Stop “Death by powerpoint”
Some thoughts of our Bayesian
network assignment.
Vanida Vorasarn 106611
Ekarin Supataratarn 107827

We are killing each other.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurafire/190169989

Unreadable slides and boring
presentation.

~60% dead!

Examples

This slide is very hard to read
• Did you think so? Here's why this slides are unusable for reading in
projector­like environment.
• By using so many bullets in one page.
– More than 4 bullets in one slide, your target audience are starting to have
hard time try to remember the slide.
– More than 10 and nearly nobody would consider looking at it.
– That would put too many eggs into one basket.
• And also choose so small font size that normally people cannot see the slide
clearly from normal distances.
– Let's say: you choose font size <= 20 as in this slide.
• Even choosing inappropriate font for screen can have some effects on
readability
– Serif font (like in this slide) made your document looks frustrating.
– It's because of their glyphs.
• Combining these 3 factors together, you'll end up high chances your slides
cannot be read my most of your audience
• And That's [a lot of] kills!

~75% dead!

Make it lively, it's easy.
• Meaningful photos
• Use multi – tone sound
• 4 bullets per page is enough

~15% dead!

Which saves many lives!

Thank you!
(Slide background taken from
http://flickr.com/photos/sportsstan/255458
7130)