How can I vote for Public Choice?
It is our hope that this competition will be successful in engaging the public in this work. To encourage this, "Public Choice" will be given to the presentations that receive the most votes during the showcase event (May 15-22). All visitors, presenters, and facilitators can participate in the voting for Public Choice.
Share the presentation on your Twitter timeline (you must include url and hash tag (see below) for it to count). Note that we only count "1 share" within a 2 hour timespan. Also, this vote is equal to a Facebook 'share' and an email vote.
You can vote vote for a presentation using all of these methods, as one of the goals for this showcase is for broad dissemination of innovative work to the public at large.
All votes must be in by 8 PM EDT on Monday, May 22.
How can I participate in the event?
Having an account provides many benefits to Video Showcase participants. Anyone participating and commenting during the week-long event can create an account using the link on the Home page.
Your posts to presentation discussions will be streamlined, so that you will not need to confirm each post via email.
You will have a profile picture associated to your posts.
You will be able to see recent history of videos that you have viewed.
You will be able to track the discussions that you commented on to see new posts and replies.
You will be able to "upvote" helpful and interesting comments.
Can I post questions, comments, or feedback to the presenters?
Yes, all guests visiting the presentations can post questions and feedback to presenters by posting to the discussion area on their presentation pages. Presenters will be monitoring this area too, so be sure to check back to see replies that are posted to your questions.
Can I contact a presenter to get more information?
You can find any contact information that has been provided on each presentation page.
Who can see the questions that are posted to the presenters?
Anyone visiting these presenters' pages can see the questions and replies that are posted to these discussions.
How can I find presentations that are interesting to me?
Click on "Presentations" (top right of the screen) to view all presentations. Use keywords to filter presentations and view those that are in your areas of interest.
Is captioning available for the videos?
Yes, captioning is available for the videos. Click the 'cc' button in the bottom right to turn them on/off, as necessary.
How can I be a presenter in this year's event?
In order to participate, a presenter from your project must register for the event between January 9 and February 15.
There is a limit on the number of registrations we can accept for this year's event. Given that, all registrations will be reviewed after February 15 and final approval will be sent by February 17. In our approval process, priority will be given to NSF and other federally funded projects that address the theme, Research & Design for Impact.
Please note that only the lead presenter should register your video presentation for this event -- additional co-presenters can be added to your presentation during the submission period.
When does the video have to be submitted for this event?
The website will be open for uploading videos from March 21 – April 26. All submissions will include the video, completed presenter(s) bio information, completed presentation information, as well as a completed permission form. When the website opens for submission, all registered presenters will receive an email with details about logging in and submitting their videos. Submissions must be complete by Wednesday, April 26 at 5PM, EDT.
What are the guidelines for the videos?
Your video must be under three minutes (but can be shorter) and be designed to effectively convey the need that inspired your project, an intervention or innovation, and your project's impact and how you measure it. If your project is newly funded, please describe the potential that you see for impact and how you intend to measure it. Please also see the Rubric.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ('your' NSF grant # here). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Videos should be created with as little technical language as possible so that it is accessible to a broad public audience, including researchers, school administrators, professional developers, policy makers, practitioners, graduate and other students, and the public at large.
Videos can be prepared by a team or by an individual project member. The audio must be audible online. Closed captioning will be provided for all videos by TERC, the event organizers (after you submit your video). It is strongly suggested that final movie files are kept under 400MB, as this will make it much easier to upload to the event website. Upon submission, videos will be reviewed to ensure they meet these criteria.
How can I add co-presenters to my video presentation?
Please consider adding co-presenters! Co-presenters should include leadership of your project, evaluators, researchers, and anyone on your team who will contribute to the discussion of your project during the May 15-22 online event.
Adding co-presenters is part of the first step in the video submission process. In this step, you will provide their name and email and they will be sent an invitation to be a co-presenter. They must then confirm their participation and create a password. Once logged in, they will be able to complete their profile information and upload a photo of themselves. They can also help with the other submission steps for your presentation.
What are the steps and instructions for submitting my video presentation?
