How to create a good
presentation.....?
Some rules.
Markus Wolkenhauer
Group seminar AK Langguth
November 2006
Mainz
Content
1. Introduction
• Learning and Visualization
2. Technical
• Layout for text and graphic
• Fonts and font sizes
• Contrast and Colours
3. Summary
Learning
Why visualization?
• Focus the attention of the audience
• Emphasize integral parts
• 2 different input channels (visual and audio)
• Informationen easier and faster recognizable
• Reduced effort of speech
• Completion and enhancement of spoken word
Visualization
Faster recognition !
Layout
• Uniform layout
• One presentation – one font
• 1/3 of slide area should be blank
Title
2cm
Information density
• One slide every 2-3 minutes
• One topic/message per slide
• One graph or table per slide
Magical number seven
Maximum of 7 lines / sentences
Maximum of 7 words per line
About text
• Keywords instead of sentences
• Not more than 3 font sizes
• Double linebreak
• Only one method for emphasizing
italic or underline or colour or larger
not combined
Fonts I
• beamer resolution
small features are hard to see
• reading habits
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waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are….“
Fonts II
Font without serifes (Arial, Comic)
Font with serifes (Times New Roman)
Spaced font (Courier)
WRITING IN CAPITAL LETTERS
Font size
font size 32
titles
font size 30
font size 28 subtitles, normal text
font size 24 normal text, text in diagrams
font size 20 and graphics
font size 18 too small
rule of thumb: distance [mm] 18 pt
At last..........
Check presentation with output media !