1. Presentation Time
Each paper session is allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions and answers. Session moderators will have timekeeping cards to assist you.
2. Presentation Upload
We highly encourage you to send your presentation ahead of time (by October 28th) to Russ (wernerru@msu.edu). This will allow us to verify that your presentation will run as expected, and also to load it onto the laptop for your specific room. If you can’t send your presentation beforehand, please upload it before the first morning session or during lunch time.
3. Room Specifications
Please check your presentation rooms and prepare copies of your handout accordingly.
Auditorium: 300 people
Willy Room: 45 people
Heritage Room: 55 people
Room 103AB: 80 people
Room 105AB: 80 people
Room 106: 80 people
Room 102: 20 people
Room 101: 20 people
Room 104: 80 people
4. Room Equipment
Each room will be equipped with an overhead projector, an LCD projector, projector screen, and a networked laptop running Windows XP and Office 2007. Mac users wishing to use their own laptop need to bring their specific VGA adapter.
Please send a request for any special tech needs via email to Russ before October 10th.
PRESENTATION TIPS
You may want to provide handouts for your audience. (Check your assigned room's maximum capacity, so you can estimate how many handouts to bring along, should you have them.) We encourage you to print your handouts in advance. There are several commercial copy shops (e.g., Kinkos) relatively close to the Kellogg Hotel, as well as copy machines at the university libraries.
Please keep in mind that you will only have 20 minutes for presentation of your paper plus 10 minutes for audience questions & answers. Please reduce any review of relevant literature to a minimum; just cover what is necessary to adequately understand and interpret your study. Your primary focus should be on your own work and the implications it may have for your audience.
We strongly recommend that you rehearse your presentation in order to comfortably fit it into your given time limit. Keep in mind that the audience is listening to your presentation; if a paper is read word-for-word from a text (i.e., one prepared for publication), it becomes difficult to follow.