Thank you for taking a moment to read this and hopefully participate
in the survey below. As part of a master's project, I'm doing a survey
on the use of e-mail listservs by educators as a form of professional
development.
Through this survey I hope to determine a couple of things:
- do educators use listservs to collaborate and share, as per the
best practices (teacher helping teacher) of inservice and
professional development research?
- if so, is this a valid & viable form of inservice of pro-d?
- how many educators belong to listservs (a few, some, many)?
- what are the problems associated with using listservs?
Please send your reply to me personally at:
goldsmith@rainbow.fvrcs.gov.bc.ca
Thank you for your time and participation.
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LISTSERV SURVEY
1. Your Position: (ie Teacher, LM Specialist, Counsellor,
Administrator, etc.)
2. Your school, school district or institution name and location?
3. Estimated number of teachers in your facility?
4. Where do you usually access the Internet/e-mail from; school,
home or both.
5. Does your school, school district or institution provide
any type of free or inexpensive Internet access for teachers
from school and/or from home?
6. Does your school, school district or institution provide
any type of support for teachers using the Internet?
Brief description of Internet support.
7. Have you had any inservice on using e-mail and e-mail
listservs. (None - A Little - Some - A Lot)
8. How many e-mail lists do you personally belong to?
Please list them.
9. If you belong to more than one e-mail list, which one would
you consider as your favourite?
Why?
10. Do you feel that membership in an e-mail list such as this
list is worthwhile?
Why/Why Not?
11. In your opinion, what are some of the drawbacks and
difficulties which might prevent other educators from
participating in listservs such as this one?
12. Would you consider membership in a list such as this one to be
a form of professional development?
Why/Why not?
13. On which e-mail list did you receive this survey or notification?
EMPATHY/Interper Hotline
14. Your comments, questions or concerns regarding this survey.
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LISTSERV SURVEY - OPTIONAL
Please complete the questions below, only if you feel you are able to.
15. Estimated number of teachers in your school, school district
or institution using e-mail?
16. Estimated number of teachers in your school, school district
or institution who belong to at least one e-mail list?
Thank you for participating in this survey. If you are curious
as to the results please check my web site in about a month.
http://www.fvrcs.gov.bc.ca/survey/survey.htm
or, send an e-mail message to:
survey@rainbow.fvrcs.gov.bc.ca
In the subject line of the message type:
survey_results
Thanks once again for taking the time to participate in this survey.
John Goldsmith
Fraser Valley Distance Education School
49520 Prairie Central Road, Chilliwack, B.C. Canada V2R 2M6
Voice: (604) 794-7310 Fax: (604) 795-8480
e-mail: goldsmith@rainbow.fvrcs.gov.bc.ca