2. DEVELOPMENT PROCESS Vertical Poster Title: And a Subtitle Here Authors, Degrees and Institutions This template for curriculum development projects contains elements you can use with your own content such as text boxes, section headings, bullets, captions, horizontal lines, and so on. You can highlight and replace current text in a text box with your own. Or copy and paste the text box itself, then replace the old text with your own. Use section headings to indicate what kind of content a section contains. Highlight the current text in the Section Headings box above, then enter your own heading according to the list in the Content Sections box in the left column. Making a poster is different than making slides. In a poster you do not use placeholders, so you format text and bullets manually. There are more elements in a poster, so alignment is important. A poster is larger than a slide, so you zoom in to edit text, and zoom out to see the entire poster. Content for Curriculum Development Posters The suggested content for a poster on curriculum development includes: Introduction - States a short rationale for your project, including national need, local need and past curricular efforts by others. Development Process - Lists steps in development process: lit review, needs assessment, review of other curricula, people involved. Describes decisions made based on steps. Curriculum Description - Contains curriculum goal; list of units; visual model of curriculum if there is room; table of objectives, instructional and learner evaluation strategies; date of IRB approval. Results of Implementation - learner evaluation data, curriculum evaluation plans and data. Discussion and Conclusions - Observations about results and problems encountered, next steps and suggestions for others. An abstract, references and acknowledgements may be included. Graph Caption  To use these bullets and hanging indents, highlight the text and enter your own. DO NOT delete the highlighted text before typing in your own text because the bullets may disappear. Copy this text box to have additional replaceable bulleted text available.  Here is a first level bullet with a hanging indent.  Here is a second level bullet with a hanging indent. Here is a third level bullet and hanging indent. Usually these level bullets are not needed. 1. INTRODUCTION Caption 2: Lenticular CloudCaption 3: Marlborough River 3. CURRICULUM DESCRIPTION 4. RESULTS OF IMPLEMENTATON Caption 2: Tahquamenon Falls 5. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS To produce a clean, professional-looking poster that is easy to read, be sure to align the elements of the poster with each other. PowerPoint provides tools to help you in alignment. Text, boxes, bullets and other elements in a column are normally left-aligned with each other. Horizontal elements are usually aligned by their tops, centers or bottoms. Items that are next to each other but not the same size are frequently aligned by their centers. The Draw menu on the Drawing toolbar contains a command called Align or Distribute that aligns elements automatically.