TITLE: Template for a 42” wide x 42” tall poster
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Customizing the Template Color Schemes
About this Template
CHEP Poster Guidelines
For those who wish to further personalize their poster presentation, we have
included a number of printer-tested alternative color schemes for this poster
template.
If you want to change the default colors and use your own color scheme, go to
FORMAT>SLIDE DESIGN. Select COLOR SCHEMES.
This template was designed to produce a correctly sized poster for the
Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy.
You can modify it freely!
This free template was downloaded and modified from
PosterPresentations.com.
Posters are meant to be conversation starters and reference sources.
Images, graphs, and short bulleted lists will garner attention and direct
discussion. Less is more when it comes to posters!
Poster Dimensions and Materials
The maximum size for a poster is 42" wide X 48" tall (portrait). This allows
two posters to be hung side-by-side on the provided poster stanchions.
Importing Photographs
Posters should be printed on standard or heavyweight paper and may be
laminated or vinyl. Do not use tri-fold systems, tag board, foam board,
cardboard or other materials that cannot be hung with conventional push
pins.
To insert an image to your poster go to INSERT>PICTURE>FROM FILE.
Be sure the photo is of sufficient resolution for quality printing, but not so large
as to create a PPT file that is > 1 MB.
Poster Basics – Poster Layout
To start using this template you first need to delete most of the contents of this
page. Keep the poster title and one of the blue section headers.
The cleared template should now look like in Figure 1.
After you decide how many sections you need for your poster (Introduction,
Methods, Results, References, etc.), use the “copy” and “paste” commands
to create as many copies of the blue section headers as needed.
When the only source of a needed photo or graphic is the Web, scaling has to
be applied with caution. Scaling an image more than three times its original
size may introduce pixelization artifacts. Refer to figure 10 as an example. A
simple way to preview the printing quality of an image is to zoom in at 100% or
200%, depending on the final size of the poster. What you’ll see is likely what
you’ll get at printing time.
You can now start adding your text.
To add text use the text tool to draw a text box starting from the left edge of a
column to the right edge and start typing in your text. You can also paste the
text you may have already copied from another source.
•Maximum of 42” wide x 42” tall
•Single PowerPoint slide (we provide no editing or integration)
•Upload file using the Presenter Utilities tool. You will receive email
confirmation when your poster has been printed.
•Minimize use of color
•Background must be white
•File size should be less than 1.0 MB (reducing image sizes before
adding to poster can help with this)
Figure 10: Original image at 100%, enlarged 200% and 400%.
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Labeling your Headers
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The blue headers are used to identify and separate the main topics of your
presentation. The most commonly used headers in poster presentations are:
Figure 1
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Figure 3
Text Sizes
You can use any typeface you like and at any size but be sure to use font sizes
that enable people to view and read the contents of the poster at an arm’s
length.
Introduction, Summary
or Abstract
Conclusion
Materials and Methods
Literature Cited
Results
Acknowledgements
Poster Hanging
Posters are to be hung in Latham Ballroom C prior to the start of the
conference on the day of your session. You will have access to the room
one hour before the conference begins each day and up through the
poster session start. We ask that posters be hung as early in the day as
possible to avoid delays. Posters printed by CIDER will be transported to
the conference site andContact
hung by staff
the morning of the session.
Information
Importing Tables & Graphs
Changing the Poster’s Column Layout
Depending on how you layout your poster, you may want to change the column
layout configuration.
Poster Printing
The Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research
(CIDER) at Virginia Tech extends an offer to print posters for
presenters at the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, free of
charge, then transport and hang them at the conference venue.
Posters must be uploaded using the Presenter Utilities tool. For the
last date on which to upload your poster to be printed for free,
consult the conference web site. To use this free poster printing
service, please adhere to the following:
To import charts and graphs from Excel, Word or other applications, go to
EDIT>COPY, copy your chart and come back to PowerPoint. Go to
EDIT>PASTE and paste the chart on the poster. You can scale your charts and
tables proportionally by holding down the Shift key and dragging in or out one
of the corners.
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TABLE ONE
Alternative master layouts can be accessed through FORMAT>SLIDE
LAYOUT. The slide design pane will open. From there you can select an
alternate layout.
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2000
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West
North
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2003
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2nd Qtr
3rd Qtr
4th Qtr
Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research
111 Hillcrest Hall
540.231.7930
www.cider.vt.edu
For the last date on which to upload your poster to be printed for free,
consult the conference web site.