Editing Great Ideas dot PH (section)

==The Symposium==
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[[Image:Great_Ideas_Profs.jpg|350px|thumb|right|"Great Ideas" Symposium - 6 October 2010, 2pm, Malcolm Hall. Photo by [[Association_of_Visual_Communicators|UP AVCOM]]]]
'''This is UP! - the Great Ideas Symposium''' showcases top five (5) UP professors from different fields who will talk (for 10 minutes each) about ideas, subjects, research projects they are most passionate about. These professors are to be nominated or chosen by a popular vote at the "Great Ideas dot PH" portal ([http://greatideas.ph greatideas.ph]). Anybody with a UP Webmail account can register, nominate or vote.

The Symposium serves many ends: 

* to celebrate "great ideas" 
* to further promote DILC's platforms for interactive learning among its constituents
* to introduce a diversity of academic disciplines to the larger public
* to provide an opportunity for UP professors to share their passions to a diverse audience. 

To ensure popular support or wide participation, DILC will seek help from colleges, departments, student organizations, sponsors, and media.  

The Great Ideas Symposium will be held on Wednesday, _________, 3pm.

====Selection Rules====
The top 5 faculty speakers shall be chosen with these rules:

# Anyone with a UP Webmail account can nominate a UP faculty member thought to be good at articulating ideas in his/her academic discipline.
# The nominee must currently be teaching (meaning, having institutionally credited teaching load) at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
# One may vote for a maximum of five (5) nominees.
# One may nominate only one faculty member.
# A maximum of two (2) Symposium speakers can come from the same [http://iskwiki.upd.edu.ph/images/e/ee/Academic_Clusters_-_UP_Diliman_Faculty_Manual.pdf academic cluster].
# Only one of the 5 speakers can come from the same department or college. The number of nominees from the same department or college may, however, be more than one faculty.
# No faculty speaker can come from the same department as any of the speakers from the last Great Ideas Symposium.
# Within two months prior to the closing of the online voting, contenders for the top 5 faculty speakers shall be informed of their possible inclusion in the panel of faculty members who will serve as resource persons at the Symposium. Soon after the receipt of notice, these contenders are to express '''firm commitment''' to serve as resource speakers, in case they get to be in the Top 5. Without such expression of firm commitment, the organizers of the Symposium will drop the names of concerned individuals from the roster of nominees.
# "Firm commitment" from a nominated faculty resource person includes the submission of a 100-word provocative summary of his/her topic. 
# Nominations shall end on ______; voting, on  _______. 

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These rules are not final unless included in the "Great Ideas dot PH" portal (greatideas.ph).

'''Rewards'''<br />
* the top 5 professors shall receive honoraria
* most of all, honor and recognition!