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The Best Medicine: Humor's Contribution to Our Well Being: Tuesday Period 6
Wilson had decided to set his classroom up in the style he was familiar with from when he taught back at Princeton Plainsborough and so it was laid out in a tier auditorium style the way the medical classrooms had been set up. This also allowed him to run slides up on a white screen rather than subject the kids to his handwriting, which even for a doctor, was horrific.
Wilson had dropped off a couple plates of brownies on the large desk sitting at the base of tier with two signs labeled Chocolate, Hazelnut brownies with milk chocolate frosting Sometime you feel like a Nut and Truffle Brownies Sometimes you don’t. It was obvious that they were there for the kids to take, along with a napkin or two as they headed for their seats.
As the last of the students trickled in, Wilson himself reappeared, carrying a caramel brown leather soft sided briefcase a laptop and a thermos of tea. Smiling to the class, he set the briefcase down on top of the desk and began to unpack the course syllabus and other important materials.
"Good afternoon, welcome to the first class of ‘The Best Medicine: Humor’s Contribution to our Well Being.’ Or if you’d rather ‘How to giggle through life’s little speedbumps’. Now, everybody got a seat and a brownie if you want one? Excellent, let’s get started."
Walking up to a small device on the desk, Wilson plugged his laptop into it and then dimmed the lights with a remote, leaving plenty of light for the students to see by while still illuminating the screen at the front of the room.
"Before we go anywhere, I need to lay out some ground rules. We are going to talk about many different types of humor. We’re going to explore and apply many different types of humor but there are two that we will acknowledge in lecture but otherwise not use."
Turning towards the chalkboard, he wrote up in an awkward left handed manner.
"Sexual and Ethnic humor or jokes used in this classroom will earn you an automatic detention. If you’re not sure if your joke or what you’re about to say falls into either of these two categories, err on the side of caution and don’t go down that road. Those forms of humor can be applied to situations where you are with friends but here in the classroom, we’ll keep things professional, so that no one is made to feel uncomfortable."
Turning back to the class, he looked everyone in the eye to make sure he was understood, then nodded and continued.
"Okay, that bit of business out of the way, we’re going to start with the idea of ‘knowing your audience.’ The importance of being aware of who you're trying to engage and at what level of communication you are trying to engage them."
At this point, using the overhead projector so as not to strain young eyes, Wilson began lecture that ran about half of the class. Once he had gone over the material on the films, he shut it down and turned back up the light.
"All right, now for a bit of practical practice.” Wilson grinned impishly at the class. “I have split you all into three groups of three at random. I’d like you all to get together with your group when I call out your name and we’re going to get to know each other. I’d like you to introduce yourselves and discuss what types of funny movies, comedians or just in general what type of humor you enjoy."
Reaching for his class roster, Wilson began to read off the groups.
"Group 1 is, Miss. Longstocking, Mr. Griffin, and Mr. Saunders. Group 2 is Miss Lang, Mr. Skif and Miss Nitt and that makes Group 3 at Miss Cally, Mr. McKnight and Mr. Dorian."
Falling silent as he let the students arrange themselves, Wilson set the roster back on the desk and stood up.
"If anybody has any questions for me, I will be floating about."
While the students talked, Wilson wrote the homework up on the board and also made a note to remind everyone to pick up a syllabus before they left class for the day.
[ooc: Obviously all reading homework assignments are handwavey. Likewise if you have RL timing challenges that make real time participation in the in-class group projects impossible your character won't be penalized though I do hope folks can go for the RP interaction. :D]
[ooc:Please wait for OCD threads are up! Have at!]
Wilson had dropped off a couple plates of brownies on the large desk sitting at the base of tier with two signs labeled Chocolate, Hazelnut brownies with milk chocolate frosting Sometime you feel like a Nut and Truffle Brownies Sometimes you don’t. It was obvious that they were there for the kids to take, along with a napkin or two as they headed for their seats.
As the last of the students trickled in, Wilson himself reappeared, carrying a caramel brown leather soft sided briefcase a laptop and a thermos of tea. Smiling to the class, he set the briefcase down on top of the desk and began to unpack the course syllabus and other important materials.
"Good afternoon, welcome to the first class of ‘The Best Medicine: Humor’s Contribution to our Well Being.’ Or if you’d rather ‘How to giggle through life’s little speedbumps’. Now, everybody got a seat and a brownie if you want one? Excellent, let’s get started."
Walking up to a small device on the desk, Wilson plugged his laptop into it and then dimmed the lights with a remote, leaving plenty of light for the students to see by while still illuminating the screen at the front of the room.
"Before we go anywhere, I need to lay out some ground rules. We are going to talk about many different types of humor. We’re going to explore and apply many different types of humor but there are two that we will acknowledge in lecture but otherwise not use."
Turning towards the chalkboard, he wrote up in an awkward left handed manner.
"Sexual and Ethnic humor or jokes used in this classroom will earn you an automatic detention. If you’re not sure if your joke or what you’re about to say falls into either of these two categories, err on the side of caution and don’t go down that road. Those forms of humor can be applied to situations where you are with friends but here in the classroom, we’ll keep things professional, so that no one is made to feel uncomfortable."
Turning back to the class, he looked everyone in the eye to make sure he was understood, then nodded and continued.
"Okay, that bit of business out of the way, we’re going to start with the idea of ‘knowing your audience.’ The importance of being aware of who you're trying to engage and at what level of communication you are trying to engage them."
At this point, using the overhead projector so as not to strain young eyes, Wilson began lecture that ran about half of the class. Once he had gone over the material on the films, he shut it down and turned back up the light.
"All right, now for a bit of practical practice.” Wilson grinned impishly at the class. “I have split you all into three groups of three at random. I’d like you all to get together with your group when I call out your name and we’re going to get to know each other. I’d like you to introduce yourselves and discuss what types of funny movies, comedians or just in general what type of humor you enjoy."
Reaching for his class roster, Wilson began to read off the groups.
"Group 1 is, Miss. Longstocking, Mr. Griffin, and Mr. Saunders. Group 2 is Miss Lang, Mr. Skif and Miss Nitt and that makes Group 3 at Miss Cally, Mr. McKnight and Mr. Dorian."
Falling silent as he let the students arrange themselves, Wilson set the roster back on the desk and stood up.
"If anybody has any questions for me, I will be floating about."
While the students talked, Wilson wrote the homework up on the board and also made a note to remind everyone to pick up a syllabus before they left class for the day.
[ooc: Obviously all reading homework assignments are handwavey. Likewise if you have RL timing challenges that make real time participation in the in-class group projects impossible your character won't be penalized though I do hope folks can go for the RP interaction. :D]
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All the while she totally silently cursed her luck that Agnes was in another group.
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"Me, I kinda like that lizard guy that Anders made me watch," she added.
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"So anyway, I think we got really sidetracked here. Anything else that's funny that you like?"
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