Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

How to present a seminar

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Presented on various occasions since 2000- this presentation example: September 2, 2003

This is a lecture given to new graduate students on how to prepare slides for their presentations. Frequently, students use excessive animation, incorrect colors, too many slides and engage in other distracting activities during their lectures. The slides in this seminar show how to best use Powerpoint. Good and bad example slides are shown. Obviously, it is difficult to understand all the issues from just reviewing the slides, but it is a good start.

The presentation discusses many things including those below::

"Presentation 101 for Graduate Students"

A seminar on how to present a seminar!!

J. Paul Robinson, Professor, Purdue University

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