# NEURO101 Poster Making Workshop Plan

## key info
- Where: LL Studio
- When: Wednesday, February 28, 6-7:15 PM

## plan

### people
* staff lead: Emily + Christine
* activity leads: Emily + Alexa
* participants: NEURO101 students (~10) + Alen

### schedule

| Time | Action |
| -------- | -------- |
| 6:00-6:10pm | have music playing, welcome to the LL, intro to posters as mode of sci comm |
| 6:10-6:15pm | graphic design principles with special focus on spatial arrangment |
| 6:15-6:30pm | sentence to graphical representation activity |
| 6:30-6:50 pm | tour of posters hung up around the room |
| 6:50-7:10 pm | editing student posters |
| 7:10-7:15 pm | wrap up, play outro music, hang around for questions |

### learning objectives
* Students will understand how we represent ideas graphically in space. They will understand how we can communicate visually in a format that is static rather than animated.
* Students will learn to make graphic design choices intentionally and avoid adding elements that are distracting from the message they are trying to communicate.

### activities
* graphical representation of text
* about
* How can we express the abstract relationships among ideas graphically? Careful arrangment in space!
* Using colored shapes, scissors, and no words, translate the ideas in your prompt into a graphical representation inspired by Duarte's Slideology diagrams.
* statements
* Event 1 leads to Event 2. Event 2 usually leads to Event 3 but can rarely also lead to Event 1.
* There are two contrasting theories in your field. You have developed a new theory that incorporates aspects of both of the existing theories.
* There are four objects. Object A is more closely related to Object B than Object C. Objects A, B, and C are all created from Object D.
* There are four foundational principles in your field. The principles are interconnected with one another.
* One big discovery in your field gave rise to many, independent follow up discoveries in subsequent years.

* tour of posters around the room
* when you see something in a poster that strikes you as easily readable, legible- what are the parts of it that make sense?
* editing student posters
* have student posters printed out
* spend some time writing on them/cutting them out to edit them
* share with each other why certain graphic design choices were made
* make suggestions on how to improve the posters in another draft

## space and gear prep

- [ ] tables equipped with cards and pens
- [ ] models of posters printed and put on tables
- [ ] models of large posters hung up on the walls
- [ ] arrows, squares, and circles cut out of cards

## other to-dos
- [ ] recording the session?
- [ ] printing PDF posters on 11x17 pages- how to do it
- [ ] bringing full size posters

## materials
[Google Drive Folder](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LmVLqGxzXPCEDEGhtib7_ni-Ofgy1MSH?usp=sharing)

## reference