Digital Posters
Digital Posters are a new format at the ascilite 2013 Conference, allowing for a higher degree of interactivity.
Digital posters can be almost anything, for example:
- An introduction to a project just starting
- A quick outline of a small project’s findings
- An introduction to a new idea
- A call for collaborators
About the Digital Poster session:
The digital poster session will be held in the ‘Active Learning Space’ that has 10 x 42” full HD screens (1920px x 1080px; 16:9, landscape) with tables and chairs clustered at each. There are just under 30 posters, with three thirty-minute sessions showcasing up to 10 posters each. Check the program for details of your session on the Monday afternoon.
A Mac laptop will be provided at each station, with extra laptops available, allowing the posters not currently on the monitors to be viewed.
You may use or link to audio in your digital poster, but do not rely on audio for the presentation session. The monitors do not include sound and sound through the provided laptops will be difficult to hear and add noise to an already noisy room.
Presenters will give informal presentations to small groups as delegates move around the room.
Digital Poster requirements:
- Formats – Powerpoint/Keynote (please provide pdf versions of Powerpoint/Keynote for checking fonts/layout), PDF, MP4 video (we suggest H.264 encoding), Prezi or HTML*
- Should convey the main points within 5 minutes of reading or playing
- If slide-based, use 15 slides or less
- Should work for small and large screens (text above 24pt)
- Overall file size limit per presentation of 60MB (larger files may be considered for quality in local playback)
- Include authors’ names, contact details and any references. You might optionally include a Twitter hashtag or author ID for comments and questions
- Copyright permission for all content
- May be recorded as videos to enable in-room automatic display and use as interstitials between longer presentations.
- Should if possible have a display ratio of 16:9 or 16:10 (landscape) to take advantage of the full monitor – in Powerpoint change display ratios via page setup.
- Available in an online and stand-alone version**
- Please provide an accessible version of content if applicable, eg a transcript.
* Please keep your digital poster to the formats described above. If you can’t resist pushing the envelope, please contact us as soon as possible to check whether your format can be accommodated. Please note, file types we will NOT accept include Windows Media, Flash or Flash video, Silverlight, PHP or other dynamic markup, Photoshop, or EPS files.
** Digital posters should be able to be viewed online through a browser; the aim is to share the posters beyond the presentation session. They should also be ‘stand-alone’ in that they can be run locally: the room has good wifi, but we do not want to rely on it.
For example,
- in the case of Prezi presentations, you would need to submit a link to a public Prezi hosted on the Prezi site and also submit a downloaded stand-alone file of the Prezi presentation.
- In the case of html pages, you will need to submit all relevant files so that the whole site can be viewed without the need for an internet connection.'
You may, for example, wish to use some augmented reality elements in your presentation: consider the need to provide viewing devices in the room or require an app download for BYOD and how the content might be accessed conventionally online.
Please upload your poster files to the Dropbox folder sent to you via email by Monday 18 November, to allow us time to set up and check the format of the digital posters.
If you have any additional inquiries, please contact Natalie Spence - natalie.spence@mq.edu.au
