPHASIZE THOSE THAT SAVE SOMEONE TIME!

• Show LTA of the Week site;  Demo one or two??? [time permitting]

• From Increments to Transformations
  Even with severely limited time, money.  Focus on small next steps likely to succeed.  TLTG/USF model:  Learn options, try a change, assess/improve change, help colleagues;  repeat/expand!

2:50pm  Small group discussions (Incremental and Transformative Change): 

<NOTE:  MAY BE UNREALISTIC TO DO 2 questions OF THIS MAGNITUDE;  MAYBE ASK HALF OF AUDIENCE TO DO ONE AND OTHER HALF TO DO OTHER, THEN REPORT RESULTS>

Explain why we're doing this (want to ENGAGE them, want to learn from them, focus our follow-up efforts)

1.  What are 1 or 2 of the smallest useful changes you can make soonest to move toward improving teaching and learning with technology consistent with host institution's goals (e.g., more inquiry-based learning)?  [For those who are not teachers, or who need a different slant,  If some of the information technology resources now available had been available when you were a high school or college student, what would have been 1 or 2 of the smallest useful changes that could have been made to improve your success as a student?]

2.  Think about host institution's 10-year goals [what are they?  where are they?].  Describe 1 or 2 characteristics of changes that you would consider transformational, feasible, and worthwhile!

3:00pm Report results

3:10pm  Q&A & Describe Follow-up options

OPTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

      Explore how to "Build Community & Connections" at local institution -  beginning with local professional development cohort?

      Announce an online session 3 to 5 weeks later TO WHICH ALL PRESENT PARTICIPANTS Are INVITED - already scheduled, with topic/function and role(s) for LOCAL cohort participants. 

      Describe TLTG'S BCCOOC series, options for participation.

      Announce a LATER face-to-face event hosted by LOCAL INSTITUTION OR LOCAL TLT CENTER OR LOCAL TLT ROUNDTABLE

3:20pm  Conclusion:   Steve Gilbert's Vision Worth Working Toward

Use New Options, Tools, Hopes Realistically (time, effort, commitment) to:

• Personalize Education

• Increase Engagement

• Improve Teaching/Learning with Technology

• Build Community and Connections Online and On Campus

  • List of questions to ask, and re-ask about "community"

  • List of old/new taboos to be broken

• Need to build community locally and globally now more than ever