Conference Home Page
We will spend three weeks of our semester creating and presenting an academic conference. If you do not know what an 'academic conference' is, please do a little research and try to get an idea of the purpose(s) of an academic conference. All of the professors you will be working with during your career at UBC are researchers, UBC is a research institution. And, most of your professors spend some part of their time working on research which they eventually present at an academic conferences, and typically theirconference papers are then published in scholarly journals. This process is an essential part of academic culture -- indeed, one could consider the academic conference in anthropological terms, as an integral 'ceremony' of academic culture. Perhaps, as a type of rite of passage.
The theme of our conference will be:
Digital Literacy
Below is how we will 'organize' our conference. Other then this organizational structure, I will provide little input into the design or presentation of the conference. I will advise you and evaluate your work as collaborators each fully responsible for the organization and content of the conference as well as the 'event' itself. See Conference Assignment for details on how I will evaluate your work.
Conference Schedual
- Monday Oct. 23rd.: Everyone will submit a research question with a brief rational for researching their question.
- Friday Oct. 27th.: The Conference Organizers will read all the proposed research questions and select six for presentation.
- Monday Oct. 30th: Documentary Crew begins filming.
- Wed Nov 1st.: Research Groups complete abstracts and personal bios with photos and submit for Conference Home Page.
- Fri. Nov 3rd: Conference Home Page is up and under construction.
- : Research Groups submit detailed technical requirements.
- : Technical director books all equipment.
- : Research groups submit a presentation page to link into our Conference Home Page.
- : Hard Copy of Conference Program goes to printing.
- Wed Nov. 8th to Mon. Nov. 19th: Conference.
NOTE: This schedual may well change.
Conference Organization:
Six Groups will be presenting their research, 9 people will work as Conference Organizors, and 2 people will be our documentary team.
The Nine Conference Organizors will include:
- Three people responsible for reading and selecting research proposals and creating a thematic approach for the research that is presented, collaborating and assisting with the design of the Conference Home Page and Program, and keeping in communication with the research presentation groups concerning all deadlines and submissions.
- Three people responsible for creating and maintaining the Conference Home Page and making the Conference Program ready for printing.
- One person will be our technical director responsible for all technical requirements.
- One person will be our 'Co-ordinator' -- who will generally oversee all communications between groups and organizers and introduce all the presentations through out the conference.
- And one person will be our "Key Note' speaker.
- And, two people will video tape and then edit a 20 minute documentary DVD.
For further instructional details on your conference responsibilities please see Conference Assignment
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