31St Annual Conference on Professional Issues

Child Life Council

31st Annual Conference on Professional Issues

May 17, 2013 – Professional Development Workshops, 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

How would you rate the speaker(s) demonstration of knowledge of the subject for this professional development workshop?
“Virtualizing” Therapeutic Interventions: How Mobile Technology Can Revolutionize Your Child Life Program
Top number is the count of respondents selecting the option. Bottom % is percent of the total respondents selecting the option. / Poor / Fair / Good / Very Good / Excellent / Overall Rating out of 5
Kia Beickert, MS, CCLS, NorthShore Hospital, Evanston, IL / 1 / 0 / 8 / 18 / 12 / 4.03
Lou Riccio, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, New York, NY
Melissa Leiby, CCLS
Chris Flood-Gutierrez, MS, CCLS, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ / 2.5% / 0% / 20.5% / 46% / 31% / 100%
How would you rate the speaker(s) presentation skills for this professional development workshop?
“Virtualizing” Therapeutic Interventions: How Mobile Technology Can Revolutionize Your Child Life Program
Top number is the count of respondents selecting the option. Bottom % is percent of the total respondents selecting the option. / Poor / Fair / Good / Very Good / Excellent / Overall Rating out of 5
Kia Beickert, MS, CCLS, NorthShore Hospital, Evanston, IL / 1 / 1 / 17 / 16 / 6 / 3.61
Lou Riccio, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, New York, NY
Melissa Leiby, CCLS
Chris Flood-Gutierrez, MS, CCLS, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ / 2% / 2.5% / 41.5% / 39% / 15% / 100%
To what extent did the presentation match the title and summary listed in the conference program?
“Virtualizing” Therapeutic Interventions: How Mobile Technology Can Revolutionize Your Child Life Program
Top number is the count of respondents selecting the option. Bottom % is percent of the total respondents selecting the option. / No Extent / Some Extent / Great Extent
Kia Beickert, MS, CCLS, NorthShore Hospital, Evanston, IL / 1 / 12 / 28
Lou Riccio, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, New York, NY
Melissa Leiby, CCLS
Chris Flood-Gutierrez, MS, CCLS, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ / 3% / 29% / 68% / 100%
How do you rate the length and/or style of this presentation?
“Virtualizing” Therapeutic Interventions: How Mobile Technology Can Revolutionize Your Child Life Program
Top number is the count of respondents selecting the option. Bottom % is percent of the total respondents selecting the option. / Poor / Fair / Good / Very Good / Excellent / Overall Rating out of 5
Kia Beickert, MS, CCLS, NorthShore Hospital, Evanston, IL / 2 / 9 / 12 / 10 / 8 / 2.59
Lou Riccio, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, New York, NY
Melissa Leiby, CCLS
Chris Flood-Gutierrez, MS, CCLS, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ / 5% / 22% / 29% / 24% / 20% / 100%
Overall, how would you rate this presentation?
“Virtualizing” Therapeutic Interventions: How Mobile Technology Can Revolutionize Your Child Life Program
Top number is the count of respondents selecting the option. Bottom % is percent of the total respondents selecting the option. / Poor / Fair / Good / Very Good / Excellent / Overall Rating out of 5
Kia Beickert, MS, CCLS, NorthShore Hospital, Evanston, IL / 1 / 3 / 19 / 12 / 6 / 3.46
Lou Riccio, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, New York, NY
Melissa Leiby, CCLS
Chris Flood-Gutierrez, MS, CCLS, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ / 3% / 7% / 46% / 29% / 15% / 100%

Comments/feedback provided by attendees:

#12 Lou Riccio should have had more time to speak and his microphone should have been better. Too much time was taken up by the other speakers.
12 I learned so much because I want to implement IPADS into my program.
12. I liked seeing the different "levels" of prep materials that could be used. I also wish I could have learned more about the child life technology group.
12: presentation wwas overcrowded (not presenter's fault - but fault of conference)
12: way too much information in a small time frame. Lack of time management led to running out of time. This information would have been EXTREMELY helpful in a half day intensive.
amazing handout
Condence some of the material in order to portray all necessary information. 12
Difficult to follow and times and hard to see the screen due to the room set up at times.
I felt like this was more of an advertisement for the Child Life Technology group. There was too much information that they were trying to present in the time allotted. When I printed the hand-outs, there were way more than what was allowed. I was a presenter of another workshop so I know what the requirements were and they went way above that, it was over 100 pages, when we were told that the hand-outs were limited to 10 pages. The presenters only talked about the benefits of using technology with all age groups, but did not talk about the damaging effect that technology can have on young children's development and how child life should not be advocating for that, to compare using an iPad with finger painting is ridiculous, kids need to finger paint and use their senses to learn about the world, not learn about it online. There is a use for technology, but there are also limitations that should also be addressed.
I would have like to hear more from Lou. I think they went over their time.
It was hard to hear some of the speakers and the layout of the room was not conducive to everyone seeing slides.
It was too crowded. There were pillars in the way of the screen. Microphones did not work properly or the speakers were very soft spoken.
Lou was very difficult to hear. Unfortunate, b/c he seemed to have good things to say.
Needs more about using technology with adolescent
The IT presenter had great information, but it was difficult to understand his complexity...
The male speaker mumbled a bit and seemed "a bit fussy" but I still liked the presentation and found the information very interesting and helpful.
The presentation skills were not engaging the attendees, nor did the presentation follow a chronological/easy-to-follow format; it jumped all over the place. Moreover, applicable questions from the audience were deferred with the response: "we will get to that later in the presentation" but the presenters never did.
The presenters ran out of time and were unable to conclude the information they were trying to get across.
They did not seem to use their time wisely for what the audience wanted/expected
They spent too much time talking about theory and not enough about the hands-on information that was mentioned in the summary. Too much information for a 1.5 hour presentation.
This needs to be more networking and longer., Maybe an intensive. Technological advances are big topics right now.
This presentation should have been broken up into two separate sessions. There was too much information, and I was mostly interested in what Lou was going to present. There was a large amount of specific information, which is greatly appreciated. (12)
This session had great information - but the back of the room missed the whole 2nd half when Lou Riccio spoke. We repeatedly raised hands and some spoke up to say we couldn't hear - but it was not corrected. Very unfortunate.
Too much information and slides to get through - very promotional in nature
You were "preaching to the choir" presentation time did not have to be used to demonstrate the value of Ipads, or the evolution of how they are used in CL. I was looking for more specifics on how to improve the therapeutic usage. Relationship with the volunteers that are creating apps was unclear. This presentation did not meet my expectations.