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What we learned teaching HON 394: Humor across the Disciplines

Explore how humor transforms education, from medicine and history to linguistics and psychology. Discover digital humor and the impact of technology on humor. Laugh and learn with students' perspective on gender, sociology, and memes.

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What we learned teaching HON 394: Humor across the Disciplines

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  1. What we learned teaching HON 394: Humor across the Disciplines By Alleen and Don Nilsen Emeritus College Arizona State University

  2. Our education students wanted teaching to be fun

  3. Our pre-med studentsmade us see medicine differently

  4. Even calories were viewed differently

  5. History took on a different perspective

  6. Our students had a more playful view of linguistics

  7. …and punctuation became more fun

  8. They taught us the difference between writers and readers

  9. They taught us about Twilight, about Trekkies, and about Nerdfighters

  10. They also taught us many psychological conceptslike anger and contentment

  11. Curiosity and Desire

  12. Fear and Sadness

  13. Love and Narcisism

  14. Surprise

  15. They also taught us about point of view

  16. Our students also taught us an important rhetorical concept

  17. Our students also taught some important sociological concepts

  18. They also taught us about LOL Cats and about Computers

  19. Our class taught us about photo bombing:

  20. Sloth & Cat Tail Photobombs:

  21. They taught us about yarn bombing

  22. They taught us about the evolution of the Cell Phone

  23. They taught us about how Millennials get their news and entertainment from the web—often at the same time

  24. Mainly, they taught us about digital humor, some of which was gender based (Eschholz-Rosa-Clark [2009]: 105)

  25. Another Gender-Related Computer Joke

  26. …and still another

  27. Our students taught us about how errors get corrected in the digital age I have a spelling checker. It came with my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

  28. One student taught us about Facebook Humor:

  29. Teachers and students viewed texting differently: We Make Our Own Meanings

  30. Another student taught us about cell phone humor:

  31. Cell Phone Humor:Damn Auto-Correct!

  32. The teachers and students viewed cell phones differently:

  33. Still other students taught us about memes Here is the Lazy College Student Meme

  34. The Lincoln Meme

  35. The Philosophoraptor Meme

  36. And the Success Kid Meme

  37. Digital Humor Website *ANIMATOR VS. ANIMATION II: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/689540/animator_vs_animation_2/ *CLEVERBOT: http://cleverbot.com/ *DAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT (JAY LENO SHOW): http://damnyouautocorrect.com/7264/video-damn-you-autocorrect-featured-on-the-tonight-show-with-jay-leno/ *THE THE IMPOTENCE OF PROOFREADING (TAYLOR MALI): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_rwB5_3PQc *INTERNET SHOWS: “EQUALS THREE”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EwSAzHj8VM

  38. *INTERNET SHOWS: “JAKE AND AMIR”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHIWsvfwcRw *LOLSPEAK: http://www.speaklolspeak.com http://www.lolcatbible.com *MONTY PYTHON “SPAM”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE *MY BLACKBERRY’S NOT WORKING: http://www.flixxy.com/my-blackberry-is-not-working.htm

  39. *PHOTOBOMBS: http://www.photobomb.com/ http://thefw.com/animal-photobombs/ *REDDIT: http://www.reddit.com/ *RELATABLE POSTS: http://pinterest.com/sorelatable/relatable-posts/ http://www.facebook.com/DailyRelatablePosts *TOP 50 POPULAR TEXT & CHAT ACRONYMS (NETLINGO): http://www.netlingo.com/top50/popular-text-terms.php

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