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Chair: Tom Hewett (Drexel
University, USA)
Why Tutorials:
Our goal is to offer a few good tutorials that
provide conference participants with the opportunity
to gain new insights, knowledge, and/or skills
in any of a broad range of areas in the field
of creativity and cognition (see conference
themes and topics). Tutorial topics can range
from practical guidelines and standards to research
methods and theory to instruction in good practice
and skills development required for work in
various domains of interest.
Duration:
Each tutorial should be designed to be presented
in a half day (3 hours of instruction with half
hour break for coffee) or a full day format
(6 hours of instruction with breaks for coffee
and lunch). Also we will consider seriously
coordinated proposals for tutorials which can
be taken either independently or as a sequence,
depending upon attendee needs. For example,
a half-day on theory and practice in some domain
of creative work (e.g, what is digital art and
what distinguishes it from other art forms;
what is creative work in film and video), coordinated
with a half day on doing (e.g., teaching of
techniques and practices for doing digital art
or using technique in film and video). Proposers
of coordinated tutorials should clearly indicate
this in their submission materials.
Review Criteria:
Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of
their value in offering opportunities to some
segment of conference attendees to learn more
about the work done by others interested in
the various themes and topics of the conference.
Some factors that will play a role in evaluation
are relevance, suitability, timeliness, importance,
audience appeal, attendance limits, presentation
methods, and past experiences and qualifications
of instructors. Proposals will also be considered
for their fit within the themes and topics of
the conference, considering such factors as
overall distribution of topics, approaches,
audience experience levels, and specialties
of the intended audiences.
Compensation and Bonus:
In recognition of the level of work required
to prepare instruction of a sufficient quality
to benefit one’s professional peers, each
accepted tutorial will carry with it a complimentary
registration and an honorarium. In addition,
the size of the honorarium will be adjusted
depending upon the number of people who register.
A half-day tutorial will, regardless of the
number of instructors, provide a single complimentary
registration and an honorarium of $400.
A full-day tutorial will, regardless of the
number of instructors, provide a single complimentary
registration and an honorarium of $800.
In cases where there is more than one instructor,
the team will be asked to decide which individual
will use single complimentary registration and
how the honorarium will be divided amongst the
instructors. If the registration in the tutorial
is more than 5 people, each additional registration
will increase the size of the half-day honorarium
by $40 and the size of the full day honorarium
by $80.
Cancellation Policy:
If, by the close of registration for the conference,
the number of registrants in a tutorial is fewer
than 5 the instructor(s) will be offered the
option of either cancellation or offering the
tutorial with a reduced honorarium.
Submission Materials:
Tutorial proposal submissions must include three
documents: a proposal, an overview or summary
description suitable for including in the conference
advance program and/or marketing materials,
and a presentation requirements list. Submissions
are to be sent to hewett@drexel.edu in electronic
form by the conference submission deadline.
Document names should contain the lead proposer's
last name as the first word and be named nameN_proposal,
nameN_advanceprogram, and nameN_requirements
(where N is 1 for the first proposal, 2 for
the second, etc.). Documents should be sent
as either PDF or RTF files. If electronic
submission creates a severe difficulty for the
proposer alternative arrangements may be negotiated
by contacting hewett@drexel.edu well in advance
of the submission deadline.
Proposal:
The proposal, no longer than 10 pages
(only the first 10 pages will be reviews), should
describe the learning objectives for the tutorial,
the material covered, an explanation of how
the content of the tutorial may be attractive
for a segment of the Creativity and Cognition
audience. The proposal should also explain
how the tutorial will be conducted (e.g., lecture,
demonstration, etc.) and provide representative
samples or some idea of the materials that will
be included in the course notes (which will
not be printed in color).
Please note that after a proposal has been
accepted, the final offering of the tutorial
is contingent upon timely receipt of high-quality
course notes. The notes, which will not be printed
in color, should serve as reference materials
for attendees and support the presentation of
material during the course in such a way that
the attendee can concentrate more on the tutorial
coverage of material than on taking handwritten
notes. The notes may be organized in the
form of a series of PowerPoint slides with notes
and white space for note taking, etc or may
provide a serial listing of major points elaborated
by topical short essays. Further, more detailed
instructions will be provided to the proposer(s)
whose tutorials are accepted for use at the
conference. In addition, other ideas for organization
of the notes may be negotiable with the tutorials
chair.
The tutorial overview description
for the Creativity and Cognition Advance Program
and/or marketing materails should be no more
than 1500-2000 characters (Title not included).
Accepted presenters will have the opportunity
revise this description.
The requirements list includes materials
and conditions needed to run the tutorial. It
should include any supplies required for each
participant, restrictions or conditions on offering
the tutorial such as an attendance limit, technology
support needed to run the tutorial and other
information that the review committee should
know in considering the proposal.
Tutorial Submission Checklist:
Please review the following checklist to help
ensure completeness of your tutorial proposal
submission.
- Prepare the tutorial proposal document
for review in the appropriate format as
described above.
- Prepare the Advance Program description
document as described above.
- Prepare the requirements list document,
as described above.
- Be sure the document names contain the
lead proposer's last name as the first word
in the document name, as described above.
Materials must be submitted by December
15, 2006 to Tom Hewett, hewett@drexel.edu.
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