EDTC 6340 Chapter 8 Playing Music

I enjoyed reading chapter nine because it dealt with adding music and images to your Power Point to make the presentation more interesting.  Burmark states you have them less than an hour; you need to make an experience they will never forget and connect with them right away (2011, P.141).  I agree with Burmark especially if you have an audience that tends to get bored right away.  As an Academic advisor for The Educational Talent Search Program, one of my responsibilities is create bilingual presentation parents and students about the ETS Annual 6^th grade CAMP.  I will start with a video of the camp from the year before.  This will help the audience connect with the presenter.  The author also states that music and images is the two most important things to remember while creating a Power Point presentation (Burmark, 2011, P. 141).  By using images and music for example, I started my Power Point with a picture of the students participating at the dolphin watch at South Padre Island and will follow it with a short video of the students on the boat. By using music video and images from the year before the audience would see how much fun it was to attend the ETS Camp for the 2010 school year.   With this in mind, Burmark also stated that from our own life experience that any time music is played during an emotionally charged event, we will remember both the event and the song more vividly (2011,P,152).

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