Design Awesome Slides

Name: Design Awesome Slides
Start: 2024-02-13T12:30:00-08:00
End: 2024-02-13T14:00:00-08:00
Location: Engineering Science Building Room 2001

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Workshop Graduate Student Experience

Tue, Feb 13, 2024

12:30 PM – 2 PM PST (GMT-8)

Engineering Science Building Room 2001

United States

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Details

This interactive workshop presents key principles for effectively designing and presenting slides along with resources for color, font, images, templates, and other elements of slide design. Attendees should bring their own device (e.g. laptop, tablet) in order to work on their presentations and receive feedback.

This workshop fulfills PART 2 of the Fundamentals in Public Speaking Certificate. Attendees must ensure that they are BOTH checked in AND checked out on Shoreline by one of our staff members in order for their attendance to count toward the certificate requirements. For more information, click here.

Food Provided (Light refreshments will be provided.)

Speakers

Kenny Smith

Continuing Lecturer

UCSB Writing Program

Kenny Smith is co-chair of the Writing Placement Committee along with Madeleine Sorapure and Sarah Hirsch. He also teaches introductory composition (Writing 1 & 2), writing with code (Writing 105CD), and scientific communication courses (Writing 109ST, Writing 105SW, and Writing 159A). His research focuses on how literacy skills transfer from the classroom to the outside world, particularly in regard to the interpretation of scientific texts and journalism. He is currently co-editing a special issue of Kairos on multimodal scientific communication.

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