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In this PowerPoint I modified some of the slides. After reading Chapter 8 and 9, I edited wording by making it short. I added more interesting/funny images to get the audience attention like it was discussed in Chapter 9. I also added music, a guitar solo "El Mariachi" to help the audience open their minds and learn more fluently by using music.

CHAPTER 9 - Tapping emotion

Words are powerful, they have the power to wound or heal, discourage or encourage, tear down or build up. In the chapter “Tapping emotion” it talks about educators and presenters can make emotions stick like mental Post-it notes because all emotions have sticking potential (157). We, as educators, have the opportunity to store our student’s emotions with positive and healing images that our students and our audiences can take with them for life (174). Dr. Burmark shares Truman’s list of feeling words that has negatives words that could be replaced with positive words. Immediately I noticed that there exist a lot more positive words than negative ones. If we all would choose to use more positive words every day, we would make people change by giving them a sparkle of energy in their daily life. One way to make an emotion to stick is to show images in our presentations. It is said that images are worth a thousand words, because by looking at an image, one can captivate large amounts of information and feelings. Dr. Burmark shares some photographs taken by Lewis W. Hine, where he documented child labor in America (163). To be honest, I never paid closed attention to this part of history before; I read about it, processed the information but that was it. While I was reading this chapter and I looked at the photographs, it made my heart skipped a beat. Meaning, this photographs were sticking an emotion by adding a mental Post-it note. While looking at these photographs, I felt very sad. The information given, connected with the kids’ faces in the pictures. Now I understand more about this sad part of U.S. history. Dr. Burmark says that students can have the same impact. Showing images can make an emotion stick. There are many kids in our school who carry a lot of home problems at school. They often need uplifting words of encouraging to healing their feelings. To do this, we could let the students write a positive words/feeling list and let them search for images where they can express and completely understand certain feeling. These images could give the students a richer, deeper understanding of the potential of positive feelings (171). We want our students to leave the classroom feeling better than when they came in. As Dr. Burmark suggests, we need to respond with positive images, images to uplift the weary and heal the walking wounded (173).

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

CHAPTER 8 - Playing music

We as educators have to make sure the content we teach flows directly to our students’ long term memory. The secret to these is to use two important ingredients; images and music. On the previous chapter, Dr. Burmark explained in detail about the importance of using pictures. In this chapter, “Playing music”, she gives very interesting information and facts about the significance of using music in our presentations.

While I was reading Chapter 8, I was listening to classic piano music, a Medley by pianist Dino. I am writing this blog, and I’m listening to the same Medley again. As I type, I feel words are raining and coming my way. I feel motivated to write, because I’m recalling everything I previously read. In other words, I can feel the words flowing with the rhythm of the music. This proves what Dr. Burmark says; music can help with memory if the same music played during learning it’s been played during the recall test. (Burmark, p. 151) Music can make a person relax, inspire, transport to an imaginary place, and it can help to recall a sweet, unforgettable or tragic moment. It can get a person in the mood to read, cook, sing, dance, get romantic, exercise, etc. That is the reason movies, plays and presentations need music; to set the atmosphere and make the viewer understand the story. Music is powerful and we need to use it wisely. (Burmark, p. 144) In other words we have to be careful to pick the right music for the right theme. What we play in the classroom has nothing to do with taste but with the emotional impact that music will have on listeners. (Burmark, p. 146) I have seen that music can change mood instantly. For example, when my students are painting, I usually play the radio on smooth country music. They are painting with a smile on their face. They are enjoying their time peacefully; they even enforce the social contract among each other. Until one of my students asks to change the radio station to something different. A student decides to change it to a rock station and immediately I can see and feel the difference. My students are no longer “the perfect class”. They start playing rough; they start to argue, and finally use bad language forgetting about respect and good manners.
Music is powerful! Dr. Burmark shares many ways we could incorporate music in our presentations. We can start the class by making some students act out a song, watch some video or picture slides with exciting music, dramatize the instrumental piece “Moodley Medley”, play music when learning something and listen to it again during a recall test. By doing this, we can open a channel for learning; it will affect listeners with their emotions and we might also help discover our student’s talents.



