How do you make lessons stick?

How do you get a lesson to stick? I recently read Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. It was the last in the perfect trilogy of books I read this summer which also included The World Is Flat and A Whole New Mind. It is a book on why some ideas die, and others thrive. They explain how to make an idea "stick." I wrote many notes as I read the book changing the context of their writing to be more in line with helping me plan a lesson rather than a marketing campaign. All of the ideas in the podcast and PowerPoint are from the book. I decided to type them onto a file so that I would not misplace them and that turned into a PowerPoint document. While I don't consider it done, I know with school starting it is probably as finished as it ever will be and decided to post it as is. Hope it helps make your lessons "stick" this year.

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[joshdurey]

Good ideas but the slides move way too fast! Please slow it down to at least 5 seconds on the wordier slides.

[goodrl]

Slides change to fast

[jaredmstein]

Good content, but frankly this might be more usable as a blog post--the video and music seems extraneous.

[kaekillay]

AWESOME! Thanks.

[watelse2say]

please slooww down

lol

[pednatjr]

Great slide show. even though it was a bit fast, I only had to use the "pause" and "play" button to fully appreciate the slide show. It also helped that i turned off the sound. This will help me alot. Thank you. Great slide show.

[nargonish]

great slides but please slow it down in order to read them!