In my PowerPoint I was able to add music to the title slide from incompetech called Heroic Age to engage the audience of mystery and intensity of the topic. Using the image helps in the realization of good vs evil to capture the audiences attention.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Chapter Nine, Tagging emotions
Emotion is a strong word for a strong feeling in each and every one of us, what emotion do we want to portray in our classroom: Anger, contentment, excitement? According to Burmark, it is no surprise how students’ are emotionally distracted in our classroom every day having to deal with family lives that we may not be aware of that may be causing our students to be unable to succeed in our classrooms. (pg. 165) By finding a strong and positive emotion through our Powerpoints, teachers can change this emotion that is brought from home into fun, interesting and positive lessons. One of the primary purposes of an image in PowerPoint is to trigger emotions. If you want your emotional images to touch the hearts of your audience, make it the focal point. (http://www.presentation-process.com/powerpoint-images.html#.T0klWPmD_4s)
Burmark comments that it has finally been proven that our own emotions as teachers will reverberate throughout our classroom. (pg. 172) How true this is how some days nothing seems to go my way and it only takes one student to ask “Are you having a bad way?” The innocence of a child is all it takes to bring me back to the realization of my mood as I quickly change my attitude. If only we could all have that “child like” emotion of contentment everyday.
References:
Making Business Presentations Remarkable with Presentation Process. Presentation-Proccess.com, Step-By-Step Guide to Remarkable Presentations. (n.d.). Retrieved February 25, 2012, from http://www.presentation-process.com/powerpoint-images.html#.T0klWPmD_4s
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The educator’s guide to successful presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
Chapter Eight, Playing music
Music is a powerful tool that can set the tone of any presentation. According to the University of California, Norman Weinberger explains that the audience needs music to “engage” its emotional reactions and involvement. (pg. 141) Working with students in the classroom can be frustrating enough just keeping their attention long enough to make your point, I agree that music will capture and keep the attention of our students. According to Mayer’s case study, Adding interesting music and sounds will help make the presentation enjoyable to the learner and will increase their level of emotional arousal, also known as the arousal theory which will result in better performance in tests. (pg. 99)
So what kind of music would be acceptable to play in the classroom, according to Burmark, the music we play in the classroom really has nothing to do with taste, but with physiological and emotional impact the music will have on the learner. (pg. 146) In my Multimedia class, my students have been listening to music while they type, I chose the music from Adele to play during these typing sessions because this is the “in” music and the kids love it. The response I got were students staying on task, singing along, and just a great learning environment. And even though this is not a Powerpoint lesson, just the idea that music has made an impact is proof enough. Burmark claims that life experiences can help remember an “emotionally charged” event, and that we can remember both the event and the song more vividly. (pg. 152) I can imaging 10 years from now how these students will remember their typing lessons in Mrs. Manrriques’ class as they type their 15-20 page research papers in college and reflect on this memory.
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The educator’s guide to successful presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
Mayer, R.E. (2009). Multi-Media Learning. (2nd ed.) New York: Cambridge University Press
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Adding Connecting with Humor and Images
This has been the greatest chapter so far, I have gone back to my last update and added images, enlarged images and deleted most of my text. They don't know what's coming. I can imagine having fun with this PowerPoint. There is so much I can say with just an image. I don't know why I didn't do this sooner - oh yeah, because that's the "old school" thinking. We are in the "new technology" and we must go forward and teach these kids right by starting with us. Edtc6340 4 connect humor image czm
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Chapter Seven, Starting with images
Starting with an image should be every teacher/presenters goal, they say a picture says a thousand words and how true is that from Burmarks’ point of view in her example of Making Education Stick. (pg. 115) I really loved this chapter and am so excited to share with my students and peers. How simple to present a picture and just talk about something that is relevant to it. The placement of the images is to fill the slide with wonderful photos and just talk about it. How simple and amazing is that!!
Setting the stage for your audience is of utmost importance for any speaker. Capturing their attention with vivid photos that enhance your topic to connect with your audience, as Burmark stated in this chapter, the stronger the correlation, the better the slides. (pg. 115)
This has been a remarkable chapter that I definitely plan to use in my own presentations in class from now on. No more boring, read along presentations for me. All I can say is Wow, wow, and WOW!!
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The educator’s guide to successful presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
Chapter Six, Harnessing humor
Many times we attend boring presentations that drag on and on, our attention span is lost within the first five minutes of a boring lecture. Well, that’s exactly what our students’ feel as well. So why not make our presentations interesting, humorous, and more importantly - FUN!
According to a recent issue of The Total Communicator, using humor can break the ice for both the speaker and the audience, but one must remember to use it appropriately and that it is relevant to the topic at hand. As a speaker you must be prepared for any turn of events your presentation may take. Burmark explains (pg. 100) that by connecting humor to content, more people will learn.
As a classroom teacher, I can imagine a few ways to make my presentations fun. I am already thinking of ideas in presenting the communication through technology lesson by making one of those paper cup phones, as well as using pictures of Alexander Graham Bell and other cartoons, and maybe throw in a few silly telephone jokes. This kind of presentation seems like it will be a fun learning lesson for my students.
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The educator’s guide to successful presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
The Total Communicator. (2004) Presentation skills: Using Humor Effectively. II, (2) Retrieved February 15, 2012, from http://totalcommunicator.com/vol2_2/funnymeeting.html
Chapter Five, Making connections
According to Merriam-Webster, concrete context means:
1: naming a real thing or class of things
the word poem is concrete, poetry is abstract
the word poem is concrete, poetry is abstract
3 a: characterized by or belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events
b: specific, particular <a concrete proposal>
c : real, tangible <concrete evidence>
b: specific, particular <a concrete proposal>
c : real, tangible <concrete evidence>
When presenting, it is a good idea for the speaker to be prepared to offer an example of what is to come. It was interesting as I read Burmark’s illustration on asking the audience to picture a rose in their head (pg. 71), I automatically thought of a beautiful rose picked from my garden. It’s how you engage the learner with their senses that will make the experience more concrete.
This chapter articulates the real life experiences to the audience. Burmark gives plenty of examples on how to present more concretely by creating examples, simulations, and real-life experiences. Burmark (pg. 74) continues to talk about how a classroom teacher has an advantage because they know their audience and have time to analyze the presentations to make them more concrete. She gives many great examples of how to change a presentation that I hope to use in the classroom. In my class we will be going into communication through technology and I was already thinking of using many visual pictures to explain and have students make their own assumptions of concrete ideas with them
Some advice I learned from this chapter is to know your audience, know what will interest them and keep them interested with concrete context.
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The educator’s guide to successful presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The educator’s guide to successful presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
Context content. 2012. Merriam-Webster.com Retreived February 15, 2012, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concrete
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