Sunday, February 26, 2012
Copyright_PPT_6340_NoeGranado_5th Version
After reading Chapters 8-9, Playing Music & Tapping Emotions, I decided to make 90% of the PPT with one Wordle image. As you click to the next slide, the image pops up in front of the Wordle. I did this so that the image of the Wordle would stick to the audience since the Wordle has the key words sticking out. This would be considered a "Tapping Emotions". I've also adding "Moody Melody" since Burmark mentioned it in the book. My PPT is looking better and the changes are making a difference. It's amazing of how much changes can be made to a document as we become more knowledgeable with presentations.
Chapter 9 - Tapping Emotion
When I was reading through Chapter 9, Tapping Emotion, I remembered the time I used to teach at Kaplan College. It was my third day on the job and the director had asked me to be the presenter for the incoming students as part of their orientation. Unprepared and not very knowledgeable about the College’s history I was forced to prepared my speech in fifteen minutes. I quickly went around and asked questions about the college and picked up hours of operation and my time was up. I walked into the room and out of nowhere decided to sit with the audience while the previous presenter was still finalizing her presentation. I blended in with the audience and decided to act as one of them. I asked questions: How do you like it so far? Do you know who your instructor is going to be? What do you think about the college? Why did you decide to come to Kaplan College? The presenter was then done and realized that I was sitting within the audience. She mentioned that their instructor was sitting within the audience and asked if they could notice who he was. After no one could point me out I stood up and went in front of the room to introduce myself and started talking about the questions I had asked when I was in the audience. Burmark mentioned, “Better to laugh yourself silly than laugh yourself sick. (Burmark, 2011) ” It’s more than likely that moment tapped into their minds. They will never forget the day the instructor was within the crowd. I did this several time after that and it was a success every time. I knew that students would wake up and learn something from my presentation after knowing that I was within the audience. It has become a powerful technique.
Works Cited
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator's Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated.
Chapter 8 - Playing Music
When I was reading through Chapter 8, Playing Music, it reminded me of the time I went to Math tutorial at UTB-TSC tutorial lab. The reason I’m taking online course is because I don’t have time to attend classes at the college campus. Well, I could not remember how to work out some mathematical problem our online professor had assigned us and no one was available to remind me. I went to the lab and the only person available to assist me was a young student listening to his IPod. I said to myself, “This guy is acting just like my middle school students he thinks he can tutor me and at the same time listen to his IPod”. To my surprise he had one ear plug in his ear and the other ready for listening. As I asked he answered and changed the music as he needed throughout the tutorial. The kid gave me great explanations and helped me understand the assignment. He never turned off his IPod! Ever since then my students have been allowed to listen to music while they work on their assignments. They understand that if their grades fall below an 80% then they will no longer listen to music until they pick up their grades. Like Burmark said, “But, buttom line, can music raise test scores?” (Burmark, 2011) .
Works Cited
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator's Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Copyright_PPT_6340_NoeGranado_4th Version
After reading Chapter 5-7, Burmark was talking about Making the connection, Harnessing Humor and Starting with images. I had already change so that my PPT started with and image. I added a colored background so I wouldn't have any white space, which Burmark talked about in chapter 7. I also already had a humor slide, but I realized that it's not about having a humor slide, it's about how you are going to present you humor personality into the presentation. I also added some interactivity and removed the transition of the on click feature. In other words I must click on the next arrow in order to continue. I also added hot spots to the Wordle image, so that I could click on a word on the the Wordle image and it will link me to that topic. These are the only changes I've made thus far.
Chapter 7 - Starting with images
When I was reading through Chapter 6 Burmark start starts talking about looking at image and telling the story (Burmark, 2011) . One might think that this type of strategy belongs in an English classroom. The principal in my campus assures that these types of strategies be used in every subject. If you are to walk into my classroom you’ll see posters of people who have change the world because of their integration in technology. I’ll point to a picture and the students tell me the story behind that person without knowing who he/she is. By the way it’s interesting to see that the quality of paper changes in this chapter. A word wall is present in my computer lab including culture images. I agree with Burmark, when she mentions that we do make a difference with our students (Burmark, 2011) . It’s amazing of how much student pick up even when you think they are not listening, they are! They know when you are prepared to teach the material and when you’re just winging it. I’m always ready for my students and they are always ready for me. Chapter 7 had an interesting ending but she made her point, educators make a difference!
