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!
Cognition Slides for Attention
January 31, 2008
Hey you Cog-Heads,
I just deleted the attention slides and added a new set with minor changes from our podcasting channel. You probably don’t want to print them out… I can’t image it being helpful.
We should complete most of it today and we can finish up on Tuesday when group 1 actually educates us 
Does anyone use twitter… follow me and I’ll do the same
January 28, 2008
new aging blog reminder
January 28, 2008
Did everyone see that I created a new blog for aging because of the edublog problems…
http://psychologyofaging.blogspot.com/
It feeds into our VISTA site and you can aggregate it… be sure an check it for updates about our class.
Movie Extras Needed — Monday the 16th during the meeting hour
October 13, 2006
Scholars,
I (potentually) get the honor of being in a video that the university is putting together for recruitment. I guess my hair allows me to represent diversity (I’m sure it’s not the white skin or maleness). I would like to recreate an exercise I do in all my intro psych class… it involves measuring the speed of neural conduction and is a hands on activity.
If you would like to be in the video (and potentually interviewed) be in the psych hallway Monday at 12:15.
In addition to making you famous, you will also learn (or relearn in some instances) a little about neural impulses.
XOXOX, prof_hollywood
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Psychology of Aging offered SPR 2007
October 13, 2006
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Presentations anyone? PPT + You Tube = excellent backup.
October 8, 2006
So there is a lot of discussion about a new presentation tool called slideshare. Check it out and the commentary on CogDogBlog and TechCrunch.
ALSO…. don’t forget about our old friend thumbstacks…. and you can try Empressr too.
unfortunately for you guys… I made it back safely ;-)
October 8, 2006
Hello Scholars.
It’s shaping up to be a very busy week.
On Monday we have a psych club meeting. Dr. Lloyd will present on applying for graduate school. Check it out! I’ll be at a meeting on civic engagement.
On Wednesday CLC will meet to plan out the recycling mission in complete detail. I’ll be at the faculty meeting in support of the new Quality Enhancement Plan ( INFORMATION LITERACY!!!!!!!!). Let me know what you need from me. I’m working on the recycling bins as we speak.
In addition, on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 there will be a speaker up in the HNS auditorium speaking on, “Mitochondrial DNA in diabetes, function and malfunction”. I want to check that out. Sounds good.
Intro Psych will be covering Sensation and Perception. The Collaborative Knowledge Development learning community will be covering that too and will be giving their PPT presentation of their survey results on Wednesday. Does anyone need help?
Stats will continue to work on SPSS projects. We’ll catch up to our textbook work on SPSS, then start on independent sample t-tests.
Cognition will dive into a variety of topics related to long-term memory as we finish chapter 5 and start on chapter 6. By the end of the end of the week you guys want be able to believe anything anymore, least of all, your memory. It’s gonna be great fun!
Chuck is away… will you play?
October 4, 2006
So I’m heading out to Savannah for an information literacy conference.
I hope to return with lots of new torture techniques
If you’ve been in class, then you know what you are supposed to do.
Have a good weekend.
September Psych Club Minutes
September 26, 2006
Thanks Kim!
Psychology Club
9/25/06 Talking pointsIntroduction/Officer Elections
President: Meg Cary
Vice President: Sarah Deacon
Secretary/Assistant Treasurer: Kim Burnette
Treasurer: Christy ChristmasPossible Activities for ’06/07 School Year
* Grad School Workshop
* Social Activities (with Sociology Club?)
* Fundraisers• Battle of the Sexes?
• Queen for a Day?* SEPA in spring
* Volunteering with Community Helping Place
* Guest Speakers• Recent NGCSU Graduates
• Clinical Psychologists* Tour of Laurelwood
The next Psyc Club meeting will be Monday, October 2nd. All meetings will be held on the first Monday of each month at 12:15pm. Everyone bring a friend!
The initial meeting of the 2006 Psychology GRE Study Group will be held Wednesday, September 27th at 11:00am in Newton Oaks 015.
EDIT — Our next meeting will be Monday the 9th of October because of inventory in our reserved room.
