Poster Project Research Articles

The Power of Linking Organ Systems

Understanding the body’s homeostasis through interactions among the eleven organ systems is an essential foundation for pre-professional undergraduate students studying human anatomy and physiology. This knowledge enables students to understand the pathophysiology of various disease states that result from non homeostatic conditions. We created an organ systems-based applied learning module containing the signs and symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), which can assist in increasing student engagement while making connections between normal conditions and disease states. The purpose of this module was to encourage students to use critical thinking skills and apply what they have learned in the classroom to real-world situations. Anatomy and Physiology II students at Gordon State College first learned about four major organ systems: endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, and urinary. Students completed each lesson and the corresponding assignment containing the basic functions of each organ system. Students then identified the organ systems’ physiological contributions to the signs and symptoms of DKA, such as hyperglycemia, ketoacidosis, ketonuria, hypokalemia, and osmotic diuresis. At the end of the semester, the students presented posters summarizing their overall understanding of the eleven organ systems’ involvement with the signs and symptoms of DKA. This learning module with the DKA poster project offered an innovative way for students to apply their classroom learning to real-world situations relevant to their potential future careers.

Empowering Librarians Worldwide

This paper details the analytical process and presents recommendations for the enhancement of the International Librarians Networking Program (ILNP), informed by participant feedback. The work was done as part of the 2023 American Library Association’s (ALA) Emerging Leaders program. The recommendations span four critical dimensions: communication enhancement, application process revision, poster project refinement, and the establishment of an alumni group. These proposed enhancements aim to effectively address the challenges articulated by ILNP participants, elevate the program’s overall quality, and align it with the overarching objectives of the International Relations Round Table (IRRT). IRRT’s mission revolves around empowering librarians worldwide through networking and the exchange of professional knowledge, making these proposed improvements integral to realizing this mission.

Scientific digital poster assignments: strengthen concepts, train creativity, and communication skills

Student-centered learning promotes the development of students’ knowledge and skills with poster assignments used to ensure their active participation in academics. Therefore, this research aims to explore student competencies in concept strengthening, creativity, and communication skills from working on digital poster project assignments. Research using observation method with a quantitative approach. Data were collected from 86 participants learning plant systematics in their first semester based on the criteria for strengthening the concept, creativity, communication, and student responses. The instruments used for data collection were a poster scoring rubric and a closed questionnaire. Data were analyzed descriptively with simple statistics in the form of average, standard deviation, and percentage. The hypothesis about the correlation of concept strengthening, creativity, and communication was tested with Spearman’s coefficient. The result showed that students made 29 posters with concept strengthening, creativity and communication skills in the very good (3.42±0.49), very good (3.57±0.26), and very good (3.41±0.25) categories, respectively. Student competency shows a positive correlation between communication skills and concept reinforcement and between communication skills and creativity. Students give a positive response to the application of posters in learning in terms of learning experiences, concept strengthening, creativity and communication. Hence, using posters as project assignments in learning helps develop students’ knowledge and skills by acquiring varied experiences.

Utilizing a Poster Project as an Assessment in an Introductory Abstract Algebra Course

ABSTRACT Though posters have been used as a pedagogical tool in a variety of fields, the literature suggests that the use of posters as an educational assessment tool by the mathematics community has been limited. This is unfortunate given the numerous potential benefits of a poster, including the development of oral communication skills and the ability to examine a mathematical topic at a deeper level. We describe the use of a poster project in an introductory abstract algebra course with specific implementation guidance including a schedule of assignments and assessment criteria. We also include reflections on the success of this project over several semesters as well as advice for adapting the project to a remote course. Samples of student posters are available upon request to the authors.

Implementing a longitudinal poster project to engage pharmacy students beyond the classroom in a foundational sciences course

Introduction: Poster projects and presentations can provide engagement and skill-building opportunities for students. A group poster project was incorporated into a first-year required genetics and pharmacogenomics course. Rough drafts were due for the project throughout the term, which coincided with course topics. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of a longitudinal poster project on pharmacy students' perceptions of learning, presentation skills, and success in future presentations. Methods: Students in a Doctor of Pharmacy programme were surveyed via Google Forms in 2018 before and after completing the poster project. The original cohort of students were surveyed again in 2020. Data were analysed with Graphpad Prism software. Results: Students responded positively to survey questions gauging their perception of the project’s value as a learning tool, especially for reinforcing and applying course concepts. Overall, students saw the benefit of completing poster rough drafts and believed the poster was helpful in preparing and/or presenting future posters. Conclusions: A similar project could be built into any foundational course in a Doctor of Pharmacy programme. However, care should be taken to provide appropriate feedback and mentorship to students to optimise the benefits of learning and development of poster presentation skills.

