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What we learned teaching HON 394: Humor across the Disciplines

Explore the intersection of humor and education in this course taught by Alleen and Don Nilsen, highlighting digital humor and the insights of their multi-talented students.

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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. Teaching HON 394: “Humor across the Disciplines” This is the class we taught in the Fall Semester of 2012, one year after we had retired from 38 years of teaching at Arizona State University. Don had been a Professor of Linguistics, and Alleen had been the Chair of English Education. The students in HON 394, “Humor across the Disciplines” were adept at multi-tasking. They were also adept at seeing things from more than a single perspective, so we used their insights to develop a new course: ENG 394: “Digital Humor across the Disciplines.” The following humorous memes and links will demonstrate how our students taught us to view the new world of digital humor.

  3. The Digital World CLEVERBOT: http://cleverbot.com/ INTERNET SHOWS: “EQUALS THREE”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EwSAzHj8VM INTERNET SHOWS: “JAKE AND AMIR”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHIWsvfwcRw RELATABLE POSTS: http://www.facebook.com/DailyRelatablePosts TOP 50 POPULAR TEXT & CHAT ACRONYMS (NETLINGO): http://www.netlingo.com/top50/popular-text-terms.php

  4. They wanted education to be fun

  5. Student memes made us see medicine differently

  6. Even calories were viewed differently

  7. History took on a different perspective

  8. Our students had a more playful view of linguistics

  9. Digital Metaphors MY BLACKBERRY’S NOT WORKING: http://www.flixxy.com/my-blackberry-is-not-working.htm MONTY PYTHON “SPAM”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

  10. …and punctuation became more fun

  11. They taught us the difference between writers and readers

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

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

  14. Curiosity and Desire

  15. Fear and Sadness

  16. Love and Narcisism

  17. Surprise

  18. They also taught us about point of view

  19. Our students also taught us an important rhetorical concept

  20. Our students also taught some important sociological concepts

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

  22. Our class taught us about photo bombing:

  23. Photo Bombing PHOTOBOMBS: http://thefw.com/animal-photobombs/

  24. Sloth & Cat Tail Photobombs:

  25. Everybody on Earth Photobombs

  26. They taught us about yarn bombing

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

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

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

  30. Another Gender-Related Computer Joke

  31. …and still another

  32. 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.

  33. One student taught us about Facebook Humor:

  34. Another student taught us about cell phone humor:

  35. Cell Phone Humor:Damn Auto-Correct!

  36. Autocorrect DAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT (Often Obscene): 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

  37. The teachers and students viewed cell phones differently:

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

  39. The Lincoln Meme

  40. The Philosophoraptor Meme

  41. And the Success Kid Meme

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