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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.

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 21^st 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.

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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,

     Incorporated.

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 7^th 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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