On occasion, I have difficulty in keeping students involved and interested in the topic being discussed. I often find that I end up craking jokes and telling personal stories and getting students to contribute their own stories as well. I often bring in games such as jeopardy to engage the students with the content material. I find that playing games with the material where student not only answer questions but create the questions themselves, help them in retaining the information. Many of my students ask me at the beginning of each class which game we will be playing that day. When I started getting this question on a daily basis, I soon realized that I was relying too much on them for engaging students. All in all, games, jokes, and personal stories, I feel, are a great way to help engage students and keep them interested in the course content.