IOP 2013 – Call for Volunteers
IOP 2013 will be held from 8:30 – 1:30 on Saturday, May 11 on the second floor (centre block) of the Scarfe Building. Coffee, tea and muffins will be available in our ‘food hall’ in Room 209 from 8:00 onwards. We need volunteers to arrive at the conference by 8:15 on May 11 and stay until 2:00. (If you are presenting and are only available for part of that time, please let me know.)
As a measure of our thanks, volunteers will be given free admission to the conference which includes breakfast, refreshments and a healthy lunch. We have spiffy yellow T-shirts which you can borrow for the day that indicate you are helping at the conference (N.B. We need the T-shirts back).
There are a couple of things we need help with:
1) Set Up
On Friday, May 10, between 3.30 and 4.30, we will tidy up the rooms on the second floor to make sure they are ready for the conference and hang signs. If you are available on Friday, it would be great if you could meet Tony Clarke and Bob Hapke to do a quick run around and ensure that all the signs and rooms are ready for the next morning. This should take no longer than 30 minutes if we have a half a dozen folks on hand.
2) Chairing IOP Sessions
There are a number of sessions that will require chairs, in other words people to make sure presentations begin promptly and end on time. If you are comfortable taking on this task, please let me know.
3) Clean Up
Many hands make light work! If everyone can stay around until 2:00pm on Saturday, May 11 and help make sure that everything is returned to its original state (e.g., rooms tidied, recycling bins returned to their original locations, etc.), that would be great.
4) Ambassadors for IOP throughout the Conference
Although the Scarfe Building is relatively easy to navigate, we need you to be very visible (hence the yellow T-shirts) to direct and assist people as they arrive, and then throughout the course of the conference. For example, it would be very useful if you could direct folks to the ‘food hall’ between 8:30 and 9:00, help them find the rooms for their presentations, seek out Bob Hapke for any AV assistance that the presenters require, assist presenters with any other requests they might have, and generally be highly visible and ready to assist.
The conference features 75 interactive presentations by practicing teachers, graduate and undergraduate students, and university educators from different educational contexts. Please visit our website to view the List of Sessions: http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/iop2013.
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Judy Paley at jpaley@mail.ubc.ca