{"id":481,"date":"2022-11-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/?p=481"},"modified":"2022-11-08T17:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T17:43:06","slug":"seminar-participation-how-to-contribute-effectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/2022\/11\/04\/seminar-participation-how-to-contribute-effectively\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Participation: How to Contribute Effectively"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cNo-one\u2019s spoken for a really long time, how can I get a discussion going?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think this person has a great idea, but doesn\u2019t seem very confident in it \u2013 I wonder how I can help?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Sometimes you know what you want to do in a seminar, but you\u2019re just not sure how <\/em>to do it. It\u2019s easy to spend so much time wondering 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!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 likely find that throughout your time at university you\u2019ll gradually 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 when you\u2019re not sure what to do or if you\u2019re still new to seminar participation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key thing to remember is that, although you might find yourself gravitating towards a particular \u2018role\u2019 or set of strategies, you\u2019re not limited to these. In a previous post we thought about Speculating, Enabling and Challenging<\/a>, and we should keep in mind that these are just behaviours not types of people. So feel free to try out different roles and approaches depending on what you need from the seminar and how comfortable you\u2019re feeling on the day.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to find out more, you can follow this link to hear Academic Skills Tutor Nicky build on the Speculating, Enabling and Challenging framework<\/a> we looked at last time and provide some strategies for how you can effectively enact these behaviours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also book a 1-1 appointment with the Academic Skills Team<\/a> if you\u2019d like some more tailored guidance on seminar participation or other academic skills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And stay tuned for more videos on seminar participation. Next up we\u2019ll be looking at some strategies for dealing with unhelpful seminar participation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo-one\u2019s spoken for a really long time, how can I get a discussion going?\u201d  \u201cI think this person has a great idea, but doesn\u2019t seem very confident in it \u2013 I wonder how I can help?\u201d  \u201cI really disagree with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8935,"featured_media":482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-at-newcastle","category-resources","category-teaching-and-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/academicskills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}