project-final-presentations.md

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title: Final Project Final Presentations 
revised: November 20, 2024
description: Present your final project

Overview

In this phase of the final project, you can choose to present either a poster or a slide deck about your completed final project.

Competencies

You will be graded on:

• Accessible Document Creation
• Image Description
• [Only for those who present a slide deck] Accessible Presenting

Turnin

1. Submit your slide(s) on Canvas. (This may be a multiple-slide deck if you're doing a presentation, or a single slide if you're doing a poster.)

Details

Each group will either (1) present a poster at the poster session on Thursday, 12/5, or (2) give a presentation in class on Friday, 12/6. An individual in a group may request to do a presentation even if the group is planning on presenting a poster. Depending on which you are doing, follow the relevant gouidelines below:

Option 1: Create Slides And Present Them

Create and present a slide deck in class on Wednesday, 12/4 during class. You will be graded on all 3 competencies, including accessible presenting. Presentation times will be decided based on the number of groups presenting and announced later. Your slides should include the following.

1. What (at a high level) did you do?
2. Why is it important?
3. Provide technical details. How did you achieve your goals? What software/platforms did you use? What did you implement yourself?
4. Show us a demo if you can!
5. What are some things you learned from this effort?

Option 2: Create a Poster

Create a poster and present it on Friday, 12/6 during class, in our classroom. You will be graded only on the first two competencies (Accessible Document Creation, Image Description). Course staff will print your posters for you, and will also provide easels and posterboards. Please be aware that posters have a hard submission deadline because we need to print them on a shared poster printer.

The poster session will be open to the rest of the Allen School / CREATE. Be prepared to talk about your poster to your peers and other members of the Allen School community. Additionally, your group will sign up for a timeslot to present your poster to course staff.

If possible, bring a demo with you to the poster session (for example, your web app pulled up on a laptop next to your poster) and be prepared to show what you did in addition to talking about your poster.

Guidelines for Creating Posters

Here is a UW page with poster templates. Posters should be 36x60 in size. Please follow DO-IT's guide to creating an accessible poster when you do this.

You should start with these templates and add the following things:

1. Key basic information
   • Project title
   • Group members
   • A CREATE logo
2. The following headers:
   • What (at a high level) did you do?
   • Why is it important?
   • Provide technical details. How did you achieve your goals? What software/platforms did you use? What did you implement yourself?
   • What you learned & suggested questions ("Ask me about...")
3. Make it accessible, both digitally (by following Accessible Document Creation guidelines as usual) and also in print.
   • Keep in mind whether the font and color contrast will be visible when the poster is printed.
   • Text size: Bigger is better! Ideally, the title is 158 point; Section headings are 56 point; Body text is 36 point; Figure captions & footnotes are 24 point. If you use smaller fonts, we will make a judgement call on readability.
   • You should also provide a QR code next to each image that provides ALT text for that image. You can use a site such as qr.io to generate these QR codes.

Guidelines for Presenting Posters

Presenting a poster accessibly is similar to giving an accessible talk -- you need to describe images visuals you are talking about on the poster. In addition, keep in mind the following points (quoted from Rua Williams' Guide to Making Accessible Research Posters)

• "Conversation during poster presentation times can be difficult for people who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, have auditory processing issues, affected speech or expressive language, or use AAC to communicate."
• "As a presenter, keeping a notepad on hand to pass notes back and forth with interested attendees can help."
• "Also, remain patient and allow people with communication disabilities equal access to your time."
• Finally, "don’t assume someone is uninterested in talking to you based solely on their equipment or behavior. Any person who seems to linger around your poster deserves to be asked directly if they have questions or would like you explain the poster for them."

Rua also recommends: "While your poster should be informational enough to be of interest even when you aren’t present, don’t expect people to read the poster while you are standing there. Present it! When you are not there, consider leaving a way for people to ask questions, such as post-it notes, a Sli.do event, or even a twitter tag."