To Create a Digital Version of your Work for Consideration for a High-PURCS Award
Oral Presentations:
You may create a video of your work in any form you wish. Performances can be recorded. You can tape yourself giving an oral presentation (lecture style). You can voice over a PowerPoint presentation. To make things easy for the judges, we will then have you upload your video to YouTube.
Instruction on how to do a voice-over on PowerPoint can be found here:
https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-record-voiceover-powerpoint-4173784
Instructions on how to turn your PowerPoint into a video is here:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-your-presentation-into-a-video-C140551F-CB37-4818-B5D4-3E30815C3E83
Instructions on how to upload your video to YouTube. Be sure to mark them as “Unlisted”.
To upload to YouTube: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/57407?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
To make video unlisted: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/157177?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Posters:
Even posters can have a short introduction. You can submit your PDF poster along with a short YouTube video of you introducing yourself and your research. It shouldn’t be more than 2 minutes. If you wish to present something longer it should be an oral presentation format. The short introduction is for context. In your video you can offer an introduction to how you got started in the project and what it’s about. You can also focus on what it’s about and what you found. However, it should not be a full summary of your project; it’s more like an elevator pitch.
Performances and Exhibits:
Performances and Exhibits should serve more like oral presentations since you will have video format. However, you can add the second YouTube summary from the poster format if your video stands alone. Or you can use something like ZOOM or WebEx where you can talk about your work while you are showing it.
To submit your work to YouTube you will need:
- a Google gmail to sign into YouTube which is a Google product
- PDF Posters must be under 10MB in size. If needed, you may use an online tool such as “Smallpdf” to compress you files. We recommend a minimum image resolution of 1500px (or 5in) in the smallest dimension (i.e. width/height) to ensure it is clearly visible when viewers zoom in to it.
- YouTube videos should be set as UNLISTED following upload. (see instructions above or additional instructions here
If you have problems with any of the technology, you can reach out to the Media Center in Smith Library or contact Dr. Altman for help.