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

[Peter Timusk]

I presented in 2007 a slide deck in Second Life virtual world as part of
ASA graduate students in communications and technology section.

I really think AoIR should have been doing online conferences a long time
ago. Even posters at my tech programming conferences have been powerpoints
on big screen TVs in reall life at the conference since 2014 not cardboard.
These can easily be online.

On Sun., Mar. 29, 2020, 12:47 a.m. Joly MacFie, <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> One kind of off the wall option for a meetup is Mozilla hubs VR.
>
> I just streamed my first one out of there. If you go towards the end you'll
> see where we break up into groups. Distance affects audio.
>
> See https://isoc.live/11917/
>
> jjoly
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 8:56 PM Kae Novak <gamesmooc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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