Writing+a+proposal+for+ISTE+2014+workshop

=ISTE Proposal Writing Workshop = August 24, 2014 @Mid-Pacific Institute, Hartley 224 8:30 - 9:00 Free Continental Breakfast and Networking 9:00 - 9:15 Review Presenter Guidelines/proposal forms 9:15 - 9:45 Review Sample Proposals 9:45 - 10:00 Elevator Speech 10:00 - 10:15 brainstorming in groups: L ast word protocol

10:15 - 11:15 Writing time 11:15 - 11:45 Peer review / tuning protocol 11:45 - 12:00 Closure / next steps

= Presenter Guidelines/Advice/Proposal Forms: = Three resources to help you: **Strategies for Writing and Submitting an Effective ISTE Conference Submission (2013) Chris O’Neal (58 mins)** __[]__

**his slides here:** media type="custom" key="23668020"

**How to write a great conference proposal: Anita McAnear** (2012): ** [] (adobe Webinar)**
 * best part is about 18 minutes in where she walks through specifics on proposal sections
 * Evaluation Complaints:
 * Boring
 * Not useful or enough substance
 * misleading title or description
 * nothing new or fresh
 * presenter not experienced
 * dated information
 * presenter talked down to audience
 * presenter not experienced with topic

**Young Educators Guide to submitting an amazing Presentation proposal to ISTE 2013** Caroline Haebig, Kelsey Vroomunn __[]__ (adobe webinar)
 * challenge your audience
 * make it relevant and practical - but spark imagination
 * make it interactive

From Camilla Gagliolo: ISTE Program Chair:
We usually get around 2,300 proposals for the ISTE Conference. The category in which you submit your proposal makes a big difference in selection success. For example, ISTE only accepted 19% of proposals submitted as lecture/panel/spotlight sessions. This year we received more than 2,300 proposals, all of which were vetted by a peer review process with the goal of identifying in excess of 800 sessions. We receive many quality session proposals for the conference each year from educators and experts from around the world. Unfortunately, we don’t have enough room to accept all of the excellent proposals we receive.  Proposals are divided into themes and strands. Each strand of proposals is assigned to expert proposal review teams that evaluate the proposal against a rubric. These teams make detailed recommendations upon reviewing each proposal to the ISTE conference team. The ISTE conference team makes the final decision on inclusion in the ISTE program based on the review recommendations, presenter review data from previous ISTE conferences, and attendance numbers for presenters from previous years where available. Some general guidelines for success when submitting are: · Projects/models should be implemented and have demonstrated results. Projects/models in the planning/development stage or those waiting on funding are not generally accepted. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">· Evidence of project/models that have been evaluated or synthesized- not simply an historical accounting of what took place. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">· Proposals that contain a lot of “how-to” or curriculum idea sessions are generally well received. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">· Sessions where the audience can replicate and/or scale up the ideas are of particular interest to the conference audience. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">· Workshops or sessions should not include a sales pitch and participants should be able to implement what they learn without making expensive purchases. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">· Be clear and specific about what participants will learn through the session. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">· The more detail you can provide about the project/implementation and the impact on teaching and learning, the better the review team will be able to evaluate the proposal against the rubric. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Categories from ISTE: @http://www.isteconference.org/2013/program/categories.php
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">**<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Session Type ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">**<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Submitted ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">**<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Accepted ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">**<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Acceptance Rate ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">BYOD || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">196 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">91  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">46.43%  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">IVC Showcase || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">16 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">13  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">81.25%  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lecture/Panel/Spotlight || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">1013 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">192  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">18.95%  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Poster || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">445 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">290  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">65.17%  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Global Collaboration || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">58 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">35  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">60.34%  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Student Showcase || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">74 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">53  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">71.62%  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Research Paper || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">106 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">55  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">51.89%  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Workshop || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">417 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">152  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">36.45%  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">**<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Totals ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">2370 ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">842 **  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">35.53% **  ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Sample Proposal: From Camilla: <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We have attached an exemplary proposal for you to use as a guide in submitting your next proposal. It is exemplary because it addresses information needs, presents a project/model that can be replicated, is backed by data or analysis, and provides adequate references. It is a rather long proposal, but well written.

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here is his session at ISTE: click here rate this using the form on Chris O'Neal's slde shae above (slides 19-23) Look though the ISTE website - every session description is the proposal that was submitted!

Free write on Ideas - create your "elevator Pitch", then let's do a Last Word Protocol to sharpen our thinking: Round 1 (each round should take less than 10 minutes) (3 minutes) The first person begins by sharing their question or dilemma that they would like feedback on. (5 minutes) Continuing around the circle each person responds to that question and what the presenter said, briefly, in less than a minute. The purpose of the response is: to expand on the presenter’s thinking the issues raised by him/her by, to provide a different look at the issue, to clarify the presenter’s thinking about the issue, and/or to question the presenter’s assumptions about the issue (although at this time there is no response from the presenter).

(2 minutes) After going around the circle with each person having responded for less than one minute, the person that began has the “final word.” In no more than two minutes the presenter responds to what has been said. Now what is s/he thinking? What is his/her reaction to what s/he has heard?

The next round is led by the next person in the circle and rounds continue until each person takes a turn presenting and getting feedback.

Writing Time keep in mind there are 4 main parts to a proposal for ISTE:
 * **Purpose & Objectives** ||  ||
 * Outline **
 * **Supporting Research** ||  ||


 * **Presenter Background** ||  ||

Also, consider what possible strand you might fit in: @https://www.isteconference.org/2013/program/themes_and_strands.php