103rd General Meeting
May 18 - May 22, 2003
Washington, DC
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103rd General Meeting
Speaker
Ready Room
The Speaker Ready Room is specifically designed to assist you in the final preparations you might wish to make to your presentation before you actually proceed to the session room. The room will have several computer stations where you may call up your talk and make any final adjustments you feel are necessary. The room will be staffed by technicians who are very familiar with the presentation system in use and they will be happy to assist you should you have questions.
The Speaker Ready Room is located in Room 150A of the Washington Convention Center adjacent to the majority of session rooms in use during the General Meeting
Speaker Ready Room Hours of Operation
May 18: 12:00 noon - 6:00 p.m.
May 19 - 21: 6:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
May 22: 7:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Delivering Your Presentation to the Speaker Ready Room
Plan on delivering your presentation to the Speaker Ready Room the day before your scheduled talk. This will allow you the time to upload the presentation from your CD-ROM or Zip Disk to the server, test the presentation on comparable equipment, and get your questions answered as required. If you have more than one presentation to give at the meeting, you may bring them all at the same time. The technicians will have session information and will be able to place your presentations in the proper session folders on the server.
When you arrive at the speaker ready room have your picture ID handy and label your media with the following information.
Your name
103rd General Meeting
Date and time of presentation
Meeting Room #
File name (The file name must be the same as the presentation control number)
It is imperative that you check your movies in the Speaker Ready Room if your presentation contains video files.
We recommend a small test you can do to check whether your movie file will work in PowerPoint. To determine the compatibility of the movie, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type the appropriate command for your operating system.
3. In Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me), type:
mplayer.exe
4. In Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or Microsoft Windows 2000/XP, type:
mplay32.exe
5. Click OK. Media Player is started.
6. On the File menu, click Open.
7. Select the movie that you want to verify. Click Open. The video will play, if it is the correct format.
IMPORTANT: Please be observant of the size of your video files. A video file can be just as effective at a lower resolution.