Beautiful, Inspiring Presentations in 21st Century Higher Education
Communicate your research article (and sciences) to the public using some tips gleaned from the video shared by Hashem Al-Ghaili’s FB @ScienceNaturePage below. Video Tips Three video tips to convert a research article to a ScienceComm video: Succinct and to the point – use a script. Create an interesting short video of your publication by…
Finally my third course is out! Teach Online is about on creating your own course on Udemy. In the course, I take you behind-the-screen and share my secrets in creating a great quality Udemy course. Like in my first Udemy course, Elevate Your Research Presentation!, Udemy approved this course in less than 24 hours and…
The 3 o’clock deadline was looming. It’s 12.15 pm. Two judges walked into the meeting room, sat down, considered and re-considered their marks. Discussed a few issues. Then, they fell into silence. Deep in thoughts… Judging a competition is not easy. Many factors to think about, even after a participant gave a 5-minute pitch and…
Spending 1 hour just talking about binding interactions between a drug and a protein target is no fun. Hydrogen bonding, van der Waals, dipole-dipole moment. No fun for me, as I’ve been doing it for the last 10-odd years. Repeating the same thing, year in, year out. And no fun for students, presumably ‘soaking’ in…
Recently I received a request from my former technical staff, Rohaida Hamel, for some feedback on her slide deck. Currently she’s working in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. I’ve worked with her in several symposia/conferences organised by USM Pharmacy School. I like her design work on promotional items and name badges. There’re always some elements of unexpected surprises…
Giving a live lecture wasn’t that difficult in the beginning of my career as a lecturer. I remember my first lecture. I walked into DK X lecture hall with my thermos and a white MacBook. Came in well-prepared, days earlier. Set it up and started talking to students. Yes, I was nervous. I talked fast.…