See the web link, but note part of what it says below about using posters as assignments at university:
Posters are often used as part of student assessments. [...]
What is an academic poster?
At university, students are often assessed on poster design. Posters are an effective way of communicating concisely, visually and attractively, and can be a powerful way of getting information across. Academic posters summarise information or research concisely and attractively, to help publicise it and generate discussion.Posters are widely used in the academic community, and most conferences include poster presentations in their programme. Academic posters can reach a wide audience as they may be displayed for several hours or days, at national or international conferences. They may also be published online as part of conference proceedings, becoming part of a permanent record of research activity.
An effective poster can make a strong impact, so it's worth developing your poster planning skills.
Posters as assessment
At university, you will often find that one of your course assessments requires you to produce a poster, either individually or in a group. The criteria used to assess your poster will be weighted differently depending on your discipline. [...]http://www2.napier.ac.uk/gus/writing_presenting/academic_posters.html
I appreciate the fact that we got the opportunity to do the poster because now I see how almost any topic can be made into a poster. I am very interested in graphic design and as such I am always interested in designing posters. I took note of the points about poster making from the attached link and I will use them in the near future.
ReplyDeleteThe poster presentation was awesome because it was a new activity that i was introduced to for the very first time in my academic life.I am so glad i got the opportunity to this assignment and the feedback from the presentation made me even grow stronger.The link on presenting a poster presentation is very useful as i saw many things that i could of applied to my presentation so i wished it was posted earlier :(....but i know it would be useful for future references.
ReplyDeleteThe poster presentation I must admit was different from any other project or assignment I have done at university level. It allowed me to discover creative skills that I never thought I possessed. Like the old saying "A picture is worth a thousand words", the poster presentation did allow us to condense our chosen topics into a 3ft. * 2ft. dimension but did not limit us to what was visually said. I also appreciated having to do a project like this one since the poster would not only be confined to a university project but can also be used as a teaching aid in the future and the concept of the poster presentation can be used for other topics as well.
ReplyDeleteAs a teacher I completely agree with you and I am also looking at the possibility of using poster presentations n my classroom.
Deletei think this is a good way of prepping an individual for future group work and encounters. i think it also help develop an individual work ethics and. i am thankful to be gaining these experiences and i hope to put it into use in the future
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if we're supposed to post something about this Dr Skeete because I had thought that it is just some extra information you had given to us, but I'll just say that I think (academic) posters are a great way for learning and teaching to take place effectively. They are fun to create and a lot is learned even as they are being created. I'm glad that I got the chance to do one because if I hadn't I probably would not have learned what I did about posters, as well as what I learned in the process of creating the one my partner and I did.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the tips Dr. Skeete, I am sure they'll be useful in the near future.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dr Skeete! I am glad that we were not given these tips before. Although it obviously would have helped us to get the tips to employ in our poster, it helped us to see what we knew and by measuring what we did against these given criteria, we can see how well we did it and we can grow as well. This was fun and we can apply this to other subjects as well as leisure.
ReplyDeleteYes, Denise, it was "just some extra information". It wasn't necessary for students to respond, but it's quite fine that some of you have.
ReplyDeleteI was concerned that some students couldn't see any benefit at all in creating an academic poster; and/or in doing group work; and/or couldn't see how even if they could have learnt the same things without doing a poster, that still there are different skills required in producing a poster than if they were to have presented the very same information on PowerPoint slides, a webpage, a concept map or other graphic organizers, a tutorial paper, etc - all things I've given for students' LITS projects in the past.
Students could also have gone online - you do that for other assignments - and researched how to do a poster and also read for yourselves the benefits of doing a poster.
Additionally, students majoring or minoring in Communication Studies in our Liberal Arts Department will tell you that their projects - for example, they have to produce a full-length magazine - are even more expensive than a poster. Verbally and in writing (on myeLearning) I provided information about three places that I was aware of where you could get the poster done - in one instance providing telephone, cellphone and address contact - and in one or two tutorial classes we talked about the cost. This didn't preclude anyone from sourcing other places. I have found out only recently that the UWI printery and the School of Med. also do posters for students (and not just staff) at a (reduced) cost. So, this is more information I can provide in the future. One student felt I needed to include the cost of the poster on the instruction sheet for the project. (This was indicated in part in capital letters, which could have been for emphasis but in rules of netiquette is also akin to shouting.) When you get project assignments at UWI, the lecturer is supposed to put in writing how much it will cost? Really?
Anyway, my intention was and still is that students were asked to reflect and indicate how they felt about the poster project and be free to express their own opinion regardless of whether it was in the positive or negative.
The poster experience for me was not a good one since I joined the group late and did not have much say in the decision making; however, I believe it would have been more interesting and learning experience for me if I had been there from the beginning. And really I must say that I enjoyed the poster presentations and it was and is a very effective method for visual learning.
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