Serious Fun: Old School Meets New Media

CATESOL 2016Dayamudra Dennehy & Denise Maduli-Williams

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All About Dayamudra

City College of San Francisco

Cuernavaca Buddhist Center, Mexico

Jai Bhim International, India

Jai Bhim Network, Hungary

All about Denise

Miramar College

City College of SFHarold Washington College

SDSU American Language Institute

Peace Corps, Nata, Botswana

Twitter @dmaduliwilliams IG: @professormadwill

High-Touch

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Today’s Plan: 60 minutes of Serious FunThree Parts:

● Beginnings

● Deeper Learning

● Beyond Borders

Old School & New Media:

● Body-based learning activities

● Technology integration #catesol2016seriousfun

Beginnings

Building Communit

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Yoga “If you talk to someone in

a language they understand, that goes to their head. If you talk to

them in their own language, it goes to their heart.” ~Nelson Mandela

Yoga

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Victory Pose Amy Cuddy

"When you pretend to be powerful, you are more likely to actually feel powerful."if you stand like a superhero privately before going into a stressful situation, there will actually be hormonal changes in your body chemistry that cause you to be more confident and in-command. "#catesol2016seriousfun

Vocal Warm Up

“New research on the neuroscience of tongue twisters offers many insights into brain function and connectivity.

“Tongue twisters open windows into the brain's speech-planning processes.”

-Christopher Bergland, Psychology Today, 2013

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Voicethread

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Voicethread Introductions Link

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Voicethread Shared Identity Slides Link

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GamificationDeeper

Learning

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Kahoot!

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Let’s Play - Go to kahoot.itForm small group (3-4 people)One person use a phone to loginGo to KAHOOT.IT

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Red Ball Game

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Beyond Borders

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Bhangra

Dancing improves brain function on a variety of levels….blending cerebral and cognitive thought processes with muscle memory and ‘proprioception’ held in the cerebellum.

Through regular aerobic training that incorporates some type of dance at least once a week anyone can maximize his or her brain function.

Instagram Challenges

•300 million active users

•Over 30 billion photos shared to date

•An average of 70 million photos per day

•70% of Instagram users come from outside of the U.S.

•Considered the most important social network by more American teens than any other network

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Denise Maduli-Williams, dmaduliw@sdccd.edu

● Twitter @dmaduliwilliams, IG @professormadwill

Dayamudra Dennehy, adennehy@ccsf.edu

• IG @dayamudra_esl, dayamudra_esl