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TITLE: Template for a 42” wide x 42” tall poster OPTIONAL
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Put your name and other authors of your paper or poster here
Put your institution’s address and name here
About this Template Customizing the Template Color Schemes CHEP Poster Guidelines
This template was designed to produce a correctly sized poster for the For those who wish to further personalize their poster presentation, we have Posters are meant to be conversation starters and reference sources.
Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy. included a number of printer-tested alternative color schemes for this poster Images, graphs, and short bulleted lists will garner attention and direct
template.
discussion. Less is more when it comes to posters!
You can modify it freely! If you want to change the default colors and use your own color scheme, go to
FORMAT>SLIDE DESIGN. Select COLOR SCHEMES.
Poster Dimensions and Materials
This free template was downloaded and modified from
The maximum size for a poster is 42" wide X 42" tall (portrait). This
PosterPresentations.com.
Importing Photographs allows two posters to be hung side-by-side on the provided poster
stanchions.
To insert an image to your poster go to INSERT>PICTURE>FROM FILE.
Posters should be printed on standard or heavyweight paper and may be
Be sure the photo is of sufficient resolution for quality printing, but not so large laminated or vinyl. Do not use tri-fold systems, tag board, foam board,
as to create a PPT file that is > 1 MB. cardboard or other materials that cannot be hung with conventional push
pins.
When the only source of a needed photo or graphic is the Web, scaling has to
Poster Basics – Poster Layout be applied with caution. Scaling an image more than three times its original Poster Printing
size may introduce pixelization artifacts. Refer to figure 10 as an example. A The Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research
To start using this template you first need to delete most of the contents of this
simple way to preview the printing quality of an image is to zoom in at 100% or (CIDER) at Virginia Tech extends an offer to print posters for
page. Keep the poster title and one of the blue section headers.
200%, depending on the final size of the poster. What you’ll see is likely what presenters at the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, free of
you’ll get at printing time. charge, then transport and hang them at the conference venue.
The cleared template should now look like in Figure 1.
After you decide how many sections you need for your poster (Introduction, Posters must be uploaded using the Presenter Utilities tool. For the
Methods, Results, References, etc.), use the “copy” and “paste” commands to last date on which to upload your poster to be printed for free,
create as many copies of the blue section headers as needed. consult the conference web site. To use this free poster printing
service, please adhere to the following:
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 •Maximum of 42” wide x 42” tall
column to the right edge and start typing in your text. You can also paste the Figure 10: Original image at 100%, enlarged 200% and 400%.
•Single PowerPoint slide (we provide no editing or integration)
text you may have already copied from another source. •Upload file using the Presenter Utilities tool. You will receive email
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confirmation when your poster has been printed.
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Labeling your Headers •Minimize use of color
•Background must be white
The blue headers are used to identify and separate the main topics of your •File size should be less than 1.0 MB (reducing image sizes before
presentation. The most commonly used headers in poster presentations are:
Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3
adding to poster can help with this)
Introduction, Summary
or Abstract
Conclusion Poster Hanging
Text Sizes Posters are to be hung in Latham Ballroom C prior to the start of the
Materials and Methods Literature Cited conference on the day of your session. You will have access to the room
You can use any typeface you like and at any size but be sure to use font sizes one hour before the conference begins each day and up through the
that enable people to view and read the contents of the poster at an arm’s Results Acknowledgements
poster session start. We ask that posters be hung as early in the day as
length.
Contact
possible to avoid delays. Information
Posters printed by CIDER will be transported to
Importing Tables & Graphs the conference site and hung by staff the morning of the session.
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
Changing the Poster’s Column Layout 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
Depending on how you layout your poster, you may want to change the column
one of the corners.
layout configuration.
TABLE ONE
Alternative master layouts can be accessed through FORMAT>SLIDE 1998 1999 2000 Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research
LAYOUT. The slide design pane will open. From there you can select an 2001 2002 2003 111 Hillcrest Hall
alternate layout. 2004 2005 2006 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.
