The student research will be presented in the same form as the research of the lecturers: poster presentations accompanied by video-recorded short oral presentations (similar to an oral presentation in a summer school). The posters will be uploaded in our website; lecturers and other participants will be invited to write their questions in the comment box. The questions will be discussed in a final meeting. You find instructions for the poster creation and video recordings below.
Posters
Style: attract attention, avoid distraction!
Content: sharp argumentation and maximal coherence!
What is a poster?
use
studies in Workshops and Conferences
project presentations in scientific retreats
student research in summer schools
poster presentation
core points of a research project with visualizations on a large paper format
short oral presentation drawing attention to the core issues
challenges
good selection of the urgent (=maximally relevant) contents
transparent structure so that the audience easily finds the relevant issues
use of visuals (tables, mental maps, graphs, etc.) that facilitate comprehension
How to create a poster?
Form
Size: DIN-A0 paper
Tool: usually with Power Point
Arrangements: horizontal or vertical
In Colin Purrington's blog, you can download ready templates and you can find various suggestions for posters.
Contents
Introduction
background knowledge in a paradigm of research and motivation for a scientific contribution: a good introduction explains the relevance of the research question for a scientific paradigm.
Method
data, e.g., grammars, examples, experiments; decisions to data classifications and empirical design. The methodological decisions follow from the research question.
Results
qualitative and/or quantitative report. Use illustrations (tables, graphs) to facilitate reading.
Discussion/Analysis
Integrate the findings to the available knowledge; present analytical models for understanding the data.
For the citation of bibliographical sources, you may follow the Generic Style Rules for Linguistics, professional guidelines for linguistic publications, used by various publishers. In posters, we use abbreviations: abbreviate names, journal titles, omit subtitles, place of publication, and the title of collective volumes.
The footer of the poster is used to localize your research in a certain project or institution, may contain acknowledgments, information about funding, etc.
content
Goal
snippets presenting your research findings in conjunction with the contents of this course.
Duration
approximately 10 minutes
form
You may use the following pptx templates. But please feel free to use your own templates or tools if you prefer to do so. What finally matters, is the linguistic content:
Every system that can create a video file in .mp4 format is equally welcome.
There are two widely used options for video recordings that we illustrate in the following for contributors who may need a suggestion:
zoom
probably the easiest option as most of us are familiar with this application. Possible drawbacks: (a) large files, (b) sometimes (not often) recordings get lost for unclear reasons and must be redone. These problems are not fatal, zoom is certainly a convenient option.
How to create video files with ZOOM?
OBS
convenient tool that offers more flexibility to define settings for smaller files and to arrange the components of your presentation. Main problem: another software to get acquainted with (not very complicated anyway).
How to create video files with OBS?
further options
e.g., the free video editor screencast, etc. are equally appropriate for our purposes. The only requirement is that the final video should be in .mp4 format; the video editor does not matter.
video file size
If the size of your video file is too large and want to reduce it, you may find these instructions useful:
How to compress video files?
materials
general rule
Kindly not use any copyright-protected material in your video file without permission. In case you integrate pictures produced by a third party in your presentation, you may use pictures that are available in the web under a Creative Commons license, always respecting the terms of the license (especially with respect to attribution to the creators).
repositories with free material
There are various ways to find free material (under the conditions of the respective license, e.g., to look in a repository such as unsplash.
find in google
You may filter google image results, such that only images with a Creative Commons License are displayed:
Google > Images > click Tools > go to Usage rights > select Creative Commons license
doi/submission
It is recommended to obtain a digital object identifier (DOI) for each video file, so that this work will be citable for future reference. For this purpose, the lecturers can upload their videos in zenodo, which is a repository for research data, hosted by the CERN’ data centered, funded by the OpenAIRE programme of the European Union. Contributors may either upload their videos on their own and just send us the link to upload their videos in the Glottothèque (see instructions below). However, if you do not want to make your video accessible in long term, please feel free to not upload it.
Caveat: The Editors have always the possibility to remove the data from Glottothèque website, and will be glad to do it at any point in the future if the contributor wishes so.
However, data uploaded to zenodo are permanently archived, i.e., they cannot be removed. They can be replaced by newer versions (in which case the older version is still archived as an older version). This is the same as printed publications.
Please send the video files and supplementary materials to the editors (e.g., by dropbox, google drive, or any other tool).
Go to zenodo
https://zenodo.org/. You will need to sign up (for the first time that you are using zenodo) and to log in with your account name and password.
Click on New Upload
Upload your video files in zenodo. Along with the video files you can upload any useful material that can be used for the same teaching unit, e.g., the power point presentation file and/or a pdf version of it, related sound files or any type of supplementary material (if needed).
Click on Start Upload
Fill in
Upload type: Video/Audio
Digital Object identifier: empty (a doi will be assigned by the zenodo repository)
Publication date: …
Title: Snippets’ title
Authors: Lecturers’ names, affiliations, ORCID’s
Description: It will be nice to insert an informative description of the contents of the teaching unit. You may close the description with a reference to the Glottothèque:
This lecture is part of the lecture series: Glottothèque: Mayan Languages. Berlin, Göttingen, Mexico City: electronic resource, at https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projects/maya/, edited by Rodrigo Gutiérrez Bravo, Stavros Skopeteas, Elisabeth Verhoeven.
Access right: Open Access.
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
Further information: The further fields are optional. It is useful to set a version number, this can be incrementally changed if you wish to update your video files in the future. Further descriptors (keywords, language, etc.) are useful for the visibility of your teaching unit.
Save/Publish
Go to Communities and select "+ submit to community" and then select "Mayan Languages". We will just accept your request and then download your files directly from Zenodo for the Glottothèque.
After publishing the resource, you can make changes in the metadata, including all descriptions, names, etc. You will not be able to remove the uploaded files. You will be able to create a new version (with a new version number), while the old version will remain permanently stored in the repository.
