[Sigmet-officers] workshop

[Cassidy Sugimoto]

Dear All:

We received 14 submissions for the workshop: 12 presentations and two
posters. This is not as many as I had hoped for, but I think we have
some very interesting topics and very intelligent people in the
roster. I would, however, suggest that we move to a half-day workshop
rather than a full day workshop. My suggestion would be to do the
following:

1) Send all submissions out for review. If we have each person do 4
reviews, we only need to have 7 reviewers.
2) Select the top 9 papers for the workshop.
3) Suggest to the bottom 3 papers that they turn their paper into a poster.
4) Accept the other 2 posters.
5) Move to a half-day schedule:
8:30-9:30 gather for breakfast foods, observe posters, and registration
9:30-10:30 first session (3 papers)
10:30-11:30 second session (3 papers)
11:30-11:45 snack break
11:45-12:45 third session (3 papers)
12:45-1:15 wrap-up discussion

My goal is to shorten the presentation times to focus on discussion
over presentation. I would like to have 10 minutes for the
presentation for each, 5 minutes of discussion on just that paper and
then 15 minutes at the end for general topic discussion in each
session. This will require skilled moderators.

I would appreciate your thoughts on this as I set up the reviewers.

Best,
Cassidy



-- 
Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto