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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…

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Mind-Set Matters…

Identify audience biases

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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

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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)

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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 ::

Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010