112 Smartboards for Poster Presentations with Michelle Harris – 03.16.2018

At the September 5, 2017 Active Teaching Lab, Michelle Harris shared how students in the Biocore program give oral presentations of their final research projects in the form of electronic posters. Visit the session’s activity sheet for more information.

Takeaways

• Course and assignment activities are directly connected to Program Goals (including communicating solutions to problems based on evidence).
• Course is based on CURE (Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience), where the questions addressed don’t yet have answers (vs. recipe book experiences).
• Before the posters, students present a slideshow “pitch” of their project in person, in order to get a “check” (part of the project). Then they formalize the pitch in a graded written proposal. Then they do formal graded presentations, followed by development of the Poster.
• Students helped her figure out how to use the technology more effectively (tip: be open and encouraging of this).
• They require student groups to do a practice session (run-through) on the whiteboard to build familiarity.
• The biggest win is that students get a chance to reflect on and revise their ePoster (better cognitive activity).

Video

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