What is Teaching and Learning Day?
The CTE’s Teaching & Learning Day is an annual event that showcases the fresh thinking and innovative strategies of faculty and staff related to enhancing teaching and learning at GGC. Our first Teaching & Learning Day was held in the spring of 2016. We have experimented with the format of this event over the years, with fully in-person, fully online, and hybrid (both physical and virtual) poster sessions. The goal, however, has always been to provide a visual forum for individuals and groups to showcase innovative work related to teaching, learning, and technology, including but not limited to:
– course design (face to face, hybrid, and online)
– assignment design- engaged pedagogies (including experiential learning)
– assessment strategies
– research on teaching and learning
– efforts to enhance student success
This year’s poster session will be in-person, and will provide an opportunity to reach a broad audience and initiate conversations with colleagues sharing similar interests.
When is Teaching and Learning Day?
This year’s Teaching and Learning Day will take place on Tuesday, April 29th, 2025.
When is the deadline for proposals?
This year’s deadline for proposals is Friday, April 11th, 2025.
Will there be assigned times for my presentation?
Yes; for both physical and virtual posters, you will be given a time slot in which you will have an opportunity to present your work. The program for the event will provide a schedule for the presentations along with Teams or Zoom links (according to your preference) for the virtual poster sessions.
What should the poster look like?
Posters should be created in the same format that you would normally see at an academic conference.
For virtual presentations, you may create your poster in the same format that you would use for a conference presentation (using a PowerPoint slide deck).
For physical presentations, we encourage you to submit your poster as a PDF for printing (which will be handled and paid for by the CTE). See below for printing guidelines.
You may also decide to create your own poster, however; the CTE has posterboard and glue sticks available for creating physical posters, and you may use our printers (black and white laser / color inkjet) if needed. See below for guidelines on making your own poster.
Digital poster submission instructions:
Digital posters that will be printed should be developed within PowerPoint. The PowerPoint slide should be sized 48” width and 36” height. This is done by going under DESIGN, Slide Size. When you click on slide size, go to custom slide size (at the bottom). The default is usually 10” width by 7.5” height. Change it to 48” width and 36” height Landscape for slides (see below).
Once you have sized the slide, you can start adding text and figures. Some suggestions for font sizes are:
Title: 72-point font (in bold text)
Authors: 54-point font
Section titles (e.g. introduction, methods, etc.): 54-point font (in bold text)
Text: 40-point font
To develop the text sections, use text boxes (under the INSERT menu). You can size them as desired.
You can insert pictures as jpg files.
An example of how it may look upon completion:
Once completed and saved as a PPT, it is very important to EXPORT as a pdf. Do this by going to FILE –> MORE –> EXPORT and click on Create PDF/XPS. The printer will need the PDF file, not the PPT file.
CTE will cover the printing costs provided that you submit the PDF to the CTE staff by the due date (usually 1 week prior to the Teaching & Learning Day). On the day of the Teaching & Learning conference, there will be trifold poster boards and clips to attach your poster to the poster board.
Handmade poster creation guidelines:
See the example below for a rough idea of a physical (hand-made) poster.
For more information:
Poster Basics (NYU)
How to Make an Academic Poster (PMC)
Academic Poster Resources (Yale)
Poster and Presentation Resources (UNC)
I have another question not answered here. Who do I contact?
Send an email to Michael Smith (mdsmith@ggc.edu) and we’ll get you an answer.
Where do I submit my proposal?
Please fill out the poster proposal using this form.