[Air-L] Advice for Converting to Online Conference Format during Covid Crisis

[Kae Novak]

Hello Everyone,

The regional organization eLCC <http://www.elearningcolorado.org/> I'm
involved in putting on our first annual conference online in April.
We offered a lot of different options
<http://www.elearningcolorado.org/sessions.html> for session but now that
everyone in our organization is working on taking classes online, we've
narrowed it down to Zoom for sessions and using padlet for posters. I'm
sure other digital wall platforms could work just as well. To try to get
the poster hall feel we're taking the urls of all the padlet and putting
them on one padlet. The information about the posters is all on our CFP
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdImSoUK0is2d5ovFY_11Q7390nCikKg1LCSReT4IzQ-4Nl1w/viewform>.
Anyone who want to is more than welcome to talk a look, use any of
verbiage, etc. Also feel free to come to the conference, it's free and
online - you can check out what we do well and what we don't do well.

Kae Novak
Ph.D. student
University of Colorado - Denver



On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:59 PM Ushnish Sengupta <
ushnish.sengupta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello AIRers
>
> I recently attended an in person conference and am looking for advice on
> how to convert aspects of a face to face conference to an online format.
> This list may be able to offer some advice or references.
> In terms of software applications, My experience with hosting classes so
> far has been with Zoom, and I am familiar with Webex and other applications
> but have no experience being a host on them.
>
> Conference components under consideration
> 1) Panelist Presentations
> -This is the easiest component that can be done online
> 2) Discussant feedback
> -Also achievable online
> 3) Audience Q&A
> -Achievable with a moderator
> I lose track of the order of the students asking questions in class more
> often online than in person classes
> 4) Poster sessions
> -Can be replicated as a repeated slide presentation with content from
> poster
> 5) Formal networking sessions
> -Difficult to replicate online, any ideas?
> 6) Table discussion e.g. at a dinner or conference banquet
> -Difficult to replicate online, any ideas?
> Could use Zoom breakout rooms butits different than having a meal together
> 7) Award ceremonies
> ?
>
> Sincerely
> Ushnish Sengupta--
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