Breakout Sessions, Wednesday, September 22, 2021
For breakout session Zoom information, please refer to this Google doc (Highline login required)
9:00 – 10:00 AM
Supporting Face-to-face Classes in Fall 2021
Presenter: Marc Lentini, Sarah Adams, Maurea Brown, Sue Frantz, Tarisa Matsumoto-Maxfield, and Avery Viehmann – Ed Tech
Session Description: Fall quarter will see more classes back on campus, but Covid may not be finished with us yet. Some students may have to quarantine, or you may even have to miss a few days. Join the Ed Tech team as we share some changes you’ll see in your classroom, and some techniques you can use to minimize disruption in this back-to-campus (with an asterisk) quarter.
Outcomes:
1. Participants will be familiar with new classroom technologies, including better recording and amplification systems, coming for fall quarter.
2. Participants will experience appropriate Canvas course design and tool selection for hybrid classes appropriate for fall quarter classes.
Materials
Recording
Process Journaling for Everyone
Note: Canceled
Highline’s ThunderLab: A Makerspace Where Imagination Becomes Reality
Presenter: Stephaney Puchalski
Session Description: Take a tour of the ThunderLab, which traditionally has been used by engineering and physics students but is capable of so much more. The lab is a space on campus where imagination and technology meet to provoke student-centered inquiry and innovation to solve real world problems in any class. Learn about the maker movement taking education by storm and how it can enhance student learning and engagement in your class or work. The tour’s primary focus will be on the 3D printing and design process. Even if not on campus, participants can work remotely on their own design after the tour and submit it later for printing.
Outcomes:
1. Know and understand what is a makerspace and capabilities of Highline’s Thunderlab
2. Generate excitement and ideas about how the space enhances student learning and engagement.
Addressing Academic Integrity with Context and Care
Presenter: Izzy Wroblewski and Fawzi Belal – Academic Integrity Work Group
Session Description: This session will take a data informed approach to understanding why students choose to make academic choices that do not align with what is expected of them, how to approach these conversations, and how the Office of Community Standards and Student Conduct addresses these issues at a higher level. This presentation will explore best practices from the International Center for Academic Integrity and stories of promising practices that have been successful at Highline College. By the end of this presentation, you will be able to confidently approach instances of dishonesty in the classroom with care, context, and integrity.
Outcomes:
1. List at least three reasons students choose to make academic choices that do not align with what is expected of them
2. Describe at least two ways to approach a situation of academic dishonesty with care, context, and integrity.
Materials
Recording
Using the Global Community Initiative to Promote Inclusivity
Presenter: Jenn Ritchey, Michael Pham, and Sam Kaplan – Global Community Initiative
Session Description: Launched in fall 2020, the Global Community Initiative aims to bring the Highline community together to understand our complicated world and connect with each other on global topics. With Global Virtual Exchanges, participants from different countries come together virtually to engage in a meaningful learning experience. Global Virtual Exchanges range from one-time events, classroom meetings, and/or stand-alone workshops to quarter long classroom requirements.
The Global Community Initiative and Global Virtual Exchanges provide meaningful, accessible, and inclusive learning opportunities with no costs to participants. Through this interactive workshop we will explore the possibilities with each initiative and learn how they can help provide students and community members alike with a sense of belonging.
Outcomes:
1. Learn tangible ways to incorporate the Global Community Initiative into your work at Highline.
2. Learn about the opportunity to participate in or create your own Global Virtual Exchange with an international college or university.
Program/Discipline Review: An Improvement Process for Student Success
Presenter: Shawna Freeman and Brock Grubb – Assessment Committee
Session Description: Continuous improvement is vital to program sustainability, and finding systematic ways to center student voice and anti-racism are essential to student success. The piloted redesign of the Program-Discipline Review process can help our departments become more sustainable and student-centered. We want to share with you this new, proposed process and how you can start making improvements now to encourage positive changes in your department.
Outcomes:
1. Describe the goals of program review as stated in the new MFR.
2. Identify the new process in the Program Improvement Toolkit and discuss how it differs from the previous Program/Discipline Review Process.
3.Discuss ways the improvement process can be implemented on a small scale to make big impacts.
