Professors at Play Online Symposium

Please hold the date for a virtual Symposium on Friday, November 6th, 2020 between 8 – 4 MST (10-6 EST, 7-3 PDT).

We envision a single-track Zoom conference, with all of the sessions recorded and put on YouTube. We will set up a form soliciting presentation proposals and ideas in early fall – around the same time we open registration.

At this point, we anticipate that the Symposium will be free and open. But we may seek some sponsorship to help us purchase fun Professors at Play schwag (stickers anyone?) for those who don’t mind receiving physical mail at this time. 

The comments provided some key takeaways of what you want from the symposium:

• Make it practical
• Share examples
• Talk through past courses–what worked
• Play! (Not just presenting theory)
• Include synchronous discussions and interactive sessions along with asynchronous materials
• Included students perspectives, at least in relevant topics
• Step-by-step templates or walkthroughs of techniques or software
• Consider digital poster sessions 
• Record the sessions

The programming will be a practice-focused mix of roundtable discussion, deep dives on techniques and approaches and, of course plenty of play! We will explore the idea of hosting one or two longer keynote style talks. But most of the sessions will be led and programmed by members of the Professors at Play community.

Do you have other ideas and feedback? Let us know! Until soon, have fun for the rest of the summer and here is to a playful Fall term!