if you are graduating
September 3, 2008
remember to turn in your forms today… spread the word to the following folks if you see them around.
Campbell, Natalie A
Cannon, Doris E
Covington, Daniel C
Griffin, Amberly D
Hilton, Christopher M
Puckett, Amanda L
Scoglietti, Katherine
Garner, Anna E
Riley, Erin M
Thomas, Cara R
Williams, Bradford L
Collaborative Knowledge Development
May 9, 2008
One, it forces the students to study in a meaningful way. It is very important to practice tasks that move information into semantic memory. I also believe it helps them develop life-long learner skills. If applied correctly, it will even have them study in areas were the lecturer and the textbook author fail to teach them (see my suggested guidelines below). I believe that these types of assignments have the ability to be empowering for the learner.
Two, they develop collaboration skills and technology skills that are current at this time in our society. They learn to use online, shared document services. They learn to communicate in synchronous and asynchronous ways with a variety of students (I suggest you not let them self-select groups). This can be very frustrating for them… just like their jobs will be once they graduate (committee work anyone?).
Suggested guidelines for use in class:
Provide the groups with guidelines that will give their media creations some direction. I am currently doing the following in my Cognition class.
- As a group, pick the 5 most confusing topics from the material for your designated exam.
- Share media in the Google document that will aid all of our understanding about the material.
- Pick websites that have simple explanations (and detailed explanations).
- Try to find material that is both verbal and visual and…
- If applicable, find a simulation or material that will allow us to have a phenomenological experience with the construct/theory/idea/task/etc…
- Organize the material so that it is easy to read and easy to use as a study aid. Usability is important! Remember that this is a public document and a variety of individuals may come to the site looking for knowledge.
- When you remix information from another site (words, images, simulations, etc.) you have an ethical responsibility to cite and credit the creator of the content. It will be much better for you to paraphrase how the material on a website can aid our understanding and then provide a link, than to copy the material.
- Plagiarism will result in a failing grade for the entire group, so monitor the groups work and help each other with APA style citations.
- Pre-Test Review! The last class period before the exam I want each group to share what you have done with us as a serious and engaged study session. You might want to create a presentation document to aid in this endeavor. I will be happy to help you copy handouts to aid any simulations (for example, you might want to recreate a classic experiment in class). Each document and presentation should improve over the semester as we learn from the previous groups mistakes.
How Tos and other stuff to make you a Google Doc expert.
- Videos to grow your expertise!
- The famous Google docs in plain English video (watch me first for inspiration)
- A very well organized series of how to videos from expert village (RSS )
- Google doc videos on YouTube… select from a variety of channels
- Text based help to make you an expert!
Intro Psych Wrap-up!
April 21, 2008
Intro Scholars,
Remember that to calculate your exam score take 75% of your individual test score and add to that 25% of your collaborative exam score.
I’ll be handing back your exams today. The descriptives for our third exam score are a mean of 66.6 and a standard deviation of 8.9. That means a C was anything between a 62 and a 71. B’s are anyting between 72 and 78, A’s anything above 81. D’s range from 56 to 61.
Remember to correct your exams as prep for the final. It is important that you do this on your own if you are interested in learning the material.
Intro Exam!
April 14, 2008
Our individual exam over learning, memory, and cognition is today. Collaborative exam on Wednesday.
The exam follows the honor code. It is closed book, closed note, closed neighbor. A proctor will be there for me and I am telling her to confiscate the exams of anyone with wandering eyes…. so look straight ahead and if you believe there are cheaters around you… cover your scantron.
Remember to study as you take the exam. Think about the questions and prepare for Wednesday. Almost everyone is in great shape to pass the class and many of you are in a position to get really high marks. I’m so so proud 
Intro psych lectures… this is how we finish
April 7, 2008
Scholars,
We will wrap up Memory today and get started on Cognition. We will finish up with cognition.
Let’s all get on the same page with our text and our cognition material. I am only going to be lecturing on and testing on the cognition material. YOU ARE NOT responsible for the language material in the second half of the chapter.
