What is a Seminar?! (1 Viewer)

[caroline86]

Help me! I have to do a seminar tomorrow and I'm not really sure what it is! I've never done one before!
Please help me! :apig:

 

[~dEjA vOuX~]

do you have to present a seminar? or attend one?

 

[caroline86]

i have to present a seminar
i was thinking of dressing up as a music conductor and it would be as if i was conducting my class but giving out a speech....
but i heard that in a seminar you have to give something to the audience.
is my idea enough or do i have to give them something?

 

[santaslayer]

It's like a class facilitation, that is, your doing a crash course with the class by teaching them on your topic area.

 

[caroline86]

so do i have to give them some sheets of paper or am i just pretending that I'm the teacher?

 

[santaslayer]

Yea, worksheets, overheads and other types of handouts that support your facilitation are usually welcomed. Generating class discussion would be better.

 

[caroline86]

I'm not sure if i can generate class discussion, i have a time limit of 4-5 mins. do you think telling anecdotes or sticking pictures on the board would be ok?

 

[santaslayer]

Time limit of 5 mins?? WTF?
OK, I think you should just treat it as a normal speech then, last time I had a seminar, I was expected to do 45mins minimum, 5 mins won't allow you to do all that, just create worksheets and treat it as a speech I guess.

 

[caroline86]

hahaha ok then thanks
I'm just a little year 12 person.
i think you've answered my question! I'll probably just stick up pictures and point at them and ask the audience to think! sound good??? hahaha!
thanks again

 

[Ziff]

When teachers expect you to teach the whole syllabus in 4 mins I'm ready to rip their faces off...

EE1 right. We're doing 'Retreat from the Global' and we have to give a 4 minute presentation on the elective statement - basically "teach the whole year in 4mins what we've neglected to teach you because we're painfully incompetent"... fantastic!

 

[caroline86]

it's so true isn't it
we are supposed to give this seminar about something we haven't even talked about in class! I have to say the teachers at my school are trying to make us fail english!

 

[Ziff]

The job of teachers is to help us get the highest possible UAI - not to sabotage our UAIs! I believe a lot of teachers are either lazy, incompetent or just out to make us fail and become teachers...

Sometimes I think that the Dept. of Education and Training has a policy in place telling teachers to make people get shit UAIs so they have to become teachers!

 

[caroline86]

hahahhaha.... probably... pretty smart eh?!
oh well.... what can you do except work your arse off!

 

[masteraal]

WTF? is this caroline barker??