Final Presentation: Copyright Crash Course

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The last changes I made on my presentation are that I changed some of the slides background color to a solid black. I also uploaded more images to the presentation to make my point across. In some slides I changed the text color. After reading Ch. 10 and 11, I decided to add two slides for a break, where the audience members will walk around and discuss what they've learned so far. Looking back to the very first presentation I created on Copyright Crash Course, this last presentation looks totally different, and engaging.

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Chapter 11: They Snooze, You Lose

Chapter 11 Synopsis: Engaging Senses
       

              In Chapter 11, Dr. Burmark focuses on engaging the audience through their senses. As a science teacher the senses are very important when conducting experiments, but I never thought of adding senses to a presentation to foster learning.

The first sense mentioned is vision and hearing. Dr. Burmark states, “When the most minds are still paying attention- we want to engage the visual sense by displaying a compelling image ” (196).  I agree with Dr. Burmark because if you don’t engage the audience within the first ten minutes with a visual, chances are your going to lose their attention, that’s when an anchor image comes in to help your engagement of the audience. Images will help captivate the audience with the information your presenting.

            The next sense Dr. Burmark mentions is the sense of smell. Before reading this chapter I never knew how a presenter could use the sense of smell to captivate the audience. Dr. Burmark states, “Smell can evoke memory” (203). By using the sense of smell in your presentation your able to captivate and help trigger memories. As an educator you can use the sense of smell to help students to bring prior knowledge to the lesson your covering. Dr. Bur mark mentions that smell can foster positive moods, and help form a memory association from the past.

Dr. Burmark states, “Taste is probably the most underused of the senses” (204). As a science teacher I try to use the sense of taste when using foods as experiments, for example, when using sugar and salt in an experiment I have students describe the taste and texture of each substance. By using their senses the students are able to distinguish the difference between each substance.

            The sense that helps students learn better is the bodily-kinesthetic sense. After reading this topic I learned that by adding movement into my lesson or presentations I able to help my audience learn more. To help improve learning during presentations, the presenter should have the audience members move around during the presentation, this will help foster learning, and help the audience members to retain the information.

            By including multiple senses in your classroom, this will help stimulate learning for the best.

Burmark, L. (2011). They snooze you lose: The educator’s guide to successful presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass

Chapter 10: They Snooze, You Lose

Chapter 10 Synopsis: Telling Stories

         In Chapter 10, Dr. Burmark expresses the importance of telling stories. By telling stories the presenter is able to engage the audience. Just by engaging the audience the presenter is able to get information across to them that might stick.

Dr. Burmark states, “The keynote speakers we enjoy the most are the best storytellers” (176). This statement reflects my thoughts; the conferences I always remember are the presenters who caught my attention from the start.  

Dr. Burmark mentions there are two things we as teachers and presenters need to do to keep our students and audiences awake. Dr. Burmark states,  “We need to do two things:

1.     Get their attention

2.     Present our information in the form of stores they can understand” (177).

In order to get the audiences attention that’s where the presenter engages the audience by playing music, showing full bright and colorful screen images, or starting with a story. When telling a story, the story should have a connection to the information that is being presented.

Jason Ohler states, “stories allow us to take snippets of life and put them together in ways that make it possible for us to learn and remember new things ” (179). This is true, because I enjoy listening to my grandfather’s stories from when he was younger and how life was like when he was growing up. By listening to my grandfathers stories it helps me enjoy the privileges I had when growing up. 

       Dr. Burmark states, “we have to share context that is meaningful, instructional, and even inspirational” (179). I believe that if the information that is being presented is meaningful, instructional, and inspirational, the audience is going to be captivated and remember the information. For example, I try to convince some of my students who have no plans for college to go to college. I tell them the benefits of going to college and if not how they will be stuck with same problems as their parents face now for not having that college education. I tell them I want them to succeed and to become successful out of school. I try to give my students life experiences and struggles they face if they decide to dropout of school. As teacher I try my best to give my overall best in order to get my students to succeed. Stories are inspiring and motivational, we need to be great storytellers to help engage and motivate our students. 

