Chapter 4 - Ringing CHIMES

Chapter 4 Ringing CHIMES²

Connections, humor, images, music, emotion, story, and senses

This chapter was very entertaining and also helped me with understanding how to get and keep the attention of the audience.  I realized that the author talked about the YouTube video and so I proceeded to view it, it was so funny and I loved every minute of it.  I just realized that the author had achieved her goal of getting my attention for this chapter.  I think this chapter builds on our skills as presenters and how to use presentation software wisely to get the attention of the audience and how to make a presentation stick.  The explanation of Velcro as our goal as presenters was very enlightening to me because we sometime just care about doing a good job during a presentation that we really don't ask ourselves if the information Velcro well with the audience.  Creating connections that will last in our audience minds should be our goal.

They Snooze You Lose

Chapter 1 Tweaking Presentations

In this chapter I was able to understand that almost every PowerPoint presentation has been wrong.  I always use templates because it shows uniformity and it makes my presentation flow.  Nancy Duarte states that we shouldn’t use templates because it’s just “preordained slide junk”.  I need to show my personality and deliver my message and not someone else’s work.  It also made me reflect on the usage of color in my presentations.  My favorite color is Blue and most of the time I use it but I use it with red colored fonts.  According to Burmark, the best color to use with a blue background is yellow.  I have been to so many presentations where the slide is engulfed with text and the presented just reads the whole thing to us.  I remember when I was in high school I was in Business Professionals of America and I was in a team competing in the state level in PowerPoint presentations.  Our teacher would tell us do create the PowerPoint as an outline so that the judges would focus on us.  This idea of keeping the words to a minimum is the best way to get an idea across.