Warming up the syllabus: Using the inclusive syllabus template
Presenter: Bob Scribner – LTC
Session Description: Three sections in the inclusive syllabus template provide great opportunities for establishing an ethos of care in the classroom. Writing the course overview, how to succeed, and inclusivity sections allows instructors to reflect on ways to establish a positive classroom culture at the outset of the course. During this hour, you will learn from our students’ perspectives what they value in each of these sections. Next, you will discuss with colleagues ideas for a section you’d like to work on. You will then have plenty of time to draft a section for fall on your own, which you can then review with a partner at the end of the session. Bring a syllabus from a course you’d like to work with.
Outcomes:
1. Review student feedback on the value each of these three sections brings
2. Discuss and develop ideas for one (or more) sections with colleagues
3. Draft one of the three sections for your fall syllabus
4. Receive feedback on your draft from a partner
10:15AM – 11:15AM
Moving to The Cloud
Presenter: Laurinda Bellinger and Mark Wynne – ITS
Session Description: This session will introduce participants to what the cloud is, why it’s important to move from network to cloud storage, and the security of the cloud.
Outcomes:
1. Participants will understand the difference between network and cloud storage
2. Participants will be comfortable using the cloud
Materials
Recording
No Gym Needed: Home Workout 101
Presenter: Darin Smith
Session Description: It is tough to stay active when you are stuck at home with limited equipment and space, but there are a variety of options for putting together an enjoyable home fitness routine that you can stick with. Come learn how to structure a basic home workout routine and participate in a short bodyweight exercise circuit. Participants should wear comfortable workout clothes and have enough space to move around safely without obstruction.
Outcomes:
1. Learn how to structure a basic workout at home with limited equipment
2. Promote physical activity by having participants practice exercises and do a short workout session.
Materials
Recording
Handout
ctcLink Crash Course for Faculty Advising
Presenter: Aleya Dhanji and Mary Weir – LTC / Faculty Advising Collaboration
Capacity: 25
Session Description: Is ctcLink feeling more like an obstacle course than a useful tool for advising? Do you miss the good old days of Advising Tool? Join us for a tour of ctcLink Advisor Center and how to leverage technology and best practices in advising to help your students meet their degree and completion goals. We will cover Academic Advisement vs. What-If Reports, writing good advising notes, looking up students who are not your advisees, program of study, transcripts and whatever is on your mind! This will be a hands-on workshop where participants will have the chance to try out ctcLink features that the facilitators demonstrate in real time. We will also work through some common student scenarios as we demonstrate ctcLink features and discuss strategies for an effective advising appointment.
Outcomes:
1. Use ctcLink Advisor Center to effectively advise students on degree and completion goals
2. Apply some key strategies for effective advising sessions such as active listening and writing good advising notes.
Planning cross-departmental collaboration and sustainable ch-ch-changes
Presenter: Gerie Ventura, Jenni Sandler, May Lukens and Timur Kuzu
Session Description: Join us as we run through a lightning-round brainstorm and then group discussion of how we envision more cross-collaborative work on campus, learn more about what other departments do on campus, and identify ways we can improve our planning for new activities in the upcoming school year.
Outcomes:
1. Promote cross-collaboration as a means of incorporating diverse perspectives and breaking down silos as we plan programming for students
2. Identify ways of making sustainable improvements to how we design new programming and activities.
Materials
Recording
It’s all about the TEAM! Best Practices for Operating in a Hybrid Environment
Presenter: Danielle Slota, Barry Holdorf, Francesca Fender, Gabrielle Bachmeier, Kim Southerland, Marc Lentini, Raechel Dawson, Summer Korst and Tim Wrye – Hybrid Operations Leadership Team
Session Description: As we return more activities to campus, we find ourselves working in a hybrid environment, a flexible work environment that encompasses a combination of both remote and on-campus work. The Hybrid Operations Management Team has been hard at work identifying a list of best practices to help ensure gap-free services for both students and employees, support an environment that is conducive to work/life balance, and maintains the strong social culture that makes Highline our home.
Come join members of the team and learn more about the guidelines and best practices, and how we’re implementing them in our departments!
We welcome supervisors AND direct reports to join us!
Outcomes: Learn more about the guidelines and best practices for working productively as a team in an hybrid environment, and how we’re implementing them in our departments.
