Best Review – Top 8 Youtube Videos by Professional Storyteller Debbie Dunn October 10, 2010

Debbie Dunn has been telling stories and teaching storytelling since 1989. Check out some of her performance and teaching tale videos on YouTube.

Click STORYTELLING VIDEOS to visit these top eight storytelling videos performed by Debbie Dunn at Best-Reviewer.com.

Click TOP TEN REVIEWER should you wish to post a top ten reviewer site of your very own. This site was created by James Colin from Best-Reviewer.com and She Told Me.com.

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Conflict Resolution 101: Microphone Usage & Role-Play Procedures May 6, 2010

Classroom Set-Up Suggestions

Note to the Teacher: Here are several suggestions for an ideal classroom set-up to teach students to get comfortable with oral speaking, character education, and conflict resolution.

Click CLASSROOM SET-UP & MICROPHONE USAGE to read the entire article on Examiner.com.

Mini Lesson Plan: Josh Takes a Risk (grades 4-8) March 7, 2010

After reading the Communication Skills story called “Josh Takes a Risk,” students will take part in a variety of follow-up activities to enhance the learning experience. Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the importance of making eye contact with your teacher and your classmates when you give a public speaking speech or performance.

Step 1: Read the story called “Josh Takes a Risk.”

Story Description: Imagine your teacher expects each student in the room to give a speech or perform a story. You, however, are feeling nervous or reluctant to perform. That’s the way that a boy named Josh felt.

Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about importance of making eye contact with others when you do public speaking.

As you may be aware, many students would rather eat nails than get up in front of their classmates to do any kind of public speaking. Making eye contact with your teacher and the other students in the room is one technique that really helps build your comfort level in the long run. A boy named Josh did not believe that making eye contact could actually help him build his comfort level; however, when he finally took the risk to try it out, he found it actually worked for him as well.

Step 2: Have class participate in the role-play based on the story called “Josh Takes a Risk.”

Communication Skills role-play: Josh Takes a Risk

Step 3: Have class participate in discussion questions about this story.

Let’s Discuss Josh Takes a Risk

Let’s Discuss Communication Skills Tale: Josh Takes a Risk

After reading the story called “Josh Takes a Risk,” hold a class discussion using these ten discussion questions. You can also act the story out by using the scripted role-play provided.

Link to Communication Skills story: Josh Takes a Risk

Link to Communication Skills role-play: Josh Takes a Risk

Click COMMUNICATION SKILLS to read ten Class Discussion Questions as a follow-up to the story called “Josh Takes a Risk.”

Communication Skills role-play: Josh Takes a Risk March 5, 2010

Visit this page to get the link to the PDF file for the scripted role-play to print for classroom use called “Josh Takes a Risk.”

A. Students participate in scripted role-play called “Josh Takes a Risk.”

Story Description: This role-play called “Josh Takes a Risk” illustrates the importance of making eye contact with your teacher and your classmates when you give a public speaking speech or performance.

Additional Note: Imagine your teacher expects each student in the room to give a speech or perform a story. You, however, are feeling nervous or reluctant to perform. That’s the way that a boy named Josh felt.

Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about importance of making eye contact with others when you do public speaking.

As you may be aware, many students would rather eat nails than get up in front of their classmates to do any kind of public speaking. Making eye contact with your teacher and the other students in the room is one technique that really helps build your comfort level in the long run. A boy named Josh did not believe that making eye contact could actually help him build his comfort level; however, when he finally took the risk to try it out, he found it actually worked for him as well.

Click COMMUNICATION SKILLS to read and download the role-play on Examiner.com.

Communication Skills Tale – Josh Takes a Risk March 4, 2010

Imagine your teacher expects each student in the room to give a speech or perform a story. You, however, are feeling nervous or reluctant to perform. That’s the way that a boy named Josh felt.

Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about importance of making eye contact with others when you do public speaking.

As you may be aware, many students would rather eat nails than get up in front of their classmates to do any kind of public speaking. Making eye contact with your teacher and the other students in the room is one technique that really helps build your comfort level in the long run. A boy named Josh did not believe that making eye contact could actually help him build his comfort level; however, when he finally took the risk to try it out, he found it actually worked for him as well.

A. Teacher reads story to the class called “Josh Takes a Risk.”

B. Story Description: This story called “Josh Takes a Risk” illustrates the importance of making eye contact with your teacher and your classmates when you give a public speaking speech or performance.

Click COMMUNICATION SKILLS to read the entire short story.

Last Day of 2009 update from Debbie Dunn December 31, 2009

Professional Storyteller & Author Debbie Dunn aka DJ Lyons

Debbie Dunn conducted her Be Bully Free program in a Georgia school and five East Tennessee schools since the school year began. She tells three stories to the whole school that teaches coping-with-bullies skills. The stories also focuses on the importance of practicing your talents and skills instead of bullying. This is followed by a 2-hour workshop with 49 target students who will put on the one-size fits all poncho costumes and perform a 7-act play for the entire school, parents, and press that afternoon. The play is called “No Bullies in the Kingdom.” Finally, the teachers are provided with a learning CD of all kinds of follow-up activities to continue to reinforce the concepts learned about victims of bullying, witnesses of bullying, and bullies. Debbie is willing to travel anywhere to conduct this program for negotiable rates. For more information, please visit http://moredunntales.com/id5.html

Debbie’s 2nd novel was published in December of 2009 called White Reindeer, Kudzu Monster, & Other Tales Of Wonder. For more information about this book, please visit http://askdjlyons.com. Her first novel called The Bell Witch Unveiled At Last! The True Story Of A Poltergeist was published in March 2008. For more information about this book, please visit http://bellwitchunveiled.com. Both books were written under her pen name of DJ Lyons.

Lastly, Debbie has the honor of being the School Conflict Resolution Examiner for Examiner.com at the national level. She posts free stories, role-plays, articles, and lesson plans on the topics of bullying, conflict resolution, and character education from the curriculum she created from 1998 to 2003 called 3 C’s: Character Education, Conflict Resolution, Communication Skills. Feel free to use any of these articles, stories, and role-plays with the young people in your life. Please visit http://www.examiner.com/x-16041-School-Conflict-Resolution-Examiner. She also writes articles for Associated Content.com, eHOW.com, and other sites.

Please, Let Me Not Be Ashamed November 12, 2009

Aggie’s mother was dead. She had to serve as part-time farmhand, cook, and housekeeper for her father in this new town. As Aggie in her old clothes saw the finely dressed ladies, she prayed, “Let me not be ashamed.”

Click on Tempting Tips, Tales, & Topics to read the entire story.

Jackie and the Sheriff September 14, 2009

Jackie and the Sheriff
A sheriff who loved to hear long stories and his good-looking son in need of a wife decided to hold a contest. Whichever girl could tell the sheriff a story that never ends would win the contest and could marry his son. Who would win?

A Night of Terror

A Night of Terror
Greg and Hank planned to make JoJo’ s first year in high school miserable with their bully campaign of terror. On Halloween night, their plan to lure JoJo into a cemetery and humiliate him backfired. Look who’s scared now!