The Science of PowerPoint Overload

The Power Point view has turned in a different way because of the research of Richard E. Mayer of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He did not work on Power Point instead of it he worked about how the human mind works. Through his research questions a range of multimedia, and also Power Point are affected by them. It was declared that you should use five lines of text on a slide, with no more than six words per line and that could be the best Power Point. However, the scientist figure out that it is better to put the text off the screen instead of putting it on the slides. It is better to put interesting illustrations or visuals that are connected with the topic. You can also put a small description on the visuals so that listeners have some ideas of the pictures that are shown on the screen. It would be also better if you give the Power Point, which is printed in a format of Notes Page Format, to the people. It is a hard and long work for you but it makes people to understand more things about the topic that you represent. Now it depends on us if we agree with this all Rich’s researches and if we want to change something about Power Point then we should change in our own minds and behavior. The most of the reason why people use the bullets are to help themselves reminding the information during the presentation. That means it is mostly made for the speakers and not for the audience. Some of the important of Rich’s researches are these: You should check if you used just words and include images. If there are words that you also use to speak then do not put these words on you slides. If there is some information that you do not even talk then you should delete these things. Sometimes it takes a long time just for one slide to explain, and then it is better to break them up in other slides. If you have too much information then you should make it shorter.