Boy do I support Chucks comments!!!!!!!!! Let me know! Bob Bob Moore Commerce CRG - Salt Lake City office 175 East 400 South, Suite 700 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 Direct: 801-303-5418 Main: 801-322-2000 Fax: 801-322-2040 BMoore@commercecrg.com www.commercecrg.com -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+bmoore=commercecrg.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+bmoore=commercecrg.com@mailman.xmission.c om] On Behalf Of Kurt Fisher Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:38 AM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Joanne's talk Chuck wrote:
Historically, the majority of SLAS meetings featured presentations by members. . . . I would encourage any member with something to offer, to contact the club president and offer to give a presentation.
To an extent, these have been replaced by the 15 minute presentations made at the start of star parties which more informal. The justification for fostering such presentations, regardless of their forum, is to develop the memberships' speaking and presentation skills. One of the missions of SLAS is public education. There is considerable expertise within SLAS, but if it cannot be communicated to the public, the mission fails. Many members are not in a working position where they exercise their public speaking skills. Presentations have a way of forcing one to organize one thoughts in a written manner and practice the anxiety inducing skill of public speaking. This in turn improves SLASs star parties by improving the ability of members to explain types of objects to the public in a coherent manner. The downside is that the presentations at general memberships can fail because the speaker is unprepared or, due to the pressures of daily life, prepares at the last minute. The remedy for that would be to require member presentations to be reduced to a Powerpoint that is sent to a SLAS review panel at least one month before a general meeting. WIth a few drafted presentations in hand, the officers could set schedule one or two of the general meetings out of the year for member presentations. - Kurt _______________________________________________ Sent via CSolutions - http://www.csolutions.net _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com