Call for Presentations for 2011
The 2011 32nd World's Largest Silent Weekend is
accepting calls for presentations.
Please consider the following areas:
Areas of particular
interest are:
Legal
Mental Health
Mentoring
ASL
Linguistics
NIC Test Preparation
Trilingual Interpreting
Deaf
Culture
Theatrical Interpreting
Skills Development
Oral
Interpreting
Educational.
Interpreting
Teaching ASL
Interpreter
Training
Legal
Interpreting
Deaf Culture
Church Deaf
Ministry
Ethics
VRS
Signs for Academic Subjects such as
Calculus, Geometry, Biology, Physics, English, Mathematics, etc.
Others (include workshops you
are
developing or feel are relevant to ASL or ITP
students/teachers or
interpreters)
We want to have two tracks for advanced: Language
focused and interpreting
focused.
<>Workshops presentations will be in 1, 2, or 4
hour
blocks. For fledgling and beginner signers, blocks should
be 1 hour only. Only one 3-hour block will be accepted and that
is for the Thursday afternoon preconference session.
The Silent Weekend has
four levels: (1)
Fledgling signers (participants knowing no sign language
whatsoever. Presenters will use voicing for this group only and
teach basic ASL grammar and vocabulary); (2) Beginning signers (these
participants are able to sign very short fragments, have memorized-like
signing); (3) Intermediate signers (these participants are able to
maintain a short conversation using 2 to 3 sentences with some
creativity in ASL); (4) Advanced signers (these participants are able
to
carry a spontaneous conversation using directional verbs,
topic/'comment, conditional sentences, indexing, etc) including RID
interpreters.
Presenters will receive payment of $120.00
per workshop hour.
Conference registration, travel (20 cents per mile or round trip
airfare, whichever
is less) and one-half of a double occupancy
hotel room for Thursday and
Friday nights only (if you want a private
room, you are responsible for the extra cost which is approximately $70
per night and will be subtracted from your honorarium and if you wish
to arrive earlier and/or stay later, you must make your own
arrangements with the hotel by calling the
reservations department at 800 588-4656. Identify yourself as an
attendee of the Silent Weekend) is
included for
those presenting 8-9 hours.
For those teaching 10
or more hours, the hotel room will be private at no additional
cost. For
less than 8 hours, only honorarium will be given
and no travel or lodging reimbursement.
If you want to have a co-presenter, this MAY be allowed
but the co-presenter will only be paid an honorarium of $80 per hour
and not be
provided travel, lodging, or registration. Make sure your proposed
co-presenter is aware of these restrictions.
Presenters must arrive at the hotel no later
than 3 p.m. Thursday, June
23, 2011. Each presenter must introduce their topics at the
Thursday night orientation.
Presenters must be willing to go to their
assigned areas and
must be able to
start their
presentations on time and continue for the full allocated time with
none or
minimal
assistance from the silent weekend staff (your requested equipment will
be ready and waiting for you). Laptops will not be provided and
you should be thoroughly familiar on how to adjust your laptop so you
can see an image on your screen and the LCD screen. Based on our
experience at various conferences, many presenters
didn't know how to set up their PowerPoint presentation! If you
don't know how to use PowerPoint, we have plenty of overhead projectors
for you to use!
NOTE:
We will not supply computers or laptops. If you have a Mac, bring
your
VGA adaptor! You should know how to adjust/'modify your
display/monitoer control as each laptop is different. The
reason why is that after you hook up the LCD projector and start up
your laptop, there may be no image on the LCD screen or your laptop's
screen. One of the F keys on the top row should allow you
to quickly correct the situation.
Only
20 presenters will be selected --- beginning June 1, 2010 please
complete the application
and send
in with a resume.
Presenters will be finalized beginning September 2010. If
selected, you will need to:
Submit workshop abstracts, biography and picture for the program book
by October 15, 2010
Submit an current
RID
Instructor's form for each submitted application by February
15,
2011
Submit handouts by March 15, 2011
Please ... NO SOUND
... CDs/ audio/ music, etc.
Please
send to:
Mike Tuccelli
Silent Weekend
Box 5941
Gainesville, FL 32627-5941
or
Copy
and paste into email and send to:
DrASL@aol.com