In the past I've used lots of my own "war stories" in my teaching and also once used stories to communicate to students how I expect them to behave. Last week I tried a bit of a different approach to giving students technical information. I told a story, (here is the powerpoint file for the story) It felt really weird doing this, and it was put together late a night because I seem to have a crazy about of admin work to do at the moment. But it felt really good to do, and the students seemed to respond really well it. What was really different to personal "war stories" was the fact that I didn't feel like it was focussed on me personally as much and I could use stories for areas of teaching where I really don't have a failure story.
I would really like to more of these !!!! partly because I had fun doing it.
Posted by robin at April 16, 2005 03:48 PM