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Participant approaches towards international student poster competitions

In recent years, developments and changes at cultural and technologic areas have effected communication design greatly and this situation provided very important opportunities in creating poster designs which are going to create a positive perception towards communal problems with social content by forming environmental sensitivity, raising awareness, and producing common solutions at poster design competitions which are organized in order to draw attention to global important issues. Presentation of global messages belonging to communal problems with social content as a poster by students reveals creative and intelligent solutions and design practices and approaches of the young generation can be achieved by this way. In this research, international student competitions which have been opened in the category of poster making are examined and it was found that these competitions provide students important contributions such as designer identity creation, encouraging them, developing research skills, producing functional solutions to design problems in accordance with given briefs, thinking of what is different and gaining presentation skills by analyzing and visualizing these in a creative way.

The academic poster genre. Friend or foe?

The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes, 2016

Almost all students or novice researchers, upon entering the academic world, know that eventually they will be invited to prepare and present an academic poster. This task is often met with mixed feelings not only because it is often the entry point into academic life, but also because what the genre entails is not always clear to the novice author (Hay & Thomas, 1999). The poster session itself is often met with mixed reviews both from the participants as well as the viewers, because of several physical limitations, and the fact that still today it considered less prestigious to present at a poster session than at a paper session (Swales & Feak, 2000; Swales, 2004). De Simone et al. (2001), for example, have noted that the traditional poster presentation can at times be frustrating for authors and can leave them, as well as the audience, with a sense of incompleteness. This negative evaluation of the genre leads De Simone et al. (ibid.) to consider the academic poster as a communication tool that is frequently inadequate for the message it carries. Probably triggering this idea is the fact that each poster generally attracts a limited number of viewers and sometimes not enough attention is given to the poster session by conference organizers. A poster presenter does not have the advantage of having a committed audience and has to compete with other presenters for space, visibility and attention (Morin, 1996a, 1996b), and if poster presenters do manage to attract someone's attention, they have to accept the fact that in most cases, the interaction will be brief and superficial; a frustrating experience to say the least. Sometimes instead, the interaction might carry on longer than expected, which is at the same time rewarding and challenging. The possibility to interact personally with an author, with no time limitations, in fact means that viewers are given the chance to pose numerous questions and comments which, if particularly challenging, might put the poster presenter into difficulty. If paper presenters have to endure five or ten minutes of question time, poster presenters are asked to remain available and interact with viewers for one or two hours at a time, sometimes even longer. Staying alert and attentive for such a long time can be tiresome and stressful. Fortunately, as mentioned before, this smaller arena is also traditionally more informal than other sessions. This colloquial, almost intimate aspect of the poster presentation is what makes the genre so unique and challenging at the same time.

Learning by poster competition: A new teaching strategy in basic medical science

The Professional Medical Journal, 2021

Objective: The objective of study was to mature Poster competition as collaborative study tool in order to define if the method of study impacts student education by analyzing student depiction in terms of fulfillment. Study Design: Analytical study. Setting: Sahiwal Medical College Sahiwal. Study Period: 20th Feb, 2020 to 20th March, 2020. Material & Methods: A poster competition was held among 400 MBBS students of 1st year to 4th year at Sahiwal Medical College Sahiwal. Ethical consent was approved by the ethical review committee of Sahiwal Medical College Sahiwal. Hand on collective valuation was used to assess students’ performance by using a questionnaire consisting of 12 questions. Different frequencies were then calculated using SPSS-20. Results: According to first part of the questionnaire students’ response was calculated as frequencies and were alienated into three groups of low, medium and high scores. 81.25% of total 400 students understood the topic fully. 69.75% of the...

Posters on the Hill: A Unique Way to Present Undergraduate Research

2008

Repository Citation Cherney, I. D. (2008). Posters on the Hill: A Unique Way to Present Undergraduate Research. In R. L. Miller, R. F. Rycek, E. Balcetis, S. T. Barney, B. C. Beins, S. R. Burns, R. Smith, & M. E. Ware (Eds.), Developing, promoting, & sustaining the undergraduate research experience in psychology (pp. 241-244). Retrieved from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology Web site: http://teachpsych.org/ebooks/ur2008/ ur2008.php

From Posters to e-Posters: The Evolution of a Genre

2012

There is plenty of informative material on the production and presentation of academic posters. Tips for first-time poster presenters can easily be found online, in an informal easy-to-read style, very much resembling that of poster sessions. More sophisticated how-to tips and techniques are also available, along with discussions on how to use posters for professional development in the workplace or as a teaching and evaluation device within university courses. In recent years several disciplines have developed new ways to facilitate poster presentations and discussions using projections followed by two-three minute oral presentations, online sessions, digital interactive poster presentations, virtual science fairs and tele-conferencing. The present paper offers an overview and discussion of the literature available on academic posters, highlighting the positive as well as the negative aspects of this genre. It also seeks to describe how posters are changing/evolving through technol...

The Use of Research Posters in The Elt Classroom

The International Journal of Applied Language Studies and Culture

The use of actual classroom posters is a blend of using technology and developing students’ tactile senses. The students at the English Language School at the International Balkan University attend a one-year intensive language program. In order to implement alternative teaching methods and techniques, during the winter semester students participate in a research poster presentation project. The aims of the poster projects include: promoting team work, developing students’ cooperation and collaborative skills, as well as their research skills, and learning English in a fun and creative way. A survey was conducted with 200 students in order to receive students’ feedback on the poster project experience. According to the survey results, most students chose learning English in a fun and creative way and improving their team work skills both as the most important and the most interesting things they learned during the poster projects. Students found working with others and finding the r...

Socialize your research reinventing the old good Poster

The aim of this paper is to propose a different approach to scientific posters use, switching from the classical A3 paper format to a digital product that can be continuously updated, depending on the research progress. A very important point is that such a new type of poster can be easily spread over the Net with the best and more appropriate social network tool. The “traditional" poster can continue to exist and be used if we need it, since it can be easily “produced” as a snapshot of the “in progress” digital version. We dwell in the following with Astrophysics, but we could transfer most of the discussion and proposed solutions to other disciplines. With the new approach proposed here, we can also have a new chance of solving the communication problem, which can no longer be confined to the usual poster sessions of Workshops and Congresses that are going to become more and more crowded and nearly useless. This is only the first part of the business anyway, as we try to outl...