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They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator's Guide to Successful Presentations
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More About This Title They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator's Guide to Successful Presentations

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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 SensesContains a bonus DVD with premade slides, a study guide, and reproducible imagesBurmark is the author of the best-selling book Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to LearnIncludes 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.
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Lynell Burmark, Ph.D., award-winning college professor and K–12 classroom teacher, now consults to school districts and high-tech companies and keynotes dozens of conferences every year. The author of Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to Learn, she maintains a website atwww.educatebetter.org.
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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

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