Creating Killer Handouts for Your Training Classes Richard Binning Highlights: Remember The Three Cs - Content, Character, And Consistency Saying More With Less - White Space Is Not A Bad Thing A Picture Tells A Thousand Stories - Working With Graphics Building Bridges - Connecting The Content With Conduct ED24-1
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Creating Killer Handouts for Your Training Classes
Creating Killer Handouts for Your Training Classes. Richard Binning Highlights: Remember The Three Cs - Content, Character, And Consistency Saying More With Less - White Space Is Not A Bad Thing A Picture Tells A Thousand Stories - Working With Graphics - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Creating Killer Handouts for Your Training Classes
Richard Binning
Highlights: Remember The Three Cs - Content, Character, And
Consistency Saying More With Less - White Space Is Not A Bad
Thing A Picture Tells A Thousand Stories - Working With
Graphics Building Bridges - Connecting The Content With
Conduct
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Richard BinningThe Haskell Company•Trainer, Applications Architect, Systems Analyst
AUGI Board of Directors; Officer, Secretary•Manager; Local User Groups, Exchange Team, Web Team, Forums
Trainer:•Adjunct Instructor – Florida Community College Jacksonville
Killer Handouts Will:•Enhance Career•Act as a Reminder•Reinforce Learning•Give You Credibility
Visual Design
Killer Handouts Use Visual Design Rules•Design School•OJT•Experience
Visual Design Rules:•Legibility•Readability
Legibility
Killer Handouts Have Legibility•Recognition
Definition: BrainyDictionary•Capable of being read or deciphered; distinct to the eye; plain; -- used of writing or printing; as, a fair, legible manuscript.
•Capable of being discovered or understood by apparent marks or indications; as, the thoughts of men are often legible in their countenances.
“Legibility refers to the recipient’s ability to recognize the message being delivered…”
Legibility - Typeface
3 Basic Types•Serif
•Sans Serif
•Decorative
TimesTahoma
Mistral
Remember:•Legibility can be a Deal Killer!
• Cognitive Impaired• Vision Impaired
• Its better to have a Killer Handout than for your handout to be a Deal killer!
Readability
Killer Handouts Have Readability•Comprehension
Definition: Wikipedia• is a measure of the comprehensibility or understandability of written text. The ease with which something can be understood.
“Readability is… the ease with which a topic or subject can be readily understood…”
Readability
Readability is directly related to Visual DesignInvolves:•Layout of the Page•Graphics•Tables•Text
Our Unfortunate Acronym
Acronym
Contrast•Distinguish Between Elements•Draw Attention•Quick Test
Repetition•Unity through Planning•Provide Subtle Training• Identify Information
Screen Capture Software – Get some!Remember Optimal File Types – PNG, GIFUse Cropping Tools and Image Editing SoftwareDon’t resize to increase, recapture it!When replacing text captured from Screen – Choose•Font: Tahoma (Font used by Windows)•Size: 11 pt•Turn of Text Smoothing
Match Graphics – Scale one…Scale ‘em allPDF Printing? – No image compression in distillerResolution no higher than 150 ppi
Connected Content
Focus your Handouts by connecting Content with Conduct• Identify Discrete Goals•Generate Multiple 1-3 page Handouts•Provide True Step by Step Procedures•Solicit input/review from Newbies•Post them on Company Intranet or other known location.