Adding Co-Presenters and Presenter Profiles: Please consider adding co-presenters! Co-presenters should include leadership of your project, evaluators, researchers, and anyone on your team who will contribute to the discussion of the project online.
In this step, lead presenters will need to verify the information that was provided during registration and add any further required information, including a photo (this should be a photo of you - not a project logo!). To add co-presenters, you will need to add their name(s) and email(s) and invite them as a co-presenter(s) for your presentation. Once invited, they must confirm their participation and create a password. Once confirmed, they can also help with these steps for submission. Any presenter can make updates for other presenters, but all presenters must confirm their own participation and create a password.
Presentation info: All information about the video presentation should be verified and completed including the title, description, and other details about your project.
Upload video: The final video must be less than 3 minutes in order to qualify and final movie files should be under 400MB. While you will be uploading the final video file to our event site in this step, the file will actually reside on Vimeo and so their guidelines are our guidelines. Vimeo handles most video file types well, but for best possible conversion of your uploaded video, you can visit their video compression page for these guidlelines.
Copyright/permission step: Please complete and sign NSF's Permission Form. You will need to download, review, fill out, and provide your digital signature. (We recommend using the most up to date version of Adobe Reader to fill in this form.) When complete, save it and upload it to the site. A completed, signed form is required before your submission can be accepted.
Review and approve presentation: After the video has been uploaded and the presenter and presentation information provided in these above steps, presenters will be able to see a facsimile of how these will be viewed online. If there are problems, a different video file can be uploaded. Make any final edits and then "approve" the video as final. Once "approved," no further changes can be made.
Technical Review: Once you have approved your video, our team will complete a technical review of your presentation and we will add closed captions to your video. After the review, your presentation will be ready for the showcase event, beginning May 15.
What is the schedule May 15-22?
This is an online event that will be held May 15-22. Presenters, facilitators, and guests can visit the Showcase at any time of day to participate in discussions and voting.
Members of the public and all event participants begin watching videos, commenting on presentations, and placing Public Choice votes via Facebook, Twitter, and email for videos they find most compelling.
Facilitators representing all of the participating Resource Centers review presentations and submit queries and comments to presenters.
Event participants continue to comment and place "Public Choice" votes.
Presenters continue replying to comments made by event participants and facilitators.
Presenters place votes for "Presenters' Choice" (if not complete).
Facilitators must submit all voting rubrics by 12 PM EDT on Friday, May 19.
Presenters continue replying to comments made by event participants.
Last day for event participants to comment and place "Public Choice" votes.
Last day for presenters to submit their selections for Presenters' Choice.
All voting and commenting closes at 8 PM EDT on Monday, May 22.
Public Choice, Presenters' Choice, and Facilitators' Choice announced and posted on event website, as well as on those of the represented resource centers.
Event with videos and discussions are available for viewing.
How can I interact with other presenters?
Visit their presentations and post comments throughout the days of the event. Vote for your favorite video presentations to help determine "Public Choice" and share work with the public at large. You will also vote for four presentations that you feel show extraordinary creativity in the use of video to share innovative work to determine "Presenters' Choice." You may vote for your own presentation, but you must vote for three others for your votes to count. You must vote for four presentations in total.
How are Facilitators' Choice, Presenters' Choice, and Public Choice selected?
During the event, facilitators from each Resource Center will select a few videos, which will recognize extraordinary creativity in the use of video to share innovative work to determine "Facilitators' Choice." In addition, presenters (all those who participated in creating a video) will have the opportunity to select their favorite videos to determine "Presenters' Choice." Finally, all public visitors to the event will be asked to vote for videos that they find most compelling. Those with the greatest number of public votes will receive "Public Choice." Read more about these types of recognitions and why we have them.
All presentations that are selected by facilitators, presenters, and by the public will be announced on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 and will be acknowledged on this event website at the end of the showcase. They will be broadly recognized throughout the NSF and STEM Ed communities as well.
Each resource center has asked five facilitators from their respective communities to seed discussions and set a positive tone for constructive, collegial discourse. Groups of three facilitators are assigned to a group of approximately 10-12 presentations. Each facilitator group recognizes one presentation per group to detemine Facilitators' Choice.
