Serious Fun SxSWedu 2017

SERIOUS FUNBUILDING A

LEARNING COMMUNITYSxSWedu 2017

Dayamudra Dennehy & Denise Maduli-Williams

Welcome! Grab a Pen

How is SxSWedu helping you build a

learning community?#seriousfunsxsw

Posters1. What do you know?2. What do you want to learn?3. What do you want to try?4. What is challenging?5. How do you collaborate on Serious Fun

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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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Post-ItsWhat are ways you use

technology to build community and have fun?

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BEGINNINGS:BUILDING COMMUNITY

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

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. "

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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

Speed DatingIntroduce yourself and tell something you just learned that you’ll try in your classes.

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VoiceThread

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Voicethread Introductions Link

GAMIFICATION:DEEPER LEARNING

Step In

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Red Ball Game

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REFLECTION

BEYOND BORDERS

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

@professormadwill@dayamudra_esl

•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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Instagram to Build Community

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Instagram PostPost a picture of what

Serious Fun looks like to you.

Tag: @dayamudra_esl#seriousfunsxsw

COMMUNITY Q & A

Stay Connected

Denise Maduli-Williams, [email protected]● Twitter @dmaduliwilliams● IG @professormadwill

Dayamudra Dennehy, [email protected]• IG @dayamudra_esl