Stories can capture our imagination… and make a class come alive. Aaron Daniel Annas joins me to talk storytelling on this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Podcast Notes
Aaron Daniel Annas
Assistant professor of cinema arts
Faculty Director of the Vanguard Sundance Program
Storytelling

Who are stories for?
How do you distinguish between entertaining our students and educating them?
What makes for a good story?
What do we do if we aren't good at telling stories?
How do we know if we are good at telling stories?
Importance of the relevance to a course
Bringing in story in to a class without us necessarily having to be the storyteller

Bonni's storytelling bookmarks on Pinboard
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:

Biola math professor Matthew Weathers' video of April Fool’s joke

Aaron Daniel recommends:

Amazon Echo
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