Clay Burrell says history isn’t learned, but story changes that problem. He suggests scrambling “the major periods of history in a random cluster on the board or a handout: “Medieval Period,” “Cold War,” “Roman Empire,” “Enlightenment,” “Age of Exploration,” “Classical Greece,” “Industrial Revolution,” “Greek Heroic Age/Trojan War,” “Renaissance,” “Sumer,” “Solomon … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Learning
Storytelling at the Birthplace of Our Nation’s Story
I grew up about 9 miles from Philadelphia in South Jersey. I worked in Philly at various times in my life and even lived there, in Queen Village, briefly. Thus, I’ve always considered the City of Brotherly Love my city. I’m happy, therefore, that my city’s Historic Philadelphia Web site … Continue reading
Using Story to “Ride the Current”
A couple of weeks ago, I “attended” another one of Terrence Gargiulo’s fantastic webinars. As I’ve written before, these webinars are always so well done. So professional. None of the technical glitches and fumbling around I so often see in other webinars — and trust me, I’ve attended a lot … Continue reading
Fabulous Resource for Using Stories in the Classroom
I was excited when Phil Venditti of Clover Park Technical College in Lakewood, WA, commented here on A Storied Career, not only because Washington is my newly adopted home (for half the year), but also because storytelling in the classroom is a huge interest for me. I’ve written before about … Continue reading
Champion of the Sustained Storytelling Practice: Barbara Ganley
One of my new heroes is Barbara Ganley, who blogs at (The New) BG Blogging. I find her fascinating because of her work with story in higher education and in community storytelling. She recently left the former to focus on the latter: Barbara Ganley recently left higher education to set … Continue reading
More Scientific Evidence of Story’s Effectiveness: Story Learning May Enhance Memory Retention Up to Seven-fold
We remember stories better than we do other forms of learning-delivery, report Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide in their blog, Eide Neurolearning Blog. I wish they’d cited the exact research studies they’re referring to The research reports they cite are below the blog entry the above link goes to. The … Continue reading
Another Business Book Told in Story Form
I recently came across The Imperfect Board Member, another in the growing collection of business books that are told in story or fable form. Here’s how the publisher describes the book: Using a fictional story followed by thorough analysis of the seven keys to great board governance and effectiveness, The … Continue reading
Storytelling/Study Skills Convergence
My partner and I wrote a book on study skills that’s just come out, so I was really tickled to see a study method centering on storytelling at Study Hacks. Cal Newport writes: After each class, tell a “story” about the material covered — a five minute summary of the … Continue reading
A Leadership Story
I have long been intrigued with authors who use story to write books in innovative ways (I almost said “novel” ways). I’m interested in business novels, business fables, like Steve Denning’s Squirrel, Inc. and Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese?, and some of the others that appear on the sidebar … Continue reading
Stories of PhD Mamas
I was pretty much past the hands-on mothering stage by the time I entered my PhD program in 2003 as my kids were almost grown and one was already out of the house. But I remain interested in the stories of PhD holders and students, especially those who share the … Continue reading