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Eric, You need to work on your clairvoyance stat. Its all crystal clear in my mind. (I crack myself up) EclipseCon Committee, I have been working with a client building K-12 education software. Something about the process has caused my deeply seated school-marm gene to come to the fore front, causing me to want to micro-manage all of you. My apologies. Worse, I was unclear in my intent (not just Eric). In an effort to help coach our tutorial presenters, I was trying to get you to coach your your presenters on four specific items: - Abstract: Make sure it reads well, has hyper-links as needed, matches course description - Outline: Contact the presenters and make sure they have an outline, review the outline and provide feedback (coaching) as needed. - Slides: Look at the presenters slide deck. Make sure that it is done and appropriate. Inspire presenters to create slides that are a bit more visually engaging then a bunch of bullet points. - Exercise: Review their exercise plan to make sure it has a logical flow and a reasonable level of instruction. Insure that the setup and configuration steps are easy enough that people can actually take part in the exercises. I think it is really easy to write up an abstract for a four hour tutorial and really difficult to create four hours of hands on instruction that can be presented at a conference. My experience is that you can easily spend 8 hours per hour of instruction time, probably more. My fear is that many of our presenters won't put in the time My hope is that you will encourage the presenters do take the time As far as tracking your efforts in the Google spread-sheet, what can I say my micro-management gene got the best of me. I am confident that all of you will take the steps necessary to insure that your tutorial presenters come to the conference with great hands on material. Scott CLONINGER ERIC-DCP874 wrote:
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