This is for first assignment of the course "Knowledge Management and Information Retrieval". More about explanation here: http://ekkmanz.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/stop-death-by-powerpoint/

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

2. We are killing each other.

3.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurafire/190169989

4. Unreadable slides and boring
presentation.

5. ~60% dead!

6. Examples

7. 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!

8. ~75% dead!

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

10. ~15% dead!

11. Which saves many lives!

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