Video Exhibition Submission Guidelines

Contents: What Is The SIGCSE Video Exhibition? What Kind Of Videos Can I Submit? How Do I Submit A Video For Exhibition? What If My Video Is Selected For Exhibition? Can I Propose A Video That I Didn't Create?

Important Dates for Video Submissions Submission Deadline: Monday, November 1, 2010 @11:59 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HST) Author Notification: November 22, 2010 High Quality Submission: December 6, 2010

The video exhibition includes videos submitted by you, and your SIGCSE colleagues that are peer-reviewed. The Video Exhibition appeared at SIGCSE for the first time in 2009 at Chattanooga. The video exhibition will be presented in a special "viewing room" at the symposium during SIGCSE 2011. The video exhibition will also have a home on the web throughout the year.

We invite videos relevant to computer science education. These videos could include classroom lectures, demonstrations, or animations. The videos could be useful in today's classroom or be of historical significance. For SIGCSE 2011, we encourage you to submit a video that highlights the conference theme.

To be accepted, a video must be:

• relevant to computer science educators
• of reasonable quality (1) and running time (2)
• submitted with a permission form from the copyright owner (see permission form below)

To be accepted, a video should:

• include captioning

1. Reasonable quality: There are many aspects of reasonable quality, both technical and artistic. We won't attempt to list detailed quality criteria here; however, the panel will know reasonable quality when they see it. We're not SIGGRAPH and this isn't Sundance, so flaws are accepted (if not expected). Things to avoid: periods of non-content, images/scenes with more extraneous items in view than the focus of the action/story, lengthy credits. You can look at the 2009 and 2010 programs to see examples of acceptable quality.
2. Reasonable runtime: While the running time of a video will be a factor in the selection process, there is no hard limit for the running time of a video submission. However, you may note that the 2009 program included videos as long as about 20 minutes (probably the upper limit) and many that were considerably shorter. As with any video production, you should strive for maximum impact in the least amount of time.

Video Submissions are to be provided in PDF format. The submission contains an up to 800-character (including whitespace) video promotional blurb (description) which must also be entered into a text box on the submission page at http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~sigcse/sigcse2011/submission.shtml. The procedure for the Video Submission is as follows.

1. Upload your video to YouTube. If necessary, your video can be uploaded in parts.
2. PDF Video Submission Contents (limited to 1 page)
   1. Submitter: Include name, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers, email address, and WWW address (if applicable). This item does not count in the page limit. Video Submissions do not undergo blind review, so this information should be included. You should expect most correspondence related to the conference to arrive via email. Please check your spam filter if you haven't received an expected notification because the auto-responses generated by the conference software are sometimes blocked.
   2. Title: Title of the video.
   3. Approximate runtime: approximate run time of video [minutes:seconds] (precise times are OK)
   4. YouTube URLs: the complete link(s) to your video on YouTube
   5. Promotional Blurb (Description): 800 character (including whitespace) promotion of the video. Please ensure both submitted copies (here, in the Video Submission PDF, and in the submission text box) are exactly the same.
3. Submission text box Video Promotional Blurb (limited to 800 characters, including whitespace):
   The Video Promotional Blurb is the 'description' of the video that will appear on the conference web pages and in promotional material. Your goal in writing a promotional blurb is to attract your viewing audience. The Video Promotional Blurb must be submitted in plain text. The promotional blurb for a video may contain a URL where more information may be found. (Promotional Blurbs of accepted videos may be edited by the conference committee in response to reviews or for printed space considerations.)

Deadlines: dates are posted at the top of the page.

All submitted videos will be panel-reviewed. For the videos selected for exhibition, the submitters are required to:

1. Download and complete the permission form (Word or PDF). We need a signature, so mail (snail-mail) the completed and signed form to:

         Dennis Bouvier
         SIUE Computer Science
         Box 1656
         Edwardsville, IL 62026 USA
     

2. Send us the high-quality version of the video. Snail-mail a (NTSC) DVD disk or mini-DV tape, or send a link to a file (of just about any format); in general, whatever works for you will work for us.

Deadlines: High-quality video must be submitted by the date listed above. All permission forms must be postmarked by the high-quality submission date. SIGCSE is not responsible for permission forms lost in the mail.

No, you must be the rights-owner of the submission to complete the permission form and therefore submit a video to the exhibition. But, you can encourage the rights owner to make the submission.

If you have questions, please contact:
 
Dennis Bouvier
Videos Coordinator
Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville