This year’s eduWeb Summit launched a new way for attendees to learn from each other. Poster Sessions had presenters communicate their ideas and case studies as a poster, forcing them to distill their concepts into a single visual presentation that conveys their ideas.
The idea behind this addition was to build a space for showcasing ideas where you could have conversations with the people who did the work rather than a single presenter and their slide deck broadcasting to an audience. It turned out to be a great addition to the conference that facilitated many conversations and new connections.
Volt sat down with three presenters and asked them to walk us through their posters the same way they’d walk a curious colleague through them on the show floor. Here’s what they had to teach us:
Building Emails Everyone Can Use
Monica Cutler and Elly Lewis, University of Colorado Denver
Some may treat accessibility as a compliance checkbox, but there can be serious implications when broad segments of your audience can’t access your communications. Cutler and Lewis break down what it takes to build accessible email from the ground up, not bolt it on after the design is already locked.
Rebranding Across a Multi-Campus System
Lauren Donaldson, Northshore Technical Community College
Branding one campus is hard enough. Donaldson’s poster tackles the harder version of the problem: building a new brand identity that holds together across multiple campuses with their own histories, cultures, and stakeholders who all think their location should be the priority.
Leading A Team Through A PR Crisis
Ronny Sharmila, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Every institution thinks it has a crisis plan until it actually needs one. Sharmila’s poster is a real account of leading a team through an actual crisis and the framework they used to make decisions under pressure.
Three posters, three frameworks you can put to work on your own campus. If you’re building your 2027 eduWeb session list, take note: the Poster Sessions are worth checking out.