How to prove you’re not a robot
Presenter: Tommy Kim
Capacity: 25
Session Description: In live, face-to-face classes student engagement often relies on having a sense of community in the classroom. This is just as true in an asynchronous, online course but with one major exception: the community begins not amongst students but between the instructor and each individual student. In other words, for the student to feel connected to the class they must feel connected to the instructor.
This presentation will discuss various strategies instructors can use to help generate a more organic connection to students.
Outcomes:
1. Increase student engagement
2. Develop stronger relationship with online students
Looking Back on 2020 & 2021: What Have I Lost? What Have I Gained?
Presenter: Bob Baugher and Alycia Williams – Leading with Love Group
Session Description: We’ve all been through a lot during the past 18 months. Join us in this interactive workshop as we take some time to look at what we’ve lost and what we’ve gained from these life-changing events. Come prepared for small-group sharing with your Highline coworkers.
Outcomes: Attendees will have share their thoughts, feelings, and experiences with fellow Highline employees.
Materials
Handout
Breakout Sessions, Wednesday, September 23, 2020
For breakout session Zoom information, please refer to this Google doc (Highline login required)
9:00 – 10:00 AM
Introduction to Mindfulness
Presenter: Beth Glosten, MD, Certified Mindfulness Teacher through the Mindfulness Northwest Teacher Training Program.
(NOTE: This workshop runs continuously from 9:00-11:15am, during both breakout sessions. Since our community partner Mindfulness Northwest will be offering this workshop, they would like for participants to pre-register before the workshop. All pre-registered participants will automatically receive a Zoom meeting link via email.) Join us for this introductory workshop in mindfulness, stress reduction, body awareness, and inner care. Mindfulness helps us meet challenges with more resilience, and to embrace the joys of life with more appreciation and awareness.
In this workshop we will meet the primary practices of mindfulness, learn about the scientific and cultural roots of these practices, and have time for a hands-on experiential immersion. We will conclude with small group discussion and dialog with the instructor on your experience and how mindfulness can be integrated into daily life at work and at home.
Outcomes
- Identify the scientific and cultural roots of mindfulness practices
- Explain how mindfulness can be integrated into daily life at work and at home
Socially Distanced but Connected: Engaging Your Students Using Zoom
Presenter: Laura Adele Soracco and Maurea Brown – LTC and Educational Technology Collaboration
Want to feel more confident teaching on Zoom? In this hands-on session, you will learn about Zoom tools to promote student engagement and be inspired to set up lively synchronous sessions.
Outcomes
- Increase confidence teaching a class on Zoom
- Learn to use tools within Zoom
- Practice pedagogical strategies using Tools within Zoom
- Promote interaction among students
- Conduct formative assessment of student learning
- Foster student engagement
Pondering Academic Integrity in Courses?
Presenter: Cory Martin and Kate Skelton – Academic Integrity Taskforce
The Academic Integrity Taskforce is working to develop and support faculty and students around academic integrity and student success in our f2f and virtual classrooms now and in the long term. We invite you to join and share successes, mistakes, and the skills and tools you are using to effectively communicate academic integrity with students in a meaningful way. This will help the taskforce provide recommendations for improving communication and other resources on our campus.
Outcomes
- Provide an avenue for faculty to share concerns and resources they’re using around academic integrity that are emerging from their experiences with students.
What Video Format is Best for You?
Presenter: Sarah Adams – Educational Technology
Capacity: 25
Considering adding video instruction to your courses? Using video to convey content to students can be a great way to promote engagement. Studies show that providing your own videos can foster higher achievement and may help build relationships in virtual environments.
In this presentation we will look at the different types of video recording styles to consider, and some technology that can help you produce the videos you want for your students.
Outcomes
- Attendees will be able to identify and describe the video style best for them and their audience.
- Attendees will be able to identify the technology they will need to produce these videos and where to house the videos once they are made.
Tuning Up Your Home Work Space
Presenter: Marc Lentini – Educational Technology
As one person quipped, “I think we need to stop calling it ‘working from home’ and start calling it ‘living at work’.” During the spring quarter, we all struggled to keep on top of change — from juggling family and work to learning how to do our work online and remote. In this session, the Educational Technology team will share some tricks we’ve used to keep it together during the transition and through the summer. Whether it’s network problems or managing that home/family balance, you’ll learn about a set of techniques you can try to help manage teaching and working from home.
