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However, the material to be covered should also be relevant to other venues and to more seasoned presenters who might like to reflect on how it all works (and perhaps share some tips and ideas of their own).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, we'll consider the process of settling on a topic and drafting a proposal complete with title, abstract, and presenter bio. Next, we'll go into what's involved in crafting a full-fledged presentation: organizing it effectively, making it fit your audience and the available time slot, preparing a serviceable outline or script, and making smooth and engaging use of slides, audio, and video. Finally, we'll take a look at some actual mechanics of presenting, including how, when, and why to rehearse and test your presentation beforehand, how to safeguard against common technical problems (and roll with it if they occur anyway), and how to navigate the question-and-answer session afterwards.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePatrick Feaster is a Grammy-nominated author and researcher who specializes in the history, culture, and preservation of sound media and has served in the past as ARSC Program Chair (2005-07) and President (2014-16). 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Finally, we'll take a look at some actual mechanics of presenting, including how, when, and why to rehearse and test your presentation beforehand, how to safeguard against common technical problems (and roll with it if they occur anyway), and how to navigate the question-and-answer session afterwards.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePatrick Feaster is a Grammy-nominated author and researcher who specializes in the history, culture, and preservation of sound media and has served in the past as ARSC Program Chair (2005-07) and President (2014-16). 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Hello. My name's Dan Hockstein, I'm an ARSC board member at large and audio visual preservation specialist. Today, I'm in Miami, Florida, which stands on the sovereign lands of native nations, including the Tequesta, Okaloosa to the Seminole and Miccosukee. I do want to recognize the land and sovereignty of those nations on which I'm fortunate enough to be calling in from today. \n\nYuri Shimoda","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=11.0,36.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I am Yuri Shimoda coming to you from Tovangar, the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Gabrieleno Tongva Peoples, also known as Los Angeles, California. I am an asset management coordinator at Disney Music Group and any opinions I share today are my own. \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=36.0,58.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And in case you're joining us through one of the many channels we have promote these webinars through and aren't quite familiar with ARSC, the Association for Recorded Sound Collections or ARSC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings, in all genres of music and speech, in all formats and from all periods. ARSC is unique in bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals, everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound. There's a link in the chat that Yuri just shared, in case you'd like to become a member. The ARSC Webinar series is also funded by a grant from the National Recording Preservation Board administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources. \n\nYuri Shimoda","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=58.0,105.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And today's webinar will consist of a presentation by our guest speaker followed by a Q\u0026A period. We have enabled live transcriptioning, which you can turn on by clicking the CC live transcript button at the bottom of the screen. The webinar is being recorded and will be available on ARSC's Aviary site in the coming weeks. I just popped a link into the chat so you can take a look at past webinar recordings there. So thank you so much for joining us for \"So You Want to Give a Presentation: A Walk Through from Proposal to Podium.\" Our speaker today is Patrick Feaster, a GRAMMY nominated author and researcher who specializes in the history, culture and preservation of sound media and has served in the past as ARSC Program Chair and President. Welcome, Patrick. \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=105.0,165.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you, Yuri. Let me get my screen share up and running here. All right. Very good. So when I was asked to, you know, whether I'd be up for giving a presentation about how to propose and give a presentation, it was kind of flattering, but also a bit intimidating. Now, if you say that you're going to give a presentation about how to give a good presentation, the implication might seem to be, I'm an expert in giving perfect presentations, and since I claim to know how to do this, the presentation you're going to see today is going to be perfect in every respect. I don't know about you. That would be a lot of pressure for just about anybody to deal with. So just to dial back any implied claims and disavow any false pretenses, I'd like to begin by saying a little bit about what I'm hoping to try to do today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=165.0,223.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'd like to walk through the process of proposing, preparing and delivering a presentation at an in-person conference or some similar venue in an effort to demystify this for people who might never have done anything like this before, anywhere, or might never have done it before, specifically at an ARSC annual conference. So I'll be focusing today on ARSC specific scenarios, but I'd also like this to be as relevant as it can be to other venues, other places where you might want to give a presentation, whether that's an academic or professional conference of some other kind or a library lecture series or anything along those lines. Also, some of you may have given presentations in other venues before, and you're wondering, well, how is ARSC different? So there will be some comparison and contrast between ARSC and other venues here. But the ARSC annual conference will be my main emphasis. That said, I don't claim to have all the answers to how to give the world's greatest presentation or anything like that. But I have given a bunch of presentations at ARSC conferences. I've given I counted it was 16 different presentations, and in other venues it's hard to count exactly. I'd say around 40. So I've done this a few times and tried out a number of different things and got some experience with what seems to work and what seems not to work. I've also seen a lot of other presentations. I've been to many ARSC conferences and for some years I was the person who would edit the audio of the conference afterwards to post online, which means I didn't just go to the conference and see the presentations I went to, I actually engaged with every single presentation given at each conference, and many of them I got twice around, when a presentation was first delivered and then when I was dealing with the audio afterwards. So I've been fairly deeply immersed in presentations at ARSC conferences. Finally, for what it's worth, I've taught standard undergraduate public speaking courses at Indiana University where people had to give a persuasive speech and a ceremonial speech and things of that sort. So those, for what they're worth, are my qualifications. I will say that I don't spend a lot of time talking with other people about the things I'm going to discuss with you today. I found myself as I was preparing this presentation, thinking in many cases about how to put certain things into words for the first time. Some of the things I'll be talking about with you today are likely a matter of personal taste. You may disagree. That's fine. So my hope is that after I'm done saying what I have to say, we can have some discussion and other folks out in the audience can chime in not just with questions, but also with alternate experiences and opinions. And we'll handle that as well as the technical situation through Zoom allows. So with that, by way of preface, here it is: \"So You Want to Give a Presentation: A Walk Through from Proposal to Podium.\".","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=223.0,421.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Many venues where you might consider giving a presentation will issue a formal CFP, which can stand for a call for papers or a call for presentations. In the case of ARSC, it stands for Call for Presentations. I'll talk a little bit later about the distinction, and I will go through some details of a kind of hypothetical ARSC call for papers because the call for papers for the upcoming conference hasn't been finalized and issued yet. I've tried to cobble one together based on last year's. Maybe we could take bets about how close I get to the actual wording, but it's probably fairly close. A call for papers will typically begin with some statement about what the conferences and when it will be. The Association for Recorded Sound Collections invites proposals for presentations, posters and panels at its 57th annual conference to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 17th to 20th 2023. There will be something like that there. ARSC's annual conference is fairly consistent from year to year. There's one every year and, so, it's fairly predictable. In some cases, there will be a call for papers for a one off event of some kind, a symposium, a colloquium on some particular topic. Sometimes there will be a series of conferences or symposia where each year or each half year there will be some slightly different emphasis. So, for example, the most recent call for papers for the IASA conference, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, wanted to have this year's conference be about envisioning the archives of the future. So that was part of the call for papers. So there will be some statement about what the conference