{"id":373,"date":"2021-11-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/?p=373"},"modified":"2021-12-16T15:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:46:49","slug":"how-to-contribute-effectively-in-seminars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/2021\/11\/16\/how-to-contribute-effectively-in-seminars\/","title":{"rendered":"How to contribute effectively in seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/files\/2021\/11\/G1_52912.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-374\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/files\/2021\/11\/G1_52912.jpg 799w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/files\/2021\/11\/G1_52912-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/files\/2021\/11\/G1_52912-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/files\/2021\/11\/G1_52912-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cI think I\u2019ve got the start of an idea, but it\u2019s not really fully formed yet\u2026can I just say it anyway?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo-one\u2019s spoken for a really long time, how&nbsp;can&nbsp;I get&nbsp;a discussion going?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think this person has a great idea, but doesn\u2019t seem very confident in it&nbsp;\u2013 I wonder&nbsp;how&nbsp;I can help?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really disagree with what that person said, but I don\u2019t want to sound rude\u2026maybe I just shouldn\u2019t say anything\u2026\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Sometimes you know what you want to do in a seminar, but you\u2019re just not sure&nbsp;<em>how&nbsp;<\/em>to do it.&nbsp;It\u2019s easy to spend so much time wandering how to contribute that you miss your opportunity to do so altogether. Or you might find yourself so worried about doing the wrong thing that you end up not doing anything at all.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although there isn\u2019t necessarily a \u2018right\u2019 and a \u2018wrong\u2019 way to participate in seminars, there are some approaches that you may find more effective than others. You\u2019ll&nbsp;likely&nbsp;find that&nbsp;throughout your time at university you\u2019ll gradually&nbsp;develop your own approaches to seminar participation that work for you. But it can also be useful to have a couple of strategies to fall back on&nbsp;when you\u2019re not sure what to do&nbsp;or if you\u2019re still new to seminar participation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Check out the link below to hear WDC tutor Nicky build on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/2021\/11\/09\/how-do-you-participate-in-seminars\/\">Speculating, Enabling and Challenging framework we looked at last time&nbsp;<\/a>and provide some strategies for how you can effectively enact these behaviours.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Seminar Participation - Strategies for Contributing Effectively\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fcg9WcszsE8?start=22&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And stay tuned for more videos on seminar participation. Next up we\u2019ll be looking at some strategies for dealing with unhelpful seminar participation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;\u201cI think I\u2019ve got the start of an idea, but it\u2019s not really fully formed yet\u2026can I just say it anyway?\u201d&nbsp; \u201cNo-one\u2019s spoken for a really long time, how&nbsp;can&nbsp;I get&nbsp;a discussion going?\u201d&nbsp; \u201cI think this person has a great idea, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/2021\/11\/16\/how-to-contribute-effectively-in-seminars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8935,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-and-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}