Outside the Locus of Control: Palestinian Digital Archives Resist Israeli Settler-Colonial Erasure

This article examines Palestinian digital archiving in the context of the Israeli regime’s settler-colonial suppression and erasure of Palestinian knowledge. Looking closely at the efforts of three digital archives, the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive, the Palestinian Oral History Archive, and the Palestine Poster Project Archives, it argues that Palestinian digital archival projects, despite structural and technical limitations, serve to safeguard Palestinian knowledges and histories from Zionist violence. Noting examples of Israel’s looting, destruction, and closure of physical Palestinian archives, the author posits that researchers should use digital archives in tandem with materials accessed in Israeli colonial archives to challenge dominant and distorted Zionist narratives, and to fill in the knowledge gaps in the long arc of the struggle for Palestinian liberation.

Social Issues Shared Through Posters and Videos: A Way for Enhancing Productive Skills in ESL Students

According to experts, students respond better to challenges where creativity and innovation are boosted than in the classical teaching-learning model, this also includes the English classroom. Based on this premise, this mixed and pre-experimental design research seeks to share the effect of a social poster project on tertiary education students’ productive skills performance in a public institution in Peru. The data was collected from 71 participants who were assessed before and after this through pre and post-test. In addition, a closed and open-ended questions survey was carried out to know the participants’ views on their posters’ creation experience and look for the most common rhetorical elements in their creation. The most noteworthy findings were the statistically significant score improvements in productive skills in the participants, upon project completion, and the favorable opinion about this, in conjunction with their preference for Logos design, at the time of persuading people.

The Use of Research Posters in The Elt Classroom

The use of actual classroom posters is a blend of using technology and developing students’ tactile senses. The students at the English Language School at the International Balkan University attend a one-year intensive language program. In order to implement alternative teaching methods and techniques, during the winter semester students participate in a research poster presentation project. The aims of the poster projects include: promoting team work, developing students’ cooperation and collaborative skills, as well as their research skills, and learning English in a fun and creative way. A survey was conducted with 200 students in order to receive students’ feedback on the poster project experience. According to the survey results, most students chose learning English in a fun and creative way and improving their team work skills both as the most important and the most interesting things they learned during the poster projects. Students found working with others and finding the right information on the internet to be the least appealing aspect of the project. They had most difficulties with reacting to teachers’ and other students’ comments, as well as working with other students and learning from them. In conclusion, students are generally in favour of alternative methods of teaching, such as learning English through making and presenting posters. Furthermore, teachers should consider the fact that students have not had much previous experience with team work and therefore need additional training to help them collaborate better and to learn how to respond to feedback and assessment of their work.

Sign and Symbolic Systems as Cultural Codes: Recognition and Interaction of Symbols

The purpose of the study is to reveal the patterns of pictorial coding and the formation of symbolic images and visual systems based on them in propaganda graphics during the war between russia and Ukraine. Research methods. The methodology of the research is based on semantic and structural art analysis. The scientific novelty of the research is the reflecting of the spectrum of iconic and symbolic images, which represent the accuracy of coding socio-historical events and the clarity of their fixation in visual communications; and also – detection of differentiation of standard and innovative signs and symbols. Conclusions. In the considered poster projects, the most characteristic forms of image-visual coding of information are highlighted; there are established "traditional", "innovative" and "situational" symbolic forms, and the conditions of their interaction to ensure the quality of the communicative process are defined. Thus, the campaign graphics of KNUKiM students reveals appealing to the treasure trove of already established forms of conventional signs-indexes and conventional symbols, as well as its enrichment with new symbols. Violent and rapidly changing social events and the need for their wide discussion in society lead to the formation of both new visual word images and their "word combinations" and linguistic interpretations. Simultaneously, visual symbols are updated, containing layers of information that are much larger and more meaningful than the initial interpretation of each individual symbol. At the same time, the combined use of various symbols and the leveling of the unification of visual stylistics lead to unexpected and not always expected by the authors results of the "decoding" graphic appeals. In view of the mentioned problem, it is urgent and necessary to focus the attention of scientists on the in-depth and more detailed illumination of symbols and stylistic ways of their display, which are currently being formed and spread in the information environment.

INSTAGRAM : A MEDIUM IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING

Instagram is a popular social media among young people, particularly students. It can be used for students to share their most memorable moments and improve their writing skills. The students may compose a narrative and publish it on Instagram. The teacher can then evaluate their creative writing. This study aims to analyze how Instagram digital poster projects can help students improve their writing skills. To support this analysis, the researchers utilized a qualitative methodology and applied the Teaching by Principle theory by H. Douglas Brown and Heekyong Lee and the New Media theory by J. Van Dijck and T. Poell. The scope of the study was derived from the writing of SMK Binakarya Mandiri Bekasi students and some supporting articles. There were three participants included in this study. This study's findings show that students can improve creative digital poster project on their Instagram accounts.

