{"id":410,"date":"2013-09-23T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T14:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/?p=410"},"modified":"2016-01-28T14:08:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T19:08:29","slug":"notes-from-the-sis-summer-practicum-poster-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/notes-from-the-sis-summer-practicum-poster-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the SIS Summer Practicum poster session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending and helping out at a poster session at McGill&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/sis\/\">School of Information Studies<\/a>. The poster session was an opportunity for the students to showcase the work they did over the summer at their various <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/sis\/practicum\">practicum<\/a> sites. There was a fairly good turnout to see the posters, and overall based on what I observed and what I heard from people, the event was a success*.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that did strike me was how well-done the posters were. In the past it has seemed to me that students didn&#8217;t put that much effort into their posters. Copier paper (and sometimes construction paper) cut and glued onto Bristol board, etc. Some prepared and had printed a proper poster, but those were the minority.<\/p>\n<p>This year, all the posters I saw were top-notch, well-designed and properly printed. Some of the students also incorporated presentations on laptops or tablets. All of them presented themselves very well and did a good job of describing their work and interacting with the people that came to see them.<\/p>\n<p>I think it is important for students to realize that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/tools\/conference-poster-sessions\"> posters are an important form of professional communication<\/a>, and they should make sure they take any opportunity they have to learn and practice creating and presenting posters. I was glad to see this awareness take root in the practicum poster session, and I hope that future students are as attentive and professional as this summer&#8217;s group were!<\/p>\n<p><em>* Disclosure: My spouse is the practicum coordinator for SIS, and I was there helping out taking photos for the School to use in their communications.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending and helping out at a poster session at McGill&#8217;s School of Information Studies. The poster session was an opportunity for the students to showcase the work they did over the summer at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/notes-from-the-sis-summer-practicum-poster-session\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[85,84],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-practicum","tag-sis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}