is, where it will be, when it will be, and then generally this will be followed by some written description of what the organizers want the conference to be about. It Might be more or less long, depending on what the topic is and how easy it is to express. But it's worth reading this closely and thinking about how any topic you might have in mind could fit in with the conference description. So either in an obvious way or a less obvious way. So if you are thinking about this IASA call for papers earlier this year, you might think about, well, so archives of the future. Archives of the future. One has to see how what can I say? What would work for archives of the future? And then you might come up with something that fits that. Or one of the conference calls for papers you see up there, it was for something on Mimesis, which they described as methods of reproducing and representing things, including new media that, you know, reproduce stuff. So I find myself thinking, well, let's see, could I do something about the phonograph? Would that fit? I decided it would. I sent in a proposal that it worked. So reading the proposal can give you some sense for what they're looking for. Now, in the case of ARSC, it's really pretty darn straightforward. The call for papers usually begins with something that reads along these lines: ARSC welcomes proposals on and any and all aspects of sound recording, covering all genres of music and speech in all formats and from all periods. So if it's got to do with sound recording, you're on track. Although ARSC tends not to present any specific specialized topic for each year's conference, it does give its local venues quite a lot of attention so that each call for presentations tends to have some wording in it like this in recognition of our host city, Pittsburgh, we especially encourage presentations that highlight the contributions of composers, broadcasters, musicians, performers, record labels, studios, songwriters and personalities local to that city in its region. Does this mean that if your topic doesn't have anything to do with Pittsburgh, it's not welcome? Not at all. The majority probably won't. But it does mean that if you're wavering between a few topics and one of them happens to involve Pittsburgh or the general area, you might want to choose that one all other things being equal. Or if you have some topic you're considering that happens to involve Pittsburgh, maybe now's the year to propose it, as opposed for waiting for some future conference in some other part of the country or the world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=421.0,722.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now, beyond this, when people put out a call for papers or presentations, they don't know exactly what they'll be getting. But in addition to a description of the topic, they'll often also often give a list of sample topics or areas of interest. These lists should be considered representative, not exhaustive. It's a bit like we're going out fishing and here's a list of fish we might like to catch. But if we don't get all of them, that's cool. And if we find a really nice fish that wasn't on our list were maybe not going to throw it back. ARSC is no exception. It often includes something like this list. I'm greying it out there so that you're not tempted to read it right now. This varies from year to year, and rather than going through a list like that or any of the previous year's lists, I'd I'd like to take a slightly more analytical approach and consider a few typical types of presentations that often turn up at our conferences.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=722.0,788.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Many times there will be presentations that are historical in nature and deal with some kind of a historical narrative. This might be about the history of the recording industry or particular record labels, or it might be about particular formats or genres or communities or historical moments and how they were reflected in recorded sound. A historical doesn't necessarily mean the distant past, by the way. It could mean last year and in fact, ARSC is generally eager to represent newer and newer historical moments as time goes by. Another common type of presentation deals with projects or collections. You might think of this as the archival show and tell presentation in which someone describes a project involving the preservation of or access to, or publication or community collaboration, dealing with some particular collection of recordings or other materials. Something along these lines, often involving both a collection and a project. So, for example, we had this group of materials and here was a project we undertook to do something with it. So sharing experiences within the community of people who curates and otherwise deal with collections of recorded sound.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=788.0,879.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Another common type of paper or presentation involves technical matters. Methods of preserving, digitizing, restoring audio. Matters pertaining to surveying collections, cataloging it, granting access to it. This might also involve matters of copyright or discographic issues or innovative ways of analyzing recorded sound. Maybe in the future there there will be more about machine learning and audio, anything with a primarily technical edge. Now, any one of these three categories by itself is totally on topic for ARSC. Each would have a strong constituency behind it within the organization, but I formatted them as a Venn diagram here to emphasize that there's often a lot of overlap between them. So for example, there are often presentations that combine consideration of a project or collection with technical issues. So for example, they might focus on how a particular project or collection sheds unique light on so sorry. So let's say here's, here's a project we undertook and details about how we undertook it. We'll share lessons that we learned while we were working on it. Perhaps generalizable principles that other people carrying out projects could learn from. The Venn diagram has a slightly larger overlap there because these tend to be very common, very popular. There might be an overlap between historical presentations and project or collection based presentations, maybe focusing on how a particular project or collection sheds unique light on some historical issue, underscoring the importance of a collection, as well as telling the story of how someone did something to help make it more useful or more accessible. There might be a combination between historical and technical issues, perhaps involving the quirks of some legacy format, why they exist, how we would deal with them today, or discographic puzzles in historical context, or any other confluence of historical and technical concerns. Sometimes there might be presentations that could combine all three of those in some way, maybe a presentation involving some project that involves a collection of material with interesting historical implications that also involves interesting technical issues. Maybe your topic is very obviously in one of these circles. You know, it's obviously primarily a historical topic, mainly a topic involving a project, or mainly a technical presentation. But it's useful to think about how it might overlap with other areas of interest just because the more that you can expand into these other areas, it may help you think about additional angles you could develop that would appeal to additional groups within ARSC and could could increase your audience. Some topics might not be in any one of these circles at all. Maybe something involving the philosophy of sound recording or something like that doesn't mean it's not on topic, but typically most presentations that end up at ARSC conferences fall into one of these categories or combine a few of them. So hopefully this will help give you some sense for the range of topics that you might consider for an ARSC conference. I came up with it myself going through previous conference programs and trying to sort into these different categories.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=879.0,1122.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The call for papers tends to end with something like this: \"We seek presentations and panels that are informative, display a passion for their subjects, and include compelling audio and or audiovisual content. Share your special interests and expertise with our engaged community of archivists, audio engineers, collectors, historians, musicians and preservationists.\" This bit about here seeking presentations and panels and the call for presentations is to some degree intended to suggest that people think beyond simply getting up and reading a paper aloud, that we particularly like presentations that draw in and make creative and innovative use of audiovisual material, images and so on. I'll have a little bit more to say about that momentarily. So this is the call for papers, which will, I understand, go out in a couple of weeks for this year. And if you decide that you might like to propose something, the next step is to put together a proposal and submit it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=1122.0,1201.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This has recently been an online form, so it starts out easy with questions like what your email address is, what your name is. These aren't trick questions. They should be fairly straightforward. Institutions, as you'll see, there are red stars indicating required fields. Institutions is not required. You don't need one. Being a private collector, for example, is perfectly fine. But then you might get stuck on this point. Are you submitting a paper, a poster or a panel? These are three different formats that ARSC offers for its program. I have experience with individual papers and with panels, not so much with posters, but from going around the ARSC website and looking at resources there I see that Yuri has presented a poster session before, so perhaps you could say something about this if anybody has questions about it or what its advantages or disadvantages are. Essentially, this gives you an opportunity to print out some kind of a display that people can come up to and look at. They're up throughout the conference. And then generally somewhere during the conference, there is a half hour slot during an afternoon coffee break when the person responsible for the poster can stand by it and people can come up and ask questions and engage in a conversation. Now, I don't have a lot of experience doing posters myself, but again, as I say, Yuri has done this and so she may have some thoughts about how that works out if you're curious.