Full Description
Presentation skills that that will captivate your audience every time In today's increasingly visual world, the art of giving presentations is a much-needed talent. They Snooze, You Lose, provides a comprehensive guide made especially for teachers and administrators who want to become presentation "stars" in their classrooms, at board meetings, or any time they are in front of an audience * Describes how to apply the author's proven CHIMES2 elements: Connections, Humor, Images, Music, Emotion, Stories, and Senses * Contains a bonus DVD with premade slides, a study guide, and reproducible images * Burmark is the author of the best-selling book Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to Learn * Includes key sections on the best ways to integrate technology into your presentations New and seasoned educators alike will benefit from this fun and easy-to-read guide on building essential presentation skills.
Contents
About the DVD vii Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv About the author xvii Part 1 Evolution 1 Tweaking presentations 3 Templates, color, and type 2 Creating slides and handouts 25 Powerful role for slides; complementary job for handouts 3 Celebrating presenters 43 Lecturer + entertainer + motivator = educator Part 2 Revolution 4 Ringing CHIMES2 61 Connections, humor, images, music, emotion, story, and senses 5 Making connections 69 Creating context; ten-minute limit, 10:2 presentations; Wordles 6 Harnessing humor 93 Wit, mirth, and laughter; the humor zone; resources 7 Starting with images 109 Setting the stage, reducing text, color power, pictorial effect 8 Playing music 141 Dictating appropriate emotional states; music and learning; your Beatles 9 Tapping emotion 157 Sticky like Post-it notes; statistics versus emotional appeal; HeartMath 10 Telling stories 175 Stories organize our worlds; progressive story; writing the future 11 Engaging senses 195 Multisensory learning, anchor images, dual channels, popcorn to remember Part 3 Resolution 12 Putting it all together 215 Review of ten starter strategies for avoiding presentation pitfalls Notes 229 Index 249 Credits 259 How to use the DVD 261
