Rotary Leadership Institute or RLI went online for the first time in April. This was largest class I’ve ever participated in with 18 attending the online class. It was also the first time we have had Rotaract Students from Kirksville in the classes. Three young med students joined us in Kirksville for Part I and Part II and completed the classes with our online version. These are awesome young people and I wish them much luck in their future.
I couldn’t have done this without my facilitators who ventured into new waters.
I can guarantee they spent a lot of time working on a new form of cirrculum. Facilitating online is very different from a class room setting and I thank Cassy and Jerry Venters, Jeff Romine and Elizabeth Usovicz for doing a fantastic job. Elizabeth also was our professor emeritus in helping teach us all about Zoom and the online classroom…many thanks! Lastly Laura Begley was our web master and David McCaughey our technical support. It was definitely a team effort and I’m very proud of our efforts.
What’s next? Part II in June will be online during the evenings of June 15 and June 22. Those that are eligible will be receiving sign up notification soon. This pandemic isn’t getting us down…we are charting new territory in true Rotary fashion!