Power

Point

Comparison of 5 different Flip Flip

presentation methods
Chart Chart
Flip Flip
Chart Chart

Please note that this chart compares an average presentation with an average speaker. Power
Point
It does not say anything about the qualification of the speaker.

Power
Flip Flip Point
Chart Chart

Flip Flip
Chart Chart Power
Point

Presentation without Presentation with Presentation with Presentation with Presentation with Visualizer
visuals Flip Chart PowerPoint Visualizer and PowerPoint/Videos

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Learning success (ability to remember
what‘s important)
Power
Point

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Attention
from audience

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Engagement
factor

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Possibility to instantly display objects -
from the audience

Average preparation time

(for the presenter)
- 30 minutes 120 minutes 10 minutes 90 minutes

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Flexibility (to make changes during the
presentation)

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Professional appearance
(of the presentation)

Conclusion A presentation without
any visual aid is very in-
efficient, because it is al-
most impossible to hold
the audience‘s attention
for a long time. Words
are much harder to re-
member than visuals.
A presentation with
a flip chart does not
keep the audience‘s
attention for very long
and appears quite old-
fashioned these days.
It is impossible to show
things like photos, ob-
jects or documents
to the audience and it
requires some prepa-
ration time (if pages are
written out in advance).
Despite the professi- A presentation with a The most professional
onal appearance, the Visualizer is flexible and presentation method is
learning success of an spontaneous and allows to switch between Visua-
average Power Point the audience to collabo- lizer and computer based
presentation is often rate in the presentation. media in order to get the
quite low, due to a lack The engagement and „best of both worlds“.
of collaboration possi- entertainment factor is WolfVision Visualizers
bilities and a low enga- high, which is important provide seamless swit-
gement factor for the to keep the audience‘s ching between the Visua-
audience. Unexpected attention for a long time lizer and computer based
input from the audience and provide maximum media (like PowerPoint,
can easily distract a learning success. Ad- videos, internet etc.)
presenter, because the vance preparation time
order of the wording is kept to a minimum.
and scanned objects Collecting material
are not easily changed. is all that‘s required.
Plus it requires a very
long preparation time.

More information about presentations, visualizer and collaboration at https://wolfvision.com/

References:
Whitepaper ‚Using Visualizers to optimise presentation‘ by Chris Atherton 2011
Study by Nickerson RS (1968). A note on long-term recognition memory for pictorial material. Psychon. Sci 11(2):58-59
Survey of Wall Street Journal, ‚We don‘t pay attention to boring things‘ (‚Brain rules‘ from John Medina).