Contributing Guidelines

Why contribute?

Many activities invite you to passive learning (e.g. listening to talks and seminars, watching a YouTube video, going through a Coursera video course) but it is only when you actively practice a skill that you make mistakes, reflect on what you did, and try again.

Here in the EdTech Club, we provide the EdTech Club Lightning Talks as a way for you to practice your persuasive writing, presentation skills, and also share knowledge with our community.

We also help support you by cross-posting your generated content over LinkedIn and social media!

Ways to Contribute to the EdTech Club

You can participate in the EdTech Club by doing any of the following:

1. Visit talks, seminars, workshops, and meet-ups around the Bay Area- and then Share Your Learnings to the community.

2. Create a presentation about some insightful learning you had from past work experience- and then Share Your Learnings with the community.

How to Contribute as an L3 Speaker

Please make sure to follow each step of the contributor process:

1. Make sure that you have already joined the EdTech community.

2. Decide on what topics you want to share or talk about:

   • This can be a talk, seminar, workshop, or meet-up that you attended

   • This can be about your past work experience

3. Post a poll in the WhatsApp community group about the different topics you want to share with the EdTech Club members.

4. Decide:

   • Decide on the topic: What will you share with the community?

   • Decide on presentation method: Do you want it live or recorded?

   • Decide on privacy controls: Do you want to make it public (invite others to listen to your talk and give you feedback!) or private (select only a few people to listen!)?

   • Decide on presentation date: When will we host your lightning talk?

5. Inform Dianne via [e-mail] about your decisions above.

6. Follow the L3 Preparation Guide to help you achieve a successful lightning talk!

7. Promote your lightning talk to the Hult Campus!

Option: Record your presentation

You may choose to record your presentation, if you feel like you don't have the time to schedule an in-person meeting.

Advantages

• Avoid the problem of having to schedule your presentation to the availability of your audiences

• Can watch and observe yourself present, allowing you to improve your presentation next time

• Can reach a bigger audience (internationally) because you have your presentation recorded

• Can connect with other Hult students across campuses

• Can publish your video recorded presentation into LinkedIn, and into your social media sites for your personal branding.

Disadvantages

• You don't get to practice live presentations, speaking, and persuasion.

• You don't get to master your emotions presenting in front of a crowd.

• You also don't get to practice your posture while presenting.

Recording Tools

You can use any of the following:

• ScreenRec (simple, easy, free, no watermarks)
• Loom (only 25 free video recordings on free subscription)
• OBS (requires more technical knowledge)

Help wanted

• Maintaining and updating the EdTech Club Library

• Adding new Shared Notes to the EdTech Club Library to benefit your cohort

• Developing partnerships and relationships with other organizations

• Recording instructional video materials on how to do things on the Hult Platform

What if I just want to watch instead of actually doing things?

Feel free to check out our Club Activities!