![]() This may mean that a larger percentage of the space in the conference facility is given over to such sessions. Presentations heavily reliant on Powerpoint should be gathered thematically into what are essentially high-tech poster sessions rather than be given stand-alone speaker slots. The norm for conference presentations should be new material – unless a presenter hails from a field with which conference members are unlikely to be familiar.ģ. More generally, presenters should be forced to make a special case for presenting material that is already available in print. ![]() Presenters should be strongly discouraged from reading their presentations. Thus, instead of abstracts, prospective presenters should send video clips of 1-3 minutes that convey what will be said and how it will be said.Ģ. It requires its own ‘peer review’ standards that do not simply trade on the conventions of academic writing. It is not a watered-down or zombie version of the academic print culture. A conference is a distinct channel – perhaps even genre – of academic communication. You can read the bulk of them at Fuller’s blog, but let me highlight (with the author’s permission) his first thee principles for presenters:ġ. When I read the blog entry, I tweeted, “Halleluya, Brother”, so happy was I to see someone who also wished changes for academic conferences. Six principles for organising academic conferences in the 21st century So with this in mind, I was delighted to see in my Zite feed today a blog post from a professor of Sociology, Steven Fuller, now at Warrick University in the UK. I think this time around my involvement will be concerned with social media, something that didn’t exist as we know it now all those years ago. ![]() ![]() I was part of the organising conference for its 25th anniversary where I was much involved in both the social program as well as the media coverage. ![]() I’ve also in the meantime been asked to become part of my professional society’s organising committee for its 50th anniversary conference in Queensland in 2015. Few teachers have ever heard of Apple’s Keynote presentation software, as I discovered when many came up to me after my presentations to ask how I did what I did – the why was pretty obvious! I’ve been travelling around Australia giving workshops to teachers about presentation skills as well as technologies and mental health. ![]()
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