The
presentation process
- Decide
on a presentation topic and follow the instructions for preparing and making your
submission found in the call for papers. You may also download
a .pdf of this page of instructions and print it out to make the steps
easier to follow.
- When
your submission is received, it will be posted according to its theme on the Forums
& threads page and your Forum
Supervisor will contact you to let you know that this has occurred,
and to tell you and how and where to post your topic.
- Follow
the process below to post your presentation to www.dialogin.com
and start the discussion.
Register
on the Forum Site
Go to www.dialogin.com
and in the welcome section, click on register to become a member of the site.
You will get an ID and password.
Create
a homepage. When you have your ID and password, you create a small
homepage by clicking homepage in the right-hand menu and following the prompts.
(In this homepage you can also lay a link to your own website/homepage existing
outside .)It
would be a good idea if everybody taking part in a FORUM but certainly the presenters
and moderators actually set up their homepage so that people get to know each
other and help to make the whole thing a little less anonymous.
Upload
the document(s) for your presentation or initial session
Return
to the home page of dialogin.com and select Members' Publications from
the menu on the left. On the page that appears, click on Enter a publication.
When prompted to enter the title of the presentation, preface your paper with
the name of the forum you will be posting it in, followed by the name of the paper,
e.g., "SIETAR-Academic: My Research" or "SIETAR-Business:
My Training Design".In
the box marked Title of journal or book: type "SIETAR-Europa Congress"
and where it asks for Place and year: type in "Online 2003".
Make
sure to enter the Abstract and Key Words into the respective boxes
when you uploaded your presentation. This makes it more useful for members of
the online congress, who want to know what is in your publication before downloading
it. You may only upload one document at a time. Repeat the process for multiple
documents.
Create
a thread for your presentation in the forum
Click on Forums,
and from the list of Available Forums, select the forum to which your presentation
has been assigned. e.g., SIETAR: Academic, or SIETAR: Business,
etc. Your Forum Supervisor will have confirmed this with you. You
will see your Forum Supervisor listed as the facilitator and there will be a resume
of the aims and other information about the forum. In the gray box immediately
below, click on Post a publication on this forum. Follow the prompts to
enter the document you have published. You may also use a document that you have
published elsewhere on the web by entering its URL.
On
the orange bar beneath this, select New Topic. In the Subject line of the
page enter the title of your presentation: e.g., My Research" or "My
Training Design".
Then
in the main field of this page introduce your topic, welcome participants and
introduce the topic and invite them to download the document. It is up to you
to start the discusssion. You may invite discussion or questions, or lay out the
procedure you will follow in working with the presentation. We highly recommend
that you personally invite a few people whom you already know to be interested
in the topic to join in the discussion with you at the very beginning. Some people
don't want to be the first to comment in an online discussion.
Workshop
approach
If you prefer to do your presentation as an online workshop,
you may assign a part of a presentation or set of slides for discussion each week,
or upload additional material at certain points in the discussion.
Moderating
the discussion or leading the workshop
You will find a good set
of tips on effective online facilitation in the forum Help
section. Your Forum Supervisor will assist you if you need help and will remind
you of when summaries and deadlines are due.
Conducting
Live Chats
Presenters and moderators have the opportunity to offer
chats in connection with their presentation. They can do this by clicking Live
discussions in the left-hand menu and then clicking Propose a live discussion
at the top of the page and filling in the boxes. Here they should make clear which
forum and which presentation or thread the proposed chat relates to.
FAQs
Q1.
How can I make a direct invitation to people to start my discussion? My main reason
to present is to find new people to discuss with?
A. If you
are totally new to the process, ask your Forum Supervisor for help. Look at the
profiles of members who have already signed up to the forums. We will also be
publishing a member's list that tells about SIETAR Europa nembers' interests.
Q2.
Why do you give the option that people can choose another person to moderate their
presentation?
Some
presentations may have multiple presenters. Others may want to give their students
or colleagues a chance to join them or learn from the process.
Q3.
If you let people choose any language don't you split the discussion up into the
groups of people who speak whatever language?
Demanding a single
language restricts the expression of many people. Wherever possible, we will try
to follow up with summaries in English. Those who can present in more than one
language are invited to do so.
