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