Teaching in Higher Ed

Storytelling as teaching

with Aaron Daniel Annas

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Aaron Daniel Annas joins me to talk storytelling on this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed.

storytelling

Podcast Notes

Aaron Daniel Annas
Assistant professor of cinema arts
Faculty Director of the Vanguard Sundance Program

Storytelling

  • Who are stories for?
  • How do you distinguish between entertaining our students and educating them?
  • What makes for a good story?
  • What do we do if we aren't good at telling stories?
  • How do we know if we are good at telling stories?
  • Importance of the relevance to a course
  • Bringing in story in to a class without us necessarily having to be the storyteller

Bonni's storytelling bookmarks on Pinboard

Recommendations

Bonni recommends:

Biola math professor Matthew Weathers' video of April Fool’s joke

Aaron Daniel recommends:

Amazon Echo

 

Mixing it up in our teaching

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Bonni Stachowiak shares some ideas about mixing it up in our teaching.

mixing-it-up

Podcast notes

Teaching classes repeatedly

Advantage of knowing where students typically get stuck

Dr. Chrissy Spencer spoke about this when describing her broken-up cases in episode 25, when she just “happens” to have a slide that clarifies a student’s question

Reinforcing a difficult concept

Advertising response function in my Principles of Marketing class

  • Not all  understand the idea of the law of diminishing returns by the time they get to the course
  • Would be the ideal situation for an interactive online module something like the scenario manager in Excel (under data, what-if, scenario manager)
  • Did the typical think-pair-share
  • Two truths and a tie exercise

Using the Attendance2 app to facilitate the random calling on of students

Applying learning to something students know well

Lessons in PR from our university

Standard 2.2 from accreditor (whole must be greater than the parts)

Going outside

Self assessment on theory X and theory Y

What things do you see that I do that are theory X

  • Steps to avoid cheating on exams
  • Latecomers need to call to be marked present for the day

What things do you see that I do that are theory Y

  • Self-directed learning during the week
  • Bulls and bears game
  • PollEverywhere quizzes via cell phones in class

No anonymity any longer

However, I was then able to give them the opportunity to indicate how they would like to be treated as an employee

Recommendation

Remind app – now has text chat, but with office hours

What to do before you act on all you’ve captured

with Dave Stachowiak

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Bonni and Dave Stachowiak discuss what to do before you act on all you’ve captured.

act

PODCAST NOTES:

Episode #32 talked about capture. All the places where we capture what it is we need to do (either because of others’ demands, or freeing up our mind of the “clutter” of stuff that needs doing).

Clarify and organize

Before we do any of it… we need to:

  1. Clarify – process what it means
  2. Organize – put it where it belongs

For each item we have captured, we ask:

What action needs to take place?

Follow this GTD guide

If it isn’t actionable, are you going to need it in the future for reference?

Avoid becoming a digital hoarder

How I store files related to class content and specific classes

Don’t get carried away with folders, especially email, because as we read more on our mobile devices, pretty long to scroll through.

Dropbox debuts file commenting; rolls out “badge” for collaborating on Microsoft documents

Evernote/OneNote: another place not to get carried away with folders. Work, personal, reference + any shared notebooks (i.e. bondbox)

Actionable tasks

Put it into a trusted system, so you can consider it in relation to all your other priorities.

goodreads

IMDB

Dave's Coaching for Leaders episode #180: Do this for a productive week

Only set due dates for things that actually have due dates

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Bonni recommends:

Read/re-read the revised Getting Things Done, by David Allen
Buy a set of their guides
Check out Scannable app

Dave recommends:

Ulysses app

What to do before you act on all you've captured

with Dave Stachowiak

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Bonni and Dave Stachowiak discuss what to do before you act on all you’ve captured.

act

PODCAST NOTES:

Episode #32 talked about capture. All the places where we capture what it is we need to do (either because of others’ demands, or freeing up our mind of the “clutter” of stuff that needs doing).

Clarify and organize

Before we do any of it… we need to:

  1. Clarify – process what it means
  2. Organize – put it where it belongs

For each item we have captured, we ask:

What action needs to take place?

Follow this GTD guide

If it isn’t actionable, are you going to need it in the future for reference?

Avoid becoming a digital hoarder

How I store files related to class content and specific classes

Don’t get carried away with folders, especially email, because as we read more on our mobile devices, pretty long to scroll through.

Dropbox debuts file commenting; rolls out “badge” for collaborating on Microsoft documents

Evernote/OneNote: another place not to get carried away with folders. Work, personal, reference + any shared notebooks (i.e. bondbox)

Actionable tasks

Put it into a trusted system, so you can consider it in relation to all your other priorities.

goodreads

IMDB

Dave's Coaching for Leaders episode #180: Do this for a productive week

Only set due dates for things that actually have due dates

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Bonni recommends:

Read/re-read the revised Getting Things Done, by David Allen
Buy a set of their guides
Check out Scannable app

Dave recommends:

Ulysses app

How to take a break

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Five faculty members share how they are spending their breaks and what recommendations they have for how to take a break…

Podcast notes

Ten things to do instead of checking email, by Natalie Houston (guest on episode #034)

How to take a break

  1. David Pecoraro from the Student Caring podcast
    Heading to Fresno for son's swim meet
    Reading: Building social business, by Mohammed Yunus
  2. Christine – teaches part time. Fighting with insurance companies over the break. Dealing with snow days.
  3. Nicholas – teaches in Doha, Qatar  (pronunciation of Likert scale)
    “My spring break is already over, but I spent it learning how to use ScreenFlow so I can help my MA students learn to use Zotero better.”
  4. Doug McKee from the Teach Better podcast
    Two week break from teaching at Yale
    Microsoft Word in review mode
    PDF expert 5 on the iPad
    Screencasting with Quicktime on the Mac (record screen and do light editing)
  5. Sandie Morgan from the Ending Human Trafficking podcast
    Engaging with others in diverse communities to combat human trafficking
    Expand circles of influence
    Connect app

Recommendations

BusyContacts

David Allen on the Coaching in Higher Ed podcast

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