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Posters and Presentations

Tips on creating effective posters and presentations, including templates, suggested tools, and video tutorials.

Getting Started

Whether you're preparing for a class presentation, or an oral or poster presentation at a conference, this guide provides some tips and resources to help you get started. 

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What software or tools should I use?

Designing a Poster

Designing from scratch?

Design-challenged? Try these:

  • Piktochart - online, freemium program with templates and infographic styles
  • Canva - online, freemium program with templates, and free and paid images

Making an Oral Presentation?

        Alternative Tools and Apps (free):

Editing Images?

Making Charts and Tables?

Presentation Practice Rooms

Practice your presentation skills at:

More on Gerstein's presentation practice room: