From the NOR-Conference, 1989. Photo: Birgitta Åhman
Oral presentations: instructions
Oral presentations should be given in Nordic language (Finnish, Norwegian, North-Sami, Swedish); participants from other areas may use English. When the oral presentation is in a Nordic Language the lecture should be accompanied by a presentation in English in Microsoft PowerPoint format. If you work in some other software, please arrange to convert it to PowerPoint format prior to submission. There will also be equipment available for using overhead transparencies. Invited lectures will be until 45 minutes. Other lectures will be until 20 minutes depending on the number of presentations in the particular session. Oral time includes time for questions. Information about details will be sent to you in due time before the conference.
Submission
To upload your final version of the presentation in advance, please send the PowerPoint file by email to bjorn.hatteng@uit.no. The name of the PowerPoint file should start with the first author's or presenter's surname and initials, as e.g. "WhiteAA-oral.ppt". Please use the name of the file as e-mail subject. If you for any reason have not sent in your presentation in advance, please provide a copy, preferably on a USB memory stick or USB memory drive, to the conference organizers on arrival to the conference. Please contact the chairperson of your session (shown in the program) prior to the session.
How to prepare a power point presentation
There are several web sites that provide advice on how to prepare a PowerPoint presentation. In short, be explicit; keep your slides simple, use as little text as possible and use large legible fonts for what text you use, illustrate with pictures or simple graphics as much as possible, and avoid large complex tables and equations. Restrict the number of slides to the minimum number necessary. One slide per two minutes of talk is often recommended as a rule of thumb. There will be simultaneous translations and in order to have good translations as possible, remember to speak distinctly and not too fast.
