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Creating an Academic Poster in PowerPoint
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An effective poster can grab attention of a moving audience with a message. It shares your scholarly work visually and facilitates conversations with your peers. In this workshop, we will talk about the general guidelines on how to create an effective poster. In addition, there will be a hands-on activity of creating a poster in PowerPoint. • 00:00 Overview of the workshop • 01:10 Why posters • 01:32 How are posters judged • 02:06 Posters are judged by content, design, and communication • 04:02 How to create visually exciting design • 04:27 Use succinct, large, and descriptive text • 06:20 Have strong, supportive and high quality graphics • 08:08 Leave enough white space to give “breathing room” • 09:15 Apply proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast (PARC), the four design principles • 15:28 Summary of the presentation • 16:40 Beginning of the hands-on part, creating the poster to the size you want to print out • 20:50 Three steps of creating a poster • 21:40 Add text to create a basic frame work • 23:10 Use one font family and use San Serif font • 24:00 Follow font size guideline • 24:50 Decide the flow and layout of your poster • 26:09 Add graphics to better explain your research work • 26:39 How to differentiate a bitmap image from a vector image • 29:38 How to tell if a bitmap image has enough pixels to have a good printout quality • 32:48 Cropping an image, adding frame/border to an image • 35:11 Removing background from an image (e.g., removing background from a water jar) • 38:03 Creating shapes and objects in PowerPoint (e.g., creating a skateboard) • 41:51 Inserting Excel charts to PowerPoint • 46:27 Applying PARC the four design principles • 46:50 Creating contrast using high contrast colors from your organization’s color palette • 50:42 Borrowing high contrast color combinations from PowerPoint’s built-in theme colors • 54:08 Applying repetition to create organization and unity • 57:02 Alignment - using guides and grids to align objects • 01:00:44 Proximity - group related items together to reduce clutter and create organization (e.g. leave 1” margin around all edges and enough margin space within text boxes) • 01:05:51 Finished poster, proof reading, and saving as PDF for printing • 01:06:35 On campus printing resources • 01:07:14 Finished poster and takeaways
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