I don't know how helpful this will be but I thought, at the time I had to do this, that it was a genius idea to have something presentable, yet thought- provoking--at least for me, as the presenter.
In a post-doc we had to come up with a physical model that represented a theoretical idea. For example, in working with attention, one model I'll probably never forget (its been over 15 years now it's probably permastored by now) was the idea of attention as a waiting room for further cognitive processing, with a receptionist and a long line of different items waiting to check in. Like I said, don't know how that will play out but it might help a few of your students. Another idea would be to put their theoretical papers into a nice concept map. Annette Quoting "Colleen J. Burnham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We have a poster session at the end of each semester for which all of our > "researching" seniors are expected to prepare a poster. While this sounds > good in principle, we've unfortunately evolved to a point where all of our > seniors are doing "thought studies", i.e., they are essentially producing > 25 page literature reviews. > > So here we are, coming up on the scheduled and advertised poster session > with only 20 or so lit review papers (and zero "science" projects or > studies) that have to be put into poster format. In the past, we've had the > 2 or 3 students doing lit reviews force their papers into a sort of > scientific format: abstract, basic introduction, body, discussion, and > potential future research. With so many this year, and the commitment to a > poster session, it seems we should come up with a different standard that > while making it clear to the "paper-writers" that presenting literature > reviews as posters is really not appropriate or professional, they still > must be able to put the review into a format that makes it "glance-able" > and reviewable by their mentors and peers. (We are going to eliminate the > option to produce a literature review next year; this is a one-time > dilemma.) > > I'll appreciate any thoughts, comments, advice, etc that anyone might > offer... :-) ...!! > > thanks!! > > cjb > > > **************** > Colleen J. Burnham > Teaching Associate, Psychology > Colby College > Mayflower Hill Drive > Waterville, ME 04901 > office 207 872 3407 > fax 207 872 3096 > home 207 465 9204 > home fax 207 465 9202 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ****************** > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Department of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
