PPSP planning list

["Prato, Adam" <>]

Thanks, Matt. Just speaking for myself and Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, and not for Elizabeth Dinschel or the other folks at Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum, there are some things we'd like to consider before participating again.

If I recall there was only one kid online with us during the presentation and he didn't really participate. You told me afterward there might also have been a couple hundred others watching live but not participating online. 

I imagine I would have put the presentation together differently if I had known there would not be any live participation, like posing open-ended questions followed by dead silence.

The live online presentations feel a little like programs in search of an audience. If all we need to do is record a presentation and post it on YouTube, I'm happy to consider doing that, but I don't see these videos getting a lot of use in their online afterlives.

So to sum up, I think this project has some worthy aims but I'm not sure if it's worth the effort. I assume you feel otherwise and I'd like to hear your case for it, or suggestions how we might make our participation more worthwhile.

Adam

Adam Prato

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On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Matt Hall <> wrote:

Hi Everyone, 

Thank you so much for your participation in the 2018 PPSP program series!  This year's program reached more than 1,000 students.  I appreciate all the hard work from our presenter sites and all of our partners who helped us spread the word to K12 schools across the country! 

All of the recordings from this year can be found on our YouTube page:  https://www.youtube.com/user/internet2k20/videos

For next year's program, my colleagues in the Community Anchor Program here at Internet2, Stephanie Stenberg and Tom Giannettino, will be taking the lead.  We've had a few planning meetings already and I know they have some really exciting ideas for 2019!  Stephanie and Tom will be reaching out to the group later this summer to begin planning for the next installment. 

Thanks again and please let me know if you have any questions, 

Matt