You are invited to the
Teaching Expo for German Teachers
Join German teachers from all over the state and beyond in Provo! Teachers will share concrete ideas for teaching (and assessing) the German language and culture in poster format. You will leave with tons of new ideas you can integrate into your teaching the following Monday!
Have you tried something new in your classrooms that have helped teach German? For instance, something that has helped with:
We are better together!
Have you tried something new in your classrooms that have helped teach German? For instance, something that has helped with:
- Teaching adjective endings?
- Word order?
- Verb conjugations?
- Getting students to speak in German more?
- Getting students to increase their proficiency?
- Applications of the Can-Do Statements?
- Pronunciation?
- Vocabulary learning?
- Assessment?
- Or any other area of teaching German language?
We are better together!
How can you participate?
It’s really easy! You’ll submit a one page proposal (abstract) in which you’ll include the following information:
Title of your poster presentation
Main point: What do you hope to convey to fellow teachers? (Suggested: 50-100 words)
Content: What will you show? Give a brief overview of the details of your presentation. What approaches will you share? What unique contribution does your teaching approach make? (Suggested: 100-200 words)
Take away for teachers: What will your fellow teachers be able to do after visiting your poster and talking with you? How can they implement these ideas in their classes? (Suggested: 50- 100 words)
Title of your poster presentation
Main point: What do you hope to convey to fellow teachers? (Suggested: 50-100 words)
Content: What will you show? Give a brief overview of the details of your presentation. What approaches will you share? What unique contribution does your teaching approach make? (Suggested: 100-200 words)
Take away for teachers: What will your fellow teachers be able to do after visiting your poster and talking with you? How can they implement these ideas in their classes? (Suggested: 50- 100 words)
- For tips on writing a good proposal and how to construct a poster, check out the Utah AATG website: http://aatg-utah.weebly.com/writing-abstracts-and-proposals.html
- For information about the conference as well as to receive updates, go to: http://glac2015.weebly.com/
Why Posters? And How to Create Them!
How to design Conference Posters -- Click on title
"A large-format poster is a big piece of paper (or wall-mounted monitor) that can communicate your research at a conference, and is composed of a short title, an introduction to your burning question, an overview of your novel approach, your amazing results in graphical form, some insightful discussion of aforementioned results, . . . if all text is kept to a minimum, a person could fully read your poster in under 5 minutes (really)."
This website explains why posters are often better than presentations and gives useful tips for creating posters!
Effective Poster Design for Academic Conferences--Click on title
This site has a PowerPoint Presentation for helping with poster design to make an effective poster.
How to Create a Research Poster
This site give a quick overview of what makes a good poster. There are numerous links to other resources!
Free Poster Templates Using PowerPoint--Click on title
For free Poster Templates which use PowerPoint, click on this resources. You can delete boxes you don't need and the boxes can be expanded or made smaller to meet your needs. The templates say how big the posters print.
Where can you get posters printed?
In addition to Kinko's, posters can be printed at Cougar Prints in the Wilk or BYU Mail and Print. The posters can be submitted online here to the BYU shop for pick up.
http://printandmail.byu.edu/CougarPrints/
"A large-format poster is a big piece of paper (or wall-mounted monitor) that can communicate your research at a conference, and is composed of a short title, an introduction to your burning question, an overview of your novel approach, your amazing results in graphical form, some insightful discussion of aforementioned results, . . . if all text is kept to a minimum, a person could fully read your poster in under 5 minutes (really)."
This website explains why posters are often better than presentations and gives useful tips for creating posters!
Effective Poster Design for Academic Conferences--Click on title
This site has a PowerPoint Presentation for helping with poster design to make an effective poster.
How to Create a Research Poster
This site give a quick overview of what makes a good poster. There are numerous links to other resources!
Free Poster Templates Using PowerPoint--Click on title
For free Poster Templates which use PowerPoint, click on this resources. You can delete boxes you don't need and the boxes can be expanded or made smaller to meet your needs. The templates say how big the posters print.
Where can you get posters printed?
In addition to Kinko's, posters can be printed at Cougar Prints in the Wilk or BYU Mail and Print. The posters can be submitted online here to the BYU shop for pick up.
http://printandmail.byu.edu/CougarPrints/
How to Present a Poster at a Conference?
How go give a good presentation
Making it accessible to people and common mistakes. It's drawing on a cancer treatment poster, but the same principles apply.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRNQjo2IstY
Giving a good poster presentation plus what poster presentations are like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSaFUrk-FA
How to give a good presentation and avoiding some pitfalls during a poster presentation.
This author also has a useful channel in which he discusses how to make effective posters, including highlighting the usefulness of titles on the posters. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6iIUoqBFv2vJzHb5ytUNGQ
Making it accessible to people and common mistakes. It's drawing on a cancer treatment poster, but the same principles apply.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRNQjo2IstY
Giving a good poster presentation plus what poster presentations are like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSaFUrk-FA
How to give a good presentation and avoiding some pitfalls during a poster presentation.
This author also has a useful channel in which he discusses how to make effective posters, including highlighting the usefulness of titles on the posters. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6iIUoqBFv2vJzHb5ytUNGQ