CONFERENC E 10 Shots 2
Caffeinate Your Presentations
By Lynnell Burmark
Have you fallen into the PowerPoint trap, reading somniferous bullet points to a dozing audience? Would you like some free tips and replicable strategies to caffeinate your message?
Did you know, for example, that serving popcorn can raise recall 10-50%? What about the 10:2 research? (Folks just can’t sit- and-get for more than 10 minutes without at least 2 minutes of changing it up to another activity!) Or, that layering full-screen photographic images with voice-over narration can boost transfer (actual learning) up to 89%? And besides the power of visuals, what about the synergy of adding music and tapping the other senses? Would you like some practical activities for dividing the audience/classroom into small groups to create stories and foster emotional connections with other members of the group/ class? Why not review Marzano’s No. 1 strategy for What Works in Schools in light of humorous and instructional juxtapositions of images including the before-and-after slides of Daves Résumé? Or, perhaps the Training Wheels activity (courtesy of Nancy Duarte who created Al Gores slides for An Inconvenient Truth) for reducing words on text-heavy slides?
Come get these and more free activities along with the resource- rich handout, links to royalty-free images, activities, and music, plus enter drawing for great prizes including an Epson LCD projector and copies of my new book, They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator’s Guide to Successful Presentations. Download the first chapter for free, now at:
http://lynellburmark.schoolvideos.com/ snooze
Winner of Stanford University’s prestigious Walter Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, Dr. Lynell Burmark is passionate about education and the potential for learners in her presentations and yours. Lynell’s extensive teaching experience spans kindergarten through graduate school; her visually enhanced presentations range from small-group seminars to webinars, keynotes and videoconferences for thousands of people across the globe. Visit
www.educatebetter.org for more information about Dr. Burmark’s presentation offerings, as well as free resources including downloadable articles, videos, and banks of royalty-free images suitable for your presentations and other educational purposes.
lynellburmark@gmail.com www.educatebetter.org
MACULJOURNAL |
INFOBYTES App a Minute—
50 Great Apps for Teachers
By Stephen Best
For years, we’ve been stuck with some limited options for tools for our computers, be they PCs or Macs, or laptops or desktops. No matter what computer we were using, we were probably using Microsoſt Word, or one of about six other word processors for our writing, Photoshop for our photo editing, and maybe one of a few specialized tools that were specific to our job or the content we teach.
Te sands have been shiſting, and with them, our options for tools. iPods, smart phones, and now iPads and other tablets have changed the landscape. Tere are over half of a million apps for the Apple devices alone, with numbers growing exponentially, and most of them cost less than a fast-food meal. Even more amazing is that many of our students already have these devices without our schools needing to issue bonds to acquire them.
I am oſten asked by various teachers, “What app do you use for (fill in the blank for a task or content area)?” Te answer now is a little harder. At last count on my iPad alone, I had 13 text editors, 19 photo editors, and 73 science tools. I can’t easily tell you the “best” app. While this may seem a problem, it’s actually a great opportunity. Te beauty is that we don’t need a standard tool anymore, because the tools don’t matter as much anymore. What matters is what you can do with them, what the products of using those tools are, and how they can get from me to you to another colleague in an easy manner.
At the 2012 MACUL Conference session, App a Minute - 50 Great Apps for Teachers, I’ve promised to show you a virtual boat-load of apps in one session. I won’t necessarily be showing you the one app that everyone should have, but rather, using a few apps to illustrate the considerations for the types of tools teachers need. And then you’ll realize that the way to find what is needed is the same as the ways our students best learn something - they talk about it with their friends; they try a couple things out; they consider the options and evidence; they make a decision; and they practice using it until the next big question comes along.
Stephen Best is an Education Consultant for the Michigan Department of Education in the School Reform Office.. He is also the director of SIG-PL, and plans the iPads in the Classroom and Teaching and Learning in the Cloud conferences for MACUL. His work focuses on designing learning programs for teachers.
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