Burmark, L. (2011). They snooze you lose: The educator’s guide to successful presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass

Copyright Crash Course Update Week 7

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The changes I made this week was changing the color of my font in one slide. I also deleted one slide but I added some information from that slide to a slide with a full image. After reading chapter 8 and 9 I wanted to add music to my slide show, but Slideshare doesn't  support that type of media.


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Chapter 9: They Snooze, You Lose

Chapter 9 Synopsis: Tapping Emotions

In chapter 9, Dr. Burmark explains how presenters can be affective just by tapping into the audiences’ emotions. In the beginning of the chapter Dr. Burmark states, “Emotions stick!” (157). Throughout the chapter Dr. Burmark explains how a presenter can tap into the audiences emotion through photos, words, and stories.  Emotion doesn’t always have to positive to stick to ones mind, Dr. Burmark states, “any positive or negative emotion has sticking potential” (157). This is very true because I still remember the most tragic days in my life. Isa4rt seems like the event just happened yesterday, but its been more than 15 years hen I almost lost my brother to a dog attack. The emotions of that night still are stuck to my mind, and I will never forget that day.

Dr. Burmark mentions Seth Godin and he states “presentations are about the transfer of emotion” (159). When I first read this I never thought that just by presenting I would have the power to change a persons emotions just by my presentation. But after reading this chapter I was able to understand the importance an educator or presenter has over their audience, we can control how they feel, what information we want the audience to retain.

Dr. Burmark informs the readers that photos are a powerful source of emotion. We know that a picture is worth a thousand words, but those same pictures have a story and demonstrate emotion that can change a person from feeling positive or negative. Dr. Burmark introduces Mr. Lewis Hine whose photographs help change child labor laws in this country. Each of Mr. Hines photos were very heart breaking because of the background stories and the emotion that was presented by the subject that was being photograph. Mr. Hine was able to make convey the pain and emotion the subject of his photographs were feeling to his audience, he was able to make a difference by just taking a snap.

            As an educator I found a statement made by Dr. Burmark very fascinating, she states, “whatever emotion we are feeling will reverberate throughout our classroom or presentation venue” (172). I found this fascinating, because I never thought that my emotions were able to spread to other people around me.  So as an educator if I show emotion of anger to my class I going to lose them for the day, the students will probably shut down and stop paying attention because they are able to feel the negative vibe I’m giving off.  After reading this chapter I’m working on providing a positive atmosphere through photos, words, and music to each of my students, so they can feel welcomed and give them hope to succeed in their future.

Burmark, L. (2011). They snooze you lose: The educator’s guide to successful presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass

Chapter 8: They Snooze, You Lose Synopsis

Chapter 8 Playing Music

In chapter 8, Dr. Burmark focuses on how important music is in ones presentation.  During silent films, the music played a big part on how the audience is going express their emotions by corresponding to the music they heard.  According to Norman Weinberger, University of California research professor states, “the audience needed the music to engage its [appropriate] emotional reactions and involvement” (141).  Without the music how would one know how to feel when they say Charlie Chaplin do a comedy skit, music was a reflection of the actor during the silent film age.

According Weinberger films today still need music “to supply the actual emotional states and feelings [the audience needs] to identify with [the action] and the characters involved” (142). I have to agree with Mr. Weinberger because music plays an important factor in movies, television shows, and presentations. I believe if music wasn’t used in movies or television shows how would the audience know what emotion to feel throughout the movies or show. Imagine watching an action movie, during a fast car chase, how can the audience connect what the actor is feeling if there is no music to connect their emotion to that scene. If you attend a horror movie the audience is expecting to jump out of their seats based on the music that is playing in the background.

According to Dr. Burmark in order to give our audience a great presentation the presenter needs to include both images and music. I agree with Dr. Burmark, because the images are going to be your vital piece of information that your going to present, while the music is going to charge your audiences emotions and help them remember your presentation.  I say this because Dr. Burmark states, “we are not even consciously aware that the music is dictating our emotional state” (142). By dictating what the audience is going to feel during the presentation will help them remember important content of the presentation.

Music is very important to ones health according to Carol Krumhansl. Music helps people exhibit emotional response, happy music changes the timing of your respiration, whereas fearful music changes the rate of blood flow, and sad music changes skin temperature, blood pressure and heart rate.  When conducting your next presentation think about how you want you audience to feel when your presenting.

