[Free] Free Powerpoint Tutorial - Anatomy Of An Academic Slide Deck: Tips, Strategies Revealed
A Free Course on Designing Academic and Scientific Presentations. Learn how to transform and elevate your presentation! – Free Course
What you’ll learn
- Discover the use of multimedia and a variety of elements to design an interesting and engaging academic slide deck
- How to design a clean and minimalist slide deck for an academic and scientific presentation
- Learn how to build an academic slide deck for a lecture on cardiac glycosides
Requirements
- Willingness to learn
- Open-minded
Description
A well-designed slide deck sparks joy, inspires your students and moves your audience during your lecture!In this FREE course, discover how to use various elements and strategies to transform a dull or dry science-based slide deck into an attractive, interesting yet educational to our students and audience.
You will learn how I approach designing a slide deck, and delivering a lecture. In general, I am guided by the approach of Presentation Zen – a minimalist presentation approach that emphasises on having only essential elements on a slide and do away with non-essentials.
The course covers the following topics and skills in academic presentations:
A. Introductory section
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About the Course
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Spotlight Effects for a Title Slide
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Essential Reading Slide
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Timeline Slide: A Map for Your Audience
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Using an infographic as a Quick Overview to the Topic
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Reviewing Previous Lessons: Why do it?
B. Cardiac Glycoside Lectures
Here is where I unpack the hidden structures and parts of my lecture slides on Cardiac Glycosides. I explain each part or a set of slides – sharing my creative process with you, including the anatomy of my slide deck.
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Intro Slide: How to Pique Your Audiences Curiosity
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Create Visually-attractive Slides using Advanced Gradient Fill
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State the Essence, Use Creative Text Highlights
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My Approach and Tips in Creating an Interesting Scientific Presentation
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Black is not the only colour… Using colours in an academic presentation.
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Teaching Strategies for a Large Audience
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Secrets Revealed: Influencing Drug’s Potency with Chemical structures
C. Concluding Section
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A Re-cap + Zooming back to Big Picture
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Drawing an Action Potential of Heart Muscles using the Pen Tool
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Final Thoughts with Effective Presentation Tips
This slide deck has appeared in my blog; however, in this FREE course, I go behind the screen.
I go a few steps further showing you some tips, tricks and strategies I employed while designing these slides for this lecture.
The slide deck used to be a part of an Integrated Course on Cardiac Drugs. So I will also share several teaching and learning strategies that you would find useful, if and when, you’re asked to teach or give a lecture.
Come one, come all.
Enrol in this FREE course!
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*Even though the slide deck was created in Apple Keynote; most parts of the lessons can be followed by listening to the audio and/or with PowerPoint. Happy learning!
Author(s): Aisyah Saad
