Humor and jokes have to be used carefully so that you don’t accidentally hurt a student’s feelings.  This article on teaching with humor has some good guidelines.

Here’s a good article on the value of humor as a learning tool.  Creating jokes requires mental gymnastics and telling them requires good communication skills.  Laughter helps create community.
Use this joke to introduce a discussion of classroom expectations.
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Stopwatch.
Stopwatch who?
Stopwatch you’re doing right now!

I love using games to teach, so I liked this article that suggests different games for different learning styles.  The focus is on English for second language learners, but the suggestions could apply to other subjects as well.

This homeschooling article has interesting perspectives on different learning styles and what we can learn from Helen Keller’s story.  The author elaborates on four points.  You may not agree with everything she writes, but it’s good food for thought.
1.  There is a world that can be discovered beyond the average student’s visual or auditory capabilities.
2. [...]

I like this article on maximizing your learning style.  It gives good advice on where students should sit, depending on their learning style.  The suggestions seem like common sense, but sometimes it’s good to be reminded  that learning is also affected by the physical environment.

Here’s another article on auditory learners written for parents who homeschool their children. It has ideas that could also be used in a classroom.  There is nothing earth-shattering in the article, but it might jog your thinking.

This article will help you understand auditory learners and give you strategies to help them succeed.  It is a short and to-the-point article written for parents, but with tips that teachers can use as well.

This article on kinesthetic intelligence is written for parents, but it has a lot of useful information.  In addition you can get ideas from the suggested activities and the many related links.  Just so you know – this website does have a lot of advertisements.

If you have tactile-kinesthetic learners, these bullet point lists are very helpful.  They give you quick introductions to learning styles and strengths, as well as concise lists of teaching and learning strategies.  I particularly like the chart of activity suggestions.

Mind maps are brainstorming diagrams that start from a single idea or image and branch out.  For visual learners, mind mapping is an effective way of taking notes.  You can learn how to use mind maps for note taking from this article.  If you want to see examples of mind maps, look at Tony Buzan’s book [...]