Guides for Presenters--C&WOnline 2006
Keynoter Conversation Guide
First, I want to thank you all for being our marquee attractions. I know your "conversation" will be excellent. Your presentation will be held in a "moderated room" within enCore. Most of you are probably familiar with how a moderated room works, but I am going to review it here and point you to a help page with more information. We should also plan on practicing a moderated session sometime before 2/18.
Description of how a moderated room works
We may have 50 people; we may have 150 people--who knows? Whatever the number, it will be a lot of people crowded into one room. In order to feature your discussion and not have it drowned by out the discussion of the audience, your
voices will be isolated into a channel of sorts. When you are on the "podium," you all will only be able to hear your voices. The audience has the option to put their headset on and listen only to your voices or have it off and hear your voices along with the chatter in the audience. The audience is able to send questions forward to the panel via the moderator of the room (who can select what they present to you all or not).
I suggest that you have a period devoted to your conversation--perhaps 45 minutes. Then reserve the last 30 minutes for questions from the audience. One thing I am curious about and haven't tried is whether when you all are on the podium if you can put your headsets on and hear the audience. It may be as simple as stepping down from the podium. ??? That is one thing we will experiment with and discover in our practice session. Here is the moderated room guide.
How the Presentation Will Proceed
To start the presentation, the moderator of the keynoter session will display a series of slides that will appear this way inside enCore:
These slides will contain
- Greeting slide with title, topic, and your short bios
- Warning slide--this conversation is being recorded, research proviso
- Moderated room guide for participants, other crowd guidance
- Your discussion starters
After this series of opening slides, you all will take over the presentation.
If you want to present any slides during your presentation
You may wish to display a web page to make a point or as part of some planned sequence to your conversation that you all come up with together. If you want to do something with the right viewing panel during the presentation by showing other webpages, I recommend that you look at the guide for synchronous presenters for some help. You can always present a web page with an @url command, but I would prefer to load any webpages into a webprojector and host them on a conference site so that we can archive this conversation (if the webpage were on your own academic or personal webspace it might not archive for long). Unless you wish to change it, I had intended to keep your discussion starter statements in the right viewing panel for the duration at least of your conversation. When we get to the question and answer session, I may post a webpage prompting questions and how to do it.
What to do to get ready
Pam has mentioned that she has your short bios already. Great. We just need your 250 word discussion starter. I would say it would be nice to get this to Pam by 2/1; however, the Symposium is not until 2/18 so that is a fluid deadline.
We also need to schedule a practice session. Perhaps we can do it the weekend before the Symposium (2/11 or 2/12).
Again, I am very honored and pleased to have you all as part of this conference. Please contact me or Pam if you have any questions.
Lennie
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