FYI … whose got good grades and a committed interest in Sociology
February 6, 2009
Dear Students of Sociology/Psychology,
It is on behalf of Alpha Kappa Delta that this letter is being written. We invite those students with an interest in Sociology, no matter how great or small, to join our Honor Society provided they meet the requirements of initiation. These requirements include that the student:
- Must be an officially declared sociology major or demonstrate a serious interest in sociology within an official program of the host institution.
- Must be at least a junior by standards of the host institution.
- Must have accumulated the equivalent of an overall GPA of 3.0 and rank in the top 35% of their class in general scholarship
- Must have maintained the equivalent of a 3.0 GPA in sociology courses taken at the host institution prior to initiation.
- Must have completed at least four regular courses in sociology prior to initiation.
If you are interested please contact our faculty advisor, Dr. Franziska Bieri, no later than March 10th. Thank you in advance for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you!
Sincerely,
Cassi Gerjets
Lambda of Georgia Chapter President
Collabortive Media Presentation on Wednesday
October 19, 2008
Group 2 (A&B) will go head and go on Wednesday as planned. We will finish Semantic info then take our test, probably delayed one class period.
No class on Monday because I have to go in for potential jury duty on Monday (20th).
Twitter and Google Doc Resources
October 2, 2008
It will be was great to see everyone at the Getting Connected: Best Practices in Technology-Enhanced Teaching & Learning in Psychology down at KSU. Thanks to Bill Hill and everyone involved in organizing this event.
change of majors
September 2, 2008
I am still behind on getting folks majors changed to psychology (I have also been lax on the minors).
It is my intention to devote time every Friday morning to this task. You are more than welcome to schedule an appointment with me.
Class info
August 19, 2008
I’m keeping a lot of class info centralized on my website… go there for syllabi, schedules, podcast channels, etc…
Collaborative Knowledge Develoment
May 12, 2008
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:
- 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!
Chili Cookoff for Cancer — Relay 4 life
April 9, 2008
I totally need to leave town tomorrow for a conference and I’m making chili for the annual cookoff.
Can anyone help cure cancer by serving my chili up. Of course, there’s always a pirate theme and you’ll get to talk smack about the chili Dr. Lloyd an Dr. Smith serve up.
I’ll have everything ready for you… just look pretty and lick your fingers and go “yummy” put your vote in the skull.
BATTLE OF THE SEXES! BIG $$$$ PRIZES
March 4, 2008
Are you a genius at sexual and gender differences? Do you like to laugh? Do you want to help animals?
Then you need to get a team together for the Battle of the Sexes! The winner gets a cash prize of $100.
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Thursday March 13th, 7 p.m. in Hoag
You can have 2-6 people on your team ($10 entry fee per team)
All of our profits will go toward building a cat house at PAWS. We want to build a structure so the cats and kittens can get outside and be adopted.
cartoon from the blog: Evolution… not just a theory anymore
