{"id":72375,"date":"2022-01-18T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=72375"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:07:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:07:10","slug":"talk-about-engagement-here-are-some-fun-ideas-to-engage-your-audience-class-and-or-group-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/01\/18\/talk-about-engagement-here-are-some-fun-ideas-to-engage-your-audience-class-and-or-group-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk about engagement! Here are some fun ideas to engage your audience, class, and\/or group!!! [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">These ideas are specially meant for you entrepreneurs and vendors out there! Including such vendors and products such as Zoom, Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, Adobe Connect, and others! <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">This idea could also be profitable and fun for CMS\/LMS vendors and products such as Instructure\/Canvas, Blackboard Learn, D2L, Google Classroom and others!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">How might we take engagement within an online-based learning environment to an entirely different level? Well, check out these ideas!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What if learning could feature more personality? Be more fun? Have shades of game shows even!? Yet at the same time, if you are a learner who ventures into the ideas that I&#8217;m about to suggest, you had better be ready to back up and explain your perspective\/position!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m getting at. You know when you are messaging you can insert some fun motion graphics into your message?<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 480px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/paWQwjlM2mKKGa2vsR\/video\" width=\"480\" height=\"853\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Well, what about if we could select from a bank of <em>very short video clips<\/em> during a live\/synchronous discussion &#8212; or during an asynchronous-based discussion board posting &#8212; that contained a famous movie clip\/message? Then, if you choose to do that, you are then <em>required<\/em> to explain your perspective\/position.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#cccccc\">\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"50%\"><strong>Video<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"50%\"><strong>What the video could mean<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cBeam me up Scotty! There&#8217;s no intelligent life down here.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #800000;\">This is ridiculous. No one\u2019s making any sense here.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hXUqwuzcGeU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cYou meddling kids.\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0From various bad guys on Scooby-Doo.<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">You&#8217;re messing with me. I don&#8217;t agree with your perspective, and here&#8217;s why.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>\u201cThat does not compute.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Spock from Star Trek.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I don\u2019t agree with your answer. That doesn&#8217;t make any sense and here&#8217;s why.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <strong>\u201cYou can\u2019t handle the truth.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nJack Nicholson in &#8220;A Few Good Men.&#8221;<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Are you sure you want to know the truth about this topic? Can you handle such a truth? This is about to get real in here.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h5SNAluOj6U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>\u201cDo. Or do not. There is no try.\u201d<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYoda. Star Wars<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0Take action on something; do something.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-YEG9DgRHhA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>\u201cI\u2019ll be back.\u201d<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Arnold Schwarzenegger in various films.<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I&#8217;m stepping away from my desk&#8230;but I&#8217;ll be back soon.<br \/>\nor<br \/>\nYou may have one this round, but I&#8217;ll be back for another round.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Learners within a learning community could use entertainment and have some fun while also having to backup their position\/perspective! Talk about engagement! Shooooot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">And\/or&#8230;learners could be like DJ&#8217;s at radio stations &#8212; and, on the fly, select from a bank of songs, audio-based noises and sounds!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The danger here is that humor can sometimes backfire and\/or offend someone. So we would need to watch the content that&#8217;s available to choose from within the repositories of media.<\/em> We would want to do some serious beta testing here to make sure things<strong> stay on the fun, entertaining, and educational sides of things.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Such an approach could introduce opportunities for creativity and for honing one&#8217;s ability to think on one&#8217;s feet.<\/strong> Also, learners could work on their communication skills as well as their ability to debate or persuade, or to practice some critical thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">While more gameshow-like on the surface, if you use such media, you have to explain why you used that media.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: These ideas are specially meant for you entrepreneurs and vendors out there! Including such vendors and products such as Zoom, Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, Adobe Connect, and others! This idea could also be profitable and fun for CMS\/LMS vendors and products such as Instructure\/Canvas, Blackboard Learn, D2L, Google Classroom and others! 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