Implementation of an Online Poster Symposium for a Large-Enrollment, Natural Science, General Education, Asynchronous Course

Asynchronous online courses are popular because they offer benefits to both students and instructors. Students benefit from the convenience, flexibility, affordability, freedom of geography, and access to information. Instructors and institutions benefit by having a broad geographical reach, scalability, and cost-savings of no physical classroom. A challenge with asynchronous online courses is providing students with engaging, collaborative and interactive experiences. Here, we describe how an online poster symposium can be used as a unique educational experience and assessment tool in a large-enrollment (e.g., 500 students), asynchronous, natural science, general education (GE) course. The course, Introduction to Environmental Science (ENR2100), was delivered using distance education (DE) technology over a 15-week semester. In ENR2100 students learn a variety of topics including freshwater resources, surface water, aquifers, groundwater hydrology, ecohydrology, coastal and ocean circulation, drinking water, water purification, wastewater treatment, irrigation, urban and agricultural runoff, sediment and contaminant transport, water cycle, water policy, water pollution, and water quality. Here we present a is a long-term study that takes place from 2017 to 2022 (before and after COVID-19) and involved 5,625 students over 8 semesters. Scaffolding was used to break up the poster project into smaller, more manageable assignments, which students completed throughout the semester. Instructions, examples, how-to videos, book chapters and rubrics were used to accommodate Students’ different levels of knowledge. Poster assignments were designed to teach students how to find and critically evaluate sources of information, recognize the changing nature of scientific knowledge, methods, models and tools, understand the application of scientific data and technological developments, and evaluate the social and ethical implications of natural science discoveries. At the end of the semester students participated in an asynchronous online poster symposium. Each student delivered a 5-min poster presentation using an online learning management system and completed peer reviews of their classmates’ posters using a rubric. This poster project met the learning objectives of our natural science, general education course and taught students important written, visual and verbal communication skills. Students were surveyed to determine, which parts of the course were most effective for instruction and learning. Students ranked poster assignments first, followed closely by lectures videos. Approximately 87% of students were confident that they could produce a scientific poster in the future and 80% of students recommended virtual poster symposiums for online courses.

Artist Portfolio: Posters About Policing

Artist Portfolio: Posters About Policing

“Real war ammunition:” Artists for Victory, the National War Poster Competition, and the Hostile Imagination on the United States World War II Home Front

“Real war ammunition:” Artists for Victory, the National War Poster Competition, and the Hostile Imagination on the United States World War II Home Front

Plant phylogeny posters – useful digital teaching tools for botanical education

Visual documentation and presentation are essential for botanical education. Wallcharts and posters depicting plant structures and evolutionary relationships as phylogenetic trees have served as essential tools in teaching. With the advancement of digital technologies, new approaches to a traditional concept have become feasible. The Plant Phylogeny Poster project is a collaborative initiative providing clear and concise overviews of orders, families and genera of various groups of plants. The global project now involves around 150 botanists from all around the world with currently 400 posters in 35 languages (as of March 2022). All posters are freely available online and regularly updated, providing an extensive portfolio of versatile new teaching resources for educators.

Practice Based in Learning Theory: Peer Leaders Explain their Poster Projects

Three Peer Leaders present their final projects, one in Mathematics and two in Statics (Civil Engineering), for a one-credit course in Peer Leader Facilitation at New York City College of Technology, City University of New York, at the Honors and Emerging Scholars Poster Presentation in December 2015. The impetus for videotaping their presentations was the commemoration of a process which could be termed “How to Make a Poster.” The abbreviated directions are provided here. To aid the viewer of the videos, editing provides the static text of the poster section as the Peer Leader discusses that section. Introducing videos as exemplary practice advances the presentation of research in Peer Leader facilitation and theory.

Eyes Toward Tomorrow Program Enhancing Collaboration, Connections, and Community Using Bioinspired Design.

The goal of our Eyes Toward Tomorrow Program is to enrich the future workforce with STEM by providing students with an early, inspirational, interdisciplinary experience fostering inclusive excellence. We attempt to open the eyes of students who never realized how much their voice is urgently needed by providing an opportunity for involvement, imagination, invention, and innovation. Students see how what they are learning, designing, and building matters to their own life, community, and society. Our program embodies convergence by obliterating artificially created, disciplinary boundaries to go far beyond STEM or even STEAM by including artists, designers, social scientists, and entrepreneurs collaborating in diverse teams using scientific discoveries to create inventions that could shape our future. Our program connects two recent revolutions by amplifying Bioinspired Design with the Maker Movement and its democratizing effects empowering anyone to innovate and change the world. Our course is founded in original discovery. We explain the process of biological discovery and the importance of scaling, constraints, and complexity in selecting systems for bioinspired design. By spotlighting scientific writing and publishing, students become more science literate, learn how to decompose a biology research paper, extract the principles, and then propose a novel design by analogy. Using careful, early scaffolding of individual design efforts, students build the confidence to interact in teams. Team building exercises increase self-efficacy and reveal the advantages of a diverse set of minds. Final team video and poster project designs are presented in a public showcase. Our program forms a student-centered creative action community comprised of a large-scale course, student-led classes, and a student-created university organization. The program structure facilitates a community of learners that shifts the students' role from passive knowledge recipients to active co-constructors of knowledge being responsible for their own learning, discovery, and inventions. Students build their own shared database of discoveries, classes, organizations, research openings, internships, and public service options. Students find next step opportunities so they can see future careers. Description of our program here provides the necessary context for our future publications on assessment that examine 21st century skills, persistence in STEM, and creativity.

