{"id":521,"date":"2010-01-27T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=521"},"modified":"2010-01-27T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T21:30:18","slug":"conversation-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/conversation-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation #11: Humor in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download <a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/podcast\/audio\/tlee011.mp3\">Conversation #11<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"alignright\" style=\"width: 178px;padding:15px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Regina Barreca\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/podcast\/images\/reginabarreca.png?w=625\" title=\"Regina Barreca\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A conversation with Dr. Regina Barreca of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uconn.edu\/\">University of Connecticut<\/a> on teaching, learning, and humor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou can't use humor to be liked. You have to use it to make a point. Especially for women, too often our sense of self-esteem or even, in a professional setting, our sense of accomplishment comes from, you know, <em>do they like me?<\/em> And it can't work that way. Teaching certainly can't function that way. It has to be: did I make this point effectively? Did they get it? And that's very different than being liked.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Links for this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginabarreca.com\/\">GinaBarreca.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download Conversation #11 A conversation with Dr. Regina Barreca of University of Connecticut on teaching, learning, and humor. You can't use humor to be liked. You have to use it to make a point. Especially for women, too often our sense of self-esteem or even, in a professional setting, our sense of accomplishment comes from, <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/conversation-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Conversation #11: Humor in the Classroom\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[140,170,187,248],"class_list":{"0":"post-521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-podcast","7":"tag-feminism","8":"tag-humor","9":"tag-learning","10":"tag-podcast-teaching","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-8p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3478,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/host-our-podcast\/","url_meta":{"origin":521,"position":0},"title":"Host Our Podcast","author":"Bart Everson","date":"August 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"CAT is seeking a new host for the next season of our podcast, Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else (a finalist for the POD Network Innovation Award). 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