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=1201.0,1316.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What I'll be talking about today will focus on presentations given as part of the conference. You know, rather than these posters that are kind of a centerpiece for conversations that you might have. There are two options here. One is the individual paper presentation, 20 minutes plus ten for questions and then a a panel, a 90 minute session with multiple people, multiple presentations, joined by some theme or topic. Now, different institutions have different expectations for how that works. In some conferences, I understand they expect people submitting proposals to organize themselves into panels ahead of time, often choosing a chair or discuss it themselves. And that if you're just a solo presenter and you submit something, you risk being lumped in with miscellaneous stuff. Let's say this is not really how it works at ARSC. Some panels are organized and submitted as panels, typically organized by the conference planners or ARSC committees like the technical committee or especially well-established people within ARSC. Now, if you have a good reason to want to propose a whole panel all at once, by all means you should do it. But most submissions are for individual presentations, and that's what I'm going to focus on here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=1316.0,1402.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What happens with these presentations is that the program committee will organize them into sessions and come up with titles for them, like American Music or Discography in the Record or Archiving in the Digital Age. And will find a a session chair to supervise the session for you. Now, a few sessions are designated as plenary sessions, which means nothing else is scheduled up against them. It's the only thing on the docket during their slots. The idea being that everybody will attend those, that there'll be a very broad, general interest. Various factors can elevate something to plenary status, one of which is some local connection. Often there is a highlighted plenary session dealing with local issues, local recording traditions or musical history, things of that sort. But most sessions are scheduled in simultaneous pairs. That is, there will be two concurrent sessions scheduled up against each other. And one of the great challenges of preparing the conference schedule is minimizing the overlap in interest. Two sessions is actually pretty good. There are many conferences out there that I've been to that might have 12 or so concurrent sessions, in which case, you know, you are competing with perhaps 11 other sessions at one time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=1402.0,1499.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What do you have to include with your proposal? Well, one thing is the title. What are you going to call your presentation? A good title will describe what your presentation is about and be attractive. Various places where you might end up including this title in later years. If you have a CD, a CV, for instance, you might listed among your conference presentations. So think about what it would look like there. What makes for a good title? It's a good question. I hadn't really thought a whole lot about it before. It's kind of gone about this instinctively. But now if you want to see what titles other people have used for ARSC presentations, you can go to ARSC website and go to the conference page at the bottom. Well, you'll find a listing for past ARSC conferences. If you go to it, you will find that there are listings for past conferences which are pretty detailed back to 2006. You can look and see, you know, what sorts of titles do people give their presentations? I did that for you just out of curiosity to see what kinds of patterns there are, because honestly, I wasn't sure what are the rules of coming up with a good title? Well, one way it seems people can come up with a functional title is to say, I'm going to give a presentation about and then use whatever wording you use to fill in the blank as your title. Actual titles from past ARSC conferences, Pathe Label Discs from India, Fiddle Music from the Texas Panhandle, A Methodology for Digitizing Wax Cylinders, Mass Digitization of 78 RPM Records with the Internet Archive, the Berkeley Oral History Project, ARSC and the 1977 Centennial of Sound Recording Stamp. These are all pretty darn clear. You may not know a whole lot about what the 1977 Centennial of Sound Recording Stamp was, but you can bet that that last presentation is going to be about that and some connection that ARSC had with it. But, you know, these are pretty straightforward, but there are other little quirks about how to come up with a presentation title, a little bit like the quirks of a newspaper headline, which tends to have its own expectations, its own grammar. You know, like man bites dog to say, you know, indicate that this is going to be an article about a man who was bitten by a dog or man to bite dog if it's something scheduled or expected for the future. So I found in going through various past titles of conference presentations, one very common format is to use an active present gerund. I'm going to give a presentation about: Archiving the Women's Music Movement, Recreating a Disc Record from an Image, Transforming Reference Services at the American Folklife Center, Creating Open Access to Berliner Discs at Yale. This is a very popular, very effective type of title structure that you might consider. Sometimes there are titles that begin \"how to do this.\" Those seem really nice. They suggest a presentation that is going to be very practically useful or practically engaging. But then there's another approach that doesn't quite fit the I'm going to give a presentation about model. Two phrases separated by a colon, a common strategy for presentation titles. Very, very common. It'd be interesting to work out year by year which percentage of ARSC presentations have titles like this. Often what people will do is choose some title that's more clever and creative, but wouldn't necessarily let you know what the presentation is about if you saw it by itself. Put that first, then a colon and then a more descriptive part of the title afterwards. Familiar Tunes Old and New: The Columbia 15,000 Series; Take a Little Chance: The Tokyo Happy Quotes and King Records  All Discs Considered: Migrating NPR's Optical Media Archive. You see various options there. This is one very common way of using that colon. Other times, people will use it a little bit differently to perhaps break up a longer title that has multiple moving parts to it. Various options here, but colons can be your friend. Try them out. Now one thing that often doesn't work as a title of a presentation is just the name of somebody. Even if you're doing a biography, you wouldn't typically call your presentation Olga Samura for Wes Anderson. So usually there's some descriptor that's attached to it, maybe with a colon that comes before the name, various ways of doing that. So yeah, the different ways you might consider formulating a title. Yeah. Do with that what you will.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=1499.0,1819.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The abstract is the longer part of text that you need to come up with for a proposal. It is supposed to be up to 250 words for review and publication. If you would like to see what people have written in previous years and use those as a model, you can again go to that website and click on previous conferences and pull up the booklets from previous years and read as many past abstracts as you would like. But here are some things you might consider including. Emphasize why what you're presenting on or proposing to present on is important. What's new about it? If there's something new about it or what you're adding to it, you know, maybe this is someone we haven't heard a lot about before, but you're going to draw this person to our attention. And then also how it fits into whatever the conference or symposium or whatever it is about. So, for instance, if you were writing a proposal for that last IASA conference, you might find a way to indicate how you think it deals with archives of the future. For ARSC really all you've got to do is establish it's got something to do with recorded sound.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=1819.0,1903.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What will your abstract be used for? Review, to see if your presentation will be accepted or not. Placement in a panel. So it should say enough about what you're going to present about that it would let someone decide which other presentations based on their abstracts that might be similar enough to that it makes sense to group you together. For people who read through the conference booklet to decide is this a presentation they want to come to? If they have to make a choice between two different presentations, is yours the more interesting one, or is somebody else's the more interesting one for them personally? And then the historical record. This program booklet will go up on the web afterwards and people might run into it in years to come. And so it might document the presentation that you gave to some degree. Now, this is how it would be used in the case of ARSC. In other situations, an abstract that you put together might be used for advertising. It might be put on a poster or something like that, or even run in a newspaper or read on the radio or, you know, who knows what. So different ways in which this might be used. Should you then come up with a title first and an abstract second or an abstract first and the title second, doesn't really matter. Sometimes you might go back and forth between the two.