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1. Is This Mic On? Why Audience Awareness & Humor Have Never Been More Important in Education Mari Flynn, Keystone College, La Plume, PA Picture Generated by http://www.notcelebrity.co.uk/

2. About me Picture Generated by http://www.blyberg.net/card-generator/ Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

3. Inspiration… Photo courtesy of Flickr Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

4. Our Audience… Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

5. In a meeting With my significant other When I “lose” 2 hours online When I get chastised in yoga class When my crops wither And then I realized…. Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

6. What doesn’t work? What works? What “interrupts” me? Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

7. Relevant Theories… Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

8. Mind-Set Matters… • Identify audience biases Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

9. 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 Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

10. 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

11. Assignment Ideas…Controlled Vocabulary/Research Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

12. 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

13. Administration + Humor Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

14. Continuous Partial Assessment? Picture generated by www.milinkito.com/swf/bart.php? Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

15. The End • MIASGB • OO • TTFN • Make like Jimmy Hoffa • AMF • L8R G8R • :: poof :: Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010