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

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After reading chapter 5, 6 and 7, I decided to change several slides on my PowerPoint. I used humor by posting funny images, like Dr. Burmark suggested in chapter 6. I reduced Text on the slides and used color to highlight keywords to give emphasis to main content. Finally I also added more interesting photographs which I found on Google Advanced search (suggested in chapter 7).

CHAPTER 7 - Starting with images

According to Dr. Burmark, starting our presentations with images will help in setting the stage. Images and visual aids open the mind’s eye in understanding about the subject and retaining the information. It has been proven when we see a slide mixed with a picture and information, our eyes see the picture first and then read. When we want to recall the information we will remember the image first, then some dots next to the image forms into letters and letters to words, making us recall the information we had previously retained. (Burmark, p.134) It is very important to create our presentations short and to the point. We need to focus on the essentials only. Nancy Duarte, the author of “Interacting with Slides”, explains step by step how to remove unimportant information from our slides, to create attractive slide presentations by sizing photographs with keywords as reminders. We can use many computer programs to enlarge images such as Photoshop and find high-quality images in Google Advanced search and iStockphoto. Color is very important when emphasizing keywords in our slides. When preparing a PowerPoint, we as educators, should use photographs and keywords in our presentations. Images and words will generate interaction and we will accomplish our goals. (Burmark, p.140)




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

CHAPTER 6 - Harnessing humor

In Chapter 6, Harnessing humor, Burmark suggests to use humor in our presentations to create remarkable moments that will make students retain the new given information. According to Dr. Burmark, as presenters we need to make the audience maintain childlike enthusiasm (neoteny), to give surprises making it a historical perspective (so one day they’ll look back to this and laugh about it) (Burmark, p.98). She gives very interesting facts about how smiling and laughing can help to have a healthier life. We have to remember to only tell jokes related to our presentations. By doing this, it will make the audience laugh and still they will be focused with an active mind. I find the joke scramble activity very helpful to make the students participate in sharing jokes. Later these same jokes could be used as tools for the teacher to present. Personally I am a bad joke teller, so I like the idea Dr. Burmark gives of using funny images instead. This will make my students smile by making connections and retaining new information.


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

CHAPTER 5 - "Making connections"

Chapter 5, “Making connections”, was an eye opener for me. I learned that as presenters we need to make the audience feel connected and belonged by having them engaged and motivated throughout the presentation. Dr. Burmark introduces many ideas, examples and tools to accomplish our goals as successful presenters.
One way to have the audience connected is to build on our students’ prior knowledge. Dr. Burmark suggests we could use PowerPoint for digital slides to show concrete pictures to the students and assess them but making it fun, like a game. Another way is to put color images of a particular historical event, divide the class into groups so students can determine the chronological sequence. We could also use PowerPoint as Digital flash cards to teach about words. I always thought PowerPoint was only to lecture by opening a new lesson. I never saw PowerPoint as this kind of tool to help make teaching easier, with this ways of using this technology it could be engaging and fun. I will try these great ideas to have the students more engaged during class time.
Presenting is not about just showing a PowerPoint and reading the slides, it’s about also making the audience participate through learning activities. For example, teacher could use 10:2 (after ten-minutes of teaching, students pause for two minutes to discuss with their partner about the subject). This practice helps the student to connect the new information to their prior knowledge and they will retain the new information.
Another activity that is suggested is “compare and contrast” by author Robert Marzano. This strategy is to identify similarities and differences. Teacher could have a wide picture slides with two different illustrations so students can identify the similarities and differences of each picture.
There are many other specific activities to help presenters in getting their audience engaged, but the one that really caught my attention is “Where everybody knows your name”. Dr. Burmark suggests teachers should learn and call their students by their names to make them feel belonged. I am the only Art teacher at my school campus, and every year I have over 140 art students. It is really complicated for me to learn every single name by memory. For some reason my brain can remember the faces, the art style of the students, and their behavior but not the names. When I call them I read from my sitting chart and the students get excited saying “Miss you know my name”, I smile, but they don’t know I’m actually reading it from my sitting chart. It is sad, but true and after reading this chapter I learned the importance of calling a student by their names. It makes them feel important, and belonged in the classroom. I have determined myself to use Dr. Burmark suggestions in learning my student’s names. This week I will take pictures of all my students, label them with their names and their hobbies to get to know them better. I love the idea of Activity 5.6, in using Photo Expansion to assign students in creating posters of them and at the same time to help the teacher learn about them.
In this chapter, Dr. Burmark also gives tips on how to use Wordle within our activities. She also suggests us to use humor to connect with the audience. Dr. Burmark motivates us to be persistent all the time, even when we think the students are not retaining our teaching. We need to keep on using these tools because it will make it a lot easier later. "Presenting with these tools will be similar to Annie Sullivan teaching the blind and deaf Helen Keller, like a miracle worker". (Burmark, p. 92)