What is the Rubric that Facilitators will use to determine Facilitators' Choice?
Creatively uses video to share work with a public audience.
Provides an effective narrative which describes the problem that motivated the project.
Effectively describes the intervention, innovation or research.
Addresses the impact of the project (on participants, or educational practice or research and theory, or on other stakeholders) and how impact has been/will be measured.
Why does the data in the map not match the number of views on my page?
Views represent clicks on your page. The map references sessions, which are 30 minutes long. If one visitor goes in multiple times within 30 minutes, it counts as one session.
The map shows visitors, but it is NOT a reflection of all visitors to your page, as it only shows those that Google Analytics captures. What it captures is dependent on whether the users share their geographic location, latitude and longitude, and as well as may other factors, including ad blockers. Some universities, corporations and even countries disable Google tracking.
It updates once an hour, so the data is not reflecting real time.
How do people vote for Public Choice?
It is our hope that this competition will be successful in engaging the public in this work. To encourage this, "Public Choice" recognition will be given to the presentations that receive the most votes during the showcase event (May 15-22). All visitors, presenters, and facilitators can participate in the voting for Public Choice.
How do I vote for Presenters' Choice?
Presenters and co-presenters have a special opportunity to select video presentations of their colleagues which they feel are most meritorious. These presentations will be recognized as "Presenters' Choice." You can vote for your own presentation, but you must also select three additional presentations for your votes to count. You must vote for four presentations in total. Presenters and co-presenters are also welcome to vote for "Public Choice."
Be sure to complete your selections by 8 PM EDT on Monday, May 22, to have your votes counted.
What will happen to my presentation after the online event?
The Videohall Showcase website with all of the videos and discussion posts will still be available for anyone to view once the event is over. Participants retain all copyright and equivalent rights, but, upon submission of materials, participants agree to license their submissions under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
The public will see all of the presentations and they will be able to see and post comments to the general discussion, as well as vote in Public Choice.
Yes, the TERC organizers of this event provide closed captioning for all videos. (These are added to your video after you have submitted and approved your presentation.) During the event, click the 'cc' button in the bottom right to turn them on/off, as necessary.
Who should I contact if I have any questions or if I'm having technical trouble?
What is the Rubric that I should use to score the videos in my group?
You will score videos based on the following rubric. Note that you should be scoring the videos -- not discussions or the projects themselves.
Where can I post questions, comments, or feedback to the presenters?
You can post questions and feedback to presenters by posting comments to the discussion area on their video presentation pages. Presenters will be monitoring this area too, so be sure to check back to see replies that are posted to your questions. Other participants in the event will be posting comments to these areas as well.
How do I know which presenters are in my group?
At the top of your screen in the black bar, you will see a shortcut to "My Presentations." This link is present at the top of every page on the site when you are logged in.
Can I communicate with the other facilitators?
How do I keep track of my scores and see the scores of other facilitators?
At the very top of every page in the black bar, you will see a link to the "Facilitator Control Panel." The Control Panel provides a link to a summary of your scores so that you can keep track of the presentations that you have partially or fully completed. You will also see a link in the Control Panel to other faciltators' scores within your group.
Can I partially score a presentation and save what I have done?
Yes. You can save what you have done as you go through the rubric so that you can leave and return, as necessary. To return to scoring rubrics that you have started, click "Facilitator Control Panel" in the top bar of any page.
Once you have completed scoring a presentation and have entered scores for each item on the scoring rubric, be sure to click "save" and then "submit" so that they can be tallied with the others. You must score all presentations within your group. If you only score some, none of your scores will be counted! These forms need to be completed by 12 PM EDT on Friday, May 19.
How do I make sure that I've completed all of the scoring in my group?
From the Home page, you can navigate to the My Scores summary page. Here you will see which presentations you have completed and which you have yet to do. You must score all presentations within your group. If you only score some, none of your scores will be counted!
When must the scoring be complete?
The scoring must be complete by 12 PM EDT on Friday, May 19.
Who should I contact if I'm having technical trouble?