The process culminates in a meeting where the faculty member being evaluated spends an hour taking the committee through the packet, addressing any areas of concern and highlighting any wonderfulness. Then the committee meets privately to determine the fate of the faculty member: approval, assistance plan, summary execution, etc.

My meeting is this afternoon.

My dean loves instructional technology, and has indicated he’s looking forward to the meeting (hint: do something special). Rejecting interpretive dance, a YouTube video, or a group tableau of the Black Death, I have created a series of web pages showcasing my work.

But the paper and privacy bother me, thanks to this class. We all had to sign a confidentiality agreement at the beginning of the semester. It’s designed to protect me. But I don’t need protection. The hand-delivery, read in person, hush-hush seems archaic.

So I asked the two faculty who visited my online classes if I could make their reviews public (I did this after they wrote them), and they gave approval. I emailed my committee the entire packet, noting that they could review it from the comfort of their computer chair. Then I put the whole effing thing on the web.

Here’s my entire faculty evaluation packet and presentation for this afternoon. What, me nervous? Hah!

Take that, you closed evaluation, confidentiality, hand-delivery types.

I am a community college history instructor, and I’m excited because I’ve waiting for several years to take this class. I “sat in” a bit last time, and that encouraged me to enroll. Dr Couros is a fantastic instructor, and I’m looking forward to seeing what new technologies and tricks he’ll introduce to us.

I know that participation is key to this class, so I hope to be creating a list of everyone’s blogs here so I can connect with everyone else’s work and reflections.

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