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

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In this PowerPoint I removed some boring pictures and added more interesting photographs, which I enlarged in different slides. After reading Chapter 3, Activity 3.5, it made me realized that we need to add photographs in which the audience will remember the content and appreciate the visual aide. That is the reason I added more attractive photographs. I know my PowerPoint is still long, but it will be changing gradually. I'm looking forward to the last changes to my PowerPoint.

CHAPTER 4 - "Ringing CHIMES"

In the book They Snooze You Lose, by Lynell Burmark, Chapter 4 motivates educators to be efficient and effective with their presentations. She says that in order to be effective we need to accomplish two things; get the student’s attention and make the presentation stick. Since it is impossible to cover all the state standards we should teach only the important ones. I like the quote her dental hygienist would say: “You don’t have to floss all your teeth. Just the ones you want to keep.” This says it all, we as teachers need to teach the most important standards otherwise according to Robert Marzano, we would have to go to school K-22. In other words kids will only retain the most important information that will help them later with real life experiences. I learned that as teachers we need to be efficient in how fast we can teach a lesson, not forgetting to be effective to help students retain information by making the class enjoyable.
Dr. Burmark shares one of her experiences where she was dressed as a Barbie with pink hair and sunglasses. She did get the audience’s attention and it helped her to demonstrate that presenters needed to attract but not distract. She says presenters must get audience’s attention and keep their attention long enough to make the presentation stick.
I really enjoyed activity 4.5 where she assigns to watch the video on YouTube “Britain’s Got Talent,” 2009. It is about singer Susan Boyle where she first performed in the show. It is very emotional, but sad to see how people prejudge other people’s physical and underestimate their potential. Susan gave us a lesson in not giving up, even when the audience laughs at our faces when they don’t believe a bit in our talent or potential. At the end she got her reward. It was Susan the one laughing of joy. With this activity Dr. Burmark encourages us to change our way in delivering a lesson. Our lessons and presentations need to stick like a Velcro; we need to hit our chimes even if we think it’s too late to change. She gives the advice to smile as we prepare and deliver our presentation because true joy is contagious. This week I followed her advice in smiling during my presentations and I can say students seem to be more enthusiastic. It’s time for me to start ringing my chimes!


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

CHAPTER 3 - "Celebrating presenters"

In Chapter 3, titled “Celebrating presenters”, Dr. Burmark introduces three categories of presenters by giving examples of famous people and describing their delivery style when presenting. This helped me to identify the kind of presenter I am. I realized I am 10% of a lecturer, 70% of an entertainer and 20% of a motivational speaker. I know that I still make a lot of mistakes when delivering my presentations but I’m happy to know I’m learning a lot from Dr. Burmark’s book. This chapter gave me tips and strategies to start transforming my attitude, my preparation and delivery. It all begins by smiling when preparing the presentation and when delivering causing the audience to smile and become enthusiastic.
I love Dr. Burmark’s idea of (TIF) “Teaching It Forward plan”. TIF is a plan in which we can give the opportunity to a student to learn a skill or class objective and to teach it to their classmates. In other words, it is cooperative learning, in which the gifted student can master the skill while assisting other classmates. I really like the 10 tips she gives from presenter Steve Jobs in becoming a great educator; have fun, toss the script, use your body, pause for effect, dress appropriately, change it up, provide a headline, do the preparation, be the presentation, and present what you love! I plan to make a poster page with these 10 tips and post it at my office to remind myself what to do when preparing my presentations. Doing all of these and combine the three categories of a presenter, it will help me to become a “super presenter-performer” as Dr. Burmark calls it… “The Educator”








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

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In this edited PowerPoint I added color, this will make the slides attractive and will motivate the audience to read the slides. I also fixed the resources in APA formatting. Titles with bright warm colors were added to some slides. At last, I inserted photograph images to catch the attention of the audience.

