Learning can be fun for both the teacher and the student – and what a win if you can find fun ways to add meaning to your lessons. Of course, one thing that is not fun, for either teacher or student, is stress. There are a number of fun and creative ways to relieve stress in your classroom (and support learning). However, the one of the best ways I know to add both fun and relieve stress in the classroom is to build a class community that fosters learning and makes all of us better humans.
The following posts describe ways that instructors can add fun, relieve stress, and build community – sometimes all three at once!
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- Writing Into Community
- RPGs and Social Contracts
- Inviting Writers
- Poetry in Comp Class?
- Let Them Connect
- 3 Changes To My Pandemic Teaching Plan
- Building A HyFlex Community
- Snapping from the Start
- Heralding in a new year by exploring personal values
- 3 Rules to Kick Off Write
- 3 Reasons to Use StoryCorps Interviews
- Begin Play
- Games and Writing
- How Do You Introduce Yourself? I Use Superhero Stories!
- How Do You Build Class Community?
- Exploring Identity and Vulnerability
- 3 Reasons You Should Focus On Class Community
- Won’t You Celebrate With Me? Wrapping up my year write
- Visual literacy: Fake flyers, protest signs, and demotivational posters
- Classroom Badges Update
- Community Under Construction
- Building Community With Me Museums
- Icebreaker Arguments Reprised
- (Re)mediating the Meaning of #CLMOOC for Make Cycle #2
- Reciprocity Found in #CLMOOC Make Cycle 2
- Notable Notes: Exploring Identity with/in #CLMOOC
- Who Am I? #CLMOOC Make Cycle #1
- Celebrating Ourselves
- 3 Ways to Beat End-of-Semester Stress
- Notable Notes: #OneLittleWord
- Give Yourself A Break
- Notable Notes: Brain Breaks
- Alchemy
- Grading With Badges Revisited
- Faking It: Using Flyers and Protest Signs to Reflect
- Notable Notes: A pedagogy of reflecting on questions
- Building Projects Using #6Words Stories
- Breaking the Ice with an Argument
- Notable Notes: Starting The Year Off Write (Reprise)
- Starting The Year Off Write
- Notable Notes: #CLMOOC = An Abundant, Open Journey
- Notable Notes: The importance of orientation via #CLMOOC
- Perspective and Curation via #CLMOOC
- Notable notes: Stories and Spaces – #CLMOOC
- A #CLMOOC Reflection On Streets, Space, and Silence
- Notable Notes: #CLMOOC Games
- Learning as an Interactive Experience via #CLMOOC
- Notable notes: Remediating the #CLMOOC Make Cycle 2
- (Re)Mediating Who We Are and What We Do – a #CLMOOC challenge
- Notable Notes: Identity (Re)Mediated via #CLMOOC
- Identity and the Unintroduction #CLMOOC style
- I Believe: That’s My Superpower
- In Praise Of Praise Poetry
- Detoxify student stress
- Simplicity: My one little word (OLW) and plan for 2015
- What is Your Superpower and What is Your Kryptonite?
- Hacking The “How To”
- On Creating a Community of Writers (How and Why)
- Community Doesn’t Just Happen
- Writers Making Magic or Hosting a Writing Marathon
- Creating an (Online) Community of Learners
- Using Badges to Assess a Class Community Assignment