Posters & Presentation
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Poster session
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The Poster:
The posters will be created by the local groups (UAB & UIUC individually). Your poster must include the following sections. See the links to templates to see some sample layouts
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Title, and group members
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Brief overview of the project
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Theoretical rationale for your project
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An outline of your sessions
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ONE well illustrated sample lesson (session), including the lesson plan and all supporting materials. If your supporting materials include online elements that can’t really be printed, you could show those on a laptop or pad. We want detail here, so don’t try to show ALL your lessons—there would be NO way to talk about them all!!
The Poster Session:
Your presentation should follow the structure of the poster as illustrated above. This means you’ll need to discuss your overview, why you did your project as you did (theoretical rationale), your outline, AND your sample lesson.
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REMEMBER: Poster sessions are not simple presentations. They are DISCUSSIONS. BE ACTIVE and ENGAGING.
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Each member of the group must take turns with the presenting and/or answering questions
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Poster group members may (should?) take turns sneaking away (one at a time!!!) to see other posters during their session.
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Audience members MUST be active. Ask questions! Give suggestions!
I will be circulating during the activity, taking notes on the posters…and audience participation!!! The posters, the presentations, AND your audience participation are all parts of your grades for the course.
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See some of the linked sites below for suggestions on how your poster might look. We DO NOT expect you to pay to print out a full sized conference poster—this can be $100 US! It is perfectly fine to have the needed information on a number of separate sheets of paper and then use butcher paper as the backing or something similar. Don’t spend a bunch of $ or € printing a huge poster!!
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Here are a couple of links that might be useful:
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Links of final version of your posters (templates) should be posted here.
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