Poster Presentations

4.2.4 Poster Presentations

Poster presentations are a common way of presenting information at conferences. Study the posters below.

1. What are export credit guarantees for?

2. What is the difference in layout and structure between the two posters?

3. Work in groups and decide what a presenter would actually say when presenting the information.

Activity 2: Prepare a poster presentation about the Internet.

How the Internet Works

The thing that characterises the Internet is how data is transferred from one computer to another. Did you ever wonder what magical things go on behind the scenes that result in a Web page being displayed on your screen seconds after you request it? How does the data get from one side of the world to the other? Here’s what happens to a piece of data (e.g. a web page) when it is transferred over the internet: it is broken up into a whole lot of same- sized pieces called ‘packets‘. a header is added to each packet that explains where it came from, where it should end up and how it fits in with the rest of the packets. Each packet finds its way to its destination. Each computer along the way decides where next to send the packet. This could depend on things like how busy the other computers are when packet was received. The packets may not all take the same route. At the destination, the packets are examined, if there are any packets missing or damaged, a message is sent asking for those packets to be resent. This continues until all the packets have been received intact. The packets are reassembled into their original form. each computer connected up to the Internet has software called TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) which is responsible for receiving, sending and checking packets. TCP/IP is the ‘glue‘ of the Internet. UNITEC Institute of

Technology Work in groups and decide how you will transform the article into an eye-catching poster presentation.

o How will you lay the poster out? o What diagrams could you use to bring the presentation to life and make the operation of the Internet

clear to your audience? o How will you make it easier for a non-technical person to visualise the process?

o How many stages will you include in your explanation of the process? What will these be?

Assignment 1

Choose one of the following assignments:

1. For many people presenting in front of an audience is a stressful experience. Prepare a poster presentation on “Dealing with stress“, you can choose:

o describing a process (release of adrenaline etc.) o problem + solution (personal advice on dealing with stress)

audience profile: fellow students

2. You were asked to prepare a Poster Presentation for a Student Fair. Your group will represent RBS during the fair, therefore you need to be prepared to:

o answer questions regarding different departments o list subjects o make an organigram of the school (hierarchy etc.) o describe the structure of the organisation etc.

audience profile: prospective students

3. Choose one of the following:

o a mechanism o process in industry (i.e. film industry- from the making to distribution)

audience profile: primary school children Give a 10-minute explanation of your poster presentation. It is group work so each team member needs to take part in the presentation.