MWECW Housing

25th Annual Midwest Environmental Chemistry Workshop

October 5-6, 2002
Science and Engineering South
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Instructions for Oral Presentations

All oral presentations, except for the three invited talks, will have a total of 15 minutes including time for questions. Talks should be designed to last 12 minutes, giving a couple minutes for questions and a minute for introductions. The session moderators will remind you after 10 minutes that you have two minutes left, and after 12 minutes that your time is up. We urge all student presenters to practice their talks before the workshop, preferably in front of an audience of peers.

The equipment available includes a computer (LCD) projector and computer, an overhead projector, and a 2X2 slide projector with carousels. The computer is Windows-based with CD, Zip and 3.5” diskette drives. If you use a Mac, make sure the file and all fonts translate properly when read by a Windows-based computer. You may not need (or be able) to use your own computer. If you need other projection equipment, contact us as soon as possible.

For computer users, please try to limit the size of your PowerPoint file to under 2 Mb. You may bring your presentation as a single file on a CD, Zip disk or diskette. You may also email us your presentations before you come to the meeting, with the last name of the presenter as the file name.

All presentation files scheduled for a half-session will need to be transferred to the conference computer before the beginning of that half-session. If you are scheduled for the first half of Saturday morning, we suggest you to provide your file to us on Friday evening. Otherwise, be sure to arrive early enough on Saturday morning to ensure your file is transferred properly.

The quality of oral presentations has improved markedly in recent years, but the expectations of audiences also have increased. Please also consider the following issues in preparing your oral presentations:

• The font size for text should be large enough to be read by the audience. Avoid placing too much text on each slide or using lengthy tables. Make sure that figure legends are large enough to be read in the back of the room and that lines on graphs are thick enough to be clearly visible when projected.

• If you make color slides using PowerPoint, make sure that the colors you use are compatible with each other and are visible when projected onto the screen by an LCD projector. Colors that look good on your computer screen do not always look the same when projected.