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Is This Mic On? Why Audience Awareness & Humor Have Never Been More Important in Education
Mari Flynn, Keystone College, La Plume, PA
About me
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Inspiration…
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Our Audience…
Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010
And then I realized…. In a meeting With my significant
other When I “lose” 2
hours online When I get
chastised in yoga class
When my crops wither
Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010
What “interrupts” me? What doesn’t
work? What works?
Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010
Relevant Theories…
Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010
Mind-Set Matters…
Identify audience biases
Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010
Have a plan…
Know what you are good at Know what humor is good at Show relevance Build rapport Establish connection Bait & switch if you have to
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Assignment Ideas…Controlled Vocabulary/Research
Use what is true and funny. Build a pool of fun/interesting facts If you can’t humor-up some content
consider other ways to “interrupt” and build rapport
Generators for visual fun Standard icebreakers
Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010
Assignment Ideas…Controlled Vocabulary/Research
Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010
Courtesy of Harper’s Index
Number of wasps a Georgia engineering professor has trained to sniff out explosives: 3,000 & Number of seconds he says it takes to train each wasp: 30 (8/06)
Number of North Carolina license plates issued in 2007 that began with the letters “WTF”: 8999 (9/08)
Number of drivers who have asked for a replacement plate: 92. (9/08)
Number of tries it took a blind North Dakota man to pass a shooting test [in the fall of 2000] before receiving a gun permit:2 (Harper’s Index 4/01)
Number of states in which one may legally shoot fish with a semi-automatic rifle: 2 (Harper’s Index 10/04)
Estimated percentage change since 2007 in U.S. sales of golf carts for purposes other than golf: +215% & Percentage change since 1990 in serious golf-cart-related injuries: +132% (9/08)
Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010
Administration + Humor
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Continuous Partial Assessment?
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The End
MIASGB OO TTFN Make like Jimmy Hoffa AMF L8R G8R :: poof ::
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