Hi everyone! Our “LIVE” Online SOMA conference is December 14-15, 2020, and folks are getting excited – it’s so gratifying to see what happens when O&Ms get their creative juices going! I just got off the phone brainstorming with an O&M who has so much to share, but has never presented or published – she is now putting together some proposals for SOMA sessions!
One of her proposals is for a Roundtable on a topic she’s very interested in exploring. This is a great medium for any of you who aren’t confident that you’ll have enough information to support a whole presentation by December, but you want to get your feet wet and lead a discussion on a topic that interests you. The Roundtable moderator can start off with a short presentation to share ideas and set the stage, and then open it up for discussion. If you’d like to do that, send us your proposal!
We plan to offer enough concurrent sessions that we can keep the audience small (30-50 people) to facilitate interaction. That means we may ask presenters to do their session twice, like we did for the 2016 SOMA in Chattanooga. This gives participants more choices for each session (they can choose 2 out of each 8 sessions instead of only 1 out of every 4)
To submit your proposal or get more information, go to our Call for Papers -- this Sunday is the deadline, so put your thinking cap on and get back to us! If you want to brainstorm your ideas like the O&M did this afternoon, or if you want to submit a proposal but can’t get it ready by Sunday, let us know.
Meanwhile, folks from around the U.S. and Canada have been registering to come to SOMA – the end of this month is the deadline for the Early Bird registration of $99 (fully refunded if requested by September).
For more information, check out our website at www.somaconference.org
-- Dona
Dona Sauerburger, COMS
Orientation and Mobility Specialist for the blind
Gambrills, Maryland
dona@sauerburger.org / 301-858-0138
www.sauerburger.org
Hi everyone! Our “LIVE” Online SOMA conference is December 14-15, 2020, and folks are getting excited – it’s so gratifying to see what happens when O&Ms get their creative juices going! I just got off the phone brainstorming with an O&M who has so much to share, but has never presented or published – she is now putting together some proposals for SOMA sessions!
One of her proposals is for a Roundtable on a topic she’s very interested in exploring. This is a great medium for any of you who aren’t confident that you’ll have enough information to support a whole presentation by December, but you want to get your feet wet and lead a discussion on a topic that interests you. The Roundtable moderator can start off with a short presentation to share ideas and set the stage, and then open it up for discussion. If you’d like to do that, send us your proposal!
We plan to offer enough concurrent sessions that we can keep the audience small (30-50 people) to facilitate interaction. That means we may ask presenters to do their session twice, like we did for the 2016 SOMA in Chattanooga. This gives participants more choices for each session (they can choose 2 out of each 8 sessions instead of only 1 out of every 4)
To submit your proposal or get more information, go to our Call for Papers -- this Sunday is the deadline, so put your thinking cap on and get back to us! If you want to brainstorm your ideas like the O&M did this afternoon, or if you want to submit a proposal but can’t get it ready by Sunday, let us know.
Meanwhile, folks from around the U.S. and Canada have been registering to come to SOMA – the end of this month is the deadline for the Early Bird registration of $99 (fully refunded if requested by September).
For more information, check out our website at www.somaconference.org
-- Dona
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Dona Sauerburger, COMS
Orientation and Mobility Specialist for the blind
Gambrills, Maryland
dona@sauerburger.org / 301-858-0138
www.sauerburger.org
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