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=1903.0,1990.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now 250 words is the limit for an ARSC proposal. It does not mean you have to include 250 words, but you have 250 words to make your case. This is exactly 250 words, just to give you a sense for about how long you have to work with. Doesn't need to be that long. Here is a proposal that is perfectly suitable. It does what it needs to do in 81 words. And, you know, you can be creative about these. You might just state a brief summary of what it is your presentation is going to be about. But here's one that is a little more clever about its approach. Got palmitic acid problem, stearic acid got you down. Can't find a cure? Then step right up because the amazing lacquer disc cleaning machine show just might have a remedy for you. You know try out different things, doesn't have to be stodgy and academic sounding and in fact, the less like that it is, maybe the more attractive some people will find it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=1990.0,2064.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now. So these three pieces that you need for your proposal, you decide, is this a presentation? Is it a panel, a whole panel with multiple people? Or a poster? You need to come up with a title, hopefully one that's both informative and catchy so it'll draw people in. And then an abstract. A. basic description of what it is you're going to present that summarizes it well enough to let someone decide, Do we want this in the conference? And then once it's in, do we want to come to it? Another piece that you're likely to need to create before the conference is a bio. You don't need this for the proposal, at least not for an ARSC proposal. But you will want it before the day itself. ARSC does not publish bios. In other cases, you might find that someone will want to present a bio. For example, if there's a a nightly lecture series or a weekly lecture series and people have to decide whether they're going to show up or not, maybe they'll include your bio with that to help advertise it. And they should have a poster and ad, something like that. Now how it will be used at ARSC, in all likelihood, your session chair will read it word for word before you present. So it should be in the third person. It's someone talking about you. It should be 75 to 100 words and should indicate, you know, what is there to know about you that would make people think, Yeah, I'd like to hear it, come hear what this person has to say about this topic. For example, if you're a private collector, how long you've been collecting, what do you specialize in? You'll probably want to mention current and past positions if they're relevant to your topic or any academic credentials, any publications, books, articles, CDs, websites, videos, awards you've received, if any. Anything interesting about you. It's perfectly okay to toot your own horn. Remember, someone else is going to be saying this about you, so it's not going to come off as you bragging.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2064.0,2204.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now you can check out past examples. In this case, they're not published in the booklet, but recordings of past conferences are available. Recent ones are on the website as video. You can check out certain years if you're an ARSC member. Well, you can check out all the years if you can ARSC member. Certain ones are free even to nonmembers, including the video of last year's virtual conference. Plus, there is a YouTube page where you can check out lots of previous ARSC presentations and see what people have done. There are other things mixed in there than conference presentations. For example, New York Chapter meeting presentations. They have a regular lecture series as well. So there are other things in there as well. But you can find plenty of ARSC conference presentations and find out what they're like if you're not sure. Here's one example of what you'd find if you looked at these to try to find out, you know what is an intro typically like, a bio that someone might end up wanting to read before a presentation? \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2204.0,2277.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"By the way, I'm not sure I remembered to make a very special adjustment there, so I am going to reshare my screen. While being sure to choose. Oops. Did I do that right? Just a second. To make sure. Oh, yes, I am sharing sound. Never mind, this is one of those things with PowerPoint presentations. I never sure which settings stick. All right, so you will actually be able to hear this. \n\nCurtis Peoples","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2277.0,2319.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All right. Next up, we have Matt Barton, who became the curator of recorded sound at the Library of Congress in 2008. From 1996 to 2003, he was production coordinator of the Alan Lomax Collection CD series. He has written extensively on recorded music and sound. From 2016 to 2018, he was president of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections and is currently the chair of ARSC Publications Committee. Matt Barton. \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2319.0,2348.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So perfectly good present. Perfect, good bio. I suspect Matt probably wrote that himself. But so this is all you need. Something like this. Short, sweet. Again, you can find examples out there. Now, if you're stuck. You're not sure what to write. Ask one of your friends. How would you introduce me if you had to? That can be helpful to get an outside opinion. Now, how do you prepare your words? What it is you're going to say during your presentation? Well, this should be crafted to fit the amount of time you have. Remember, individual presentations, 20 minutes plus Q\u0026A. You want to take that Q\u0026A seriously. It is important. So let's say we want to stick to the 20 minutes. On a panel you might be more flexible, but typically even there, you individually would have about 20 minutes to present. This may be different for a lecture series of other sorts. The New York ARSC Chapter presentations tend to be considerably longer. These continuing education webinars are a longer example. You may think that longer presentations are harder than short presentations, but they're really not. If you have a shorter presentation, you can't take a lot of time to fit your ideas into words on the fly. You have to plan out in advance what's worth talking about, what isn't and not let yourself get caught up into digressions. So what exactly is it you need to prepare beforehand? Sometimes people will like to prepare their exact words and write a script that you'll read aloud. That's perfectly fine to do. In other cases, people will write an outline. Now it doesn't have to be a formal outline like you may have run into in school, you know, with Roman numerals and letters of the alphabet and numbers and different levels and indentations and so forth. The idea here is just to include cues, to let you know what is coming next so that you can remember each step along the way and not leave out anything that's important and keep to the order that you have decided is appropriate to your subject.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2348.0,2492.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sometimes you might want to include exact quotations in there so that you have the ready on hand. You see that I've done that here in this particular example. Some people may always find one of these approaches better than the other. Maybe you find it hard to extemporize in front of an audience and you want a script there in hand to read so you don't have to do it on the fly. Maybe you find that your speech sounds more lively or relaxed when you're speaking extemporaneously than when you're reading off a paper and you want to do it that way because of that. Maybe writing out a full script seems like too much work, whereas writing an outline seems more manageable. All kinds of reasons you might choose one or the other. I do both on different occasions. As you can probably tell for this particular presentation, I'm largely improvising. Back up, back up, back up. Uh. There we go. Here we go again. What I choose myself usually depends on circumstances. If time is tight and I think it's going to be hard to find the exact words to say what I want to say, or if it's especially formal, I'll script it out word for word. If time's less tight and the presentation is less formal, more like a workshop or teaching a class I'll often opt for an outline, maybe with some parts again written out exactly exact quotations and so on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2492.0,2591.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Whichever you choose, you should try to do approximately what your abstract says you're going to do. And in your abstract, don't promise more than you think you can do in the time that you have available. You'll want to calibrate what you're going to say to your audience. Think about who is this for? What are they already going to know? What are they not going to know. In the context of ARSC, one thing to avoid is dense academic prose. I realize that in some contexts, in some conferences, the assumption is that reading a paper is literally that, you get up and you read an academic paper word for word, much as it would be published in an academic journal, even if it would be difficult to read as a written article. If you have to go back and reread certain sentences a few times. That is something not to aim to do at an ARSC conference. That is one reason why we say presentations rather than papers is to emphasize this difference between the written word and the published article and the live presentation. You can assume that people will be knowledgeable about recorded sound more so than the average person off the street. But perhaps unevenly. They're likely to know about different areas of recorded sound. So don't assume too much or too little. Explain anything even about recorded sound that is essential to understand what you're going to talk about, but don't necessarily assume that people don't know it, so you may present it as, for those who don't know this is this, that is that. \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2591.0,2693.