A Literacy Practitioner's Guide to Audiographic Teleconferencing
Rod Corbett, AVC -Slave Lake,was selected to provide the introduction to the technology because of his extensive background in distance education. Rod played a valuable role in supporting Susan Armstrong, in addition to being a valued member of the evaluation team.
Marcia Shillington was chosen because of her long teaching career and experience as a work shop presenter for the peer tutoring program at Lakeland College. She had no prior experience in audiographic teleconferencing and her distance education participation was limited to teleconferencing.
Mary Finlin was recruited to replace Marcia for the first tutor training session of LEFT Brain/RIGHT Brain. As Learning Assistance Centre coordinator at Lakeland College, Mary had delivered a variety of workshops to both students and faculty. Her distance education experience was limited to participation in teleconferences.
Robin Millar was asked to be a presenter because of the scope of her literacy experience. Her background included developing materials for literacy training via teleconferencing, television and video for the Manitoba Department of Continuing Education and Literacy Training. This was her first exposure to audiographic teleconferencing.