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General Session - Conference Presentation Only (20 minutes, no formal paper)

Kirsti Dyer, Madonna University and Columbia College, Columbia, CA, USA, dr.kdyer@gmail.com
 * Moving Poster Project Presentations to the Online Classroom Using Blackboard Wiki Course Tool **

Course poster projects are a popular way of letting students investigate and present a topic, as a creative alternative to the traditional research paper. A poster project can be considered as "an authentic learning experience” that encourages students to do research, practice writing and presentation skills while prompting them to think and visually organize content (Hall & Sczerba, 2014). Poster projects also let students learn skills beneficial to active, successful participants of the 21st century (NCTE, 2013) and acquire applicable skills that are likely to help them in future careers from science and medicine to business, education and non-profits (Hall & Sczerba, 2014). Online instructors, who want to assign poster projects, are challenged to find ways to translate this face to face project into the online classroom. Blackboard Learning System includes wikis as one of their embedded course tools. A wiki is an ideal Web 2.0 tool for making online, digital or virtual posters. In this online canvas students can design unique, dynamic online posters by formatting the text, adding images and embedding web links, videos, slides and other mash-ups. This paper reviews a case study using Web 2.0 tools for making virtual posters in the online classroom.

All Audiences Online poster, virtual poster, digital poster, electronic posters, ePosters, dynamic online poster, poster board projects, poster presentations, research paper alternatives, online classroom, web 2.0 tool, Blackboard®’s wiki course tool, Blackboard® Learning