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick? I hate to interrupt. I just want to make sure we're not seeing a screen share here. \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2693.0,2698.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, gosh, you're not. Oh, dear. \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2698.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No, no worries, but. \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2700.0,2703.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, that's. All right. Now, how about that? Up here. Just a moment. Yeah. Okay. Since my screen sharing is paused. Well, let's see. How's that? \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2703.0,2742.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah. We're seeing the PowerPoint. All set to go. \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2742.0,2744.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay. \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2744.0,2745.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thanks. Mm hmm. \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2745.0,2746.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That I am. Okay. So, um, various ways you might structure your presentation. An introduction, a body and a conclusion are kind of minimal pieces to it. Now, you might take a very businesslike approach to this. You might start. It's a common approach. Tell them what you're going to tell them. Then tell them. Then tell them what you told them. Or you might start with a story. You might end with a take away or moral. But you do probably want to have a clear beginning someplace where you start comfortably, a middle, and then an end. Where it's clear that this is your end and that you're wrapping up. At the beginning it can seem a little awkward just to suddenly get up there and there's crickets sounding out of the audience, and you have to start start talking. But there's ways to bridge that comfortably. Thank the person who just introduced you, maybe comment a little bit on how great it is to be here, something like that. And then you move into your presentation from there. It doesn't have to be a cold open. At the conclusion you want to land on your feet in some way, don't want to end up to say, Well, that's I guess that's all I got. Yeah. So that's it, I'm done. It's quite easy to not fall into that sort of trap. You might clue people in that you're wrapping up so that it doesn't come as a shock. So in conclusion, I would like to emphasize that blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A good way to let people know you're done is to say thank you for your kind attention, which is a clue for people to applaud or whatever they're going to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2746.0,2856.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ways you might structure things. If it's a historical narrative, it might be in chronological order. If it's an argument, you might begin by laying out an issue, saying this is what other people think. This is what I think. This is why you should think what I think. And then summarize. If it's a project or a demo of something, it might follow the logical structure of what you're demonstrating, such as a piece of software or website and throughout it's useful to include signposts to let you know where you're going and when you're transitioning. So, for example, you might say up to this point I've been talking about how to organize what you're saying, but now I'd like to move on to consider what it is you're giving people to look at. Or you can do it with slides like I've done here, preparing your slides.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2856.0,2907.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Typically, people will use PowerPoint presentations. There are alternatives out there. I don't have a lot of experience with them, but if there's one you prefer to PowerPoint more power to you. I will say that slides of some sort are generally expected for an ARSC conference. You know, whether you think you need them or not, there probably should be something there. They'll give a certain focus of visual attention to your presentation as you're talking, unless you forget to share your screen during a Zoom meeting. Then they'll just be looking at you. That'll be embarrassing. But usually, if you're there in a darkened room, people's eyes are going to be up on that screen, not on you. Among other things, it takes off the pressure to maintain eye contact, things like that. PowerPoint presentations have a bad reputation, but they can be used to pretty good effect. You can check out the video page for past ARSC conferences if you want to see the sorts of things that people have done before. You can also go to some of the older audio pages. You'll find that often past performers would allow their PowerPoint presentations to be uploaded directly. So if you want to, you can download those and study them and see what it is they did with them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2907.0,2984.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Some people treat a PowerPoint presentation kind of like you would, you know, writing things on an old fashioned blackboard of if you were a professor giving a lecture and you are expecting this to help students take notes or something like that. One thing you might avoid doing is throwing up a lot of things on the screen that will distract people from whatever it is you're saying. You'll notice earlier when I showed a slide like this, I quickly grayed out all of that text. What did I do that I didn't want you out there in the audience to think, Oh, what am I supposed to be doing? I suppose to be listening to him? Am I supposed to be reading those words? So by graying it out, I tried to take it out of reach. One approach people often use is if they have a longer list, they're going to talk through the items on it one by one, you arrange to click on them and pull them up one after the other so that what's on screen isn't anticipating what you're going to talk about. It comes up as you say it, so you give a sense of the structure of what you're seeing, but you're not getting ahead of yourself. Notice over there this thing called the animation pane that indicates that things will be popping up in a particular sequence and what the order is. And you can play around with that as you like.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=2984.0,3064.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You know, if you're using text on the screen, make sure it's large enough for people to read. Make sure your color scheme is legible. Some fonts are more distracting than others, and some cute animations for bringing things up on screen and make them disappear can draw more attention to themselves than to what you are saying. All things to keep in mind as you're laying out a presentation slide set. Now I tend not to use a lot of words in my PowerPoints. Instead, I and many other people in ARSC like to use the PowerPoint to give visuals that somehow augment what you're saying. Here's one of Cary Ginnel's PowerPoints, one of the many that you can download to look at from previous ARSC presentations. And at their best, these are like the video element of a documentary film, and there are lots of different things you can show on screen. If you're talking about a project, you can show pictures of people doing the project, bring them to life for your audience. If it's a historical topic, show historical photographs or documents or objects or newspaper clippings. If you're talking about a technical workflow show pictures of the things involved or technical diagrams that help people make sense of what it is you're talking about. A picture can be worth a thousand words here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3064.0,3160.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Animations, things that move can take some time to prepare, but they can be really effective and help illustrate something that you're describing that may be difficult to convey in words. I will say, incidentally, that audio and video is treated in PowerPoint as animations. And so this is how you will integrate it into a PowerPoint presentation. It's really very similar to the way that other animations are handled. And it's treated as as a subheading of animations. Now, audio is something that very many ARSC presentations will want to include. Typically, you'll want to use as little audio as you can get away with and make your point. Now, maybe your presentation centers on some really cool piece of audio that you're unveiling for the first time that nobody has heard before, and that it's the centerpiece, and you want to devote some extra time to it. You know, that's great if you're going to do that. But remember, if you play a three minute recording, that's three minutes less you have to talk. So usually I'll try to pare things down to as little as I can get away with. Here's an example where I just wanted to emphasize the speech at the beginning and the middle of a particular cylinder that would ordinarily last three minutes. \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3160.0,3284.