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Provisional Timetable

The format of the workshop will be a number of presentations by invited speakers and small group discussions. Numbers would be limited to around 30 participants to get the most from the group sessions. At the moment it is envisaged these will cover three main topics:

1 - Software Tools

This group will look at what is required in good presentation tool, at what tools people are currently using, and their strengths and weaknesses. Issues such as portability of the final presentation, ability to incorporate a variety of media, etc., should be addressed. This group should look to produce recommendations, perhaps not for a particular tool, but criteria that could be used to select a tool.

2 - Basic Environments

This group will look at the basic requirements for both developing and presenting.

developer - gathering material, creating video / audio clips etc.
presentation - how difficult is it to take your presentation and use it elsewhere, eg compatibility problems with both software and hardware.

The group should be looking to produce guidelines at two levels - advice for a presenter and advice for departments buying and setting up multimedia presentation equipment.

3 - Strategy

This group will be looking at general reasons people do not use multimedia presentation, and what can be done to help people make the most of multimedia. For example, would software training courses help, or would less technology based courses on how to prepare and deliver presentations be more appropriate.

Timetable

Day 1

11:00	Welcome and Introduction - the aims of the workshop 
11:15	What is a multimedia presentation? What benefits does it have to offer over traditional presentation methods

12:15	Lunch

14:00	How do you present multimedia? The human aspects - skills required to create and deliver a multimedia presentation.
15:00	Why I'm sticking with ‘talk and chalk'.
15:30	Tea
15:45	Outline of the working groups 
16:00	Group Sessions
17:00	Close

Day 2

09:00	Summary of Day 1
09:30	Group Sessions
11:30	Presentation Tools. Survey / demonstration of some of the common multimedia presentation tools currently available (e.g., PowerPoint), and the delivery technology. 

12:30 Lunch

13:00 Group Sessions
15:00 Group Reporting
16:00 Conclusions and close

The final two sessions are to draw together the work that has been done by the groups and produce a set of guidelines / recommendations.