Meme Challenge
For something fun - that works in concert with DDA and assignment posts - you are challenged to incorporate appropriate and amusing meme images into your posts. Why? Because I said so. Because memes help reinforce a point with humor, using recognizable cultural images. Studies have shown that humor aids in absorption and retention of information (http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun06/learning.aspx). You can introduce a potentially controversial topic by presenting it in a meme and get people discussing the topic because they're put more at ease by the humor. Also, the proofreading skills of the Internet are displayed at their finest when someone messes up on a meme ;-) If you were to do a meme about an article it could be a visual TL;DR. Last, it's just more fun to include memes in class.
If you are unfamiliar with memes this is a decent primer: http://webtrends.about.com/od/reddit/a/Internet-Memes.htm
Here is a list of tools you can use to create your own meme images:
What's in it for you all? Well, outside of the intrinsic benefits of humor and helping others learn more through humor...nothing else; sometimes we do things because of the intrinsic value :-)
