You can contact Imogen at i. bertin @ ucc. ie
Imogen teaches a short course in "Communication Skills for New Media" at UCC. In her previous role as Publications Officer at NAIRTL, she designed and edited research posters, books, videos and websites. Imogen is interested in why posters tend to be used retrospectively, to report a piece of research, rather than as tools for discussion and creativity earlier in the research process.Educated in the UK at Wadham College, University of Oxford, Imogen spent too much time as a student doing theatre productions and writing for student newspapers, and too little on Philosophy and Physiology. Fortunately her unofficially acquired skills have kept her in work for the intervening decades, including twenty years working under the auspices of the Royal Society of Chemistry designing educational textbooks for schools and colleges.
An avid life-long learner, Imogen completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning for Higher Education with Ionad Bairre last year, and is currently working on the Association of Learning Technology's CMALT portfolio qualification.
The webinar will discuss:
What makes a successful poster?
How will your poster be read?
How can you encourage feedback and discussion of your research idea?
Why should you care about design?
What is the shape of your idea?
How can you re-use, reduce and recycle your poster for maximum impact and minimum effort?
Click here to access the recording.
Click here to see the upcoming webinars in this series.
You are encouraged to use this blog to post queries and comments before or after the event.
Webinar additional resources (you have creative commons permission to use any of my material with attribution):
ReplyDeletePecha-Kucha version (6 mins) given at CELT conference NUIG June 2010 on slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/imogenbertin
Some poster-related links from my delicious tags:
http://www.delicious.com/imogenbertin/posters
Mechanics of how to create a Powerpoint single page poster:
http://www.cork-teleworking.com/old_content/downloads/Creatingresearchposter.ppt
Rough plan of a workshop session on these topics:
http://www.cork-teleworking.com/old_content/downloads/posterworkshopdraft2.doc
Kevin Dunbar:
http://utoronto.academia.edu/KevinDunbar/Papers/79774/The_new_field_of_Educational_Neuroscience
http://utoronto.academia.edu/KevinDunbar/Papers/79763/Brain_and_reasoning_in_physics
My OER course materials on Communications Skills for the New Media Age on projectspace (you need to get a free Openlearn ID to access it).
http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=6036
Imogen- I very much enjoyed your webinar- nice use of the poll tool btw.
ReplyDeleteI imagine that the webinar could perhaps equally have been about the use of (and benefits of ) visual communications?
There was an interesting episode of the Apprentice recently where the participants had to come up with a packaging design for some products- many of the same principles apply such as the title, USPs, use of colour, font, size, attracting attention, visually pleasing... perhaps use of graphics... The concepts generated were less than successful, with one food product's packaging being reminiscent of ZIP fire-lighters (-:
Creating a poster would also force learners to think about structure, sequence, succinct wording, use of visuals, interesting titles and headings... all equally useful in constructing a report.
Another implicit message may have been about the nature of human perception- I was sure that the two balls would hit the ground at the same time, but after watching the video, I was questioning my own belief, and was trying to think why it was? Very clever! This principle could be used to test students strength of belief.. introduce a case or study which indicates a contra-theory/result and see how many stand by the "correct" answer...
I will check out some of those links above over the holidays- apologies for missing the live class.
Best wishes,
Sean Rattigan.
Hi Sean - glad you enjoyed it! I saw that Apprentice, it was great! I should add that as a weblink. I never said doing the workshop would make you a designer... but I do believe most people have more creativity than they think. You are spot on that it also helps with structuring any accompanying paper, although disciplinary constraints tend to fetter creativity in that department!
ReplyDeleteThe workshop is better if it is run as a session like this, plus an hour of hands-on PowerPoint to get people started, with a follow up hour or two hours a couple of weeks later when they have assembled more content.
Part of the reason poster design has become formulaic is the use of printshop designers who don't often understand what the poster is for, exactly... and tend to do what they are told instead of trying to "educate" the customers.
Can I get in touch about that human perception thing? Would love to get your ideas. I feel that one of the effects of current Irish second level education is that a lot of students are too willing to believe everything a person in authority tells them... and this is also part of digital literacy.
Best wishes
Imogen