At our annual Faculty Showcase of Creative Teaching practices and SoTL Research we allow UCF faculty a chance to share their SoTL projects that have been completed, are in progress, or are merely planned, as well as display posters that share teaching practices. The Faculty Center underwrites the cost of printing these posters.
We provide poster templates and sample layouts. We encourage all UCF Faculty to participate and display their work. Posters need to be submitted two weeks before the event so they can be printed and mounted on trifold in time. Please email FCTL (fctl@mail.ucf.edu) to get started creating a poster.
2008 Faculty Showcase
April 2, 2008 (Student Union: Cape Florida 316CD)
12:00 - 3:00
Panel discussion and hosted lunch
For more information, contact fctl@mail.ucf.edu
to let us know of your interest in creating a poster. Posters must be electronically submitted to the Faculty Center by March 21 to be printed in time for the event.
Click here to register to attend all or part of the Faculty Showcase and the hosted lunch.
2007 Faculty Showcase - Keynote by Elizabeth Grauerholz
April 4, 2007 (Student Union: Key West 218C and Pensacola Board Room)
12:00 - 3:00
Hosted Lunch
Posters created by UCF Faculty
Photographs of UCF Faculty at the poster session
Video of the keynote speaker Elizabeth Grauerholz (UCF SoTL Professor, Sociology) and Panel Presentation
To learn more about creating and presenting a poster, contact fctl@mail.ucf.edu
2006 Faculty Showcase - Keynote by Laurie Richlin
Laurie Richlin's PowerPoint presentation, Publishing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Posters created by UCF Faculty
Photographs of UCF Faculty at the poster session
Video of the keynote speaker Laurie Richlin and Panel Presentation
2005 Faculty Showcase - Keynote by Charles Glassick
Posters created by UCF Faculty
Photographs of UCF Faculty at the poster session
Video of the keynote speaker Charles Glassick
Posters on SoTL and Creative Teaching
New to creating academic posters? You can easily avoid having to design a poster from scratch, because we have provided an online sample (which is also pre-formatted to the right size) designed for a trifold display (it even contains sample categories you might want to emulate on your poster). There's also an external tutorial that details scientific posters explicitly.
We prefer to display the posters on trifold boards (which we will be provided). Thus, it is preferable if posters are designed to but cut into three strips (see the purple example below). Place your titles and graphical elements with care.
If you'd like to build the template yourself, see this next section:
Creating a poster from PowerPoint
Things to know about PowerPoint
- PowerPoint can only make slides up to 56 inches (This is a limitation of
PowerPoint that can not be changed).
- Avoid using preloaded PowerPoint patterns as backgrounds. These backgrounds, when used in a poster type of application, can make
very large files than can not be printed by our poster printer.
- Using the solid and gradient fills as background color within PowerPoint
are efficient ways to add color and depth without using up file space.
- Start with a blank slide layout. The slide layout feature of PowerPoint was not
intended to be used when making a slide as large as a poster so to avoid the
problems that this creates just avoid using preloaded slide layouts. Or, start with this template, which is already formatted to the right size for a poster.
Things to know about printing
- The printer in OIR is 36” wide but has a printing area of 34”. It is a good idea to keep text and objects away from the edge of the paper, these items can be cut off by the built in margins of the printer.
- The poster printer cannot handle a file larger than 20 megabytes. Files that exceed 20 megabytes cause the printer to lock up and not print due to the fact that the filesize over runs the printing buffer. To keep file size low be conscious of images that are inserted they should not exceed 150dpi at final print size.
- Images found on the internet are often times not even large enough to meet
the low dpi standard and still print large enough to be seen on the poster. If
you are using www.Google.com image search to find images on the internet
make sure that you use the advanced search and select large image size.
That will insure that the images you are downloading will meet the
resolution standard necessary for poster printing.
- When you insert a picture into a poster avoid stretching the image larger
than it is when inserted. This can cause the image to become fuzzy.
- The printer can only print about 1 poster an hour; this means that in an 8 hour
day only 8 posters, maximum, will be printed.
- Please allow for the length of time required for printing and be aware of the
first come first serve rule. Typical time required for the printing is 2 days. A file delivered Wed. afternoon will not be done until Fri. afternoon. Charges associated with printing are for materials only: $15.00 a linear foot is the charge for printing an un-mounted poster on glossy film. Note: the Faculty Center will pay for your poster if it is displayed at the Faculty Showcase.
