A new version of Penguin sliding. Just make sure to choose the Play Game
button toward the bottom right of the inner window- do NOT choose the Start
button (which is a trick to get you to the home page for the games). It is
actually a Start Playing Games Now button.
Tim
Thanks to all who responded! I will look at this and the other texts, and
decided on the basis of the comments to post the chapters (IF I write my own)
on our Blackboard/Moodle site, and avoid duplication issues
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John W. Kulig, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
A remarkable graphical display of economic progress at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
Pretty neat, eh?
More on this in David Brooks' NY Times column at
http://tinyurl.com/2vyv76d
Stephen
Stephen L. Black, Ph.D.
Professor of
As my students would say, really cool! I was looking (eyeball only) to see if
the line of best fit remained about the same through the years ... despite some
fluctuations, the basic positive (sort of linear) correlation remained. Now, if
we achieved what he suggested at the end - greater
Hi
Rosling has been doing a great job not only of presenting results, but of
making massive amounts of statistical data widely available in accessible form.
I've used his website at
http://www.gapminder.org/
for a class exercise in my culture and psychology course the past few years.
The
Hi
Just a small point ... the GDP axis is NOT linear ... it is a logarithmic
scale. Note the 3 values given at equal intervals are 400, 4000, and 4, the
logs of which are 2.6, 3.6, and 4.6. It is this transformation that makes the
relationship appear linear. In fact there is a marked
Yes, thanks Jim, didn't notice that ...
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John W. Kulig, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Director, Psychology Honors
Plymouth State University
Plymouth NH 03264
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- Original Message -
From: Jim Clark j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca
To: Teaching in
I am in the process of wrapping up my first term of teaching Intro to
Psychology. Many things went well. However, some of the homework-type
assignments ended up being more like busywork than real learning
experiences. I already have 3 in-class exams and weekly reading
quizzes, so I would