CHAPTER 2 - "Creating slides and handouts"

Dr. Burmark shows us, that in order to catch the attention of the audience, presenters have to give presentations. In other words, we have to be able to entertain and educate while giving a presentation. We have to be careful the way we present by not following the standard slideshow procedures, which are; creating slides with bulleted text, print out all slides into handouts and present by reading the slides out loud to the audience. With stimulating samples and activities, Dr. Burmark provides ideas on how we can create slides by using photographs. She indicates it is essential to put photographic images in our slides because it is the images that our audience will remember. Dr. Burmark shares her format in creating neat and useful handouts. She suggests not to printout everything that is in the presentation, instead to make a black and white handout by giving only the most important information and providing the websites and links where the audience can print out later. This will help the presenter to save money with the paper and ink, and at the same time the audience will have few amounts of paper to carry but with essential information and space where they can go back to it later.

I have to say I’m fascinated with this book! I just read chapter 2 and it has giving me powerful tools in creating eye catching presentations. After reading this chapter I’m able to understand the importance of showing not just pictures, but photographs that will open the curiosity of the audience. By doing this, it will motivate the audience to pay attention and process the information. I really like the format she shares to create handouts. I have been in different trainings in which the presenters give copies of the presentation as handouts. They read every single word in the slides making their presentation unexciting. I end up losing interest and start wondering around. Finally, I start drawing pictures on my paper to keep myself entertained. Obviously I do not learn and don’t retain the information of the training because since I have the same copy of the presentation I’m convinced I could go back to it and read it later on my own. I really enjoyed Dr. Burmark’s PowerPoint presentation titled “Thirst”. It has awesome photo images, few words, and very interesting information about water. In other words, this PowerPoint presentation kept me entertained but at the same time it made me aware of the water deficiency in our world, it even motivated me to take care of water and make others aware of this situation.

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

CHAPTER 1 -"Tweaking presentations"

In this first chapter, “Tweaking presentations”, Dr. Burmark gives very interesting tips about how to correct our PowerPoint presentations. Simple and boring PowerPoint presentation slides can be changed by adding color, reducing the amount of unnecessary words, using the right type of fonts, and using photographs to make it more attractive.
Dr. Burmark gives interesting facts and information about the importance of using color in PowerPoint slides. For example, there was a study at the University Of Minnesota School Of Management that says there is a dramatic improvement when replacing black and white slides to colored ones. By doing it so, it can increase willingness to read, boost motivation, boost participation, enhance learning and it can also help in advertising. She explains the reasons we need to decrease word count in a slide by making it no more than 40 words per slide. Dr. Burmark says it is very important to use the right type of font with specific type of content. She gives examples and tips on how to create slides with clean and legible font. She believes photographs (not clipart) should be used as illustrations and attention grabbers.
I really enjoyed reading chapter one because it is simple and to the point. Dr. Burmark gives very interesting tips and information in her activities, specially the one with colors. Since I’m an Art teacher all of this neat information about colors was very fascinating to me. I like the activities she assigns, especially Activity 1.5 where we have to analyze Claude Monet’s impressionist paintings. Using the that is attached to the book helped me to understand better her points in making a better PowerPoint. I guess by looking at the colored pictures from the proofs the fact that it does help to understand more about the impact color makes than just looking at the black and white illustrations in her book. However, I do disagree where she recommends not using clipart, because according to her, clipart does not grab it gags. As a teacher I do use PowerPoint presentations as lessons and make them on my own. Since I am a very visual person, I do use a lot of clipart and photographs as illustrations. I can say my students enjoy it and learn because it shows they participate in asking and answering questions while giving presentations. They do laugh at the clipart I use (sometimes animated) but I think they need it to make learning interesting, fun and entertaining.

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