We started our pilot project with our 4 parks today. We delivered our cash receipt excel workbook to 2 out of 4 parks with some positive feelings/feedback from the parks rangers/managers. Next week, we will visit the final 2 parks and bring them the excel as well.
It is pretty exciting to finally be taking this out to the people who will really be using it. It is also a bit sad not to be completely a part of the pilot. We would like to know how the excel will actually work for the parks people. Designing it and using it are two different things, and as teachers we are fully aware of that.
We have related this experience to similar "education initiatives". You are handed something at an in-serve and asked to use it, but who does the follow up? The state level of DNR wants changes made, but I do not know their time frame, and I could not tell the parks people today what the future holds. I guess that is part of a being in a pilot, but again, I just wish I could be there to see the whole thing through.
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