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

[Andrea Stevenson Won]

Second this--just "returned" from IEEE VR's first virtual conference, initially intended to be held in-person in Atlanta. Socializing in Mozilla Hubs worked very well for people connecting by desktop (the majority) and headsets.

You can read more about the format here: http://ieeevr.org/2020/

The conference was conducted via Zoom, Slack, and Hubs, with almost everything also streamed through Twitch. It was very engaging, all things considered.

Andrea Stevenson Won

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From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Joly MacFie
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:46 AM
To: Kae Novak <gamesmooc at gmail.com>
Cc: Researchers <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Advice for Converting to Online Conference Format during Covid Crisis

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_11Q7390nCi
> kKg1LCSReT4IzQ-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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