Ringing CHIMES

They Snooze You Lose

Chapter 4

Ringing CHIMES

                Lynnell Burmark’s dental hygienist makes a hilarious analogy “You don’t have to floss all your teeth.  Just the ones you want to keep.”  In education that might not be as funny.  In our agitated teaching routine we might overlook the delivery of content because of the pressures on all the skills that need to be taught.  This in the long term makes us monotonous and ineffective.   In this chapter it describes the two things we need to do in order to be effective in our presentations.   The skill presented needs to get students or audience’s attention by making it relevant and not extravagant.    How do we make our presentations stick to the memories of our audience?  Making connections and evoking images it’s crucial for a presentation to be successful.  Burmark refers to the CHIMES   as hooks to make a presentation stick to the audience and that perhaps the rule should be to attract and not distract.