Fourth Revision Copyright Presentation

This week as I read chapters eight and nine of, Burmark's (2011), “They Snooze You Loose”, I realized what a powerful tool music is and the impact of how it enhances a presentation.  I decided to add music to my title slide to emphasize and engage the audience in the dark intensity of the topic of copyright.  I used, Bach’s, famous organ piece, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, from Incompetech royalty free music.  I also concluded that it is not only the appearance of the presentation that gains the audience's attention but the delivery of it.

Reference

Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The Educator´s Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

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Chapter 9-Tapping Emotion

In chapter nine, Burmark (2011), emphasizes that as presenters our mood and the words we choose in our presentations or lessons define our character.  For instance, I have been to presentations that have been just that a presentation with no true connection.  The presenter was not felling well and it triggered a negative response with the audience because he did not take the time to explain his situation with the audience.

One of my skills is that I have a positive attitude, which has enabled me to promote positive thinking in others physically and mentally.  My goal whether it’s teaching a lesson or doing training is to stay in a positive mood to obtain a positive impact from my audience or the students.  When presenting a lesson or job training I will be motivated and interested in the topic presenting to pass that energy on to the audience or students.   

Reference

Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The Educator´s Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Chapter 8-Playing Music

In chapter eight, Burmark (2011), discuss the importance of utilizing music in the classroom a training session or even a presentation.  As I recall, I actually have very few PowerPoint presentations that contain music since I am always doing most of the talking.  I realized that music is a very powerful tool and should be a significant part of every presentation.  In developing my PowerPoint presentations I will certainly use music to enhance my presentaion but will also do active research to make sure my music follows well with my presentation.

In reading the chapter I also understood how adding the right music may leave an everlasting impression to the audience.  In the classroom my goal is to incorporate soft music or classical music into a lesson or even science lab.  By using encouraging music in a fun way it may help motivate and strengthen my students learning development.

Reference

Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The Educator´s Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Third Revision Copyright Presentation

This week as I read chapters five, six and seven of Burmark's (2011), “They Snooze You Loose”, I realized my presentation was missing a concrete connection with the audience. As I clicked through my presentation I realized I had so much valuable information but not in the best format. So I decided to begin by changing my first slide and selected a different image to grasp my audience’s attention. I kept my second slide because it is humorous and will allow me to connect with my audience. 

Eventually I plan to revise the rest of my slides but for now I adjusted my seventh slide by deleting the circular graph that contained text and inserted only images with no text. I also altered my fifteenth slide by adding a Wordle I created to illustrate some keywords. I also used one of the techniques described in the chapter that indicated the last slide should resemble the first slide to draw the audiences attention back in before finishing the presentation. I am very confident and feel that by the time I finish reading the book I would have developed an effective PowerPoint presentation. 

Reference 
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The Educator´s Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

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Chapter 7-Starting with Images

In chapter seven, Burmark (2011), introduces a great technique of beginning a PowerPoint presentation with an image that will set the stage and grasp the audience’s attention.  She also discusses how to minimize the use of extraneous information by adding images to little text.  Unknowingly I actually applied these techniques in my Liver Protocol PowerPoint presentation and agree that pictures are worth a thousand words.

In my Liver Protocol PowerPoint presentation I used an image with color per slide and some contained animations.  My presentation also consisted of limited text too no text on some of the slides to better assist the learners in differentiating between normal and abnormal pathology.  My learners were attentive because they had to distinguish and confirm what I was discussing coincided with their thoughts regarding the images.  I was able to not only grasp the learner’s attention but assist them in retaining the information. 

Reference

Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The Educator´s Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Chapter 6-Harnessing Humor

I found chapter six very interesting because I have walked into a class and as soon as the lights become dim the lecture would begin and students had to be prepared.  My instructor was very serious and would click the mouse again and again, reading off the slides and shuffling from slide to slide.  I was ready to take notes while some students became exasperated and would doze off.  At that point I realized I did not want to become one of those instructors. 

In chapter six, Burmark (2011), gives advice to presenters on how to effectively add humor to their presentations.  She further explains that by utilizing humor it will help warm up the audience as long as the joke pertains to the lesson or content because if it were unrelated it would only hurt the presentation.  I will use this technique in my future PowerPoint presentations for my students and even for my business because I do believe that laughter does lead to retaining knowledge.

Reference

Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The Educator´s Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Chapter 5-Making Connections

As an educator or presenter one of the most important tasks is to deliver a PowerPoint presentation in an effective manner and most importantly make a memorable connection with the learners or audience.  In chapter five of, Lynell Burmark’s (2011), “They Snooze You Loose”, she explains how to effectively convey the purpose of the presentation to the audience. In her example she added a short animation at the begging of the presentation to engage her audience and attain their attention.  I thought this was a genius idea and will incorporate this technique in my next lesson.

