Presentation Media

Computers and Writing Online will be housed within TTO’s online classroom platform. All conference presentations, media, and discussions will take place within our unified and cohesive platform.  Each conference wave will be introduced by the wave coordinator through Flash and/or QuickTime video, compressed and cleaned for optimal Internet delivery. Asynchronous online discussion boards and a scheduled live chat will accompany each online presentation throughout the month of online conference activity.  These utilities are integrated within the online environment, and all media and discussion will occur within the cohesive conference room environment.

 

All speaker presentations will include some form of multi-media.  Even the simplest “paper” presentations will be spoken into digital audio format and placed underneath visual slide presentations that graphically represent the information being presented.  Our instructional technology team will guide presenters in preparing their content for online processing, and that team will put all presentations online within our structured IT process.  Even the least technically savvy presenters will be supported as they walk through creating their online presentations; and those who are more ambitious and technically able will be encouraged to push technology in support of their presentations.  Our Impatica software will allow us to compress these presentations into a navigable applet, where users can listen to presentations before discussion begins, and then engage in both synchronous and asynchronous conversations about the presentations.

All media will be standard Internet applications.  The basic Web browser plus standard plugins (java chat, Flash, QuickTime, etc.) will be the only requirements.  And all plugins will be accessible through a conference plugin page, just in case.  All of these media are the very components used within our daily course offerings.  So, all committee members have full experience teaching, communicating, learning, and administering within the environment.  Of course, the Instructional Technology crew has the most experience with the technical aspects of building within the environment, and that staff will help presenters prepare their content for the conference.