Works Cited
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator's Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated.
Chapter 6 - Harnessing Humor
When I was reading through Chapter 6 Burmark mentions that adding humor and surprises will wake your audience and never forget the experience (Burmark, 2011) . I totally agree. I remember, in high school, I had a teacher who would act out every emotion or sound effects in order to get our attention and it worked. The funny thing was that when you would run into him in the halls he was very timid and quite. Well, now I realized that being a teacher is basically been a Hollywood actor. Our job position is certainly not a teacher it’s a: doctor, counselor, Dad, Mom, sister, brother, neighbor and any other type of people that interacts with a k-12 student and we must be ready to act and change character when needed. No, teachers are not the boss. They are the boss but we are in control. Control of how we present during the time they are in our presence. Burmark mentions that smiles are free (Burmark, 2011) . This reminds me of a poster we have on campus of kids of every race is smiling and it reads, “A Smile means the same thing in any country”. Another way I use humor in class is when I introduce Chapter one “What is a Computer”. I begin the class by giving the following instructions to the students, “Students, tell me what to do, and I’ll do it”. I stay silent and wait for instructions. Everyone is confused and maybe one will say, “dance, jump….”, and so on but once I explain that a computer receives instructions they laugh because they realize that they could have told me to leave the room, allow them to listen to music and so on. I agree with Burmark when he mentions that we should allow students to use their electronics because I do and it’s very effective (Burmark, 2011) . Harnessing humor is very important for both the presenter and the audience.
Works Cited
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator's Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated.
Chapter 5 - Making Connections
When I was reading through Chapter 5 Burmark mentioned a YouTube video searched as “Bad Dates” (Burmark, 2011) . It reminded me of the time I was teacher Math to 7th Graders. As a first teacher, they gave me the toughest group of students. No matter what I did I could not get their attention until one day I realized that I had to make the real life connection. Using smartboard technologies, there was an interactive activity that demonstration the X and Y axis and the students had to give the coordinates in order to bomb the battleship. Instantly they understood the concept of the X and Y axis. I especially like the example used of Joshua Bell performing at a train station and people did not realize that he had previously performed and the cheapest seat cost $100.00. This reminded of the saying, “Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer”. Sometimes we need to catch the attention of the toughest students and make the difference that we teachers are set out to accomplish. Chapter 5 was about breaking barriers between your audience and you as the presenter. As a teacher, I agree since every year technology is breaking more barriers that any other topic. We must make that connection with our audience.
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator's Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Copyright_PPT_6340_NoeGranado_3rd Version
After reading chapter 3 & 4 I realized that I could still make a change on my introduction. I removed the word “About” and switch my images. Burmark mentions that your personality needs to go into the presentation (Burmark, 2011) and that’s what I did. He also talked about labeling images, so I manipulated slide three by adding the labels to the image. Burmark mentioned that we all need an attention getter a hook (Burmark, 2011) . I totally forgot about the attention getter but noticed that they were within the presentation, unfortunately in the wrong sequence. Slides 3-6 will set the stage and clear up the concept of using copyright material appropriately. I used wordle to replace one of the slides. In addition I used picnic to reverse the colors and highlight the points I plan to cover during the presentation, everything else is in black and white. It’s amazing how much you can change on something you thought was ready to use!
Works Cited
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator's Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Chapter 4 - Ringing Chimes
When I was reading through Chapter 4 it stated that a comedian joked about going through his program degree in five minutes. His gave the example of learning Spanish “Como esta usted”? (How are you?) And so on, since Father Sarducci is the only thing he says (Burmark, 2011) . This made me laugh since I’ve just experienced this incident in class. Students continued to misunderstand the concept of the binary system. Then couldn’t make my presentation stick that “10 (binary) = 2 (decimal)”. They could see it and work it out, but they could not understand it. Out of the blue I wrote on the smartboard “House = Casa”, so what does that mean? By miracle of God almost every student answered, “Oh! It’s the same thing just in different language”. I wanted to faint. I’ve been struggling for three years with this concept and I thought I had tried everything. Two simple words made the difference, WOW. I’ve been using PowerPoint with my students for three years but this is the second year that I’ve converted to Prezi. I can still do the images, emotions and sound but to the power of two. It adapts well with our 21st century digital learners.
