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Professors Are from Mars®,
Students Are from Snickers®
How to Write and Deliver Humor in the Classroom and in Professional Presentations
RONALD A. BERK
Professors and students seem to come from different planets (or candy bars). Barriers frequently exist that impede their communication, such as age, income, and cholesterol level. Humor can break down these barriers so that professors can better connect with their students and other audiences. It can be used as a teaching tool to facilitate learning. Ron Berk describes and illustrates a wide variety of techniques that can be integrated systematically into instruction and professional presentations. For professors who consider themselves as “jocularly arthritic,” this book moreover provides a special feature: it is closed captioned for the humor-impaired.
PB, 1 57922 070 3, $24.95
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Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator
Evidence-Based Techniques in Teaching and Assessment
RONALD A. BERK
Grab those paddles. Charge 300. Clear! “Ouch!” Now how do you feel? “Great!” Humor can be used as a systematic teaching or assessment tool in your classroom and course Web site. It can shock students to attention and bring deadly, boring course content to life. Since some students have the attention span of goat cheese, we need to find creative online and offline techniques to hook them, engage their emotions, and focus their minds and eyeballs on learning.
PB, 1 57922 063 0, $24.95
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