Outcomes
- Participants will learn solutions to common technical challenges.
- Participants will also learn some tricks for managing work spaces and interruptions at home.
Recording: Link
“We Can’t Lead Where We Won’t Go”: Teaching for Change in Troubling Times
Presenter: Diego Luna and Nikki Filler – Ethnic & Gender Studies Program
Capacity: 25
In 1968, a time of war and societal upheaval, college students of color took a critical look at their collective educational experiences and declared that things needed to change. From their efforts came Ethnic Studies, an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary field of study that remains indebted to the knowledge of systematically marginalized peoples.
College students today are grappling with a precarious economy, structural inequity exacerbated by the pandemic, and resurgent white nationalism, all of which virulently undercut their self-efficacy and academic success. This interactive workshop will be a space for Highline College community members to collectively explore how Ethnic Studies pedagogical approaches can effectively and sustainably support the academic revitalization of all students during these unprecedented times.
Outcomes
- Interpret and explain how your subjectivity impacts your student/educator relationships and virtual learning culture.
- Apply the pedagogical approaches engaged in the workshop to one’s instructional toolkit.
10:15 – 11:15 AM
Creating Rich Digital Content
Presenter: Jayendrina Singha Ray
Capacity: 25
With the current drive towards online and hybrid learning, faculty across disciplines is at different stages of e-content creation. Some of us are tired of dry videos that deter student engagement, while some of are curious to know of ways to engage our students the way YouTuber’s and Khan academy tutorials do. In his article, “How Khan Academy is Changing the Rules of Education” (2011), Clive Thompson quotes the founder Khan, ascribing the popularity of his video tutorials to a subtle voiceover and hand-written scribbles which create the feeling of “sitting at a table and working through something together [with a tutor], [like] writing on a piece of paper.” So how can we create similar videos that foster student engagement and retention? The workshop aims to demonstrate video-creation strategies, that will promote student engagement and learning in a fun and enriching way.
In keeping with the goal, this session will demonstrate the process of crafting pedagogical videos through a case study of Adobe Spark. It will have two key components: 1. The technical and pedagogical aspects of video production (from equipment that aid in creating high-quality pedagogical videos to ways of fostering student engagement through professional-grade videos); 2. The other component will briefly map some of these tools to use cases through a comparative analysis of Adobe, PowerPoint and Panopto.
The primary objective is to showcase what content created using the afore-mentioned software gamut can look like. This helps spawn a conversation amongst the participants which in turn help them identify scenarios and use cases, where they can apply the tools demonstrated.
This will be a 30 min demo-presentation with 30 min breakout sessions. The break out sessions will: 1. Ask how faculty from different disciplines would incorporate animated videos in their own disciplines; 2. Ask for a discussion on other alternatives that can help us discover new ways of producing high-quality digital learning content.
Outcomes:
- Make online content and teaching more fun and engaging for students.
- Be familiar with techniques of creating high-quality, engaging pedagogical videos.
- Identify some advantages and disadvantages of using some of these tools in relation to content delivery; and spawn a conversation around the practicality of creating high-quality video tutorials.
Recording: Link
Beyond the Discussion Board: Engagement in Online Courses
Presenter: Tarisa Matsumoto-Maxfield – Educational Technology
Teaching online? Tired of students just not being there? No discussion, no assignments turned in, no one visiting you during your office hours? Well, let’s take a look at our online classes and see what we’ve done to create community and to engage our students! First, we’ll identify a few things we can do to engage students in an asynchronous environment.
Then we’ll self-asses in small groups to see if we’ve incorporated any of those strategies into our online classes. And by the time we’re done, we’ll have at least one strategy that we will take home and incorporate into our online class before the quarter begins.
Outcomes
- Participants will learn different strategies for engaging students in an online environment.
- Participants will also self-assess to see if they have incorporated any of those strategies in their online classes.
The 4 Connections: Improving Course Pass Rates
Presenter: Bob Scribner and Teresa Pan – Learning and Teaching Center
The 4 Connections are simple practices that you can use to build relationship with your students. Their power comes from a commitment to practice them intentionally. Are you interested in being part of a faculty inquiry group to try out the 4 connections and meet throughout the year? The LTC will host a community of practice for 2020-21, culminating with data sharing on completion rates. Last year’s faculty cohort was able to increase pass rates for winter and spring while also narrowing equity gaps. Please join Teresa Pan and Bob Scribner to learn more if you are interested, even if you are not able to commit to a faculty inquiry group.
