Introduction
To facilitate meaningful youth participation in the society, there has been rising need to inject their commitments in serving the society through presentations using posters and workshops. According to Majer (2009: 17), posters are quite powerful presentations which enhance skills and knowledge development among youths due to their tendency to stimulate creativity and psychomotor skills development.
With the current society dominated by information technology, the digital media is one of the emerging reliable sources of innovation among youths. Particularly, skillful presentation of ideas and expressions through posters over the internet has been revealed as one of the most powerful agents of youth development.
As revealed by Hess & Tosney (2009: 59), the engagement of youths in creative arts through development of posters stimulates systems change through innovations, resulting into general community development. Quite importantly, meaningful youth involvement in various development projects facilitates value-focused decision making in the society. This report is to establish the ultimate value of youth engagement in posters presentations in various social activities.
Literature Review
Hess, G. & Tosney, K. (2009). Effectiveness of Poster Presentation to Enhance Youths’ Social Networks. Social Networking, 32(1): 57-69.
As noted by Hass & Tosney, the engagement of youths in various presentations using posters is one of the most powerful strategies to enhance creativity in them. Since communication is a very important skill among youths, its usage among youths in various presentations enhances the linkage between theoretical knowledge they gain in school to real life experiences or practice.
On this basis, Hass & Tosney considers posters as one of the most effective facilitators of accuracy in knowledge application among youths. Though Hass & Tosney lacks precise consideration of special cases like visually impaired youths, his ideas are quite useful for active engagement of youths in community development projects.
Majer, J. (2009). Using Poster Presentations to Enhance Community Skills. Curtin University of Technology: Curtin University Press, 12-21.
As revealed by Majer, youth participation in social activities through developing respective posters to reflect a certain social events facilitates unity in the community.
Through use of posters, youths are actively involved in community development projects, which make them realize self esteem through expressing their artistic skills through posters development. However, fails to consider talent diversity among youths, in which some of them are more talented in other community development activities or expressions, other than only through poster presentations.
Tham, M. (2004) Poster Presentation of Research Work. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishers, 42-71.
Through the use of posters, Tham reveals how the development of efficient communication skills among youths will be nurtured. Since posters creations of skillful artistic work, the engagement of youths in poster presentations enhances innovation and invention of new ideas in various fields.
More so, Tham show how engagement of youths in poster presentations facilitates the development of various careers like arts and drawing among others. Nevertheless, this study seems to lack empirical study carried out to form a basis for the arguments presented in it.
Methodology
This study relied on the use of secondary research materials like books, journal articles and the internet. This study was carried out as group work and included group decision-making rather than only group leader alone.
The poster we developed constituted of an advertisement of a drink meant to children made by Kool Aids Company. In development of the poster the choice of the design was also collectively agreed after each member coming with various designs. In delivering the oral presentation, one of the group members was selected to do it.
Results
As it was revealed, poster presentation is one of the most accurate and effective communication media due to its accuracy in information conveying. Being a visual media, the poster we developed was quite enticing in the way it was quite appealing and persuasive due to its effective color use and emotional nature. As a result, we discovered how we have the potential to express our creativity in communication through poster presentation.
Discussion
As it was revealed, poster presentations enhances the understanding of the potential youths have as part of their personal development towards self actualization. Though socializing with others, youths are empowered to develop various competencies and skills in the society. According to Tham (2004: 64), social networks have the capacity to engage youths in active learning since they enhance sharing of knowledge and ideas collectively.
As a result, remarkable competencies have largely been experienced in team work while developing the poster meant to act as an advertisement for Kool Aids drink for children. Generally, it has been revealed, how collective poster presentations among youths facilitates the development of various skills among youths to enhance the overall society development.
Conclusion
As it has been revealed, the engagement of youths in poster presentation is one of the most powerful strategies to enhance creativity and development of various communication skills. Through poster presentation in team work, as a result of social networking, youths have been empowered to participate in various community development projects.
Reference List
Hess, G. & Tosney, K. (2009) Effectiveness of Poster Presentation to Enhance Youths’ Social Networks. Social Networking, 32(1): 57-69.
Majer, J. (2009) Using Poster Presentations to Enhance Community Skills. Curtin University of Technology: Curtin University Press, 12-21.
Tham, M. (2004) Poster Presentation of Research Work. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishers, 42-71.