Sell Yourself! - Creating PowerPoint Presentations and Posters

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

The aim is to improve delivery skills to be ready to use both in the case of PowerPoint presentations and scientific posters. We will smoothly address the technical barriers to public presentation regarding scientific work, thesis, and later medical careers. Thus, during the lectures and exercises, we place special emphasis on developing skills using the most common research and presentation software. We create content and show design recommendations in line with current design trends, all distilled in a professional medical style. Software: PowerPoint, OneDrive, Word, Mendeley, Endnote, Adobe Creative Suite.

Lectures

• 1. Introduction: Microsoft cloud-based services and PowerPoint. Course description, structure, and options to fulfil the requirements. Microsoft Office 365 supported by the University of Pécs. Basic functions and login requirements. - Szentpéteri József László
• 2. Structure of the presentation. Means of inspiration. The presentation slide as a powerful tool and a background to your delivery. Structural and design elements of the title slide. - Szentpéteri József László
• 3.

  PowerPoint: Structure I. Content first, then formatting. Creating a table of contents. Group slides into sections. Guidelines for the slide duration. Correct chronology of the use of visual materials.

  - Marosvölgyi Tamás
• 4.

  Use Slide Master for simplified formatting. Introducing and using the Design Ideas feature. Using templates.

  - Marosvölgyi Tamás
• 5. PowerPoint: Images, Videos. Anglicon game. Placing images on the left. Using icons. Copyright background to illustrations. Royalty free stock photo. Sizing, cropping, composition of illustrations. - Szentpéteri József László
• 6.

  Physically insert video or with YouTube embedding. Analysis of decent and wrong examples.

  - Szép Dávid
• 7.

  PowerPoint: Text Editing. Colors, fonts, text size. Background style, contrast ratios.

  - Szép Dávid
• 8. PowerPoint charts and diagrams. Animation, transition. References and bibliography. Engaging your audience with built-in interactive tools: quiz, polls. Feedback. - Sik Attila Gábor
• 9. Word: Thesis1. Share your document and work with a student in a synchronized in a word file. AutoSave function. Requirements of style and content for a thesis. Templates and macros for quick formatting. Inspiration based on samples. Headings, table of contents. - Sik Attila Gábor
• 10. Word: Thesis2. The use of references, citations, and the definition of plagiarism. Document formats, conversion to pdf. Header and Footer, page number. Embed automatic commands. Table and image placement. Using Endnote, Mendeley, Grammarly. - Szabó Éva (Biokémia)
• 11. Research Poster. Presenting research posters. The genre of the poster and according editorial guidelines. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, PowerPoint. References. - Szabó Éva (Biokémia)
• 12. Proportion of images, text, composition. Analysis of good and bad examples. - Hetényi Roland
• 13. Research Poster. Use of 3D and 2D image elements. Shadow, highlight and applying frames. Layout design: perspective and planes in print. Consistent application of the scientific work and style. Layout of links. Referencing in a poster. Highlighting key messages in your research. Promotion opportunities for the scientific poster. - Hetényi Roland
• 14. Analyzing advertisements, promotional materials. Pinterest, Behance. Guidelines for making charts and graphics. Online marketing tools: social media post, short video, growth hacking, viral content. Forms of communication in social media. - Szentpéteri József László
• 15. Presentation and management of Adobe Spark, Crello, Canva, Logojoy software. Adobe Photoshop is simple and key to stylizing your photos. - Szentpéteri József László
• 16. Summary of the key messages of the 11 weeks. Overview of your work. Present a your PowerPoint slide show. Recommend online courses (Coursera, Udemy, Skillshare, etc.) and further options to improve. - Szentpéteri József László

Practices

• 1. set up laptops. Fix title slides. Create your own title slide. The title slide is also the closing slide. - Szentpéteri József László
• 2. Create table of contents. Create sections. Using the Slide Master. Using design ideas. Using slide elements: title, header, footer, slide number. - Szentpéteri József László
• 3.

  Slide Master for background and text formatting. Acquisition, placement, composition of royalty free photos and icons.

  - Szép Dávid
• 4.

  Transformation, coloring, applying effects to illustrations. Combine image and text. Minimum font size: 32 pt. Text compression techniques. Search for keywords. Complex dynamics of font, color and background. Download and apply fonts. Create a slide with dark and light backgrounds.

  - Szép Dávid
• 5. Fix 3 broken slides. + collect 5 trendy graphs.+ Use Mendeley to create a bibliography from a scientific article - Hetényi Roland
• 6. Editing an unformatted document of 20-30 pages. Edit unformatted 20-30 pages of text based on a theoretical summary. - Hetényi Roland
• 7. Creating a Demo Poster - Hetényi Roland
• 8. Choose a topic from your own or demo themes, then choose flyers, design elements from theme collection sites. Analyze and implement ideas obtained from creative sites. - Hetényi Roland

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

None

Literature developed by the Department

They are given to students continuously throughout the course. They will also receive tutorial videos to help them complete the assigned tasks.

Notes

They will be uploaded to the corresponding MS Teams group.

Recommended literature

1. Morgado, F. Microsoft Word Secrets: Why and How to Get What You Want. (Apress, 2017).

2. Brown, B. Microsoft Word 2016 in 90 Pages. (Belleyre Books, 2016).
3. Lowe, D. PowerPoint For Dummies, Office 2021 Edition

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Uploaded tasks and modified PowerPoint presentations to the corresponding MS Teams group.

Mid-term exams

Successful completion of the course requires continuous work. All Along from the second event, each participant will have to work on their presentation in addition to the centrally released assignments. The evaluation takes into account the degree of individual development, the ability of critical thinking during the semester, and the overall attitude.

Making up for missed classes

Completing extra homework can substitute only one additional absence

Exam topics/questions

Course ends up with a mid-term grade, so there is no exam during the exam period.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Hetényi Roland
• Marosvölgyi Tamás
• Sik Attila Gábor
• Szabó Éva (Biokémia)
• Szentpéteri József László
• Szép Dávid