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Author Topic: Ways to Spice Up Your Classes  (Read 23987 times)
magistra
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« Reply #30 on: February 20, 2008, 03:40:20 PM »

Sheer brilliance, all of you.  I feel so - so - so boring.  Must try #24!
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« Reply #31 on: February 20, 2008, 04:04:37 PM »

90. Arrive in class covered in blood. Start by muttering something about "....that damn plagiarist."

91. Show excerpts from South Park.
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Let me go back in there and face the peril!
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« Reply #32 on: February 20, 2008, 04:39:07 PM »

What a hoot!
I'm LMAO

Love 81 and 82 - that would be something I'd do just b/c it would be hilarious.
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« Reply #33 on: February 20, 2008, 04:46:39 PM »

92. Bring in a monkey. Give it a multiple choice quiz. Grade the monkey's scantron. Calmly state, "Anyone who gets a lower score than the monkey automatically fails the course."
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« Reply #34 on: February 20, 2008, 06:28:59 PM »

93. Another real one: Have your identical twin, the mathematician, teach your English class. He should begin by saying, "You know, I'm tired of all this English, so for the rest of the semester we're going to study something real - math." He then continues teaching math until much later in the class session, when you join him.

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« Reply #35 on: February 21, 2008, 04:34:21 PM »


91. Show excerpts from South Park.

I have a colleague who does this. Really.
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« Reply #36 on: February 21, 2008, 08:39:40 PM »

#92 is very similar to something that a colleague once told a class:
"Monkeys with pencils could have done better than you on this exam."

Ouch!

94. Expound upon your personal conspiracy theory about the connection between Adolf Hitler, Lee Iaccoca, and Ford Pinto cars. Be sure to do this at least twice a week.

(Also real -- from a couple semesters of an undergraduate language course.)
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Fine, fine, but I think that absent-minded crap is bullsh!t and you're really thinking about vampires or that scifi stuff.
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« Reply #37 on: February 21, 2008, 09:22:51 PM »


91. Show excerpts from South Park.

I have a colleague who does this. Really.

Gulp.  I do this when appropriate.  (I know, I know, field specificity.  I also show clips from the Muppet Show, the Simpsons, Looney Tunes, etc.)


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