Chapter 1 Reflections: They Snooze You Lose by Lynell Burmark

This book should be required reading for all teachers. It has some great tips for creating great presentations. I just had to sit through training where the information was given to us on a PowerPoint. It had lots of text on each slide and very little graphics other than the very busy background. Granted the pedagogy of TELPAS testing is not a spine tingling subject, but it could have been at least a little more palatable. It wasn't long before I tuned out and started checking email on my phone and running through the day's events. I think the average person has a lot to learn about creating an effective presentation. There is a lot more to learn about creating a PowerPoint than just filling slides with text. A presentation is meant to be a visual aid and not a novel. With a little knowledge of color, text, and graphics a boring presentation can be taken up a notch. After reading the first chapter, I thought of all the terrible presentations that I had created over the years. Now I am critiquing every presentation that I see.