That being said the language material is very important and I would encourage you to read about it. If you take a human development class in the department a great deal of time will be devoted to language (especially language development).
See you guys later, prof_chuck
Intro psych continues “learning” this week
March 23, 2008
Hello Intro Scholars,
I hope everyone had a great break (mine sucked, I had bronchitis).
We had a great class the last time we met as we began talking about learning… we will pick up from there tomorrow. I have made some slight adjustments to our scheduled outline that I believe will benefit almost all of you. You can check it here… it has always been linked from our homepage.
Intro PSYC score distribution for module 2
March 12, 2008
Here is the break down as we continue to learn and move forward…
A — 72 + (N=7)
B — 64-70 (N=10)
C — 52-63 (N=27)
D — 44-51 (N=10)
F — <43 (N=3)
Intro Psych — Monday, March 10th
March 10, 2008
Intro Scholars,
Remember today is a reading day becasue I am going to make a presentation this afternoon at a CE conference. Use your time wisely to get a jump start on the learning material. You might even want to download a podcast and then you can compare my lectures to those of folks from Berkley, MIT, etc. Just search for psychology and learning on iTunes.
In addition, sign up for BATTLE OF THE SEXES this Thursday. I will pay for one girls team and one boys team from my class. The first ones to contact me get my $10. (I’d also like to see the Sigma Chi guys have a team, I’ll put one in for you guys too… if you can get enough people together). Remember the prize is $100, that’s a lot of cash in pocket for a Thursday night 
Collaborative testing for module #2
March 5, 2008
here we go… we’ll take a few minutes to get organized and moved around at the beginning
1 McKean Callie A
1 Orear Kelly M
1 Hawkins Nancy M
1 Thomas Sheena C
2 Jackson Benjamin T
2 Stevens April H
2 Lacey Jeffrey L
2 Greenway Michael L
3 Heard Lindsay M
3 Deaton Allison N
3 Campbell Austin O
3 Davis James K
4 Dennis Kathryn M
4 Johnson Jeremy L
4 Turner Richard H
4 Sheffield Rebekah L
5 Rogers Sara K
5 Chembars Jesse A
5 Doyle Hillary H
5 Brown Ainsley T
6 Lee Gayle R
6 Huff McKenzie A
6 Bryan Ashley E
6 Pierce Lori E
7 Samples Rachel H
7 Schuetze Alan J
7 Garrett Jessica C
7 Inganamorte Janet N
8 Wiley Phillip K
8 Schulz Jordyn A
8 Kahle David A
8 Muia Matthew D
9 Harper Kelly J
9 Henson Dolly J
9 Paoletto Lauren A
9 Dickman Erick M
10 Harbin Lindsay H
10 Nixon Joseph M
10 Vickery Joel B
10 Green Allison M
11 Noordhoek Holly C
11 Morse Nicholas A
11 Martin Mary C
11 Mills Patti A
12 Schmidt Lauren A
12 Wayne Jordan C
12 Smith Kristi L
12 Corbin Alexander K
13 Elliott Lauren R
13 Phillips David C
13 Hood Jordan D
13 Laubler Koren M
14 McDonald Krystal M
14 Cleaveland James O
14 Jenkins Constance W
14 Bailey Takeda J
15 Carr Lindsay C
15 Rubiaan Amira S
15 Vitek Alan G
15 Dunn Mary M
16 Grieco Robert J
16 Mason Nikkilee S
16 Moore Michael J
16 Robinson Matthew G
17 Depascale Justin M
17 Stapleton Maryellen
17 Wilkes James C
17 Lawson Kevin M
17 Shattuck Rachael M
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Neuriscience and S&P news
February 24, 2008
Hey Intro Psych Scholars,
I pretty sure we’ll need both of our classes this week to finish up the material, so look for a change in our time line… Individual exams on Monday the 3rd and collaborative exams on Wednesday the 5th.
