Polished Presentations: Strategy, Design & AI with Sheyla Finkelshteyn

January 13, 2027 / 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Online

$50.00

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How to make powerpoints and presentations with AI: quicker, smarter and more impressive to your teachers and peers. 

AI can help you create a presentation in minutes, but creating a good presentation still requires strategy, strong storytelling, and smart design choices. In this interactive workshop, students will learn how to use AI tools to take a presentation from initial idea to polished slide deck while saving time and improving the final product. Participants will explore how AI can help brainstorm and organize ideas, develop a compelling presentation structure, turn notes or research into concise slide content, improve headlines and messaging, and generate ideas for visuals and layouts. The workshop will also cover how to refine AI-generated slides so they feel intentional and original rather than generic or obviously AI-created. Participants will practice using AI as a presentation partner while learning when to rely on their own judgment, creativity, and knowledge of their audience. By the end of the workshop, they will have a repeatable process for creating presentations that are clearer, more engaging, and more visually polished for academic projects, interviews, internships, and professional settings.

Commitment
Level

Workshop

2 hours, One Day, Wednesday, Online.

Measured vs.
Learning

This interactive workshop will show students how to use AI to build presentations that are faster to make and more impressive to deliver. Participants will learn to brainstorm and organize ideas, shape a clear story, turn notes or research into concise slide content, and sharpen headlines and visual layouts. Through hands-on practice, students will refine AI-generated slides so they feel original rather than generic, learn when to trust their own judgment over the tool, and leave with a repeatable process for polished presentations in class, interviews, internships, and beyond.

*Affiliated Universities: Bluffton, Capital, Heidelberg, Kenyon, Marietta, Ohio Wesleyan, Otterbein Wittenberg, Wooster, Baldwin Wallace, Ohio Northern.

Earn Your Badge
of Completion

Workshops range from 2-4 hours of contact time, depending on the topic and content. To earn your badge of completion, you must attend the entire session.

Meet Your Instructor

Sheyla Finkelshteyn is an AI education specialist and PhD researcher in Organizational Communication who supports universities and organizations in implementing AI thoughtfully and effectively. Her work centers on building AI fluency across roles—faculty, staff, and even students—through hands-on training that bridges technical possibilities with communication, ethics, and institutional context. She brings expertise in qualitative research, learning design, and inclusive communication to help participants develop confidence, craft strong prompts, and apply AI to real tasks while understanding limitations, bias, and responsible use.

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