RE: Powerpointing: a contrarian view

2001-05-03 Thread Charles M. Huffman
I agree with much of what Stephen has written. I have tried a variety of approaches. When I first started using multimedia, it was nothing more than an electronic chalkboard. In year two, I included video clips, laserdisc clips, audio, and anything else I could think of that would elaborate on

Powerpointing: a contrarian view

2001-05-03 Thread Stephen Black
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Pollak, Edward wrote: > > > As someone who has observed MANY faculty using power point over the years, I > have strong feelings on the matter. You're right that power point slides > need to be kept "skeletal" lest the students are so obsessed copying them > they neglect to lis

Moral relativity: an evil debate

2001-05-03 Thread Stephen Black
So many posts, so little time. I had been intending to reply to Rick Froman's interesting post but ran out of time. Here's a response to its essential element (I think). On Thu, 3 May 2001, Rick Froman wrote: > > However, saying that what a person PERCEIVES as moral differs from person to > pers

Reply from author of Lucifer Principle

2001-05-03 Thread bbenoit
Date: Thursday, May 03, 2001 at 02:49:42 PM From: Howard Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: re: The Lucifer Principle - Beth--You hit it on the nose. One man's heroic courage is another's evil deed. Or, to put it more precisely, one GROUP's crusade for truth is a

Physio questions

2001-05-03 Thread Dr. Joyce Johnson
I have an unusual request to make. I am involved in a situation where students in a physiological psychology class have been given access to the test bank answers. I am using Kalat 7e, and the test tomorrow was to cover chapters 12 & 15, on emotions and alcohol, depression, & schizophrenia. What I

Re: the face of a tipster

2001-05-03 Thread Richard Pisacreta
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RE: Bullying, homophobia, moral relativism, and rabbinical wisdom

2001-05-03 Thread Rick Froman
-Original Message- From: Beth Benoit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 1:26 PM To: TIPS Subject: re: Bullying, homophobia, moral relativism, and rabbinical wisdom Stephen's last sentence sums up the dialectic problem here. I didn't think we resolved that evil is an

Re: Bullying and Homophobia

2001-05-03 Thread Jim Guinee
> From: "Wuensch, Karl L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Bullying and Homophobia > > Does the psychological literature contain much on the relationship > between homophobia and bullying in the schools? I ask because of an AP > release I found in our local newspaper today: > > There is pendin

re: Bullying, homophobia, moral relativism, and rabbinical wisdom

2001-05-03 Thread Beth Benoit
>Stephen Black wrote: > I guess I'm missing something. The argument that both sides will > be "fortified by evil methods" implies that evil can be > unambiguously identified. It can't. One side believes that action > A is evil and its converse B is moral. The other side believes > the reverse. Th

[Fwd: FW: chalkboard anyone?]

2001-05-03 Thread Rick Stevens
Edward Pollak wrote: > Also, if you work it right, > > you > > > can plug in some demos right into powerpoint (a short-term memory one > > > comes to mind, for example). Some Demo-type stuff that I do: I've created a fairly good simulation of the Stroop task, enough that with the class saying the

FW: chalkboard anyone?

2001-05-03 Thread Pollak, Edward
> Matthew Raney wrote > > I've actually received a lot of positive feedback about powerpoint > > overheads. I keep them very skeletal in nature, but the words are > usually > > more clear and with better contrast, which has been a boon to those > seated > > further back or with visual impairments

Every disorder is a brain disorder(was:Is addiction...)

2001-05-03 Thread Pollak, Edward
Steven Davis wrote > I am curious as to what y'all think about all of these "discoveries" that > various > psychological problems are "really" brain problems. Seems to me that this > is at > the same time both obviously true and misleading. This seems to really > just be a > level of analysis p

chalkboard anyone?

2001-05-03 Thread Pollak, Edward
Matthew Raney wrote > I've actually received a lot of positive feedback about powerpoint > overheads. I keep them very skeletal in nature, but the words are usually > more clear and with better contrast, which has been a boon to those seated > further back or with visual impairments. Also, if yo