1. Creating Poster Presentations Thinking Matters 2010

2. Examples of Posters  Bad Bad  Good Good  North Carolina State University North Carolina State University

3. Templates Using PowerPoint  36” x 48” (change under Page Setup)  ½” margin around poster  Landscape orientation  Will print side ways

4. Example of a Template  Rendering IRIS Lab Rendering IRIS Lab

5. Layout  Content  Title - centered  Name, Faculty sponsor – centered under Title  Abstract in upper left hand corner  Summarize using headings in large letters  Introduction  Method  Results  Conclusion  Recommendations  Acknowledgements, citations, references  USM and department logos, sponsors

6. Layout, cont.  Color  Light background :: Dark Text  Dark background :: Light Text  No distracting background – images or color

7. Layout, cont.  Text Font  San-serif for title and headings (Arial)  This is San-Serif type  Serif for body (Times New Roman)  This is Serif type  Text Size  Title – at least 48 points  Headings – 36 points  Body – 24 points  Acknowledgements, citations, references – smaller text

8. Flow of poster  Organize with good headings to help move readers through poster  Be hierarchical – more important the information, larger the font size  Be bold and make strongest statements research allows  Logical flow to where you want readers to go next  Read left to right  Remember symmetry in your poster  Remember focus of poster > results vs methods

9. North Carolina StateNorth Carolina State - effective poster presentations

10. Photos  Insert photo  Make smaller or larger by grabbing corner handles  Compress photo to make poster size smaller

11. Photo Example

12. Using Graphs  Choose correct graph to depict data  Contrast  Compare  Labeled axis must be readable  Beware of too much information  Use smaller font than body of poster  Yellow does not show up on graphs  Include information figure captions for graphs – usually first sentence explaining graph

13. Graph Example

14. Submitting Finished Product  Preview post in pdf format to check:  Fonts - readable  Colors – not distracting  Photos - compressed  Name presentation:  Last_first_title.pdf  Submitted by April 9, 2010  Submit to: