by: Alice B. Hambright, Technology Specialist
LiveText is Working! Spring 2007 has been a whirlwind of LiveText activity. Data from the Fall 2006 semester has been compiled, organized, examined, analyzed, and shared. Program and unit reports have been generated and recommendations made based on the data.
More than 100 additional student LiveText accounts were purchased during the spring semester totaling more than 450 student accounts for the year. These accounts were FREE to students during this first year of implementation and are good for up to five years. Beginning this summer, students new to LiveText will need to purchase the system just as they purchase a textbook, either online or through The Citadel Bookstore.
Training in the use of LiveText continued during the spring semester with many student LiveText users volunteering to tutor newbees in the hands on portion of the training sessions. Snippets of conversations overheard in the corridors of Capers Hall included references to LiveText and to my "electronic portfolio." Newly designed School of Education templates were introduced in the spring and professors soon began showing off impressive examples of student portfolios. LiveText updates its software early in the spring semester and became even more easy to use.
Professional education faculty caught the LiveText bug and created impressive portfolios, projects, and assessments to share with students, each other and to include in their own professional evaluations submitted to the Dean. Additional faculty support became available as Dr. Wehrman worked closely with Ms. Hambright in learning the ends and outs of administering the LiveText system. Dr. Wehrman, along with Dr. Woelfel, has been accepted as presenters at the 6th annual LiveText Collaboration Conference in Chicago in July 2007.
The LiveText process has been institutionalized. Spring 2007 LiveText forms have been launched, data has been collected and the analysis is now taking place. Our assessment system is in place and working well. LiveText is proving to be a valuable tool that enables the system to evolve and the cycle to begin anew each semester.
