I.  University of Houston - Downtown Feedback
 

Since we began conducting workshops using our TE² Model and presenting it at conferences, we have had between 138 and 148 learners go through our materials, ranging in all levels of abilities.  For UHD, we have developed workshops that ranged from basic Internet use to web page development .  From these broad topics, learners usually come away with a combination of ideas for classroom use and/or for professional development.

Workshop feedback from UHD participants comes to us in many forms.  We distribute a formal, checked-response and open-ended survey to all participants after each workshop.  This kind of feedback gives us a general sense of how the delivery of materials was perceived.  We also develop the next workshop, based on the consensus of suggestions from respondents.

After each workshop, we usually have one or two faculty members who join the growing circle of electronic classroom users, whether they are full-time users or occasional users. This, for us, demonstrates that we were successful in stimulating an interest in adding technology to their practices, and that we made the technology user-friendly for the complete "newbie".  However, probably the best feedback we receive is when participants engage us in informal dialogue, sharing their own synthesized ideas inspired by our workshops.

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II.  Conference Presentation Feedback
 

During our conference presentations, our purpose was to share our model so participants could leave our session with a workshop of their own, fairly sketched out.  After our first conference presentation, at the 1997 Mid-Atlantic Alliance for Computers and Writing, we decided that our TE² Model was not truly linear in nature.  It developed into a more recursive model with motivation being the focus of each component.  The TE² Model would now allow participants to begin from any point in the process because everyone may not need to start at the same place.

At the 1999 Computers and Writing Conference, we conducted a half day workshop where participants applied what they learned from other workshops and turned this information into workshops that they could conduct for their faculty at their institutions.  From this conference, participants provided positive feedback and were able to participate by applying our model.  Many could not wait to go back and actually implement their workshops.  From these venues, we were able to refine the TE² Model into its current form.