Pre-Workshop Videos & Activities

This workshop is primarily hands-on practice with PowerPoint in order to learn to use key features of the software. To participate fully please do the following before the workshop:

• #Better Poster video (19 min)

• Key multimedia learning principles for poster design (Comming Soon…)
• Fixing academic posters: the #BetterPoster approach
• OPTIONAL: UVic Academic Poster Template for PowerPoint (click on the Academic Research Posters option)
• OPTIONAL: Free sources of quality images for your posters:
  • Unspash.com
  • Create Biology figures
  • Full colour clip art with transparent background
  • Free icons to help describe your research story
  • Google Advanced Image Search
  • CreativeCommons image search
• OPTIONAL: On-campus poster printing service - Blink

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