Fun

What’s fun got to do with it?Joanna C. DunlapCenter for Faculty Development University of Colorado DenverJoni.Dunlap@ucdenver.edu

Superhero powers: work avoidance, mass email deleting, stirring two bowls of hot soup at the same time, knowledge of every pop song from the 1970s, squirrel-chatter translation, and x-ray vision. My favorite color is purple.

What’s fun got to do with it?

How shall we treat subject matter…so that it will rank as material of reflective inquiry, not as ready-made intellectual pablum to be accepted and swallowed just as if it were something bought at a shop.

~ Dewey (1933), How We Think, pg. 257

Personal answer…

Professional answer…

People don’t pay attention to boring things.

Emotional arousal helps the brain learn.

Audiences check out after 10 minutes, but you can keep grabbing them back by telling narratives or creating events rich in emotion.

~ Medina (2008), Brain Rules, pg. 94

Fun = phluff???

Orientation

Lecture

Class discussions

Representation of understanding

Assessment

Immediacy

Malleability

Compellingness

Resonance

Coherence

Fun = phluff???

Orientation

Lecture

Class discussions

Representation of understanding

Assessment

Immediacy

Malleability

Compellingness

Resonance

Coherence

Fun strategies fororientation

Meet Jeremy…

http://voicethread.com

http://twitter.com/http://www.linkedin.comhttp://www.facebook.com

Fun strategies forrepresenting understanding

Caption the photo!

Soundtracks

http://finetune.comhttp://songza.comhttp://blip.fmhttp://listen.grooveshark.com

Cloudbusting

http://www.wordle.net/

Virtual paper bag

http://flickr.com

Storytelling, soap operas, & “Naked Came the Manatee”

http://voicethread.comhttp://www.jingproject.com/

Story galleries

http://flickr.com

Story galleries

http://flickr.com

Roleplaying, part 1

http://www.xtranormal.com

Fun strategies forassessment

Roleplaying, part 2

Viahttp://www.vcasmo.com/video/SuzieRose/8202http://csuth.org/ignitehttp://tinyurl.com/2brz5gphttp://tinyurl.com/2fbkgy7

Music video Pecha kucha/Ignite CD cover w/liner notes Comic book Movie poster Digital story Radio program Game Interpretive dance!

Via http://www.flickr.com/groups/it6710spring2010/

Final thoughts…I ain’t making this stuff up…

I loved all of your “fun” activities. At first I thought I would hate them, that they’d be a big waste of time. But I get it now, and see how they not only helped me get to know you and the others in the class, but actually helped me learn too!!! Thanks for a great class!