In the chapter, Burmark (2011), mentions many techniques such as the use of digital flash cards, compare and contrast but I plan to utilize the application tool Wordle and the use of word clouds in my PowerPoint presentations.  Since I will be teaching science the method of using word clouds will prove useful when explaining the water cycle.  My goal is effectively teach the students but most importantly make a connection with them so they may learn.

Reference

Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The Educator´s Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Second Revision Copyright Presentation

This week as I read chapters three and four of Burmark's (2011), “They Snooze You Loose”, I realized my presentation was a little bland.  The second slide of my presentation informed my audience that the presentation was a development of my understanding and research regarding copyright laws.  I thought it was quite wordy and not really an attention getter for my audience.  I actually deleted that slide and added a slide with some humor to grasp my audience’s attention. 

Reference

Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The Educator´s Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

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Chapter 4-Ringing Chimes

It has been my experience to sit through drawn-out boring lectures that exhibit lifeless slideshows.  Worse yet, I can recall delivering a bad PowerPoint presentation to my speech class.  I actually flipped through slides and even read off the slides.  Some of my advantages throughout my presentation were that I smiled, maintained eye contact and was in positively good mood.  I must admit I have come along way but at times still find it difficult to attain my audience’s attention. It is my goal to develop a PowerPoint presentation that not only attains the learner’s attention but most importantly achieves learning.

In chapter four of Burmark (2011), “They Snooze You Lose”, she states that we need “efficiency to meet with effectiveness” (pg. 62).  I found the chapter meaningful because as educators we need to incorporate some humor, images or even a story to hook the learner’s attention.  The objective is to assist learners in not only paying attention but maintaining their attentiveness.

Reference

Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The Educator´s Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Chapter 3-Celebrating Presentations

In order to develop a successful and powerful PowerPoint presentation there is a certain set of skills the presenter must posses.  I have learned that it is necessary for the presenter to be confident and have great communication skills to attain the audience’s attention for effective delivery of the message or lesson.  It has been my experience in the past to notice my audience become distracted or start yawning.  At this point I bring my audience back in to focus by maybe changing my tone of voice or throwing in a yes or no response to allow the audience to participate.

In reading chapter three in Lynell Burmark (2011), “They Snooze You Lose”, I found Steve Jobs , list of ten tips to creating a presentation valuable (pg. 48).  I especially found number six on the list, “change it up”, meaningful because it emphasizes to allow the audience to participate or “shift to different media” (Burmark, 2011, pg. 49).  The list will assist and benefit me in conducting a self-assessment to establish the areas I may need improvement in.  As an educator it is important to administer self-assessments not only in the learning content but in the delivery of the instruction to gain perspective and enhance the delivery of the instruction to achieve learning.

Reference

Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The Educator´s Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Revised Presentation

After reading chapters one and two of Burmark's (2011) book, "They Snooze You Loose", I've decided to tweet some of my slides that contained too much information and reorganized them to keep them simple and reduce the amount of information and deleted some o the bull-its on each slide.  I had overused the uppercase letters on the title of the slides and have modified them to lower case letters to aid my audience in reading the information promptly.

Reference

Burmark, L. (2011).  They Snooze You Lose: The Educator´s Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

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Chapter 2-Creating Slides and Handouts

In chapter two of, Burmark’s (2011), “They Snooze You Loose”, she emphasis the use of techniques that will allow the targeted audience to either laugh, cry but most importantly achieve learning (p. 26).  As an educator it is my goal to succeed in attaining the learners attention and present the information as efficiently as possible.


I found in reading the chapter that since the PowerPoint software automatically converts the slides into handouts it is important not to display too much information on the screen, only the key points.  Burmark (2011), further explains, “that handout compliments rather than replicates the slides,” (p. 32).  In using this technique it will benefit my audience if I provided them with handouts at the beginning of the session and included reference books, articles or websites with detail information so they don't have to frantically take notes and they would more easily follow along.

Reference
Burmark, L. (2011).  They Snooze You Lose: The Educator´s Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Chapter 1-Tweaking Presentations

As I read chapter one, in Lynell Burmark's (2011), “They Snooze You Lose”, I realized that PowerPoint is a widely powerful tool used today. Throughout my educational and professional fields I have developed many PowerPoint presentations using several templates and some of them artistically designed with many types of fonts and as I reflect back I recognize they may not have been suitable presentations. This is the first time I actually read a book designed to help educators develop effective and efficient PowerPoint presentations to not only attain learners attention but most importantly achieve learning. 


Chapter one focused on three categories templates, color and type and learned that there is more to it than selecting a background, graphics and text. In reading the chapter I understood that when it comes to slides less words is more and according to John Medina, “the average PowerPoint presentation should contain forty words” (Burmark, 2011, pg. 12).  My goal is to implement the techniques described by Burmark (2011), and enhances the delivery of the information across the curriculum areas while accommodating learners of different learning styles. 


Reference
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The Educator´s Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.