Do you have a topic you'd like to explore with educators collaboratively, such as "Exploring alternative assessment? The Future of MOOCs? Best Options for Makerspaces? How to Create More Opportunities for Play?" If so, we invite you to lead an Open Talk for the 2014 Reform Symposium E-Conference. You don't have to prepare a presentation, just list talking points and/or share examples to get the audience thinking about the topic. The audience can share in a Blackboard Collaborate Virtual Room using audio, webcams, chat, or via the whiteboard tool. The conference will be held online over the course of 3 days: July 11-13th. It will be free to attend, and everyone is encouraged to submit a presentation and Open Talk proposal, including first-time presenters.
The Process:
Talks can be submitted until July 11th, 2014 and will be listed on the Reform Symposium Conference website, with the opportunity for members of this network to view, comment on, and/or "like" your talk proposal. This will give you and the other members of this site the chance to share ideas and to make connections before, during, and after the conference.
Presentation Guidelines:
The talks will be only 25 minutes in length. All sessions will be held in the Blackboard Collaborate online platform. You will be responsible for familiarizing yourself with the web conferencing platform. Please see recorded training material, as well as the schedule of live training sessions where you can ask questions here. To practice, you can also sign up for the Collaborate trial room at http://www.WeCollaborate.com.
All presentations will be recorded and released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License. For more information, please visit:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). By submitting to present, you are agreeing to these terms.
Conference Strands:
You can indicate one or more conference strands when you submit your talks.
How to Submit Your Proposal:
Please follow these instructions carefully. It is your responsibility to make sure your presentation proposal is submitted correctly. You must be signed up on the RSCON Conference network and logged in to submit your proposal.
1. Join the conference presenters group here to receive general emails.
2. Copy the following text (highlight and ctrl-c on your computer):
Open Talk Topic:
Your Name:
Work Title:
School or Organization Name:
Co-Presenter Name(s):
Area of the World from Which You Will Present:
Language in Which You Will Present:
Target Audience(s):
Short Session Description (one line):
Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
Websites / URLs Associated with Your Talk:
3. Click here to open a new forum discussion post.
4. Title your discussion post with the title of your proposed session.
5. Paste the template text (ctrl-v) into the body of the forum discussion post.
6. Fill in the session information according to the template. If you separate your answers with a blank line and make the questions text bold, it will make your proposal easier to read.
7. In the Category drop-down field, check to make sure the category is 2014 Reform Symposium Submitted Proposals.
8. In the tags field, use the strand tag code for the strand to which you are submitting your proposal.
9. Click the Add Discussion button to save your proposal.
You are able to modify your proposal after it has been saved and up until it has been accepted. If you need to change your proposal after that time, please email shellyterrell@gmail.com.
