Samuel Bruce
Soka University
Samuel Bruce has been teaching EFL and ESL for the past 22 years. He has taught in Hong Kong, China, New Zealand, the UK, and Japan. He began teaching at university around ten years ago, first at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and for the past eight years at Soka University in Tokyo, where he is Coordinator for EAP courses in the World Language Centre. He has an MA TESOL from Lancaster University (UK), and his research interests include the psychology of language learning, in particular affective and environmental factors.
Sessions
Less is more - Academic poster design that works
A major part of brain activity is given over to visual processing (Fiser et al., 2004) yet many "academic posters" fail to make much visual impact. This presentation takes a hard look at academic poster design to identify what works and what doesn’t. Using tips from the fields of graphic poster design and infographics, the presenter will offer some key rules and ideas to help make your academic posters more successful. Topics covered include use of text and language, colour and shape, as well as high-impact graphs and charts. With suggestions on software and online tools for poster design, and resources for artwork and creating new data visualisations, this session will help you to think afresh about poster design, both for your own academic posters and when working with students on poster projects. Most of the principles presented will be equally applicable to creating effective presentation slides.