Here are some tips on running a conference. Read them and comment upon each of them (adding some facts or changing them, according to your personal experience or the experience of other people)

To help your conference run smoothly, you should take a few moments at the beginning of your meeting to let your attendees know what is expected of them. You will want to cover any etiquette and protocol issues that are particular to your group. Here are some general tips that you may also want consider for your meeting.

Help Numbers

Be certain to let your attendees know the help numbers so that they can get help from a trained ICS technician if they need it.

Muting Phones

Make sure that attendees mute their phones when they do not have a question or comment they wish to share with the group. If they do not have mute buttons, make sure that they know the proper codes needed to mute and unmute themselves. Keeping phones muted will help to greatly reduce the amount of background noise in the meeting.

If you have had your meeting set up with host mute and unmute, let the participants know when you are going to mute and unmute them.

Self Identification

When taking questions or comments over the audio line, ask attendees and other presenters to identify themselves by name and location. This will help to build a sense of community within the meeting and help everyone to know who is speaking.

Questions and Comments

You can either let attendees jump in at any time with a question or comment, or you can make them wait until a specified time. Decide which of these will work best before the meeting and inform your attendees.

Using Microphones

Make certain that they turn on their microphones when they have a question or comment. This will ensure that everyone can hear them. Otherwise, they should leave their microphones off to cut down on background noise.

Text Questions and Answers

If the text questions and answers feature is to be used, people should be notified that each computer can only have one active question in the queue at any given time.

Questions After the Fact

You should prepare a slide with the contact information for at least one of the presenters in the meeting. Let attendees know that they can contact this person if they have questions after the meeting has ended.

1. “CHECK YOURSELF” CROSSWORD

Manners

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4 When bumping into someone, or having a bodily function, you should say ****** ** 5 You should ***** your mouth when you cough or sneeze in public. 6 Do not ********* grown-ups or others who are speaking. 8 When eating a nice meal you should have the ****** on your lap. 9 When receiving something or somebody doing something for you, you should say ***** ***	1 Before you open someone's closed door you should ***** 2 As you walk through a door, you should look to see if you can **** it for someone else. 3 Before you borrow someone's pen you shoud ask ********** 7 When you ask for something you should say ****** 10 Don't reach for things at the table, instead *** to have them passed to you.

2. NETIQUETTE

 

1. LEAD-IN

Read the quotation below and comment upon it.

“Let your internet engagement show your inner beauty through online actions with Netiquette”

David Chiles

Read the following definitions below and express your opinion on them.

a) Netiquette represents the importance of proper manners and behavior online. In general, netiquette is the set of professional and social etiquettes practiced and advocated in electronic communication over any computer network.

b) Cyberbullying is the use of digital-communication tools (such as the Internet and cell phones) to make another person feel angry, sad, or scared, usually again and again.

  Why do people use netiquette?

1. READING

2.3  Before reading make sure, that you know these words, use a dictionary if it is necessary. Share your ideas with your groupmates.

Subcultures                      Require

Netiquette                       Participation

Cyberbullying                 Conversation

Response                          Lurk

 

 

GLOSSARY

Anonymous

   Guess you can call this a type of back-door access into Internet files and services. By 

   using the name "anonymous" you can get into systems that allow the general public to 

   access their resources.

Browser

    Software that lets you check out what's happening on the World Wide Web - or WWW

Cyberspace

  The electronic universe, accessible via the Internet.

Dial-up

  A connection to a computer made by calling up the computer on the telephone, like an

  old friend. Usually dial-up refers to the kind of connection made using a terminal     

  emulator and a regular modem.

Ethernet

  A type of local area network. An Ethernet is an Ethernet because of the way the

  computers on the network decide whose turn it is to talk.

FAQ

  Perfect for those first-timers who love to ask questions, an FAQ is a frequently asked

  question or a listing of frequently asked questions and their answers usually maintained

  by newsgroups on the Internet (so that they can maintain their own sanity).

Flame

  A tasteless statement, criticism or personal attack against the author of a USENET  

  posting. Try to avoid being flamed.

Gateway

  A computer system that transfers data between normally incompatible applications or

  networks, or a system that provides connectivity to other systems or networks.

Gopher

  Not the kind that rips up golf courses, this Gopher is a menu-based tool that makes it easy

  to find files on the Internet.

Home page

  Seems like everyone's got one of these documents on the World Wide Web nowadays –

  big companies, small businesses and just ordinary people, too! And, just like people,

  some look a lot better than others!

Internet

  It's the largest collection of interconnected networks in the world. Everybody's here...

  governments, universities, corporations, small businesses, and the like.

Modem

  The little guy that makes it all happen, a modem is a communications device that converts

  data between the digital format used by computers and the analog format that's used for             

  telephone line transmissions.

Multimedia

  Documents that include a mix of different kinds of data, like plain text and audio or text

  in several different languages.

Netiquette

  Behaving yourself on the Internet, or in other words it's network etiquette. It's your

  conduct, decorum and attitude while working on the Internet.

Newsgroup

A discussion group or bulletin board on the Internet, usually devoted to a specific topic.

Protocol

  How the computers act when talking to each other. Standard protocols allow computers

  from different manufacturers to communicate; the computers use can use completely

different software but the programs running on both ends need to agree on what the data

means.

Signature

    Lines of text that are automatically added to the end of your e-mail messages. You can be

creative with a signature, using witty sayings or whatever, or you can just keep it simple,

maybe using your real name and address.

Smiley

  Smiling faces and other "emoticons" used in mail and news to indicate humor and irony

and other emotions. The most common smiley is a smile:-). But, there are frowns:-(.

And winks;-) and many more types of smileys...

World Wide Web

"The Web" or "WWW," the World Wide Web is a hypermedia-based system that makes it

easier to browse for information on the Internet - and makes it a lot more fun!