hi everybody, this is just a reminder that we have some great guests who will be coming to speak with us on Wednesday, 11 a.m. in 220 Ellison Hall: Debra Engel from the Library, along with Karen Rupp-Serrano and Cheryl McCain. Debra is the Director of Public Services for the Library, while Karen is the head of Reference Collection development, and Cheryl is the Library Instruction coordinator. this will be a really good opportunity to find out what services are available for online students so that we can send our students off in the right cyber-direction. this will be our last Wednesday meeting until September; at some point in August we'll start the process of figuring out when will be a good meeting time for folks who would like to continue getting together in the fall. also, I've now taken the online course readiness assessment from my Myth-Folklore course and tried to adapt it to more general purposes. the results are here: http://casweb.ou.edu/olr/starting/readiness/index.htm if you look at the paper-and-pencil version you can see how the scoring works: http://casweb.ou.edu/olr/starting/readiness/manual.htm I would be grateful for any feedback about whether this general assessment is appropriate to your class or not. are there questions that are not appropriate? questions that it would be helpful to include? different weights that should be assigned to the responses listed here? the assessment is one of the activities included in the Online Orientation that is required for all students, so it would be really helpful to get feedback about this, making sure that it is a good tool for online courses in general. thanks everybody! and I'll see some of you on Wednesday, Laura