1. What’s fun got to do with it?
Joanna C. Dunlap
Center for Faculty Development
University of Colorado Denver
Joni.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.

2. 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

3. Personal answer…

5. 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

8. Fun = phluff???
Orientation
Immediacy
Lecture
Malleability
Class discussions
Compellingness
Representation of
Resonance
understanding
Assessment Coherence

9. Fun = phluff???
Orientation
Immediacy
Lecture
Malleability
Class discussions
Compellingness
Representation Resonance
of
understanding Coherence
Assessment

10. Fun strategies for
orientation

11. Meet Jeremy…

12. http://voicethread.com

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

14. Fun strategies for
representing understanding

15. Caption the photo!

16. Soundtracks
http://finetune.com
http://songza.com
http://blip.fm
http://listen.grooveshark.com

17. Cloudbusting
http://www.wordle.net/

18. Virtual paper bag
http://flickr.com

19. Storytelling, soap operas, &
“Naked Came the Manatee”
http://voicethread.com
http://www.jingproject.com/

20. Story galleries
http://flickr.com

21. Story galleries
http://flickr.com

22. Roleplaying, part 1
http://www.xtranormal.com

23. Fun strategies for
assessment

24. Roleplaying, part 2

25.  Music video
 Pecha kucha/Ignite
 CD cover w/liner notes
 Comic book
 Movie poster
 Digital story
 Radio program
 Game
 Interpretive dance!
Via
http://www.vcasmo.com/video/SuzieRose/8202
http://csuth.org/ignite
http://tinyurl.com/2brz5gp
http://tinyurl.com/2fbkgy7

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

27. 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!