Outcomes
- Identify each of the 4 connections and discuss how each helps to build relationship with students
- List ways in which data appear to show increases in student completion/retention rates
- Discuss ways the 4 Connections are being used at Highline
Understanding How Trauma Impacts BIPOC Students: How to Utilize a Trauma-Informed Approach
Presenter: Samora Covington and Morgan Rudley
Understanding trauma and its long-term impacts on mental and behavioral health is imperative to developing and maintaining trauma informed systems of care within the college setting. Recognizing the challenges in living many students face is critical to being able to reach students by understanding what trauma is and how it affects different populations.
Best practices for appropriately addressing trauma with students will be discussed as well as resources to help become a trauma informed organization. Participants will engage in discussion to particularly gain an understanding of historical and racial trauma, its consequences on mental and behavioral health, and academic achievement. We must be intentional about incorporating trauma-informed and anti-racist work into our practices and throughout our organizational structures because without it we are doing a significant disservice and we are harming our BIPOC students.
Outcomes
- Define at least three types of trauma and the pervasive impact it can have on human development
- List essential components of a trauma informed approach
Recording: Link
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Breakout Sessions, Wednesday, September 18, 2019
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Undocumented Students: Creating an Environment of Inclusivity
Presenter: Aleyda Cervantes, Eileen Jimenez, Diego Luna, Tania Lopez
Location: 19-203
During this session attendees will have the opportunity to learn about developing strategies to support Undocumented students and their families at Highline College. In addition to understanding action plans, support in and outside the classroom and within the broader community of South King County for our Undocumented Community.
Small Teaching, Big Results
Presenter: Laura Manning
Location: 19-101
Slides – Handouts
James Lang’s “Small Teaching” features nine basic learning strategies teachers can easily build into everyday classroom activities and into our communication with students. These strategies are each backed with research and proven results in improving student learning. Come hear about them and start using them in your classes right away!
Summer Institute Accessible Course Showcase
Presenter: Marc Lentini
Location: 14-103
Summer Institute 2019 for faculty focused on creating accessible course materials. Join us as a panel of Institute participants share what they learned about accessible STEM resources, captioning, and accessible documents. Learn about the challenges and successes your peers experienced as they made their courses work better for all of their students.
Supporting Students of Concern Through SAIT (Student Assessment Intervention Team)
Presenters: Nicole Wilson, Shane Daetwiler
Location: Building 8 Constance/Olympus
Handout
Faculty and Staff will leave with a clear understanding of how to support students of concern by utilizing three key campus resources: SAIT (Student Assessment and Intervention Team), Student Conduct, and the Counseling Center.
10:45 – 11:45 a.m.
Supporting Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Students
Presented by: Mary Weir, Michelle McClendon
Location: 19-101
Handout
There are currently 2.3 million people incarcerated in the United States, and nearly all will eventually be released from prison. Mass incarceration disproportionately effects people who are low-income and people of color. Many formerly incarcerated people struggle to find housing and employment after being released. Going to school can be transformational for those who have been incarcerated, their families, and our community. Education can lead to increased economic opportunity, public safety and stop the vicious cycles of poverty and violence.
Relational Strategies Supporting Student Learning
Presenter: Helen Burn
Location: 14-103
Slides – Handout
Learn the research behind relational strategies (welcomeness to engage and validation, empowerment, culturally relevant teaching, and performance monitoring) and how to incorporate these strategies into your instruction to increase student learning. The session draws from research conducted in Transitioning Learners to Calculus in Community Colleges (TLC3, NSF IUSE 1625918) and is particularly relevant to STEM faculty and faculty who teach courses with high technical content.
Birds of a Feather
Faculty/Staff
Location: Mt. Constance/Olympus
This is a time and place for specific committees and interest groups to meet and plan for the coming year. It is also a time for new faculty and staff to join these interest groups and learn about them. There will be table tents with labels and plenty of room for groups to discuss.
Breakout Sessions, Wednesday, September 19, 2018
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Canvas Connects Students, Courses, and You!