Works Cited
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator's Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated.
Chapter 3 - Celebrating Presenters
Chapter 3 is interesting to me since it talks about the actual presentation. It’s funny that when I create presentations for a professional audience I make sure that the PowerPoint is very detailed and that I don’t miss anything. But when I create presentations for my students, it’s a single word or image and it’s there just to trigger my mind and remember what I’m going to talk about next. Then that tells me that I need to do the same with my professional development trainings. My trainings are not boring but doing this to my presentations will allow me to be more knowledgeable about the topic and maybe explore more so that I can entertain the crowd. Burmark talks about the motivational speaker (Burmark, 2011) which I usually do on the first day of class during my orientation. My motivational speech inspires the student to succeed not only in my class but in other classes and in life. It will be interesting how I’m going to integrate this into my PPT.
Works Cited
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator's Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francisco: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Copyright_PPT_6340_NoeGranado_2nd Version
After reading Chapter 1 & 2 of Burmark's book, they Snooze you Loose, I've decided to add the text to the notes section. This will allow the audience to focus on the image and I instead of dosing off trying to read the text provided on the slide presentation. I didn't play much with the background or text colors since the image already have the color needed. I've decided to leave the font the same; I'll maybe play with the font at a late time. I would like to have a group of people criticize my font before changing it.
Chapter 2 - Creating Slides and Handouts
Presentations are going to be part of our careers not matter what field you decide to study. Even though I created many presentations in my college years I never really understood importance of organization in a PowerPoint until I became a teacher myself. That’s when I understood that color, text, pictures, and style was important to the audience. I agree with Burmark when he mentions that most of our text should be in the notes sections and the PowerPoint should be an image with possibly a title, phrase, question or quote. I totally agree that handing out PowerPoint handouts is a waste of paper and might as well just send the PowerPoint through email for future reference. But I ask myself then why do we do this? Administration insist that the audience receive a copy of the presentation instead of the audience be provided the link of the resource so that they have 24/7 access to the document. An agenda of the presentation is better off as mentioned by Burmark. I used to create an imaginary image and give real life examples during my presentation of “What is a Computer?”. I still do but now with real images and interactive examples ( http://avconline.avc.edu/ebeyer/interactions/BuildCPU.dcr ). As TST (Technical Support Teacher) I’m responsible for training teachers so I can relate with Burmark that a two sided handout is much more productive than twenty six handout of the PowerPoint. Teachers have made comments like, “Why didn’t you just send us the PowerPoint presentation through email, instead of making us stay for this meeting?” My PowerPoint will now include more images and less text with a two sided handout page in which my audience will follow throughout the presentation. Teachers can still have access to the PowerPoint but it will be pointless since the images will not make sense without them have had attended my training.
Burmark, L. (2011). they Snooze you Lose. In L. Burmark, they Snooze you Losw (pp. 4-23). Wiley, John & Sons,
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Chapter 1 - Tweaking Presentations
During my elementary years presentations where made with white boards and if we wanted effects such as sound or movement we had to create it ourselves with real life materials. In 1988 I was in 7th grade when the school installed a mainframe computer. One room was designated for the computer and another for monitors. In 1990 I took a computer class where we had to use DOS and type in commands in order to create a document of any sort. If I’m not mistaking it was in 1992 when I created my first PowerPoint. I had no idea that they were specifically for presentations even though I was using it to present my reports. PowerPoint to me was just a resource. I never remember thinking about the templates, color or type. I was just excited that there was a software that would allow me to present my reports with style and affordable, since I didn’t have to purchase a whiteboard or any other materials to cause effects. Burmark is right when she mentions that color makes a difference on how your audience is going to react or if they are even going to look at your presentation without dosing off. Colors and less noise keeps your audience attention on the topic in which you are presenting. If you noticed I use Verdana font for this post, just to see if Burmark is right.
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