{"id":22419,"date":"2021-12-29T18:44:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T12:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=22419"},"modified":"2021-12-29T18:44:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T12:59:39","slug":"starting-a-presentation-with-some-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/starting-a-presentation-with-some-laughter\/","title":{"rendered":"At Ullens School&#8230;Starting a Presentation with Some Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"698\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nepali-teachers-humor.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nepali-teachers-humor.png 698w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nepali-teachers-humor-500x375.png 500w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nepali-teachers-humor-150x113.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The above reproduction, as you can tell, is from a Facebook post from a few years ago. I still haven&#8217;t quite decided why that is so. But, what I try to do when I teach is to use humor as much as possible. Of course, humor helps!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are two clips from a session I had with IB Diploma students at Ullens School in Kathmandu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ullens School - Begin Presentation With Laughter\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9jNIfbpNk_w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ullens School Presentation   Breakdown by Caste\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xhZ6wZwZKIg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepali teachers, I have observed, do not use humor much or often. I am not sure why.<\/p>\n<p>This blog contains embeds of two short clips from a presentation to students at a school in Kathmandu in which I use humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[329,623,210,330],"class_list":["post-22419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nepal-education-parenting","tag-nepalese-school-culture","tag-nepali-education-system","tag-teaching","tag-teaching-in-nepal"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/nepali-teachers-humor-featimage.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-5PB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}