They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator's Guide to Successful Presentations

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