Presenter: Marc Lentini
Location: Building 30, Room 318
Can Canvas help our students succeed? Not on its own, but with new features like the Student Dashboard and smartphone-friendly strategies for teaching, you can make Canvas help! Almost half of the access to Canvas is now by smartphone, and data show that students in marginalized populations often don’t have ready access to home internet. From better grading to live conferencing, we’ll tour the new tools and new strategies that you can apply to engage students more effectively in learning.
Campus Transformation
Presenter: Fawzi Belal
Location: Soccer/tennis courts
The session will be a walk to showcase the potential of the park and share the vision and research on how positive spaces can enhance the community. The plan is to add urban agriculture and a neighborhood library to park as well. Staff and faculty can help come up with ideas of what would work.
Building community through art
Presenter: Rob Droessler
Location: Building 16, Room 171 (Ceramics Studio)
Come together through conversation while working together to create a clay art project. Participants will be guided through the process of making a basic clay project and in that process organically build connections to other participants. These connections can demonstrate that community building in fact can be that simple if we put aside all the baggage we all carry and focus on the task in front of us whether that is playing with clay or any other goal we share.
Accessible Technology for Everyone
Presenters: Gerie Ventura and the Accessible Technology Committee
Location: Building 30, Room 303
A panel showcase of Highline faculty and staff, sharing their recent experiences revising documents and captioning videos, followed by a hands-on workshop.
10:45 – 11:45 a.m.
Building Community around Assessment Review
Presented by, Assessment Committee: Tammi Hilton, Shana Friend, and Jennifer Jones
Location: Building 30, Room 303
Let’s build meaningful assessment communities on campus! Come to our hands-on workshop to find out how to do collaborative assessment review. For added impact, bring a colleague and one of your completed assessments to discuss.
Umoja – Live Learning, developing a Power Base
Presenter: Liz Word
Location: Building 25, Room 607 (Umoja classroom)
Come practice – Live Learning! Live learning intentionally captures and documents learning in real time. It is a way of having a discussion that really flies, while focusing the insight, capturing it on boards and in notebooks, so the discussion does not disappear after the students leave the class session. It is democratic and analytically rigorous at the same time. Live learning demonstrates to the students through their own words that language is powerful, ideas and texts are rich and can be made their own. Most importantly live learning demonstrates to the students that they are smart, deep thinkers.
What is Mental Health First Aid?
Presenter: Steve Lettic
Location: Building 14, Room 101
How do we respond to colleagues, students and community members in mental health crises? Mental Health First Aid prepares participants to understand the most common mental health conditions and respond appropriately.
Birds of a Feather
Faculty/Staff
Location: Mt. Constance/Mt. Olympus, Building 8
This is a time and place for specific committees and interest groups to meet and plan for the coming year. It is also a time for new faculty and staff to join these interest groups and learn about them. There will be table tents with labels and plenty of room for groups to discuss.
Poster Session – Call for Posters
The Highline College Opening Week (& Professional Development) Committee invite proposals for the Poster Session at the 2018 Annual Opening Week.
What is the Poster Session?
The Poster Session is a format for Opening Week theme presentations about projects or partnerships that exemplify community engagement (core theme 3). The 2018 Opening Week theme is “Community: Equity, Collaboration, Inclusion.”
When is the Poster Session?
The poster session will be held on Friday, September 21, 2018 in Building 8.
How to Submit a Proposal
Proposals must be submitted electronically and include:
- Contact Information, including participant(s) name(s), email, phone number and affiliation, and a brief explanation of needs. Wireless internet access will be available. Participants must provide own computer if one will be used in the presentation. Due to limited space, projectors may not be used during the poster session.
- An abstract of no more than 300 words (including title) that explains and promotes the project. Be persuasive! Imagine that the audience for the proposal abstract is a visitor, potential funder, trustee, or community group.
- You are encouraged but not required to include a simple one-page visual mock-up of the display.
Deadline: August 30, 2018
Email your proposal to ssloniker@highline.edu with the subject line “2018 Opening Week Poster Session.” You will receive a confirmation email within three business days. If you do not receive a confirmation email, contact the 2018-19 Opening Week Committee because your proposal may not have been received. You will receive notification of whether or not your poster has been accepted in early September 2018.
Why is the Poster Session important?
