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CREATING A POSTER EXHIBIT For High Impact and Engagement

CREATING A POSTER EXHIBIT For High Impact and Engagement. Agenda. Identifying Content: What to Present Designing Presentation : Designing to get People’s Attention Mechanics : Putting Together the Poster. Who is My Audience?. What is Showcase?.

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CREATING A POSTER EXHIBIT For High Impact and Engagement

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  1. CREATING A POSTER EXHIBIT For High Impact and Engagement

  2. Agenda • Identifying Content: What to Present • Designing Presentation: Designing to get People’s Attention • Mechanics: Putting Together the Poster

  3. Who is My Audience? What is Showcase? • Showcase is an annual event. The first Showcase was in 2000. • Showcase is a time set aside to: • learn from each other, • recognize efforts on campus, • improve work, learning, and climate. • Campus Leaders and Administrators • Academic Staff • Classified Staff • Faculty • Students

  4. Schedule At-A-Glance Showcase • Poster Exhibits • Breakout Sessions • Keynote Session • PechaKucha • IMPORTANT – If you would like to attend the Keynote YOU Must Register for it.  

  5. Sample Layout of Great Hall Stage Registration Area

  6. Why Present a Poster at Showcase? • Celebrate your unit’s progress • Reflect on elements of your success • Connect with others from across campus • Help others learn from your experience to solve their challenges • It’s FUN!

  7. Criteria for an Effective Poster • Demonstrate benefits to your unit and/or across campus • Show how the approach might be applied in other units

  8. Highlight Accomplishments • Enhanced service to students, faculty, staff • Saved time and/or resources • Increased effectiveness and efficiency • Improved campus climate • Advanced the campus strategic priorities

  9. Best Practices/Case Study TemplateDocumenting Your Improvement • The Best Practices/Case Study template will help you document your project/process improvement • Once completed, you have a tool to organize your poster exhibit

  10. Showcase Program • Format • Poster Title • Unit • Poster Tagline • Website • Name / Unit / Department / Email (Sample page from program)

  11. Creating a Poster Title • Make it short, attention-grabbing, and appealing Examples: • Using Social Media to Reach Target Audiences • Embracing Customer Feedback to Improve Snow Clearing • Twitter: 140 Characters of Engagement • Dial-up Art • Improving the MPH Program with Student Feedback

  12. Creating a Tagline • Highlight the innovation or lesson learned Examples: • How the WAA is harnessing the power of Facebook and Twitter to reach students, job seekers, alumni chapters and all alumni in general. • Facing a blizzard of criticism, FP&M embraced the feedback as a catalyst to connect with customers, review processes and improve results. • Using Twitter to engage followers, drive traffic to online resources and collaborate with other campus partners. • A student-driven program that utilizes the ubiquitous cell phone to provide anytime self-guided audio tours of the Union’s art galleries. • Developing a simple, easy-to-use process to collect student feedback on admissions, orientation, registration, graduation and other administrative processes.

  13. What Does a Typical Display Look Like? Tri-Fold Table Top Displays On 36” x 48” Foam Core 1-2 Exhibits per Table

  14. Key Components • Clear explanation of process, purpose or improvement • Visual display of the project/process • Flowcharts or Graphs • Before & After Pictures • Photographs • Website “snapshots” • Documentation of the impact • Best Practices/Case Study form • Focus on What is Transferable

  15. Poster Templates

  16. Poster Exhibit Design Tips • Keep things simple • Use graphics • Limit the amount of text • Use fonts that are easy to read • For help reformatting text, colors, and objects within the PowerPoint, refer to the handout, “Getting Creative with your Poster” • For a downloadable version of theUW logo & official usage guidelines see:www.uc.wisc.edu/brand

  17. UW-Madison Brand and Visual Identity Guidelines

  18. Creating Your Showcase Poster Exhibit • Poster Creation at-a-glance (see handout): • Create and organize your poster content. • Create your poster. • Print your poster. • Purchase supplies. • Assemble your poster. • Additional instructions and resources are available at Exhibitor Resources on Showcase site, including: • Detailed poster creation instructions • Poster Planning Timeline • Best Practices/Case Study Form • Tri-fold PowerPoint Poster Template

  19. Sources for Materials • Art Supply or Book Stores • UW Bookstore • 3M Spray Mount • Tri-Fold Displays • Office Supply Stores • Staples – via MDS – add http://www.bussvc.wisc.edu/mds/mds.html • Tri-Fold Displays • 3M Spray Mount

  20. On Campus Printing Services • College Library New Media Center http://www.college.library.wisc.edu/technology/infolab/poster - 608-263-9889 • Color Printing for 3.00/ft2 • First Come, First Serve Printing • DoIT Large Format Printing http://www.doit.wisc.edu/printing/largeformat.asp - 608-262-3461 • Color Printing for 7.90/ft2 • Also offers foam core mounting for $3.80/ft2

  21. Showcase Handout Materials To keep poster content clear and concise, additional materials may be used to furtherexplain or clarify your improvement process • Example: Best Practices/Case Study Form • 50-75 copies • Suggestion: have a sign-up sheet available in case you run out of materials

  22. Showcase Technology • While planning your presentation, think about if you would like to bring a laptop and/or a larger monitor, etc. As Showcase approaches, we will be sending an email questionnaire regarding this information. • If you are planning to use the Internet, you must have… • A computer with a wireless card • A valid UW Net-ID & Password

  23. Showcase Set Up and Tear Down • DAY OF SHOWCASE: Memorial Union doors open 7:00 a.m., Wednesday, March 23, 2011 OR • DAY BEFORE SHOWCASE:Drop off materials on Tuesday, March 22, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Langdon Room, Memorial Union – 4th Floor • Exhibits should be fully setup in Great Hall, Memorial Union, by 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 23 (Poster exhibits displayed 8:00-11:00 a.m.) • Take exhibit down by 2:00 p.m.

  24. *** MATERIALS TO SUBMIT *** • Poster Title (should match your poster) • Poster Tagline / brief description(25 words or less) • S/C, Unit/Department • Presenter/Contributor Names, Emails, S/C, Unit/Department • URL (if applicable) • Digital version of your poster (ppt or pdf) • Submit Materials to: showcase@oqi.wisc.edu You will receive an email from “Showcase” that will ask for this information.

  25. ShowcaseContacts Poster exhibit information is also available at http://www.quality.wisc.edu/showcase.htm Kristine Fisher (608) 265-5123 kkfisher2@wisc.edu Bruce Harville (608) 262-9261 beharville@wisc.edu PJ Barnes (608) 262-6843 pjbarnes@wisc.edu showcase@oqi.wisc.edu Office of Quality Improvement Contacts Maury Cotter (608) 262-9313 mcotter@wisc.edu Darin Harris (608) 262-1289 djharris@wisc.edu Nancy Thayer-Hart (608) 263-6856 nthayerhart@wisc.edu George Watson (608) 265-5122 gwatson@wisc.edu Kathy Luker (608) 265-3761 kwluker@wisc.edu

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