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

[Joly MacFie]

I just stumbled on the Educators in VR Conference
https://educatorsinvr.com/events/international-summit/

This is a good round up of what's happening in VR
https://youtu.be/0YT0ZH4uMmU

and there's an upcoming session 'How to Produce a Virtual Conference'
https://account.altvr.com/events/1440244809234120900

joly

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:14 AM Andrea Stevenson Won <asw248 at cornell.edu>
wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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