Professors are from Mars, Students are from Snickers: How to Write and Deliver Humor in the Classroom and in Professional Presentations

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Stylus, 2003 - Education - 185 pages
"Ronald Berk, a recognized authority in measurements and biostatistics, has written two books on the use of humor in teaching and professional presentations. Professors Are From Mars provides a rationale, evidence, and helpful hints for those who are interested in using humor in their presentations or materials. Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator provides much of the same information, but extends the review of scholarship dealing with the effects ofhumor, provides more examples, and contains a larger treatment of assessment issues, including test item construction. Anyone interested in incorporating humor into the classroom should refer to these books often."--Nursing Education Perspectives

About the author (2003)

Ronald A. Berk Ph.D., is formerly a Professor of Biostatistics and Measurement at the School of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins University. He served as Assistant Dean for Teaching from 1997-2003. He received the University's Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award in 1993 and Caroline Pennington Award for Teaching Excellence in 1997 and was inducted as a Fellow in the Oxford Society of Scholars in 1998. Since that date, he has been in the Federal Witness Protection Program living in Maryland most recently under the name Puffy Snoop M & M.

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