Beautiful, Inspiring Presentations in 21st Century Higher Education
In this post, I’m sharing presentation templates from ‘Awesome PhD Presentations’ workshop held recently. The free Viva slides templates are handcrafted for a viva-voce presentation. Rather than distracting the audience, the clean and simple templates will let your key messages shine. Where less is more… With further edits, they may be used in any academic…
Finally… Elevate is available from Amazon and for those in Malaysia, you can loan it from any public libraries. It’s a book for those delivering presentations in academia. Are you an aspiring researcher, a junior lecturer or a seasoned academician who often wonder: How do I convince grant evaluators to give me more funding? What…
Alhamdullilah! Thank youuu to all readers of Elevate! I’m humbled and happy to say that the book was really well-received at a workshop two weeks ago. It was soft-launched at USM’s teaching & learning workshop for new lecturers, towards the end of my session on Designing Effective Presentation (31 Jan 2019). That took place on…
Today I’m excited to announce my first paperback, Elevate. It’s a collection of stories; adventures, mis-adventures and having the courage to rise to the challenges in academic presentations. Update: Now available as an ebook at several online ebook platforms – check it out! In addition to the stories, Elevate offers useful takeaways and lessons in…
Remember Toy Story, Wall-E and Finding Nemo? Great stories that children (and children-at-heart) love to watch again and again. They are listed in Pixar’s top 10 most successful animations. One key reason of Pixar’s continued success in the creative industry lies their story boarding. A story contains a storyline, an unseen structure that maps out…
Everything that has a beginning… My workshop ‘Presentation Makeover for Educators’ began from a request for a Powerpoint workshop for School Secretaries. It was a request from Puan Hajar Zituakmar Mohd Fauzi, then an Assistant Registrar at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Initially I was quite surprised to get such request. Why would secretaries for Deans…