Before reading this chapter I knew music was important because one can relate songs they hear to current or past events that have happened in their life. But I never took a close look on how music impacts a person’s way of thinking, a person is able to retain and decode information just by the music they hear.

Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator's Guide to Successful Presentations. San Francsico, California: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

Copyright crash course: Revision 3 Ch 5-7

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After reading chapter 5-7, I decided I needed more images in my presentation. The first thing I changed was my title page; I needed my title page to catch the audience’s attention. I went back into my presentation and deleted more text, and highlighted important key words red. I added more slides of full slide images to bring out the information I'm presenting. I also added a comic cartoon that corresponds with my presentation.

they Snooze, you Lose: Chapter 7

Synopsis: Chapter 7: Starting with images
            In this chapter Dr. Burmark explains and gives strategies on how to implement images in presentations.
            According to Dr. Burmark we have to set the stage or mood for our presentation. Without a good introduction to lure our audience into our presentation, it’s going to be a waste of time to continue if they believe it’s not worth their time to pay attention.
            Throughout this chapter Dr. Burmark gives plenty of tips on how to implement images in a presentations. A tip that I learned from this chapter is that first impressions are everything. So your title slide is the slide seen the longest, so with title slide you have to capture the audience’s attention.
            As the old say goes “A picture is worth a thousand words”, it’s very true because with a single picture you can learn a lot from the objects that are present. This is supported by 3M corporation, Dr. Burmark states, “we process visuals 60,000 times faster than text” (Burmark, 2011). Dr. Burmark also states, “Retention and recall are boosted 42 percent and transfer a whopping 89 percent with illustrated texts” (Burmark, 2011).
            Another important tips Dr. Burmark discusses are focusing on the essentials. To implement this strategy we have to limit the amount of text we put on each slide, and focus on key points by reducing text on a slide.  A way to implement this in your presentation, you have to focus on key words you want to use and highlight them in red. Next you take away all the other text and add an image to the slide. After awhile of implementing this strategy, all your future presentation will be mostly presented with images and no text. After practice the image will become the focal point of your presentation as you discuss your content.
            Color is very important, its an attention getter, tells you where to stare, and enhances learning. Dr. Burmark makes important key factors regarding color in presentations, she states “Color visuals increase willingness to read by up to 80 percent, using color can increase motivation and participation by up to 80 percent, and color enhances learning and improves retention by more than 75 percent” (Burmark, 2011). After reading this section I learned that color is important in everyday life, its part of learning and retaining information, I’m going to implement more color in my future presentations, and in my classroom.

they Snooze, you Lose: Chapter 6

they Snooze, you Lose: Chapter 5

Synopsis- chapter 5: Making connections
           In this chapter Dr. Burmark discusses important topics on how to capture the audiences attention.
           The first topic Dr. Burmark introduces is Abstract concrete. In this section topic Dr. Burmark teaches tips on how to implement concrete strategies. Burmark states, “Trying to teach an abstract principle without concrete foundations is like trying to start a house by building a roof in the air” (Burmark, 2011). I agree with this statement because students need concrete information, the foundation, before they are able to understand the abstract, new concepts. Another key point Dr. Burmark establishes is regarding the human senses, she states, “The more senses you engage, the more concrete the experience” (Burmark, 2011). After I read this I thought of all the ways I provide concrete experiences to my students, from providing visual stimulation, to creating 3D word walls, and to providing hands-on experiments.
           The next topic Dr. Burmark discusses is building on prior knowledge. I do this with my class all the time. I try to build on the experiences they have been exposed to, and have them bring that experience into the classroom so they can make a connection with the concept I’m teaching. I loved how Dr. Burmark introduced John Medinas Brain Rules, she states, “the brain wants to know where have I seen this before”. I have to agree with John Medina because when you come across an unfamiliar topic you always try to connect it to something else you learned, saw, or experienced from the past.
          The 10:2 strategy is the best information I received from this chapter. I’m planning to implement this strategy in my classroom, because I find very useful.  The students receive 10 minutes of teacher instruction, and 2 minutes of discussion, reflection with a partner.  Dr. Burmark states John Medina, “all students start turning out after ten minutes of lecture”. You see this in your classroom; you have a few students who get restless and stop paying attention. This strategy 10:2 will help me and others keep the classroom knowledge flowing.

