Speaker Information

What Kind of Session Are You Presenting?

• Concurrent Session and Featured Speaker Session, Face-to-Face and Online
• Preconference Seminar
• Poster Session
• Corporate Technology Solutions Session
• Online-Only Session (Discussion and Lightning Round) — Individual Walkthroughs Complete

Speaker Information and Orientation Session

For those who were unable to take part in the speaker information session we hosted for EDUCAUSE 2011 presenters, please follow the link to listen in. This session provided logistical and informational details, via Adobe Connect, regarding the following presentation sessions: Concurrent sesssions, both face-to-face and online, and poster sessions.

EDUCAUSE Speaker Concierge

The EDUCAUSE Speaker Concierge is here to help you make the best presentation you have ever delivered and to ensure you use this professional development opportunity to the fullest extent possible. How can the concierge help you? Just ask!

Speaker Ready Room (Pennsylvania Convention Center)

Here are some things you can do in the speaker ready room (Meeting Room 106A/B):

• Test your laptop with an identical meeting room projector
• Get help with technology questions
• Make last-minute changes to your presentation
• Print your presentation
• Meet with your co-presenters to review your presentation
• Meet the Speaker Concierge to pick up last minute presentation pointers and shake off any pre-presentation jitters
• Pick up your speaker gift and “Speaker” ribbon for your name badge

EDUCAUSE staff will be available to assist you.

Speaker Ready Room Hours

• Monday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
• Tuesday, 7:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
• Wednesday, 7:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
• Thursday, 7:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
• Friday, 7:00–9:30 a.m.

Speaker Concierge in the Speaker Ready Room:

• Tuesday, 8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
• Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.–11:20 a.m., 12:30 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
• Thursday, 10:00 a.m.–11:20 a.m., 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
• Friday, 8:00–9:20 a.m.
• By appointment (contact speakerconcierge@educause.edu)

Upload Your Presentation

We're now soliciting materials from speakers to be available to attendees during the conference, and in our online conference proceedings afterwards. There are a few things to keep in mind when using this feature:

• Any files you upload will be visible to the public, including your session attendees.
• Resources uploaded here will be archived in the EDUCAUSE Resource Center.

To upload resources:

• Log in with your EDUCAUSE username and password
• Click the "Manage Your Profile" link
• Click the "Presentations" tab
• Click the "Upload" link for your session

PowerPoint Template

• EDUCAUSE has prepared a PowerPoint template for your convenience.

Postconference Proceedings and Copyright Statements

A copy of your presentation is not needed before the conference. We invite you, however, to upload your file or URL before or during the conference if you wish, or you can wait for an invitation to do so from the speaker liaison, which will come within a week after the conference.

Before uploading, first please take a moment to fulfill these three requests:

1. Because you will retain the intellectual property rights for your paper or other materials related to your conference presentation, we ask that you place a copyright statement to that effect on your materials. We suggest that you use the following statement, which is consistent with EDUCAUSE's use of the material, as the first slide in a PowerPoint document, or on the first page of a PDF document (If your document is word processed, please convert it to a PDF file before uploading.):

   Copyright [your name] [year]. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.

2. We ask that you fill in your PowerPoint document's properties in the following manner prior to uploading the file.

   Title: TITLE
   Subject: EDUCAUSE 2011
   Author: NAME(S)

3. If you password protect your PDF document, please make sure to enable the file to be read by a screen reader. It is our goal to make our resources easily available to those who use Adaptive and Assistive Technology to access files over the Internet.