Chapter 7: Starting With Images

Running head: CHAPTER SEVEN “THEY SNOOZE YOU LOSE”



Chapter Seven “They Snooze You Lose”
April Canales-Perez
EDTC 6340.66 Applications of Technologies
Linda Newell





Running head: CHAPTER SEVEN “THEY SNOOZE YOU LOSE”
Starting With Images


Chapter seven focuses on presenters adding more images and less text in their presentations. Lumbark begins the chapter with how we can use images to teach different concepts rather than using text filled slides that will just lose the audience. She gives an example of using a color photo of a party to give a lesson of point of view. For educational presentations, we must choose visual images that can illustrate the concept or lesson we are giving our students. Research proves images enhances learning but only if the images reinforce what we are teaching. Images and illustrations must to relevant and content based.

In the section “Focusing on the essentials,” we are given a four step tool to make our slides more attractive and appealing to the audience. First, find a slide that is full of text. Second, highlight a key word or phrase in each bullet and the rest of the information will be used during the presentation. Third, delete everything leaving the highlighted words on the slide. Fourth, add an image that ties into what the bullets are trying to convey. This is a great and easy four step process to clean up slides and make them more effective in a presentation. The goal is to eventually put only an image on a slide with no text. We must also keep in mind when using images that they must fit into the slide perfectly without stretching, text can be added to the images, and images should have color to make the slide more vibrant.

My favorite part of the chapter was the four-step slide clean up by Nancy Duarte. I found these four quick steps could work wonders on a text filled slide. I will definitely be using this technique in my PowerPoint this time around. I also liked the step-by-step process on Photoshop to help with sizing photos to fit an entire slide. I know I have stretched a picture of myself on a slide just to have a full slide image, but just because I used it doesn’t mean it looked good on the slide. I do agree if we use any type of image in our PowerPoint it must illustrate the concept we are presenting. If the image doesn’t tie in to the topic, then it should be used.



Burmark, L. (2011). They snooze you lose: The educator’s guide to successful presentations.
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass