Humor

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. – Dr. Seuss
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Spice up a lesson plan, activity or project with humor. Humor is a great way to ease the anxiety of learning and can make learning difficult or stressful topics engaging and fun. Below are our some free web tools and apps your students will enjoy using to enhance their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, while engaging with your topic or preparing for a test. For ideas on how to effectively use these tools for learning, check out my webinar recordings, Engage Learners with Humor and Teach English with Jokes, or my articles in the GO Teach magazine and The Education Horizons Journal, LOL! Teacher! Using Humor to Enhance Student Learning and Let’s Laugh! 10+ Resources for Inspiring Laughter.

Cool Web Tools & Apps

  • Here is my webinar recording of Using Jokes for Learning and resources.
  • Show funny video clips! Here’s a list of the funniest TedTalks and the Epic History Rap Battles.
  • Big Hug Labs has many different ways to create humorous photos and presentations. 
  • Create Memes with Meme Generator. I recommend this for adults and not students.
  • ​Students can create games including humorous characters with TinyTap app, Hopscotch, or Code Monkey.
  • Bill Nye has a new video series #EmojiScience where students can snap an emoji and receive science videos.
  • Teach with humorous literature! Try the OMG Shakespeare series or books like Diary of a Wimpy Kid! Find some of my favorite humorous authors in this Pinterest board.
  • ​Talking Tom and Ben News is an iOS, Android, and Amazon app where students act as newscasters. They report the news in pairs as either Tom, a talking cat, or Ben, a dog. Check out the other talking characters from Outfit 7 to get your students speaking English via funny characters.
  • Quizizz is a web tool and app that works on any device to create fun games and quizzes. Teachers have the option of showing a meme after a question is answered.​
  • TinyTap is an iOS, Android, and desktop app for making fun games and presentations with sound effects, characters, and more.
  • Voki is a web tool for students to create animated talking characters.
  • Blabberize is a website students can use to upload their drawings and images and draw a mouth to make the images talk.
  • YakIt Kids is an iOS app students upload their images and drawing to and add a mouth to animate the images.
  • Plotagon is a web tool and app that allows students to create animated avatar videos.
  • SockPuppets is an iOS app for creating short movies with talking socks.
  • Puppet Pals and Toontastic are iOS apps for creating short videos with fun characters that students animate.

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