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Collaborative Intro Psych exam 2day, bring a pencil

prof_chuck — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:04:30 +0000

I will place everyone into groups of about 3 and you will take a second exam over the material. This will be closed book and closed note, but you will have three brains… that should be more than enough.

Remember that our goal is to learn the material. Take your time and learn from each other. You should also pay attention to test taking skills, notice how your peers frame questions and tackle the distractors to pick out the best answer.

Before class I will post our groups on the Intro Psych blog. Check it and remember your number.

All you need to bring with you will be a pencil.

Collaborative Knowledge Development

prof_chuck — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:35:59 +0000

Rational/Pedagogy/Androgogy

I’m sharing this assignment guideline because I believe it accomplishes several desirable tasks.

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:

Create collaboration groups for each test. Share a Google doc with each group and make it public. Share the public URL with the class (I like to post it on my class blog, but you could send an email). I give three exams during the semester, so I have three collaboration groups.

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!
- The Google docs blog (RSS )
- Google docs help center (FAQ)

Collaborative testing for module #2

prof_chuck — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:02:30 +0000

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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