MC 101 Wrap Up: Altoona

Despite many highway repairs, road closures and detours, I made it to Altoona today for MC 101 session #3 in 148 Hawthorn, a room I wasn’t even aware of until 9:30 this morning!  The space is generally used for music practice and theory classes but worked fantastically as a presentation space.  Again, the windows really made for a light, airy feel and the tall ceiling kept it seeming more like a gallery than a traditional classroom.  (A slightly more powerful projector would have been the only improvement to the set up that I would suggest.)

Thirteen attendees made it out today for the overview session with a few more coming in to join us for lunch as a few left to tend to office needs or FTCAP obligations.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the overview session and peppered me with lots of questions about topics like the Mobile Media Pilot, the One Button Studio and the EGC.  I also had a few faculty folks who were surprised to learn that our MC training and support carries no cost for their departments. 

My personal favorite part of the day was learning about a Norwegian TV project being filmed and live streamed from 20+ HD cameras attached to a mail ship sailing around the country right now – which Paula Ford posted to our Facebook page after telling me about it and sharing videos clips on her iPad.

Update: Evaluation< Same as Harrisburg and Shenango, MC 101 participants were asked about their experience of the entire event.

Eight of the thirteen participants responded to the evaluation in just 24 hours.  Of these, all but one ranked the quality of the Overview session to be Excellent, with the remaining respondent ranking it as Good.

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All respondents felt that MC 101 was Interesting to them professionally (5 Strongly Agree, 3 Agree) and most felt that it was Relevant to their work (5 Strongly Agree, 2 Agree, 1 Neutral). Since this was a mixed crowd of faculty and staff, the emphasis on course projects may not have been entirely applicable to support staff from all departments.

Communications and Pacing received the highest marks of all event logistics (5 Excellent, 3 Good) while Organization was also highly ranked (4 Excellent, 4 Good).  The Venue and Refreshments were generally marked as acceptable and I did receive one comment that the projector was not bright enough for the room, as I expected I might.