Anatomy of an Academic Slide Deck: Tips, Strategies Revealed
- Willingness to learn
- Open-minded
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
- About the Course
- Spotlight Effects for a Title Slide
- Essential Reading Slide
- Timeline Slide: A Map for Your Audience
- Using an infographic as a Quick Overview to the Topic
- 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.
- Intro Slide: How to Pique Your Audience’s Curiosity
- Create Visually-attractive Slides using Advanced Gradient Fill
- State the Essence, Use Creative Text Highlights
- My Approach and Tips in Creating an Interesting Scientific Presentation
- Black is not the only colour… Using colours in an academic presentation.
- Teaching Strategies for a Large Audience
- Secrets Revealed: Influencing Drug’s Potency with Chemical structures
C. Concluding Section
- A Re-cap + Zooming back to Big Picture
- Drawing an Action Potential of Heart Muscles using the Pen Tool
- 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.
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And earn a certificate from Udemy on completing the online 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 by using the Udemy app on your mobile. And of course, do-able in PowerPoint. Happy learning!
- Educators and Teachers
- Academics, Scientists and Researchers
- Pharmacology and/or Medicinal Chemistry Professors and Lecturers