But, oh, the details! I had no idea about the minutia of how you can overload somebody, the avenues for disengagement. For instance, I had never considered the difference between using capital letters and lower case and its impact on audience focus. For example, consider the difference between:
PLAY
and
play
The capital "L" has the additional line at the bottom, whereas the lowercase "l" does not. It never occurred to me that using uppercase letters might be more likely to distract audiences/readers.
You know what, forget this...
We just did this awesome activity that I want to use in my class. The present showed us a series of images and each of us (in groups of 3) generated a progressive story for that image. Jen, Kristen, and I told an awesome story! The presenter mentioned that if you align the activity with the content and use humor (relevant humor) as often as possible, students are many times more likely to remember crucial information.
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