Timeline
for Planning
Print out this table or copy it and fill in the appropriate dates
in the left-hand column.
| Date | Activity |
| Classes begin
______________ |
Send promotional info to be included in campus newsletters, newspapers, and on the University web site. Depending on your desired participants, you may want to focus on faculty only newsletters. If you advertise on your web site, expect to receive solicitations from students even if you advertised it as a faculty only orientation. Decide now whether to include participants to do not fall onto your target audience. |
| One week later...
______________ |
Ask the library liaisons to send out an email to the faculty in their
departments. If you are allowed to send out campus-wide or faculty-wide
email, you may consider this method instead. But keep in mind that
this may slow down servers and annoy people. Also, if the liaisons are
already familiar names, faculty might be more inclined to participate if
invited by someone they know. You may write your own promotional material,
or alter ours
to fit your needs.
Send flyers through campus mail to faculty, advertising the orientation. |
| One week later...
______________ |
This is the "deadline" although we of course accepted late registrants. By now, you should have a list of participants, and be ready to send them all an email. Please see our tips. |
| The following Monday
______________ |
Send the first lesson!
This should fall approximately three to four weeks after the semester
begins. This way, people have settled into the semester and are ready
to embark on a new learning experience. |
| _____________1 | Second lesson |
| _____________ | Third lesson |
| _____________ | Fourth lesson |
| _____________ | Fifth lesson |
| _____________ | Sixth lesson |
| _____________ | Seventh lesson |
| _____________ | Survey |
| _____________ | Evaluate the goals and objectives- were they met? Send your survey results to Sigrid- you may compile all the results, or send us all the individual surveys, either through email or regular mail. |
1. Space the lessons one week apart.