Anatomy of an Academic Slide Deck: Tips, Strategies Revealed

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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

1. About the Course

2. Spotlight Effects for a Title Slide

3. Essential Reading Slide

4. Timeline Slide: A Map for Your Audience

5. Using an infographic as a Quick Overview to the Topic

6. 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.

   
   

7. Intro Slide: How to Pique Your Audiences Curiosity

8. Create Visually-attractive Slides using Advanced Gradient Fill

9. State the Essence, Use Creative Text Highlights

10. My Approach and Tips in Creating an Interesting Scientific Presentation

11. Black is not the only colour... Using colours in an academic presentation.

12. Teaching Strategies for a Large Audience

13. Secrets Revealed: Influencing Drug's Potency with Chemical structures

    
    

    C. Concluding Section

14. A Re-cap + Zooming back to the Big Picture

15. Drawing an Action Potential of Heart Muscles using the Pen Tool

16. 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. Attention is key in this academic presentation. Capturing a learner's attention is the first element as outlined in John Keller's ARCS instructional model for motivation in the learning process; interestingly, the same goes for Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction.

The slide deck used to be a part of an Integrated Course on Cardiac Drugs for third-year pharmacy students. 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.

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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!

** The ARCS Model stands for Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction.

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