Re: [tips] requiring students to watch a video outside of class

2014-09-23 Thread Jim Clark
Hi I would treat it like a class activity worth 1 mark if done. Product might be responses to questions e-mailed to you or even submitted via Qualtrics or some other survey software. Via e-mail I have students put act01-1234567 in subject line where 01 is activity number and 1234567 is student

[tips] requiring students to watch a video outside of class

2014-09-23 Thread Beth Benoit
Do any of you have experience with *requiring* students to watch a video on their own and then be responsible for its content? Does it work? Is it a good idea? I'm very enamored of "The Ghost in Your Genes" about epigenetics, for example, but it's almost an hour long. Should I spend a whole hou

Re: [tips] Donating old texts

2014-09-23 Thread Beth Benoit
David Thomas posted this last March. I don't know if there is still a collection going on, but you might contact him: Tipsters Last month I sent out the request below for psychology textbooks (1999 or later) to donate to the psychology program at Hawassa University in Ethiopia . So far we have

[tips] Donating old texts

2014-09-23 Thread David T Wasieleski
Does anyone have contact for the organization to which we can donate old Intro texts for students in need. A faculty member here was asking about it. Thanks. David Wasieleski, Ph.D. Professor Department of Psychology and Counseling Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA 31698 229-333-5620 --- Y

Re: [tips] History & Systems

2014-09-23 Thread Christopher Green
I think it is usually taught as an upper division course because (although it might seem logical to go in chronological order from the historical background to the present), it turns out to be pretty difficult to make history meaningful to students until know a fair bit about psychology as it ex

Re: [tips] History & Systems

2014-09-23 Thread Dr. Bob Wildblood
I agree with Gary. In several places where I have taught, History and Systems has always been a senior level course which was aimed, primarily, toward those who were preparing to go on to do graduate work. One of the great things at one school was that money was provided to have some historica

Re:[tips] History & Systems

2014-09-23 Thread Deborah S Briihl
We teach the class as one of our capstone options. I think it works better as a senior level course because so much of it requires an understanding of a wide variety of psych concepts. It would be difficult for me to have to teach not only how the concepts developed but what they are as well.

Re: [tips] History & Systems

2014-09-23 Thread Gerald Peterson
Here it is an upper level, capstone class for seniors ready to graduate. Here, the student must apply for admission to this class. I think the intention is to revisit or provide discussion of historical context and classical philos perspectives. The idea is to provide a framework that integrate

RE:[tips] History & Systems

2014-09-23 Thread José Ferreira Alves
Dear Lisa In my school history of psychology was during many time taught at the first year of graduation in Psychology. However after two curriculum reforms we placed it at third year of the curriculum; I am teaching that and I become aware that it is much more interesting teaching it at a more

[tips] History & Systems

2014-09-23 Thread Lisa Gassin
Hello, All- I have History & Systems as a new prep this year, so I have been checking out the syllabi on the Division 2 website and visiting a variety of schools' websites to see where it falls in their curriculum. I notice that almost always, it looks as if it is an upper division, if not actu