Dr Emma Yhnell 🧬🔬🧪🧠 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@emmayhnell.bsky.social)

Stop making beautiful PowerPoints! On being more efficient in teaching preparation If you ask most university educators what the most time consuming aspect of their job is, you will probably get the answer of ‘teaching prep’. I’ve certainly worked into the small hours many a time trying to perfect my lecture slides. I’ve created so many really high quality slide decks, including carefully thought out animations and annotations. I’ve searched for diagrams to use with my students, failed to find one I really like, and then spent hours creating a slightly different one, hacking the built in shapes to create lovely diagrams that are just the way I want them. http://katharinehubbard.blog/2025/04/22/on-being-ruthlessly-efficient-in-teaching-preparation/