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

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).

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.

Twitter Resources

Google Doc / Collaborative Knowledge Development Resources

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…

Rational/Pedagogy/Androgogy

I’m sharing this assignment guideline because I believe it accomplishes several desirable tasks. One, it forces the students to study in a meaningful way. It is very important to practice tasks that move information into semantic memory. I also believe it helps them develop life-long learner skills. If applied correctly, it will even have them study in areas were the lecturer and the textbook author fail to teach them (see my suggested guidelines below). I believe that these types of assignments have the ability to be empowering for the learner.

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:

Create collaboration groups for each test. Share a Google doc with each group and make it public. Share the public URL with the class (I like to post it on my class blog, but you could send an email). I give three exams during the semester, so I have three collaboration groups. Provide the groups with guidelines that will give their media creations some direction. I am currently doing the following in my Cognition 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.

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.

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.

________

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

So… I’ve been mostly listening to Pandora lately… not sure why I don’t listen to last.fm much anymore.

I may give it another chance this week and see what I can discover… I’m sure I don’t realize how to use the software.

For instance… check out this site:


http://www.last.fm/group/SXSW+Music

http://twitter.com/prof_chuck

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