Copyright Presentation revised for Chapters 7-9

I changed my title slide by adding a picture that would make an impact to the audience about copyright since in the chapter readings it is said that as an audience the title slide is the most viewed in time.  I also added humor with a comic on copyright as suggested in Chapter 8.

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Chapter 9 Tapping Emotion

Chapter 9 Tapping emotion discusses the impact presenters make through the use of emotions.  Emotions stick whether it be a positive or negative impact.  Presentations are about “the transfer of emotion.”  As a presenter, your goal is to persuade your audience to adopt your point of view.  If a presenter adds humor or emotional content to the subject, it may turn an impossible-to-learn subject learnable.  “If the information somehow touches you personally, you’ll remember it.”  Comments with a positive emotional charge enrich our lives; on the other hand, comments with a negative emotional charge drain us and leave us vulnerable to every “virus” that comes along.  There is no neutral column.  A presenter has the power to change the mood of their audience and set the tone for the session.  The words we choose contribute to making a positive or negative impact.  Words, images, and music determine the connection made between the presenter and their audience.  As a teacher, one should take advantage of the opportunity to instill a positive impact in our students that will result in lasting a lifetime.

Chapter 8 Playing Music

Lynell Burmark, discusses the impact music has on the audience during a presentation in Chapter 8, Playing Music.  In the age of black and white movies, the audience needed music to engage their emotional reactions and involvement.  According to professor Norman Weinberger, music is needed now a days to supply the actual emotional states and feeling the audience needs to identify with the action and the characters involved. Music dictates our emotional state and tells us when to laugh or when to cry.  Music takes over our emotions.  Based on a research study conducted by Carol Krumhansl listeners easily identified musical compositions as happy, fearful or sad.  Music should be selected intentionally.  Musical experiences enrich the learning process.  Maximize educational benefits from playing music in a presentation by using the same music at the same tempo when trying to recall material when you learned it.  Incorporating images with music into your presentation will impact your audience.

Chapter 7 Starting with Images

Chapter 7, Starting with Images, states that starting with a picture embraces the conventions of live theater rather than the traditions of words and images on a printed page.  Using images that illustrate improve learning only if the visual illustrates the point you are trying to make.  A 4-Step process should be considered when focusing on reducing text on a slide.  The 4-step process begins with selecting a slide that has too much text on it.  Next, keywords or short phrases should be highlighted.  All other text should be removed which would leave the key words as mnemonics.  The last step includes adding an image.  Garr Reynolds quotes “ a simple quote is a good springboard from which you can launch your next topic or…support your point.  The trick is not to use them too much and to make sure that they are short and legible.”   Images should fill the screen and full-bleeds.  Color should be used in presentations since we use it to identify our world, it grabs attention and helps organize data.  Burmark highlights important points to remember when preparing presentations include: color visuals increase willingness to read by up to 80 percent, using color can increase motivation and participation by up to 80 percent, color enhances learning and improves retention by more than 75 percent.  Combining words with images has a life-long payoff benefit.  Eyes go to images first and then to text on a slide.  Author Lynell Burmark suggests that educator practice a Rapid Fire technique that presents information in a one-minute illustration and narration presentation versus traditional reports.   Evaluation outcomes accomplish the same goal while engaging students through pictures. 

Copyright PowerPoint Revised for Chapters 3, 4, 5 & 6

Changes made to Copyright PowerPoint presentation, according to suggestions made for chapter 3, 4, 5 and 6, include: adding a compare and contast venn diagram for side by side comparison, minimizing text by including a word cloud created on wordle.net and adding full size pictures.

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Chapter 6 Harnessing Humor

In chapter six, author Lynell Burmark suggests opening a presentation with a joke to warm up to the audience.  The joke should be relevant to the presentation.  Learning and having fun should come hand in hand.   Learning is more significant when having fun.  Students tend to smile less as they progress from kinder to 12th grade.  The question if the subject matter being learned has anything to do in relation to less smiling arises.  Neoteny, surprise and historical perspective define humor according to Burmark.  Defining humor includes wit, mirth and laughter.  Wit is the cognitive experienced, mirth is considered the emotional experience, and laughter is known as the physiological experience.  Information is best recalled when the brain makes a connection to a wisecrack.  Laughter occurs when the body is actively involved with the humor.  Use humor to get audience’s attention, but make sure that your humor is associated to your content.  The brain registers new input by connecting it to prior knowledge.  The brain associates a negative experience with anxiousness and fear.  The brain associates a positive experience by embracing it with confidence to enjoy it. Laughter is recognized as good medicine.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Chapter 5

In chapter 5, the author writes about making connections.  Burmark states that the more senses you engage the more concrete the experience.  Applying concrete strategies to teach abstract concepts like venn diagrams prove to be effective. In section 10:2 a research-based strategy advises to practice teacher driven instruction for ten minutes and then to allow for student discussion with partners for two minutes.  Students should respond to topic-related and open-ended questions.  John Medina’s research shows that students tune out after ten minutes of lecture.  This strategy allows for student refocus and allows students to make connections between the new learning and their prior knowledge.  Robert Marzano acknowledges that the most effective strategy to make connections is identifying similarities and differences, which is also known as compare and contrast.  It is recommended that when comparing two objects on two different slides (displayed one after the other) that the objects be placed side by side instead.  In a school conducted study, that names every child instead of being labeled by an identification number, the children’s reading scores show higher scores in comparison to schools that utilize identification numbers instead.  Knowing the child’s name gives them a sense of belonging.  Wordle is a web 2.0 technology that will create a word cloud from text provided by the creator.  Wordle illustrates keywords.  The size of the words is determined by the frequency with which the words appear in the imported text.  Burmark also offers another way of connecting with the audience is by offering freebies.  Freebies should support critical points in the presentation or associate with the subject matter in some way.  Using humor serves as a means to connect also.  Be alert to opportunities as they arise and be persistent and hopeful that the audience will understand your humor.