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The way that audio is inserted into PowerPoint by default is this. You go up and say you're going to insert some audio. It lets you go to a place on your computer to insert it, and then it sets it up like this. It puts a little icon on your screen, sets it up in the animation pane as a trigger. That means you actually have to go over and click on it to get it to play. Now, you may not want to do it that way, and you may find those speaker icons unsightly. Now, if this is the case, you can go into that animation pane and drag the little player button there up above the thing that says trigger. Trigger will go away and now it will work just like clicking forward in your PowerPoint presentation. Just one little trick if you want to avoid having to actually go through and move a mouse around on your screen and click something.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3284.0,3341.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where do you want your presentation to be while you're giving it? Where are the words that you'll either read from or the outline that you'll use to cue yourself as to where you are? You can embed it in a PowerPoint directly. As you see here, there's a space where you can include text in the PowerPoint itself. One advantage is everything's in the same place then. It's very easy to keep track of. A drawback, though, is that you, sometimes you'll have to futz with your presentation options here. What you have on your computer screen to read yourself may not be what's going up on the screen so this can be a little bit awkward. Also, if you print out a script, which I usually do, you can make handwritten emendations up to the very last minute, which I sometimes do, depending on something that happened in the session right before you talked, or maybe someone's in the room, you want to point out something like that. Another good reason for developing the words of your presentation outside PowerPoint is that it's very easy to time your presentation. You can see how many words there are. Now, this only works if you're writing out the exact words of your presentation. If you just have an outline, this doesn't really help you very much. But if you know that you read about 150 words per minute. If you have a script you're working on, you can calculate how long those words will take you to read. You know, if you have some audio as well, you'll have to add those in, those clips in, and then calculate what the total is. But this can still be a very handy way of editing a script if you have an exact text right there for yourself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3341.0,3456.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In some cases, you may have a presentation that's mostly audio. And you know, here's a case where I had 35 or so minutes of audio, I had about 10 minutes to talk and put a little reminder to myself right there at the beginning. Often in my scripts, if I'm writing them out word for word, or even if it's just an outline, I'll put cues in my script to indicate, you know, what it is I need to do in a PowerPoint to move things forward. So here's an example where I was going to say something and then play a recording and then click on something in the PowerPoint to highlight a particular piece of the image I had on screen there, because I was going to then proceed to talk about it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3456.0,3502.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now. Here's another piece where I find myself in somewhat of a sensitive and awkward position, which I hope you'll be sensitive to and indulgent of. I was very conscious in this presentation that giving a presentation about how to give a presentation I was probably going to do at least one thing that horribly violated one of the tips I was giving you, or one of the instructions or one of the things that I was asking you to be sensitive of. And one of them was the issue of time. I've talked longer than I planned to, but one thing I can do and take advantage of this is often in a presentation you might find that there are optional pieces at the end, things you'd like to get to, but that you can drop at the last minute if you find that you're running out of time. So I'm going to do that right now. There are some things to think about during the presentation itself that we can talk about if anyone can stick around. But I believe that I would just like to say in closing that presentations often can live on beyond the presentation themselves, that often you might find that the things that you've prepared will be usable for articles, that you can reuse pieces of presentations and so on. I find that I hardly ever give the same presentation exactly twice in a row, but I often find that I reuse some of the illustrations and animations and so forth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3502.0,3629.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Back to this question of how you know somebody is done. Often they will proceed to their closing slide. That's a big clue. Notice that the email address is in there. It's often good to give people a way of contacting you after the presentation is finished. And then another good way is to thank your audience and say thank you for your kind attention. And I don't know if we're ,it's just something I didn't clarify with the organizers beforehand, if we're restricted to the hour or so that I've had in mind for this presentation or whether we have a chance to continue talking at this point. But I'm going to turn it back over to them again, thanking you for your kind attention. \n\nYuri Shimoda","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3629.0,3677.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you so much, Patrick. And yes, we will. We do have time to answer some of the questions that were presubmitted, as well as some that have been posted live today. \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3677.0,3691.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I'll say that I'm conscious that I, I ended up skipping over some things that I promised in the abstract, particularly things about the presentation itself and ways of guarding against catastrophic mistakes. But I hope that by myself committing one of these grave errors and talking for longer than I had planned to, maybe that'll be a stronger recommendation than simply talking about some things that can go wrong. \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3691.0,3723.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Right. Maybe there's some notes that you have we can pass them on to attendees. I think we're probably going to aim for a 2:30 close for this, just for those of you who are who are conscious of getting to a meeting or anything else, but definitely leave some time for conversation here. If you do have a question or comment or would add to the conversation, there are a few ways to do so. If you prefer type, go ahead and use Q\u0026A function rather than the chat. We already have a few sort of lined up, as it just allows us to distinguish the questions, post the presenter and comments you might make based on your own experience. If you prefer to comment or ask a question verbally, go ahead and use raised hand, raise hand function and we'll get to your question or comment and then allow you to chat with us a little bit. Oh, um Yuri, you want to start us off with the first presubmitted question here? \n\nYuri Shimoda","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3723.0,3791.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I think we also had a request in the chat that maybe go back to the slide. \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3791.0,3799.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. Maggie Cooper in the chat here was just asking what the scenario was after losing historically. \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3799.0,3809.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"With the second scenario was after which. Sorry. \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3809.0,3813.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"After posing a historical narrative, I think you would go, oh, yes. It's just a sort of. \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3813.0,3822.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ah, sorry, an argument. So, for example, you might be wanting to say, you know, most people think that the correct way to play back an open reel audiotape is to use a machine that was designed at the time to play them. But I have found that actually, if you run an open reel audiotape through a microfilm reader, as crazy as it may sound, you can actually get a better quality of audio from it. Now, here, let me demonstrate why I believe that. And you'd have to come up with some really good arguments in that case. But that's the general scenario where you're putting forward some kind of an argument in favor of doing something some particular way or thinking about something in some particular way. You know, what is it that people ordinarily think, that is, what are you responding to? What is it you think that's different from that? And then what's your evidence for it? How are you interpreting that evidence and then summarizing what your conclusion is. Any other there are many different places where I'm sure where you can see different ways of structuring a presentation. These are just some that seem to be particularly well-suited to the types of presentation that we have at ARSC. \n\nYuri Shimoda","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3822.0,3903.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay. So we do have one presubmitted question and it's seeking guidance for anyone who has social anxiety on how to give an engaging presentation and actually live to tell about it. And expanding on that, what if you have no tag slides to kind of lean on in your in your presentation? \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3903.0,3932.