Presentation skills
Designing Presentation Slides
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Presentation Skills: Speechwriting, Slides and Delivery,
“Powerpoint slides are like children: no matter how ugly they are, you’ll think they’re beautiful if they’re yours” — Scott Adams, author of the comic strip “Dilbert”. Due to this cause or another, it’s a huge stress to look at most Powerpoint slides. Depending on the “design” skills of the speaker and audience’s taste slides create different emotions from a slight annoyance to physical sickness. But that is not the worst thing. The worst thing is that instead of improving the presentation such slides confuse the audience, distract it and finally oblige the speaker to explain them rather than being quite self-explanatory. The goal of this course is to change that by equipping learners with a set of tools to create simple, clear and aesthetic slides which improve the presentation of the speaker. The course covers universal design principles, templates, colors, typefaces, slides’ typography, use of photos and pictograms, composition rules and ways to create clear and meaningful charts and diagrams. This course is not a PowerPoint fundamentals course. You should have a basic knowledge of either Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple Keynote software. Don’t meddle, make your slides matter.
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Very good course - practical and structured well.
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very good teacher as well.
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This is a very good course to understand how to convey information on a PPT slide.
The course is easy to follow, short videos straight to the point, with explicit god & bad examples Very good course.
Very good course to learn about effective presentation designs .. 1.
It has totally changed my way of making a presentation.very good effort This course is very helpful for everyone ...
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Would highly recommend this course It was very cool.
Very Motivating Well, I would recommend this course to everyone who in one way or other uses Powerpoint presentation whether you are a student or a professional.
I can recommend this course fully (and already did).
I recommend this course for people who needs to do presentations time to time but every time don't know from where to start.
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Thank you so much for producing this course I greatly appreciate the amount of effort it must have taken to put this together so well.
I learnt so much about design.
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Informative and Practical Course.I highly recommend it for anyone looking to improve their Presentations Slides Just A-MA-ZING!
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it was a great pleasure to participate in this course where I was able to learn techniques for the preparation of presentations, which are already and helping in the presentations that I have to do in my work.
I can't speak enough how useful this is toward my work - I already started implementing the key take-aways.
Although i was using PPTs in university but i realized the design importance when I started a job where substantial amount of my work involved working on PPT.
A new topic for me was “Peer-graded assignments” It was interesting for me to see how others are performing and how peers see my work.
It’s help me improve a lot in creating presentation.I have less skills and need a lot of improve for my work.
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Took a lot from it that I can use in my field.
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Motivational Speaker and College Recruiter $50k
Subject Matter Specialist (PP&E) $51k
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