Posters provide a way to display and discuss collaborative project-based work in a format that is interactive and collegial. In scholarship, posters are often a way to present preliminary efforts and gather advice. These guidelines are an attempt to standardize the posters, leveling the playing field for all presenters. We ask that presenters stick to the size and material guidelines for the poster.
What are the dimensions of a poster?
No larger than 45″ by 45″.
What materials should I use?
Use laminated paper or poster paper. If you will need space to hang a poster or need a table top, please be sure to clarify your presentation needs.
Formatting and Content Advice
A good poster should introduce your topic, research questions or goals, methods and/or best practices, and what was accomplished and what you learned. Be sure to include the following:
- Give the poster a title.
- Use images to illustrate your points.
- Caption the photos with a title, photographer and date.
- Keep text brief. Edit carefully. The test of a good poster is if someone can read it in five minutes and understand your main points.
- Use wallpaper and graphics to enliven the look of the poster.
- Print out all text.
- Consider making copies of your poster as handouts. This will mean shrinking the poster to legal-sized copies. Observers often want something to take away. Provide your contact information so people can reach you later with additional questions, resources and/or suggestions.
Presentation Advice
Be prepared to give a brief oral introduction to the project and answer questions.
Resources
The following higher education institutions have some very useful advice and suggestions for creating effective posters.
- Poster design elements (University Libraries Health Sciences Library)
- Creating Effective Poster Presentations (North Carolina State University)
- How to Make an Effective Poster (University of California, Davis campus)
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Focus on What Matters in Your Classroom (with Outcomes)
Assessment Committee: Shana Friend and Jennifer Jones
Location: 30-111
Use your course planning time more effectively. Achieve your classroom goals. Come to this workshop to save your precious time and energy by connecting your class assignments and activities to your course outcomes. You (and your students) will love the end results.
Sustainable Re-entry for Formerly Incarcerated, Justice Involved Students
Re-entry Education Transition Pathways Committee: James Jackson, Mariela Barriga and Deana Raeder
Location: Building 2
For this workshop facilitators will share stats on pre and post release and other information. How to make re-entry sustainable and how that benefits our campus and surrounding communities. Participants will be engaged with an interactive re-entry simulation.
Opening Week: The Accessible Technology Plan
Accessible Technology Committee: Marc Lentini and Jenni Sandler
Location: 3-102
Technology has helped the college reach sustainability goals in everything from paper use to finances to teaching and learning. These changes haven’t always met the sustainability goal of social equity. The Accessible Technology Committee is developing a plan to help all our staff and students fully participate in the workplace and classes. We’ll start with a brief review of accessibility at Highline, then brainstorm ideas and issues for the plan.
Strengthening & Sustaining Personal & Professional Development
Coalition Builders: Carrie Davidson and Charis Hnin
Location: Building 27 – Multipurpose Room
An interactive personal & professional development experience to enhance your ability to build social and emotional strengths in yourself and your students across differences of race and culture. Featured topics include guided meditation by Venerable Nat Kong from Sarana International Buddhist Center in Tukwila and care strategies.
10:45 – 11:45 a.m.
Placing for Success: Engaging with students for educational and equitable placement
Placement and Assessment Committee: Shannon Waits, Tania Lopez, Belen Bazan, Wendy Swyt and Helen Burn
Location: Building 2
Come learn about and engage with the various options for placement at Highline! Experience Highline’s own Directed Self Placement and hear what students have to say about their reading and writing skills. Learn about the math pathways and why math placement is critical to student persistence and retention. Develop skills for advising students and leave with tools and resources to be a placement expert! This is an interactive workshop with hands-on activities and time to engage with your colleagues.
Helping Our Students Cope with the Death of a Classmate
Psychology Department: Bob Baugher
Location: Building 3-102
Each day when we meet with our students face-to-face or online we naturally presume that they will be alive the following day. But, as instructors, what is our role when one of our students dies? Join us for a lively discussion about death. Topics include: common grief reactions following a death, referral to Highline’s Counseling Center, community resources, and a student-focused classroom exercise that you can use in case the worst happens.
Birds of a Feather
Faculty/Staff
Location: Mt. Constance/Mt. Olympus
This is a time and place for specific committees and interest groups to meet and plan for the coming year. It is also a time for new faculty and staff to join these interest groups and learn about them. There will be table tents with labels and plenty of room for groups to discuss.