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So the question of social anxiety is a great one and one that many people face. I believe it is one of the most common phobias that people share, public speaking, you know, putting yourself up there in front of an audience to perform, if you will. And, you know, there all sorts of different pieces of advice that people give out there, tricks for how to put yourself at ease. You know, you can find those out there. I suspect that if any one of them worked faultlessly, then people would stop asking these questions. They'd find this one answer and it would be distributed out there and nobody would have a problem. No, it is, it is a problem. I do find that if if people are anxious about presenting, it usually does make more sense to have your exact words written out ahead of time. For instance, if you're feeling anxious about what you're doing, it could enhance your anxiety if you find yourself up there and you're worried about losing your place, or what was it I was going to say next? Or what did I mean, I've lost my place. And it can be helpful to script everything out that way. But you know, for ARSC particularly, but really for public speaking in general, I'd say one thing to think about is, you know, what are you thinking about when you're sitting in the audience listening to someone else present? How do you feel towards them? Are you sitting there thinking critically about what it is they're seeing and how they're seeing it? Are you hoping they'll flub so you can laugh at them or are you thinking, you know, I chose to come to this talk, I'm kind of interested in this topic. This seems like an interesting person who has something to say, but I want to hear what they have to say. They're doing me a favor by talking about it. This is really cool. I'm glad they're here. And if something is going wrong, I'm on their side. I want them to get through it. Now, so one thing that I didn't get to in the script I had worked out for this presentation, I could talk a little bit about that because that is an example of recovering from something going wrong, which actually was largely the part of the presentation I ended up having to leave out. So it's ironic or poetic justice or something like that, that when if things are going wrong, the worst case scenario, you know, what would it be? You get up there in front of the audience and you freeze maybe. Or you get up there and you lose your place or you drop your papers and they get all out of order. One good reason to staple them. People are going to be very indulgent. They're going to empathize with you in a good way. If your PowerPoint won't start or you forgot to go back to your PowerPoint and you know you're talking along and blissfully on, oh, as you see up here on the screen and nobody can see anything, they're going to reach out and try to help. They're going to want to see you succeed. If so, things that could go wrong, out in front of my house some people began tearing up the sidewalk yesterday to replace a fire hydrant. There were jackhammers outside there this morning. I was afraid that there would be sounds drowning out my presentation here today. And that happens in ARSC conferences. Sometimes there will be sounds coming in from the next room. Boom, boom, boom. You know, usually making a little joke about that will, you know, help people divert their attention away from it. But just things like this. The audience, honestly, is going to be on your side. And as an audience member yourself, you should know that. I think people are a lot more critical in most cases of their own presentations than they would ever dream of being of anybody else's presentations. I said at the beginning, I didn't think I had all the answers. I don't have all the answers for, you know, solving issues of social anxiety. Know lots of those stock suggestions out there. Imagine your audience is naked. I think that would just be horrifying. But you know that that's what I can think of to say about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=3932.0,4188.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You asked this question about tech help. I would say that coming up with a basic PowerPoint is probably within most people's ability to do, even if it's just a kind of an outline that you pull up on screen while you're talking. If you don't have access to PowerPoint, which not everybody does, it is a piece of paid software. Some people may not have an institutional subscription to fall back on or some reason to use it. There are free equivalents out there. I've not spent a lot of time researching those, but they should be available to you. One thing I would caution you against is choosing anything that's too horribly obscure. There are other alternatives to PowerPoint that do really neat effects on the screen. I remember there was one I saw once where instead of advancing from slide to slide, you would zoom in on one part of a much larger picture and then zoom out or only zoom in on one end of the be a tiny little circle, and then you'd zoom in on that. It was just a crazy way of structuring that was really done very effectively. I liked it a lot, but people generally are familiar with Prezi that might be it. People are generally fairly conversant in PowerPoint, so chances are if something's going wrong with PowerPoint, someone will be able to come to your rescue. If you're using something else, they may not be able to. Or may not know quite what to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=4188.0,4281.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"On the PowerPoint front. I'll say also that one very common thing that people are asked to do at the start of a session is to combine their PowerPoints onto a single machine to avoid having to switch out machines during the course of a presentation. The idea being that that's a little disruptive. It usually takes a minute or so to, you know, switch out the adapters and so on. And often that can be made part of the question and answer session. But, you know, it's a little disruptive. It takes time. This is a moment, though, to to be cautious of, though, because maybe your PowerPoint or whatever it was worked perfectly well on your computer. It might not work perfectly well on someone else's computer. So when you're doing that, that is one of those cases to be extra sure that you test your PowerPoint in, say, the half hour before your presentation to make sure that things are working as they should. Sorry I'm spouting off here and throwing in things I'd meant to get to before. I'd like to be more responsive. What stumpers are there out there? We can talk about Q\u0026A sessions, since this is one. \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=4281.0,4363.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Another presubmitted question here. There's some great stuff in the chat as well. You know, being posited, I also add that in terms of the social anxiety, I know there are a lot of resources that might be available to folks locally in their community. Have some personal do had a lot of success with Toastmasters International, which is a public speaking club. You know there's usually classes. We have another question from someone who I think in chat said they had to leave but I think it's useful anyway for problems with audio and PowerPoint. \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=4363.0,4402.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So I think there's a slight glitch there in the connection. \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=4402.0,4406.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, sorry about that. Failsafes for problems with audio embedded in PowerPoint. \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=4406.0,4414.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So audio embedded in PowerPoints. I'll say, first of all, when the sort of the default way to add audio into your PowerPoint presentation will attempt to embed it into the same file that the rest of the PowerPoint is part of. So it will be a piece of that. And if you move your presentation over on to a new computer or upload it to the cloud or downloaded it, it should still be there. However, there, I mean, there are lots of different versions of PowerPoint. You may not be using PowerPoint, in some cases you may actually be linking from your presentation to a place where the file is on your computer. You may have to be sure to move it along with the rest of your presentation if you want it to play. So that is one consideration. You can kill links by moving your presentation around, but another problem can involve is just getting the audio to play itself. And one issue here is making sure that whatever machine you're running your slides on has whatever software is needed to play your audio. You may think that it's a very common type of audio, but don't make assumptions. One year I had a presentation, including a number of pieces of audio all embedded into the PowerPoint. As I recall, most of them were WAV files, but two of them were MP3 files. And I assumed everybody's computer can play MP3, right? Well, at the last minute my computer I was planning to use my own computer was not going to work for this. Ironically, I had made some adjustments to my computer so that somebody else could use it to play one of their presentations. But however I had changed it it was no longer working to play my presentation, so I moved it on to another person's computer and got to that point in my presentation. It really was the highlight of the presentation, the great reveal. These two MP3 files they wouldn't play because as I found out, that machine was not set up to play MP3 files. Failsafes for making sure that this sort of situation doesn't affect you? Really the same as failsafes for any aspect of your presentation, have backup copies of your media. If you have files that are embedded in your PowerPoint and you're worried about this question of will they play, have them in another format to have them on a thumb drive, have them as a WAV, have them as an MP3, have them as whatever type of file you think you might want to play, do the same with your PowerPoint or whatever it is that you have, have not just a copy on your laptop. Maybe it will die a horrible death. Your motherboard will go out, you know, have a backup copy, have a few. Maybe your thumb drive will break. I remember one time, oh, this was for a job talk. And I've been working on preparing a presentation for, you know, hours and hours and hours. And I, I had at one point I just said, okay, I don't just want to save this to my computer. I'm going to start saving it to this thumb drive, too. And so I, I changed where it was saving to the thumb drive on without thinking about it, kept saving my script to the thumb drive and worked on it for hours and hours and hours. And thought, Oh, I'm beat, I got to get somewhere else and got up to go walk to a coffee shop to work a little more there. Kind of put some final touches on it. As I put it into my bag, I forgot the thumb drive was in there and it bent. And broke the piece that inserts into the computer. And then I realized all of my revisions were on that thumb drive, and I had to do it all over again. And it was the next day. Oh. So just sharing that is one personal horror story for why backups and frequent backups as you're working on your presentation are really important. Have a thumb drive, have it on the cloud somewhere you can download it from, have it in multiple formats if you're worried. You know, maybe it's overkill, but you'll be safe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=4414.0,4663.