I am embarrassed to admit that I had to completely edit my previous powerpoint! I viewed it and it was all wrong when compared to what the Burmark book taught us. The ways I edited my powerpoint included changing the background color to a different tone of grey so it could be serene. I also chose to use yellow and orange for my wording of text because the book described how yellow is the first color seen by our eyes (Burmark, 2011). I also made sure that my titles were aligned on the left, since we read from left to right. I made sure to use a verdana font, which is easier to read and tried to make the size of the letters as large as I could to ensure the audience could see it. I cut out a lot of the words in the slides which I felt were unnecessary. I did not want the audience to be bombarded with wording. There were instances though, where I needed all words to get the point across, so I left those. I inserted graphics, animations of slide introductions, as well as noises to capture the audiences attention with each slide. My previous powerpoint had none of the above "hooks," as Burmark would say. I am very satisfied with my new powerpoint, but still feel it could use more tweaking. I hope to learn new ideas in this course to make my powerpoints the work of an effective presenter!
Burmark,L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Burmark, Chapter 4
Chapter 4 of They Snooze You Lose, was a crash course in how to be an effective presenter. I learned that not only do you need to have an entertaining presentation, but you yourself have to be the type of presenter that catches and keeps the audiences attention. I liked how the text quoted a psychiatrist who specializes in attention deficit disorder (ADD). This is most helpful because when you are presenting information for the day or over several days, one must approach the situation as if your audience has ADD. Because we are so used to being entertained it is hard for a presenter to keep our attention. The grid with hooks was very helpful and something I will reference back to in the future. This grid shows which hooks work best in order. They included, images as first, humor, music, senses, stories, and emotions (Burmark, 2011). As we become effective presenters, we need to go in with a game plan ahead of time. We can not assume that the audience will stay intrigued without entertainment on our part. Effective leaders are also effective presenters.
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Burmark, Chapter 1
Chapter 1 was a very helpful chapter for any of us who have used PowerPoint's presentations to deliver information to an audience. The chapter taught me how to fix my existing PowerPoint presentations as well as how to format my forthcoming presentations. Templates, color, type, and fonts were all areas of importance in this chapter. Important points I learned were to try and create my own template instead of just following one of those default templates. This would be a good idea so I can express myself in a more personal manner. Information is read from left to right, which is why if you were going to put graphics, you would want to put them on the left, to be seen as you are about to read. Your slides should not be too busy, because you do not want them to take away from the information you are trying to deliver. In regards to color, background color and font color are of utmost importance to consider. A calming tone in the background, such as a blue is good and a yellow color for font is a good choice because it is immediately seen by the human eye. Color visuals increase willingness to read by up to 80 percent and boost motivation and participation by up to 80 percent too (Burmark, 2011). Slides should contain color for those obvious reasons. One would want to limit the amount of words on slides to keep overloading the audience to a minimum. Font type and size are important to consider too. The font should be big enough to see and the type should be legible and match the type of presentation you are delivering. This chapter was a great resource for formatting my next PowerPoint presentation!
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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