
Lecture Breakers
The Lecture Breakers podcast is the place where college professors, instructors, and educators share innovative teaching strategies, practical ideas, teaching tips, and resources to help you break up your lectures, energize your classroom, increase student engagement, and improve learning.
Latest episodes

Mar 16, 2021 • 32min
076 - Creating Successful Learning Experiences for Students Who Identify as Neurodiverse
076 - Dr. Siva priya Santhanam shares recommendations and strategies to help students who identify as neurodiverse succeed in active learning classrooms. We discuss planning and organizing your course, designing active learning experiences, and how to reduce student anxiety. Show notes: https://barbihoneycutt.com/LB76

Mar 9, 2021 • 36min
075 - How to Create More Engaging Asynchronous Online Courses
075 - Dr. Monica Burns joins us to share tips, tech tools, and recommendations to discuss how to create more engaging asynchronous online courses. Get the show notes: https://barbihoneycutt.com/LB75

Mar 2, 2021 • 25min
074 - Encouraging Students to Create Connections and Build Community Within and Beyond the Classroom
074 - Chris Nesi joins us to talk about how to encourage students to create connections and build community within and beyond the classroom by leveraging the power of technology. Show notes: https://barbihoneycutt.com/LB74

Feb 23, 2021 • 29min
073 - Engage Students and Serve the Community
073 - Dr. Shelly Clevenger joins us to share how she breaks away from the traditional lecture, test, lecture, test format and creates civic engagement projects to engage students and serve the community. Show notes: https://barbihoneycutt.com/LB73

Feb 16, 2021 • 31min
072 - Using Comic Books in the Classroom
072 - Dr. Krista Gehring joins us to talk about how she uses comic books in her classroom to engage students and improve learning. She discusses how powerful it can be when you combine storytelling with art to create meaningful and engaging learning experiences. Get the show notes: https://barbihoneycutt.com/LB72

Feb 9, 2021 • 34min
071 - Creative Assessment Strategies
071 - Caleb Curfman, a history instructor, shares how he moved from traditional tests and papers and into more creative assessments where students focus on application and creation, not just memorization and recall. Get the show notes: https://barbihoneycutt.com/LB71

Feb 2, 2021 • 25min
070 - Integrating Music Into Your Courses with Dr. Garrett Schumann
070 - Dr. Garrett Schumann joins us to talk about different ways we can integrate music into our courses to increase student engagement, create connection, and potentially help all of us move beyond the silos of our disciplines and into a space where we can create powerful and meaningful learning experiences. Show notes: https://barbihoneycutt.com/LB70

Jan 26, 2021 • 30min
069: How to Use Digital Interactive Theatre to Break Up Your Lectures
069 - James Wilson joins us to talk about how to combine interactive theatre experiences, storytelling, polling, and reflection to create authentic and meaningful learning experiences to increase student engagement and improve learning. Show notes: https://barbihoneycutt.com/LB69

Jan 19, 2021 • 35min
068 - Case Study Episode: How Two Educators Navigated the Process of Moving Their Courses Online
068 - In this case study episode, two educators (sisters!) share what they learned from the Lecture Breakers Conference that helped them navigate the process of moving their course online. Get the show notes: https://barbihoneycutt.com/LB68

Jan 11, 2021 • 29min
067 - Inclusive Teaching Strategies: How to Support the Success of All Students
067 - Dr. Tracie Addy shares inclusive teaching strategies you can easily integrate into your courses to support the success of all students. Ideas for your syllabus, the first day of class, active learning experiences, and assessment. Show notes: https://barbihoneycutt.com/LB67