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Chapter 11: Engaging Senses

Running head: CHAPTER ELEVEN “THEY SNOOZE YOU LOSE”



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





Running head: CHAPTER ELEVEN “THEY SNOOZE YOU LOSE”
Engaging Senses

Chapter eleven wants presenters to engage the audience using their senses. The easiest senses to trigger is seeing and hearing. We need to get the audiences attention by using photographic images that they will relate to. This will allow them to laugh and smile while they are remembering their own experiences that have been drawn with viewing the photo. Voice-over narration allows audiences to watch the images and listen at the same time like if they are viewing a movie. The example “The Six Sides of Shanta” engages the audience through visuals and voice-over narration (p 199).

John Medina conducted various experiments that proved triggering multiple senses attributed to students performing better on exams (p 202). Students who were exposed to perfume during learning did better on the test than those who were not (p 202). Two groups of people snacked on popcorn during a movie. Both groups shortly after took an exam one room with no scent of popcorn and the other with the scent of popcorn. Those who were in the presence of the popcorn smell remember up to 50 percent more information from the movie (p 202).

Taste is the most underused of the senses in presentations and classrooms (p 204). Elementary teachers may introduce to major tastes such as bitter, salty, and sweet. Teachers may make a cuisine to represent a new cultural they may be covering class. Touch is widely used in the classroom through bodily-kinesthetic senses (p.204). Students need to move around the classroom and tough manipulatives to learn or reinforce already thought concepts.

I use multiple senses in the classroom except for the taste. I use Glade scents to have a nice smell in my classroom. I love the ones that are supposed to calm us especially at the end of the week. Students use the sense of touch and vision during group activities when maipulatives are used. My students also use hearing when I use videos in the classroom introduce or go over a concept we have already covered.

I don’t think students must put something in their mouth in order to taste something. Looking at photographic images can also trigger our taste sense. For example “The Six Sides of Shanta”, the picture of her blowing a bubble with gum can trigger our memory of the last flavor of gum we chewed. Also the picture of the woman kissing a frog will let us imagine how gross it would taste to kiss a real frog. We are still using our taste sense but not literally in those activities.


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

Chapter 10: Telling Stories

Running head: CHAPTER TEN “THEY SNOOZE YOU LOSE”



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





Running head: CHAPTER TEN “THEY SNOOZE YOU LOSE”
Telling Stories

Chapter ten recommends to presenters to tell stories to engage the audience. Burkmark states as teachers and educators we need to do two things:
1. Get their attention
2. Present our information in the form of stories they can understand (p 177).
Getting their attention can be done using full screen photographic images, playing music, or starting off with a story. Jason Ohler believes that stories allow us to take snippets of life and put them together in ways that make it possible for us to learn and remember new things (p 179). If teachers share their own experience with a lesson they are teaching, then students will understand why they need to learn it and how they will apply it in their own lives. During presentations the presenters can have the audience participate in making their own stories using photographic images as a way for them to remember the experience and the content that was presented during the session.

I agree that any lesson that a teacher gives in some way has to be tied in with his or her own experience. This will allow students to remember the content but understand why it’s important to learn it. I always tell my students my experiences as a young girl. My stories are not allows content based but I like to share my experiences in high school and college so students can be motivated to graduate and go to college. I also tell them my struggles growing up so they can relate to my problems. Students will try harder in school the same way I did so they don’t have to struggle like their parents did when they have their own families. In middle school I truly believe that we have a lot of influence on our students. They are struggling to understand what is their purpose in life and we must steer them in the right direction.


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