Chapter 4 Ringing Chimes

What a name, that is if you can relate to the title of this chapter.  Relate, I can, this chapter is about two things, getting your audience attention and making your information stay in the listener's brain.  I have sat thru a few classes given by fellow teachers and believe me they either put me to sleep or bored me to death.  I am now grasping the concept of why so many students fail to capitalize on the education content that is put forward by many teachers and how some of these out of the ordinary learners sometimes fall to the waistside and end up either failing their classes or dropping out of school.  I think it's so important to think of how to incite your learner's curiosity and even though is not an easy task, we should focus in that particular aspect of our teachings in order to be a successful and effective educator.

Chapter 1 Tweaking Presentations

 It is so funny how presentations have evolved, in most people’s minds, correct me if I am wrong.  Technology can be so overwhelming at times, but it can be so much fun.  As I read Chapter 1, I couldn’t help it but to smile a couple of times as I kept stumbling into more than familiar experiences and situations that I always taught only happened to me.  The dull or crowded presentations, the wrong color and size fonts, the distracting backgrounds or not subject related clip art, just kept setting off alarms all over the place.  Well, thank God for education.  As I read our assignment chapters, my mind keeps opening to new ideas and new ways to improve power point presentations, which in turn I will be using to teach my students on how to become powerful and entertaining presenters of whatever content they might need put forward to their classmates or professors in college.   Bright colors, correct font sizes and types, unobtrusive backgrounds and amount of lines and words will be well taught out from now on before they get published anywhere, this will hopefully motivate my students to follow suit.

Introduction