Effective

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Effective Poster Presentations Silvia A. Mah
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• Overview
• Presentations the good, the bad the ugly
• Planning key questions to consider
• Content what to prepare
• Design personal preferences some
  rules-of-thumb
• Presentation basics
• Resources
• Wrap-up and questions

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• Presentations
• What is a poster?
• A poster is simply a static, visual medium used
  to communicate ideas and messages.
• You should let your poster do most of the
  'talking
• However, you have to 'stand-by-your-poster'!

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• Presentations
• What is your task?
• To answer questions
• To provide further details
• To bask in praises or suffer difficult questions
• To convince others that what you have done is
  excellent and worthwhile
• To persuade future students the value of joining
  the TIES program
• Helpful HINT create a short speech of about 2
  minutes, navigating the audience through your
  poster and your teams accomplishments.

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• Planning
• Planning is crucial!!
• Your team has to present certain pieces of
  information but has limited space and limited
  time.
• Gather your information, make it interesting,
  eye-catching and review, review, review the final
  product.

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• Planning
• What is the objective of the investigation?
• What was the community clients goal?
• How have we gone about with the study?
• Why did we follow a particular route of
  investigation?
• What assumptions did we make and what were our
  justifications?
• What problems did we encounter?
• What results did we obtain?
• Have we solved the problem?
• What have we found out?
• Are the analyses sound?
• What types of future analyses should be
  conducted?

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• Planning to content
• The Onion Model
• An organizational method for your presentation
• Traits at each level influence each other
• Traits at the core are most stable outer layers
  are most changeable

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• Content
• Deciding on the content
• Given that you have limited space, you now have
  to decide between what is important and what is
  not necessary.
• What are you trying to achieve by presenting the
  posters?
• Who will be attending the presentation?

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• Content
• Is there a format?
• TITLE
• SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
• INTRODUCTION
• METHODS
• RESULTS
• CONCLUSIONS
• FURTHER WORK
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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• Content format
• TITLE outer shell of the onion
• Needs to be informative Gingko trees, Leaves
  and a poem Why Gingko Trees Should be Planted
  in North Park

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• Content format
• TITLE
• SUMMARY/ABSTRACT peeling away the layers
• What you have set out to do
• How you have done it
• The main results
• Can be done in bulleted format

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• Content format
• TITLE
• SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
• INTRODUCTION be able to answer
• What is the project and why do it? (project aim
  objectives and specific clients needs or
  community benefits)
• What work was done to conduct and implement this
  project? (prototypes, design, etc.)
• What timeline was needed to complete this
  project?
• Also can be done in bullets

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• Content format
• TITLE
• SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
• INTRODUCTION
• METHODS almost to the core of the onion
• Explains the procedure that your team used
• Diagrams are helpful for your audience

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• Content format
• TITLE
• SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
• INTRODUCTION
• METHODS
• RESULTS What happened The core of the onion
• Prototype diagrams are helpful (autoCAD designs,
  simple schematics of overall system, pictures)
  with descriptive titles.

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• Content format
• TITLE
• SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
• INTRODUCTION
• METHODS
• RESULTS
• CONCLUSIONS What we learned
• What does my audience need to hear to remember
  the core idea and buy it? List the main
  findings.
• What will this project contribute to the
  targeted community?
• Bullets work extremely well

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• Content format
• TITLE
• SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
• INTRODUCTION
• METHODS
• RESULTS
• CONCLUSIONS
• FURTHER WORK

• Here is a good location for needs of the project,
  especially for recruiting future students
  departments!!

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• Content format
• TITLE
• SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
• INTRODUCTION
• METHODS
• RESULTS
• CONCLUSIONS
• FURTHER WORK
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Oscar time

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• Design
• 1. Keep the material simple and allow for
  artistic white space
• 2. Use colors sparingly and with taste
• Colors should be used only to emphasize,
  differentiate and to add interest. Do not use
  colors just to impress!
• Do not use more than 2 font types
• Titles and headings should appear larger than
  other text, but not too large.
• Lettering must be at least 10mm tall.
• Use bold 36-point or larger type, if possible. 
• The text should also be legible from a
  distance, say from 1.5m to 2m.
• Equations Present only the necessary and
  important ones
• A picture is worth a thousand words
• Graphs, diagrams and drawings should be labeled

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• Design
• 8. Check your spelling and review, review the
  final poster
• 9. Arrangement of poster should appear smooth
• People are used to reading from left to right and
  from top to bottom.

Size 48 wide x 36 high
Helpful hint the size of the poster is set in
page setup under the File tab of power point.
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Mechanics printing to pdf

• To print a large format pdf, you must first save
  your ppt slide as a pdf
• 1) Go to page setup,
• 2) Select under slides sized for to custom,
  
• 3) Type 48 in the width section and 32 in height
  section,
• 4) Go to print and select save to pdf tab.
• If you have problems, you might have to set up a
  new print setting for large format printing
• 1) Go to page setup,
• 2) Click on options,
• 3) Under settings, choose custom paper size
• 4) Choose a new setting and make the width 48,
  the height 36, and place a 0 for all the margins,
  
• 5) Click on Save to save that setting,
• 6) Highlight your new pager size, and then
  finally
• 7) Go to print and select save to pdf tab.

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• Presentation Basics
• Stand-by-your poster presentation basics
• Engage your audience by making eye content
• Explain technical details in a non-technical way
• Communicate the benefits
• Enjoy telling people about your work!!