The ‘Palestine poster’ and everyday memoricide: Making killing memory mundane

This article looks at the Liberation Graphics Collection of Palestine Posters – a collection of 1600 ‘Palestine posters’ submitted to UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme during its 2014–2015 and 2016–2017 rounds. Despite receiving unanimous support for inscription, this nomination was effectively vetoed twice by UNESCO’s Director-General. The Collection frames the Palestine poster as ‘an essential medium through which Palestinians communicated their aspirations and international supporters expressed their solidarity’. Among these aspirations is a desire to identify and expose Israeli memoricide (‘the killing of memory’). Importantly, symbols like the house-key and olive tree transform otherwise mundane objects into potent signifiers calling attention to how memoricidal processes impacted spaces beyond the high-profile. Conversely, by drawing upon Zionist posters collected within the more expansive Palestine Poster Project Archives online, my analysis also explores the reconstructive side of memoricide. These materials simultaneously facilitate and obfuscate the killing of memory. Memoricide becomes normalised, a mundane (and thus invisible) facet of everyday life, practised by ordinary people.

Postmodernism Techniques in Poster Projects of the Period of Covid-19 Pandemic

The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the use of postmodern techniques in poster projects of the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research methods. The methodological basis of the study is comparative and art analysis. The scientific novelty of the study is the consideration of the poster activity of the pandemic period 2020-2021 in the context of postmodernism. Conclusions. In the current poster projects of the quarantine period, postmodern features are clearly traced, which are manifested not only in the visual language of the works, but also in the ways of exhibiting and positioning posters in society and the media. The pictorial component is characterized by the use of metaphor as a universal method, as well as a combination of different styles, multiple approaches, the lack of a dominant vector in solving the visual image. The use of double coding, quotes, reminiscences, games, irony, etc. is revealed.

Spanning the Globe – The Plant Phylogeny Poster (PPP) Project

Historically, wallcharts and posters created by botanical illustrators, often highly skilled artists, have played an important role in teaching botany at the university level. Large-scale panels and posters can visualize complex interrelationships and entire stories in a clear and appealing overview in graphs, tables, and diagrams. Carrying this concept of educational tools into the electronic era, the Plant Phylogeny Poster project uses this approach for displaying evolutionary relationships in systematic botany. The Angiosperm Phylogeny Poster (APP) displays, as phylogenetically arranged clades, the orders and families of flowering plants (with orders hyperlinked to APweb, Stevens, 2001–onwards), the Tracheophyte Phylogeny Poster (TPP) families and genera of ferns and gymnosperms, and the Bryophyte Phylogeny Poster (BPP) orders and families of liverworts, mosses, and hornworts. The portfolio currently also includes about 30 posters on individual orders and families of angiosperms. Each group within these evolutionary trees is matched with essentially relevant morphological features, biogeographic occurrences, and other information in compactly condensed text blocks. All posters are freely available online, some in more than 30 languages, coauthored by a team of more than 130 botanists. The posters are regularly updated, current literature is cited. The project is expanding steadily and rapidly.

Marketing topics through academic posters: An avenue to student autonomy and active citizenship

Since social and environmental challenges posed by the highly volatile, uncertain and complex world will mainly impact upon the young, schools need to instill in their graduates a set of critical-thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, strategy-building, and communication skills in order for students to be informed and engaged citizens. This paper postulates that in higher education institutions (HEIs), this can be achieved through fostering motivation and student autonomy. Academic posters are proposed as one of the relevant tools allowing educators to adopt an autonomy-supportive style of teaching that leads to enhanced independence, interest, and responsibility for social affairs. At their core, academic poster projects facilitate academic skills, including information processing, reading, writing, presenting, and defending ideas. Embracing in-depth research and enhanced social dialogue in lessons, they pinpoint leading ideas of the current young generation and as such can predict the topics of the future. Academic poster projects can be adopted in general subjects, as well as in language teaching, thus providing educators with a potent tool to achieve broad educational goals.