How to Make an Impressive PowerPoint Presentation!
What you'll learn
- Create your own, unique, and enthusiastic PowerPoint presentation to be used at work or as an assignment.
- Gain confidence in public speaking.
- Enhance communication skills.
- Get the message across with its intended purpose.
- To be thorough in your subject matter by presenting your data.
Requirements
- Experience in public speaking is a plus
- Proficiency in PowerPoint is helpful
Description
This is a Course in creating your own PowerPoint presentation in excellent quality in such a way that it leaves an impression on the audience. This can be done by providing the presenter with insights and strategies related to the presenter himself or herself, to the PowerPoint slides, to the talk, and to the audience. The lessons offer tips, suggestions and guidance from making the topic interesting, making the seminar into a story, to practical planning, such as preparation, rehearsals and timing to content presentation. Choosing the font and background colors as well as slide transitions are also explained. It is based on proven work done by the author that has earned her several awards.
Whether you are in classroom setting or at a workplace, whether you need to give a thesis defence or need to market a product or service, powerpoint presentations have been pretty much the norm of communication for an audience. This Course serves only as a guide and thus, one can use his or her own choices and tweak the presentation to fit their needs, wants, and personalities. It is my hope that this Course will build up skills of public speaking and confidence during a talk.
Who this course is for:
- Those at work or in studies who are either required or asked to give a PowerPoint presentation related to a specific topic.
- Those who own their own business and would like to expand it through seminars.
- Graduate students who are about to give a thesis or dissertation seminars.
- Not intended for those who have other means of communicating the same message.
- Anyone who wants to overcome timidity while speaking in front of an audience.
Instructor
Dr. Sunita Seemanapalli has over 10 years of experience in biomedical research, particularly in field of Microbiology. She has a Medical Degree from the Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil. In order to better understand the basic mechanism of disease processes, she pursued graduate studies in the US. She earned an M.S. from Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA. Her Master's thesis focused on the levels of p53, a tumor suppressor protein in Human Cytomegalovirus-infected cells. She earned her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on the role of Outer Surface Protein C in the pathogenesis of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease. In March 2011, Dr. Seemanapalli completed one year of post-doctoral research at Texas A&M, College Station, TX, where she developed mutant and complementation strains of Borrelia burgdorferi expressing virulent genes.
Dr. Seemanapalli worked at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in the Department of Human Genomics for 5 years. She also worked at the Hansen's Disease Center for about a year in research related to multi-drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
In reference to her teaching experience, Dr. Seemanapalli taught General Biology Laboratory courses as a Teaching Assistant at Southern University and as an Adjunct Instructor at the Baton Rouge Community College for one and a half years.In the Fall of 2011, Dr. Seemanapalli taught Microbiology lecture and lab course at Blinn College, a Community College located in Bryan, TX.
Dr. Seemanapalli won several awards for excellent powerpoint presentations at local, regional and national scientific meetings. She has a first author and several co-author papers published in several peer-reviewed journals, including in the Journal of Immunology. Her expertise is in the areas of Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Immunology. She is passionate about teaching Microbiology in an engaging and interest-captivating manner.