"Ventures in Communication: Technology, Innovation, and Diffusion."

As we prepare proposals for this conference, consider what you have to offer, what you teach, where you excel in research, and what you want to learn. We want to see what you have to offer! There are a variety of opportunities from presenting your research, participating in a panel discussion, fostering a hands-on workshop, preparing a poster of your recent work, or developing a classroom activity to have highlighted in our GIFTS session.

If your school would like to have table to highlight your graduate school, please send me an email to reserve a table! We would love to have as many graduate schools represented as possible.

We are always looking for sponsors for our conference and you can help! If you know of a business, a publisher, or if your college would like to sponsor a part of the conference, please contact me as soon as possible. Sponsors are always needed!

Submissions are encouraged in the following areas:

• Debut presentations by faculty and students
• G.I.F.T.S. (Great Ideas for Teaching Speech)
• Demonstrations of innovative instructional methods
• Teaching or research challenges
• Program assessment and issues of accreditation
• Statewide issues or concerns for the discipline
• Further developing OCA to meet the needs of its constituents
• Specific university, private college, community college, or high school issues or concerns
• Workshops for undergraduate or graduate success in the discipline
• Hands-on workshops on topics relating to research or to specific topic areas (technology in the classroom, the basic course, developing critical thinking, the at-risk student, etc.)

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS 5:00 P.M., SATURDAY, May 5, 2012
Submission guidelines for programs, panels and papers are available online and in Adobe Acrobat format.
Recognize the contributions of your students and colleagues by making an award nomination.