Copyright crash course: revision 2 week 4 Ch 3-4

 

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One of the first changes I made to my 2nd revision is that I removed more of the text in some of the slides. I also enlarged the text/font in most of the slides. Another addition I made to this presentation is that I replaced a few slides with pictures and added clipart. Hopefully my slideshow is going the right direction with everything I'm learning from Dr. Burmark.

they Snooze, you Lose: Chapter 4

Synopsis- Chapter 4: Ringing Chimes2

In chapter 4 Dr. Burmark starts off by stating that it’s hard to cover all the standards and curriculum, and that educators only focus on the important standards. I have to agree with Dr. Burmark because I’ve witnessed it first hand, as educators we drill and kill towards the examination (TAKS), that we lose focus on what really is important. As an educator I believe we are doing the students an injustice, because we want the students to have a good foundation, but we pressure them for the big examination.

Dr. Burmark states, “we need efficiency to meet with effectiveness” (Burmark, 2011).  This just means how fast you can teach your content and depending on how will the students learn it. According to Dr. Burmark, in order to be effective you need to accomplish the following:  get the students attention and make the content stick. So if you want to be an effective educator you need to make sure to grab the audiences attention and keep them engage to make sure the information present is retained. Dr. Burmark recounts on how she got the attention of her attendees by the she was dressing, you want to attract your audience not distract them from the content you’re presenting.  As an educator we need to be like Velcro, we need our information to stick with each person.

Dr. Burmark presents the components of a great presenter with the acronym C.H.I.M.E.S.2, stands for Connections, Humor, Images, Music, Emotion, Story, and Senses.  By adapting these components to ones presentation the connection with the audience is enhanced.

After reading this chapter, I realize that if I ever want to be a great presenter I need to adapt the components into my presentation and personality.  This chapter helps me realize that first impression is everything, without that attention grabber for the audience; it’s hard for the presenter to continue if the audience isn’t focus. After reading this chapter I learned that the quality of your presentation is the key to our success if we want the audience members to retain the information. The audience will have a better connection to the information presented if it’s presented in a meaningful manner.

Resource:

Burmark, Lynell. (2011). they snooze you lose. the educator’s guide to successful presentation.  San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass

they Snooze, you Lose: Chapter 3

Synopsis- Chapter 3: Celebrating Presenters
             In chapter 3 Dr. Burmark takes a look at three categories of presenters, the lecturer, the entertainer, and motivational speaker. As I was reading this chapter I kept reflecting on all the dull, boring presenters, and the exciting and entertaining presenters.

             Dr. Burmark then proposes a, what if situation; what if we can take the best strengths of all three presenters and create a fourth presenter, a super presenter, the fourth presenter would be called the educator. Dr. Burmark states it best “The educator empowers students to retain and transfer learning” (Burmark, 2011). Dr. Burmark is correct, it’s our duty as educators to present the information we are teaching our students so they could get motivated to learn. We need our audience to retain the new information, but not stop just there we also want them to transfer that new information and share what they learned, Dr. Burmark calls this strategy Teach It Forward.       

Another important point I found fascinating is that we as educators we should tap into the audiences Howard Garners multiple intelligences. As a presenter we should focus our presentation around the audience and their learning styles, which is very true. If I want the audience to Teach It Forward, I need to know what learning style works best for them to retain the information.

            After reading this chapter I learned that the audience is very important to our success as a presenter. I need to take the audiences learning styles to account when presenting this will help me keep the audience interested and actively engaged.

            This chapter was very informational regarding how one should present themselves in front of their audience. What makes me think the audience is going to Teach It Forward if I go up to the stage with a frown; the audience is going to feel disconnected from the presenter.  I also need to take to account of planning lesson plans with a smile on my face because if the teacher doesn’t enjoy the lesson or activity their planning, why should they believe the students are going to enjoy the lesson.  

