EDCI-6340 Chapter 9 Tapping Emotion

This chapter deals with adding emotions to the Power Point slides that stick. Burmark states Emotions stick like mental post-it notes, they tell your brain to “pay attention! You’re going to want to remember this” (2011, P, 157).  While reading this chapter on emotions one thing that came to mind is that as an Academic Advisor we are invited to attend many career fairs at the elementary schools so in order for the students to have interest in our program, we have a power point presentation with many images of the different college visits that our students visit every year.  The students will remember us as the program that takes many college field trips.  We want the emotion of fun, fun, and fun to stick to these students during the career fair event at their campus.  This chapter also mentions that it is important for the presenter to have positive emotion so it can carry across the room.  This is why when we present at career fairs.  We show excitement and positive emotions during the event and encourage students to join our program.  Burmark also states that we educators have always known in our hearts: whatever emotion we are feeling will reverberate throughout our classroom or presentation venue (2011, P, 172).

                 Burmark, L. (2011). They Snooze You Lose: The educator’s guide to successful presentations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass