Re: [tips] Pootwattle, the Virtual Academic

2012-01-23 Thread Jim Clark
Hi Or if you do spend all day and generate a manuscript length document, you can send it to Social Text and see if it gets published. Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca >>> Jeffry Ricker 23-Jan-12 3:09:11 PM >>> Hi all, I j

Re: [tips] Voices in your head

2012-01-23 Thread don allen
? "titty sprinkles"??? Perhaps you could clarify. -Don. - Original Message - From: "Deborah S. Briihl" Date: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:04 am Subject: [tips] Voices in your head To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" > This was sent to me through facebook and I j

[tips] Pootwattle, the Virtual Academic

2012-01-23 Thread Jeffry Ricker
Hi all, I just read in the Chronicle about a site, developed by the writing program at the University of Chicago, titled "Pootwattle the Virtual Academic," which has a program that randomly combines "phrases common in many academic fields" to produce sentences that sound scholarly on the surfac

Re: [tips] Voices in your head

2012-01-23 Thread Jeffry Ricker
On Jan 23, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Deborah S. Briihl wrote: > This was sent to me through facebook and I just had to share it. If you need > a teaching moment, well, you could cover over the "inner voice" in our > working memory. It's strange but, for some reason, I heard Soupy Sales's voice as I r

Re: [tips] Voices in your head

2012-01-23 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
It would be even more awesome if Morgan Freeman's name wasn't misspelled the second time it is written. . Paul On Jan 23, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Deborah S. Briihl wrote: > > > > > > > This was sent to me through facebook and I just had to share it. If you need > a teaching moment, well, yo

[tips] Voices in your head

2012-01-23 Thread Deborah S. Briihl
This was sent to me through facebook and I just had to share it. If you need a teaching moment, well, you could cover over the "inner voice" in our working memory. [cid:bfb0aa9b-a23b-4c3c-b91b-ad3396991202] Deborah Briihl, PhD Dept. of Psychology and Counseling Valdosta State University

Re: [tips] Help with an example

2012-01-23 Thread Carol DeVolder
And that's exactly what I want the examples for--I'm talking about top-down vs. bottom-up processing this afternoon. I've now used all three of my posts for the day, so I want to use this one to also thank anyone else who has or will respond, either front or back channel Carol On Mon, Jan 23, 201

Re: [tips] Help with an example

2012-01-23 Thread Marte Fallshore
I've noticed Reader's Digest often has that. At least I think it was Reader's Digest. Marte Marte Fallshore Department of Psychology Central Washington Univ. 400 E University Way Ellensburg, WA 98926-7575 509/963-3670 509/963-2307 (fax) Room 46

RE: [tips] Help with an example

2012-01-23 Thread Deborah S. Briihl
That is one of my crazy strengths - search and find odd things on the internet. I gotta say, I would NOT have guessed rose bud on the one picture - I had crab claw in mind. I was completely lost on the bird's feet - but, there is that top down processing - once I knew what they were, I could see

Re: [tips] Dance me to the end of dung

2012-01-23 Thread Gaft, Sam
This is somewhat disappointing to me. I expected a song and maybe an analysis of Leonard Cohen's song "Dance Me To the End of Time." As poet who became a singer of his own songs perhaps, because he's probably in his late seventies or early eighties, He is looking he's trying to find where he has

Re: [tips] Help with an example

2012-01-23 Thread Carol DeVolder
Perfect Deb! The website is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you. I still don't know what to call those pictures, but I don't need to know anymore. :) Thanks again. Carol On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Deborah S. Briihl wrote: > > > > > > > When my daughter was gettng the kid's magazine

RE: [tips] Help with an example

2012-01-23 Thread Deborah S. Briihl
When my daughter was gettng the kid's magazines (highlights, national geographic for kids, etc), they would have the pictures in those. Also try this website: http://www.bumrock.co.uk/What-is-it-.php Deborah Briihl, PhD Dept. of Psychology and Counseling Valdosta State University 229-333-59

[tips] Help with an example

2012-01-23 Thread Carol DeVolder
Dear TIPSters, I would like to find an online example of images that are so close up that you can't recognize them; but when you see them in full and from farther back, you do. Anybody know what I'm talking about? They sometimes have them at the end of magazines for fun. I tried Googling close up p

[tips] Dance me to the end of dung

2012-01-23 Thread sblack
Or dirty dancing, as I was going to call it until I noticed that _Nature_ got there first (http://snipurl.com/21un8sw ). Suppose you're a dung beetle. And suppose you're rolling a ball of dung four or five times as big as you are, backwards. What do you do if you get lost, and have no GPS? Ans

[tips] The neuro times

2012-01-23 Thread sblack
Chris Green recently called attention to an article titled "How many neurons do you have? Some dogmas of quantitative neuroscience under revision" (Lent et al, European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 35, pp. 1-9, 2012). The question of estimating the number of neurons in the brain sounded familiar.

[tips] Random Thought: My Best Teaching Practice

2012-01-23 Thread Louis E. Schmier
Judy caught me Friday morning as I was heading to class and asked me, "Dr. Schmier, I always remember our class; it was about history and life lessons; and, after taking away the pressure of getting grades, you made learning enjoyable and meaningful. So, since I'm now an ed major, and h

[tips] teaching at sea where there are no weekends

2012-01-23 Thread Annette Taylor
There are no weekends in semester at sea. I think I mentioned this in passing but it is now already becoming my teaching reality, although at first I only emphasized it to students as a learning reality. When we are on board all days are normal teaching days. Even if it is nearly10 days in a ro