Knoxville Marriott, Knoxville TN, U.S.A. September 16-20, 2003

ORAL RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS FOR THE WCVA

It is requested that all ORAL Research presentations be submitted electronically prior to the Congress. This will allow the files to be loaded on the computers, according to room, day and time, prior to the presentation. 

Deadline for receipt of electronic presentations: September 1st, 2003

MAC users when submitting any files please remember to put the file extension on it so that we can read it. If you bring a CD or zip with you as an emergency backup remember to put the file extension on  your file and to put your file on a PC compatible CD or zip. 

• Submitting Powerpoint presentations using FTP

Because many of your Powerpoint presentations will be larger than most email programs can handle we've provided an FTP port for your convenience

FTP is used on Windows type machines if you have a *MAC please contact me. adario@utk.edu

*MAC user will use FETCH, usually already installed on your computer, however, you might encounter some problems when sending through FETCH. 

1. If you don’t have an FTP program you may pick up a FREE copy of an FTP program at http://www.ipswitch.com/_download/wsftppro.asp

2. Please follow the installation instruction for WS_FTP

3. Once installation is complete please double click on the WS_FTP icon to open it.

4. A window will open 

5. Click “NEW” to create a new FTP profile

6. You can fill-in the following:

   1. PROFILE NAME: WCVA_FTP

   2. HOST NAME/ADDRESS: utk-vet1.vet.utk.edu

   3. HOST TYPE: Auto detect 

   4. USER ID: vetftp

   5. PASSWORD: UTCVM2002
      All else should be blank

7. Click “OK”, located in the lower left corner

8. You now should be able to see our server in the right side of the window.

9. In the left side there’s another window in which you’ll need to locate your Powerpoint file. 

10. Click and drag your file from the left window to the right window. 

11. Please put your file in anyone of the three folders

    1. Small Animals

    2. Horses

    3. Miscellaneous

12. Once you’ve moved your file you’re done. 

13. You may now log out by hitting the CLOSE button in the lower left of the window.

14. As a precaution please also bring a copy of our presentation on CD. 

• Use of Personal Laptop Computers for Presentations: To avoid confusion and delay, it is requested that presenters of research abstracts use the Congress computers for their presentations. However, you may wish to bring your computer for personal use.
  
  Computers will be available in the speaker ready-room.
  
  

• Time Allowed: Maximum 15 minutes (12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for questions). In order to keep the meeting on schedule, it is important to stay within the allotted time. Session moderators will impose the time limits.
  
  

• Dates and Times of Presentations: Will be decided later and posted on this site.
  
  

• Checklist for Presenter:

  • Date of presentation

  • Time of presentation

  • Place/Room

  • File submitted electronically prior to meeting

  • Backup CD with file

  • Meet with computer person to check that file is loaded etc.
    
    

• General Guidelines for Presenters of Research Abstracts

  1. Slides should be legible.

  2. Slides should be simple in design. The goal is to present the information in a clear and concise manner.

  3. Avoid cramming the slide with text.

  4. ideally, no more than 7 lines of text per slide

  5. if you have to say “I don’t know if you can read this” then don’t use slide.

  6. Since the viewer can read faster than you can talk, avoid putting a lot of text on the screen at once. 

  7. Ideally, each text slide should have 3 or 4 lines of key text to prompt the presenter.

  8. Tables should have no more than 4 columns and 4 rows.
     
     

• Organization of Slides for a 12 minute Presentation