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| ADR-Anchorage Week 1 Meetup (Photo by Kristi Powell) |
The first week of the Introduction to Alaska Digital Resources e-course has passed and a group of us met up at Cafe del Mundo in Anchorage to discuss our thoughts on the course so far. Most of us learned something new, some of us ran into frustrations, and everyone had feedback.
Some of the highlights of our discussion included:
- An explanation of SLED vs. the Digital Pipeline would have been helpful
- Some people saw different interface features depending on how/where the resource was being accessed (BSI)
- Business resources might not have been the best lesson to start with
- Misunderstanding/misinterpretation of lesson questions
- Frustration setting up/using blog features
- Questions about functionality of websites/databases (we had a particularly lengthy discussion about the location drop-down boxes and the go buttons on the Alaska Local and Regional Information site--people got different answers depending on what they selected or didn't select)
Overall though, everyone thought the course was very useful and we are all looking forward to Week 2 and genealogical resources.
Good feedback and thanks for sharing and summarizing. I'll make sure the rest of the instructor team sees this.
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