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We have had a tremendous response for presenters and have closed the call for presenters for 2012.  If you are interested for 2013, use this form, please

Call for Presenters for 2013
June 27 - 30, 2013

The 2013 World's Largest Silent Weekend & Interpreter Conference XXXIV is accepting calls for presenters. Please consider the following areas: 

Areas of particular interest are:

Business Practices                  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                                Spanish Deaf Culture

Church Deaf Ministry               Ethics                                                   VRS/VRI

Medical                                       Music                                                  Voicing
                                     
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 ---  Language focused and interpreting focused.

Workshops presentations will be in 1, 2, 4 or 6-hour blocks.   For beginner signers, blocks should be 1 hour only.  Intermediate signers should have 2-hour blocks (though a few one-hour blocks may be accepted) while advaned signers and interpreters can have some 4-hour blocks.

     The Silent Weekend has four langauge 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 working interpreters and ITP students.  

Presenters teaching 10 or more hours will receive
Presenters teaching 8 to 9 hours will receive
Participants teaching less than 8 hours will recieve
    Presenters must arrive at the hotel no later than 3 p.m. Thursday, June 27, 2013.  Each presenter will be introduced to the audience at the Thursday night orientation at 7 p.m.  and be ready to answer questions about their workshops.

     Presenters must be able to go to their assigned areas and 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/monitor 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 ---  please complete the application and send in with a resume.

Presenters will be finalized beginning September 2012 and the selection will be closed when we have all the presenters we need.  If selected, presenters will need to:

Submit workshop abstracts, biography and picture for the program book by February 15, 2013
Submit a current RID Instructor's form for each submitted application by March 1, 2013
Submit handouts by May 15, 2013

Please ... NO SOUND.  The only exception for that are workshops for voicing and music ... these classes will be held at a different conference floor to ensure the main silent weekend program remains silent.
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

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