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SUMMARY OF TRAINER/TRAINEE EVALUATIONS

Rankings

Agenda

Wednesday, April 14

8:00	Session 4 Success by Design (Lead Trainer: Beth Duncan)
10:15	Session 5 Technical Design Considerations (Lead Trainer: Beth Duncan)
1:30 pm	Session 6 Marketing and Promotion on the Internet (Facilitator: Ruth Willson) "Marketing Your Small Business on the Internet" (Lead Trainer: Lilly Buchwitz, Marketing Instructor, Brock University, Internet Marketing Consultant)

Thursday, April 15

8:00	Session 7 Concurrent Breakout Sessions - Agriculture (Lead Trainers: Rod Sharp, Carroll Welte) - Artisans (Lead Trainers: Connie Kratzer, Rae Montgomery) - Tourism (Lead Trainer: Karen Biers)
10:15	Session 8 Repeat sessions (choose another session)
1:30 pm	Session 9 (Lead Trainer/Facilitator: Eric Hawley/Ruth Willson) I. Be Wired! (Which Wire?) Internet Connection Infrastructure Options and comparisons II. Worth 1000 Words - Preparing Digital Photos for the Web III. Cool New Online E-Tools - Auctions, person to person payment systems, innovative communication tools.

Comments

• Want power points of presentation.
• Please make ppt available to participants.
• Very Good!
• I have a lot of practice to do.
• Great program.
• Where are the notes.
• I still have a lot to learn about this. Need another session, smaller group training.
• Would like PP presentation.
• Many great thoughts.
• Good info. Really do want the power point.
• Group is flexible, working together, makes it (seems) easy to teach.
• Know your subject, don't read slide.

• Would be more helpful if power point presentations had been included in this worksheet packet.
• E-commerce section was useful. Many abbreviations were unfamiliar and not always fully explained.
• Where are the notes.
• Slow, slow training for many people.
• Possibilities are endless.
• Speed - slow enough.
• Excellent presentations with hands-on. I'm a self-learner - didn't get opportunity to take classes in college or high school. Especially, with hand-outs because I've a place after work where there is no access to the internet.
• Very interesting information. I can see the traits of the different "generations" in my own experience.
• To the point, why important.

Session 2 - As a Trainer

• Very useful and will definitely utilize.
• Need to have everyone have same thing on their computers. What was on the screen was not the same as on my computer.
• Please make ppt available to us.
• Very good lots of info. Good to work through web building.
• Need immediate experience with this.
• Great program.
• Keep the group together.
• I need more training and practice sessions with examples.
• Very useful information.
• Good-handouts. Great tips - also by Eric.
• Check out links.
• See session 1. Paced at a moderate rate with group.

• Frustrating - directions all verbal - nothing to look at if you were behind (also computer/memory crashed twice which lost my work).
• Moving step by step when your attention is divided among computer, presenter and room screen is essential.
• Trainer went too fast at times, but knowledgeable.
• See session 1. Presenter and assistants is an excellent idea with this kind of training.
• I need to practice this a lot,but I enjoyed the session very much.

• Group appeared 'new and interesting info' at least on a number of items. Good information as a basis for beginning this session.
• Checklist given can be helpful in sharing relevant info with others.
• Look forward to use information and library.
• Great resource!!
• Great program.

• Again, a good starting point in getting into this whole session.
• Lots of information presented by handouts given to make it easier to take notes/make comments - VERY HELPFUL.
• Keep us informed. Fix runtime errors on search.

• Very good. Much better and more info than poly com.
• Great practice. Great break food.
• Was good.
• Very good.
• Need so many lap top computers for training.
• Excellent. Thanks.
• I still have more questions than answers.
• Learn valuable pointers.
• Great helps for me.
• Great session!

• Very well done!
• Like to work my website to look better and buy books (resources).
• Good to hear information and apply it. Form for evaluation of website a little

• Good tools for looking at sites - manner a bit harsh.
• Excellent - in depth information. Much more in depth than poly com training earlier.
• Excellent!
• There should have been fewer sites and more time to work on them.
• Fun activity.
• Very good. Good thoughts.
• Good program presentation giving website assignments.
• Beth was excellent. Lots of preparation must have gone into the presentation.
• Can see difference in web design.
• Good info and handouts.

• Glad it wasn't one of my web sites - that was being criticized - individuals should be asked if they mind and suggestions not such a harsh approach.
• Good beginning for success
• Learned valuable information.

• Must be familiar with website markets.
• Business owners will have lots of questions - I'm not sure from this I have tools to answer.
• Good info.
• Good session!

• Do more browsing and surfing plus on-line shopping.
• I didn't like the way that the websites were attacked verbally.
• Interesting - moved a bit fast.
• Would like to have had all powerpoint pages for notes.
• Would have been nice to have listing of example website URLs or even printouts.
• Direct and to the point. Not sugar coated. Saves time - much appreciated.

• Like to get hold of curriculum for training.

• Rae and Connie did a good job. Good discussions. Good ppt.
• Great information.

• Great info.
• OK.

• Need to gear curriculum to our targeted audience.

• OK - some repeat (not bad - need to clarify what's to be discussed.

• OK.
• Basic but good. Glad to know about the new curriculum.

• Partnership with other agencies to do training for small farm/ranch businesses.
• Very helpful from a programmatic view.

• OK - some repeat - need to clarify what's to be talked about.
• Browse the web for use in improving websites and decide on which topic to use for training.

• Get more training on websites and Internet services to understand prior to teaching.
• Trainer, Eric, was very knowledgeable about the subjects and presented in this workshop!!
• I really needed the digital photo part. Best of all three sections. Good new tools too. Glad I didn't miss this session.
• Much needed information.
• OK.
• Need more time with Eric. Need more of this technical stuff on digital photos and new tools.
• Absolutely the best. Great teacher - great energy. Would like more in depth training by Eric - maybe video conferencing in not in person.
• Eric needed more time.

• Talk more to Eric for some additional tips.
• VERY INFORMATIVE!
• Glad Eric was asked to present. He's so good! Good at explaining difficult concepts. Very practical. Good humor.
• OK. Interesting - would have been nice to have had handout of power point presentation.

FEEDBACK

• Labs - hand on.
• The power point presentations.
• Presenters were all great!
• The longer workshops to allow more in depth information. Networking with others. Stronger focus on e-Commerce.

• Digital camera training.
• Eric's session on last day - compressing photos, creating shopping carts. Many other tips the other presenters provided. Good to network and see what others are doing. I learned a great deal. Thank you! Good job!
• Great presentations and presenters interaction with presenters and participants. Learning about e-Commerce and information that I can use in my communities.

• No feedback

• More practice in using the info gained.
• Better facility.

• I was filled with so much knowledge that I got so hyped up. I want to share this with others.
• I really enjoyed the conference - well planned and run - great group of professionals - made many acquaintances.

• Good
• Location - good. Accommodations - good. Very nice. Schedule - good. Glad we ended at 4:30 each day so days were not completely full. Class room facilities couldn't be better.
• Excellent location and accommodations.

• The only thing I would have changed - creation of the web site at the end of the training instead of the 1st day.
• Name tags at opening reception.

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