Synopsis: Chapter 7
“Starting with Images”
In reading Chapter 7, images present and offer lots of understanding in a presentation. Burmark explains how a simple image will have a huge impact on the audience. Some tips on how to keep the audience’s attention is what she explains about: setting the stage, using images that illustrate, focusing on the essentials, sizing and placing images, using color, and finally combining words and images.
When setting the stage the stronger the correlation, the better the slides. If you have images that illustrate you will have hooked your audience into long term memory which will be meaningful. When you have found your illustration and have reduced the words you can now worry about where to place the image. Placing the image full screen will captivate the audience’s eye. She states that, “color visuals increase willingness to read by up to 80 percent, increases motivation and participation, and that color improves retention.” Finally, when you mix images, words or audio, the eyes go to the pictures first then to the text. So the whole point is to keep your audience alive and not bored. This chapter has made me realize how important it is to use all the tips Mrs. Burmark has mentioned. To make our students life- long learners we must make the best of our presentations and use images.
Burmark, Lynell, (2011) - They snooze, you lose: the educator’s guide to successful presentations/Lynell Burmark.
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