Instructions to Presenters
1. Punctuality: Please be at the breakout session room 10 minutes before your session is to begin to meet the moderator and make sure everything is set up properly.
2. Handouts: While the registration will yield a count of persons registered for each session, it is difficult to tell with any certainty what the actual attendance will be. For this reason, it's best to be flexible in terms of handouts. If your handouts are such that they can be used after the conference for other purposes, then bring lots. Otherwise, it might be better to bring a smaller number of handouts, but to include as part of your presentation information on where interested persons may contact you for extra copies or for more information.
3. Audio-visual equipment: Each of the breakout session rooms will be equipped with a projector, screen, and podium with attached microphone. If you need any additional equipment beyond those four items (e.g. VCR or DVD player, second screen, wireless microphone, easels, etc.), please notify Angela Richey, by October 1 at (801)269.3860. Please bring your own laptop for your presentation, if possible.
4. Room Setup: Each of the rooms will be set up “theater” style, meaning rows of chairs for the audience, but not tables for note-taking. There will be set up with a high speed internet connection. The sessions requiring internet have already been identified and scheduled for that room. Please remember that no tape, push pins, or anything else, are to be affixed to the walls, the chairs, or the floor. If you need to display or post things, easels will need to be used.
5. Speaker Tips: Please seek websites that give good pointers on making good presentations. It is essential that the instructor present quality and relevant information so that members receive their CEUs and PDHs. Attendees expecting CEUs/PDHs must sign in to each class/seminar.
6. Registration: On-line registration for the conference will begin approximately mid-July. This is a self-supporting conference, so participants, including speakers, are encouraged to register via the on-line process. Registration is required in order to receive a name badge, which will be required for admittance into the Exhibit Hall, which is the site of the exhibitor booths, the general sessions, and the meals. However, if a presenter only intends to come to the conference for the purpose making his or her presentation, and does not desire entrance into the Exhibit Hall, he or she need not register. In order to register on-line (utah.apwa.net), create a user name and password, and follow the instructions.
7. Some Tips for Breakout Session Speakers
Following are a few Internet references that provide good tips for making an effective PowerPoint presentation.
1. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/default.aspx
This portion of the Microsoft web site gives helps on using their products, including PowerPoint.
2. http://www.gst-d2l.com/TLC/TLCProj.html
This is a paper written by Dr. Michael Russell and Dr. Walter Shiner at Mt. Hood Community College, for the purpose of instructing faculty on the proper use of PowerPoint for class instruction. I recommend especially Part III, Effective PowerPoint.
3. The Top Ten Things You Can Do To Improve Your Next PowerPoint Presentation, by Dave Paradi. You can find this at http://www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/articles/top_ten_things_improve_ppt_presn.htm