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If there are any other specific types of glitches, I'd be happy to address them. Sometimes your audio will have special characteristics that require special attention. So for instance, sometimes I have had audio where the stereo separation was the important part. Now there are some types of audio example that probably just aren't realistic to present at a live conference, even the ARSC conference where we take audio pretty seriously. If subtleties of equalization or stereo separation are what it's all about, chances are you won't make your point with speakers, you know, sending your signal out into a room. If you want to convince people that they can tell the difference between 46 K, 96 K and 192 K audio. This probably isn't the way to do it, but all I wanted to do is play stereo sound because I want to talk about here, this is what you hear in this channel. This is what you hear in this channel. Now, if you have something like that, you need to make sure that wherever you're going to be presenting your audio will be able to playback sound in stereo. So if you have any special requirements like that, the right time to bring that up is in your proposal. Initially, you might state that as a special requirement, as a place to say things like that in the proposal. But then also, as you're getting ready for the presentation to contact, I would suggest your session chair and let them know that there's this issue just to do check in with the audiovisual people to confirm that the room will have stereo. And then when you're there, try it. If you have a stereo file, try it. See if it is in fact showing you some separation in the room. Now, you know, one big kettle of worms we could open here is what's different about doing a Zoom presentation. In some respects, you may have more control over people's listening environment. You could say, for example, now I'd like all of you, if you've got headphones, put them on for this next example. But you have no way of telling whether they can do that. And then perhaps more importantly, you have no control whether they're even receiving a stereo signal. I'm not quite sure how to do that or how to ensure that in a Zoom meeting. I suspect it requires the person who is attending to adjust their settings a little bit. So that's how Zoom presentations add another layer of complication on top of all of that. \n\nYuri Shimoda","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=4663.0,4823.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So our next question is also related to sharing audio and specific music musical examples. Would you recommend someone who is sharing musical examples use just the audio or with video? Should they also share video? What is better, in your opinion, in terms of time constraints? \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=4823.0,4849.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know if there's a great answer there in terms of time. I have a video recording and an audio recording. They're both infinitely variable in terms of how much time they would take up. Now, if you are playing audio, it's generally a good idea to give people something to look at while it's playing. If there is no video accompanying it. In the example that I showed you, I mentioned to emphasize the fact that I had put up a transcription of what you are hearing, and that's often advisable, particularly if the audio is difficult to decipher, especially if it's in another language and you might want to present a translation. Sometimes, if it's really difficult to follow, you might consider using a laser pointer. But there are a number of reasons you might want to use a laser pointer to emphasize things on screen, but to let someone follow along a little bit like a bouncing ball in an old singalong movie. But in terms of audio or video, I think it really just depends on what kind of material you have. If you have a video clip of a performer you're talking about, I think that's certainly very appropriate to include.  \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=4849.0,4930.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Great. Patrick, thanks. And I think we're going to make this our last question here. But we had a presubmitted question regarding a digitally accessible presentation, learning how to create presentations. So obviously that's a broad and defined in numerous ways. But we're wondering if you could speak to considering accessibility as part of it. \n\nPatrick Feaster","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=4930.0,4962.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Some of the things that I brought up earlier may have seemed like they were more centered on, you know, the etiquette of PowerPoint or just the aesthetics of PowerPoint that you don't want to use unusual fonts and typefaces and so forth. But, you know, those two could be looked at from the view of accessibility. You know, some people need glasses to read. You know, if you use very tiny font, that's an accessibility issue. It might be fine for you to read on your screen, but perhaps some people won't be able to read that. If you use different color combinations that can cause accessibility issues. Color blindness can make many combinations of colors impossible for someone to read. They can cause other types of disorientation. So, I mean, there are and I know less about them than I would like to, but there are resources that you can use to test. I certainly know things like websites, so forth, for accessibility that will give you feedback on these things. And I don't have them at my fingertips. I could certainly look them up or you could find them. But it's absolutely something to consider for this type of a, when you're preparing a presentation of this sort.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=4962.0,5037.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now, there are certain assumptions built into the format of the live conference presentation with a PowerPoint and with material delivered orally that I think your question gets beyond. So for instance, you might be asking it's a closed captioning, which I know was turned on for this presentation, I shudder to think what it may have done with some of my diction during this. If you go back and read it, I'm sure it will have gotten some issues wrong. But, you know, enunciating clearly can certainly help to create a good transcript. One thing that sometimes I've been asked to do and that you know, would be interesting for ARSC to consider doing is supplying a copy of the text, if you're reading from one, that can be paired with a video presentation so that rather than populating closed captioning from what you say and trying to do it algorithmically based on a recording of your words, that you can prepare the exact text to appear on screen or in real time for people who may need it. And I certainly I've done this before. There have been specific conferences where I've been asked to furnish my text ahead of time for that specific purpose. I mean, it's a huge topic. And I think in some cases it may speak to this question of doing other things with your presentation. If you have a presentation that works well as a conference presentation, as a written article and so on, it may behoove you to try all of these different methods. They all have different strengths and weaknesses. A conference presentation doesn't give you the opportunity to include lots of footnotes and you can include them on screen if you want to, but it's not really a part of the genre. A written article will let you do that, but from an accessibility standpoint, there may be venues in which you could present your material to open it up to groups that may otherwise not have access to it. I'm sorry. It's it's a huge topic. And I hate to squeeze it in at the end of a presentation like this. Thanks very much to whoever asked that, though. \n\nDan Hockstein","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=5037.0,5185.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Great. Well, thank you so much, Patrick. We'd also like to thank the ARSC Board, Executive Director Nathan Georgitis, and our webinar series promoter Juaquin Perez. Social media editor Jennifer Vaughn, Aviary editor Miyuki Meyer and NRPB and CLIR. \n\nYuri Shimoda","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=5185.0,5205.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844/transcript/40663/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Our next webinar will be taking place in the winter actually next month, and will focus on the topic of ethnomusicology archives and decolonization. Please stay tuned for details on this and future webinars at our website. We hope that today's webinar inspires your next presentation. The call for presentations for the 2023 ARSC Conference in Pittsburgh will open in just a few weeks, and we encourage all of you to submit a proposal. Thank you again for attending and thanks again, Patrick. We will see you next time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1249/collection_resources/82558/file/170844#t=5205.0,5259.37067"}]}]}]}