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What if you could finally be that likable Library & Information Literacy instructor of your super engaged students? Nobody is born knowing how to be funnier. But the truth is, you can learn how to be a funnier and more effective teacher... when you discover practical humor techniques and teaching strategies to dramatically engage your students.
This book will help you build on some of the most important teaching/humor skills and strategies for today's classrooms, develop techniques for leveraging humor, and take action to improve your information literacy instruction immediately.
This book will revolutionize your classroom and teaching. Hundreds of questions such as listed below have been answered in this book:
• How to personalize and perform humor mindfully? How do we practice mindfulness? What tools to use? (Chapter 1)
• How to play with words? How to put the "Ass" in library class (Chapters 2, 3)
• How humor helps instructors teach and students learn? (Chapters 3, 4, 9)
• How to make money being funny? How can librarians benefit from humor personally? (Chapters 4, 12, 19)
• What are the types of humor in the classroom? How to strategically use the information literacy artifacts such as memes and illustrations? (Chapters 4, 6, 11)
• Why some jokes are risky and how to avoid dark humor (Chapters 4, 9, 10)
• How not to present? How to create a better presentation? (Chapter 5)
• What are the positive effects of humor and how to incorporate humor into your library or classroom setting? (Chapters 7, 10, 11)
• What are the better practice teaching strategies with humor? How to teach Information Literacy online with a sense of humor? (Chapters 8, 11)
• Why literacy research is too serious to be funny and too funny to be serious? (Chapter 9)
• How to use humor as a pedagogical tool and help international students? (Chapter 12)
• Exactly how to make team learning as a fun game with silly examples and mistakes sharing? (Chapter 13)
• Exactly how to diversify your information literacy teaching toolkit (Chapters 14, 15, 17)
• How to apply classical humor theories to make things funnier? (Chapter 16)
• What is a cure for the lecture theatre blues? (Chapter 18)
• How to put in something sillier in every lecture and make your online classes funnier? (Chapters 11, 19, 20)
• What if you're not funny? How to use storytelling? (Chapters 19, 20, 21)
• How to laugh at yourself as an educational leader? (Chapter 22)
Take this book as your professional development guide. This entertaining guide will help you develop the humor skills necessary to take your teaching or library career to the next higher level of success (and promotions!).This book shows how various humor techniques can be employed to your teaching (or presentations) to make you funnier, more interesting, and more likable.
If you join us on our little journey to the funnier side of teaching, then we promise you won't be disappointed. We repeat - this is the only professional development guide you will ever need.
This book is NOT about boring academic theories.
Take this book as an investment in your professional development. Take charge of your library instruction career with just 1-Click at the top of this page.
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