- In two well-written paragraphs, summarize information you found from two resources that directly relate to your PoP.
Improving Attendance at Professional Development Events (newforums.com)-Improving attendance is the goal! Though this sites audience is geared towards those who provide higher education professional developments, the strategies can still be applicable to my area of work. The author, Dr. Hal Blythe, identifies 6 strategies to help improve attendance: 1. Create a name for your sessions, 2. Try to theme your events with something valued by your audience, 3. Establish an electronic registration system, 4. Publicize the events multiple ways, 5. Utilize a workshop format, 6. Try to use a variety of workshop facilitators. Though this is a short-and-sweet blog posting, it hits on a few ideas I had not considered before. This weekend, I had my first in-person workshop and a few of these ideas could have helped to put leaders in seats, especially number 4: publicize the event in multiple ways.
Home – Bright Morning (brightmorningteam.com)-This is an incredible resource that I have used many times before. Bright Morning is an international education, coaching and consulting firm that was developed and designed by Elena Agular. She is a writer, leader, teacher, coach and podcaster. She’s also the author of seven highly acclaimed books, primarily based on coaching. This site has an abundance of information for the viewer including trainings, blog posts, newsletters, podcast and how to bring the Bright Morning organization to your program. She’s such a great resource for my POP because she takes an approach of improving your PD’s by making the overall experience one that is impactful, insightful and collaborative amongst colleagues. She also offers a wide variety of literature and information on coaching, which is very helpful for my area of work.
2. State in which sources you identified the information.
As I mentioned in #1, The first resource was a blog post from New Forum Press. The second resource was a .com site that is a platform for the Bright Morning Educational Firm.
3. Explain the steps you took to verify the information. Refer directly to the CRAAP criteria and the core concepts outlined in the Keller & Share (2005) article. Summarize your view of the information’s reliability and provide a rationale.
Both of these sites not only look professional and authentic, but all links are active, both authors are respectable professionals in their individual field of work and both sites have mission statements. Though New Forums Press hasn’t had a recent post since 2017, there are vast topics to choose information and resources on in a blog-format from reliable sources. There is extensive background info. on all authors from the site, in addition to multiple postings by each. I can also trace their education/experience online. Elena is an author for 7 books, 4 of which I have, and I’m currently reading as a work-study. This site has constant updates and posts on the podcast and blog. The site also has a calendar the identifies when and where Elena and her team will be hosting/presenting and/or offering trainings nation-wide. I can also locate her educational firm through multiple search engines. There is no doubt in my mind that both of these resources are reliable and authentic.
4. Include an APA-formatted bibliography of resources cited.
Blythe, H. (2016, May 18). How to Improve Faculty Attendance at Higher Ed Professional Development Events. New Forums Press. https://newforums.com/title-list/featured-authors/hal-blythe/
Bright Morning Consulting LLC (n.d.). Bright Morning. Bright Morning Team. https://newforums.com/title-list/featured-authors/hal-blythe/