Storytelling as teaching

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