Resource:

Burmark, Lynell. (2011). they snooze you lose. the educator’s guide to successful presentation.  San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass

Copyright PowerPoint: Revision 1

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For my first revision of my Copyright PowerPoint, I took into account what I learned from chapter 1 and 2 from Dr. Burmark. First I changed the color of my background to black, next I changed my color of font to light red, tan and yellow. I decided to go this route because in the book Dr. Burmark stated that warm colors jump out to the audience. I also changed the typeface to Verdana; this allowed more spacing between words and letters. I also edited each slide by shortening my information and tried to limit myself to 40 words per slide. I add a few images that would help present my information. Another improvement/tip I learned from Dr. Burmarks first two chapters wast to change the capitalization of the letters in my title, I followed her advice and just Capitalized the first letter of the first word only, and leave the rest of the words in lower case.

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they Snooze, you Lose: Chapter 2

Synopsis: Chapter Two: Creating slides and handouts

          In chapter two, Dr. Burmark focuses on creating slides and handouts. Dr. Burmark states, “The best way to foster learning involves both words and pictures” (Burmark, 2011). As I read this I thought to myself that its very true, because when I try to explain a science concept to my students, they don’t know what I’m talking about until I show them a video or picture. Dr. Burmark explains that it’s best to give the audience an image and then tell you about it. This helps your brain internalize the visual and auditory at different points and then integrates the two effortlessly. By doing your presentations in this manner it helps the audience to internalize the information better, which leads to an increase in recalling and retaining new information and applying it in the real world circumstances. Dr. Burmark states, "The words are only empty frames until you insert the photographs (Burmark, 2011)." I agree with this statement because without visuals how can one connect what the presenter or teacher is trying to relate to the audience. Visuals are essential in ones classroom, because it helps every student to make a connection with the concept that is being studied.

           Dr. Burmark explains that handouts should be with limited in graphics and have information that is not presented to the audience. The most important part I got from this section is when Dr. Burmark states. “The handout is where you transform what I think is important for you to learn into what you think is important for you to remember” (Burmark, 2011). That the audience should gather information that is important for them to implement in their lives. When presenting your slide show to your audience, in order to get them engage you slides should be mostly images, whereas your handouts should be full blown text with the information you want your audience to obtain/retain.

they Snooze, you Lose: Chapter 1

Synopsis: Chapter One: Tweaking Presentations

          In chapter 1, Dr. Lynell Burmark writes about Tweaking Presentations, and after reading this chapter I thought to myself where was this book all throughout my college life. Throughout this chapter Dr. Burmark focuses on the little things one can do to help improve ones presentation to capture the audiences attention. Dr. Burmark focuses on three main categories: templates, color, and type.

           Dr. Burmarks first main point is the templates one uses on their presentations. Dr. Burmark quotes Nancy Duarte regarding backgrounds that, “(they) should never compete with content” (Burmark, 2011). To me this is correct, why would I want to confuse my audience with the background, when they should be paying attention to the information I'm presenting to them. Another great point I learned is to stay away from visuals that will take away from the information you are trying to express.

          Dr. Burmark second point is about the usage of color in presentations. Like the saying Color makes the world a better place, it’s also true for your presentations. Color in a presentation will overall help audience’s retention and comprehension during important meetings or conferences. I learned that color in a presentation couldn’t clash between your background and text. When creating a presentation its best to use a dark soothing color for your background and a warm color for your text. This combination helps because the audience will focus on the importance of the text than your background.

          Dr. Burmark last point is about the Type. Suffering through long boring presentations that are sentence after sentence is unnecessary. PowerPoint slides should be presented with the average of 40 words or less per slide. The type of font or typeface you use should allow adequate space between letters, avoiding collisions between letters. Dr. Burmark recommends using Georgia and Verdana typeface to allow and easy fast flow to read ones presentation.

Copyright Crash Course

Copyright Crash Course

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Reflection on Copyright Presentation

At first when I saw the assignment of creating a PowerPoint presentation I thought I will finish the assignment in no time, but after I saw the copyright article and all the information regarding copyright laws and rules, it was going to take time. At first when I was reading the article I though it was a little overwhelming with all the information that was given, and not knowing what points to cover in the presentation. I had to read each section of the article 3-4 times until I got to understand some of the information that was given. The article had information that I didn’t know about copyright rules/laws, and it’s very important to know these rules as an educator to protect yourself from doing something that can cause damage to your career.