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!
NGCSU FALL COMMENCEMENT 2007
December 14, 2007
I have no idea why… but I am giving the fall commencement address at NGCSU.
It’s really hard to decide what to say so I fell back on what comes naturally. I’ve stolen remixed almost everything in my speech from the Internet (YouTube, websites devoted to commencements, site that collect quotes…etc.) and I’ve remixed them for me and my audience. I’ve tagged many of them on delicious with the tag, commencement.
I also created a website on my University space for this graduating class (and anyone else that needs it). It’s full of classic stuff to entertain and inspire. Check it out here. I hope to put a copy of my speech there too, It’s still in rough shape right now, as a Google document of course.
The speech will mostly be about collaboration, networking, and the future of communication. I’ve borrowed liberally from the educational technology blogs that I aggregate. Thanks! I hope to give everyone credit during the speech. I got a great lead on a futurist article in the Guardian from Derek’s Blog. I am greatly impressed and inspired by Demo Girl… I can’t get enough of what she has to share.
Mad references go out to Barry Vercoe, Maurice Lévy, Biz Stone, Peter Norvig, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Pavlov’s dogg has a mint reflex…
November 8, 2007
just for fun… a little classical conditioning film…
http://www.snotr.com/embed/183
Cognition student’s need to think about collaborative testing
October 3, 2007
Interesting observation:
Hello,My name is (#$%*($%Q ) #Q(%)#Q(%, I am in your TR Cognition class. I was just wondering what your reasoning for the collaborative testing was. I was grouped with two people that didnt study, and i did so i just dont understand how that is fair. im not trying to complain, just wondering. and one of my partners sleeps in class everyday, so i dont think he could be of any help. just wondering. I dont see how this group test will be reflective of my personal learning abilities. just looking for clarification.Thank You,
The answer has many parts…
First, as a cognitive scientist and memory guy, I know about (and am interested in) your learning the material. You need to place it into your semantic memory so that it stays with you and you can use it / apply it / benefit from it. One sure fire way to do that is to think about the material in a meaningful way (encoding so that it is placed in memory). Explaining why the best answer is right and why the wrong answers and distracters are wrong is one way to do that. If you actually “know” the material, then you should be able to convince / explain it to your collaboration partners. If you can’t explain it, then you probably don’t really know it and it won’t stick with you.
Second, use this as an opportunity to improve your test taking skills. See how others approach the problems. Learn to think about the questions from different angles and world views. Use reasoning skills to get everyone to the best answer.
Third, this is a great opportunity for you to learn about your classmates and perhaps get a chance to view their preparation from my vantage point. Many of you have complained to me about being stuck with peers that are unprepared or unwilling to work together. This is not news to me, but you need to think about it. These folks are working toward the same degree as you… these folks are going to be applying for the same jobs as you… these folks are going to be at jobs before you get there. How do you think they will represent a NGCSU BS degree in Psychology? How will you represent an NGCSU psych degree?
Collaborative testing is a great way for you to master the material, learn about working with others (which you will be doing or the rest of your life), and develop communication skills for a successful life out there… in the big wide world.
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SPSS Tutorials
August 30, 2007
Below is a subscription button for the SPSS tutorials to go along with PSYC 3070, Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. If you click on the button AND you have iTunes installed on your computer, you will have access to the videos through your iTunes software.
If you wish to use an aggregator other than iTunes to watch the screencaptures / movies here is the direct URL for the feed:
http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4dcgi/podcasting/ngcsu/channels19375/9318.xml
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Just tooting our own horn…. Several Cognition and Gerotechnology Lab students went down to the Apple Digital Campus Leadership Institute (ADCLI) this spring and shared two of the projects that we are working on that integrate their life as students today with our current technology.
Hanna Stepp and Courtney Winterbottom presented our departmental approach to academic advising using enhanced podcasts. Katie Scoglietti and Christopher Hilton shared how we develop information literacy skills (and learn more about cognition) by demonstrating and explaining our social bookmarking project for Cognition (PSYC 3310).
In addition, they all made a presentation and participated in a question and answer session at the conference. You can download a podcast of their session here. Just subscribe to the day one podcasts. There session is entitled, “What can they do and what do they want?” The slides that they used in their presentation are available for download here. (download pdf of slides)
Hanna
Courtney
Katie
Christopher
very kewl….
trippin’
April 27, 2007
Apple Digital Campus Leadership Institute resources
March 26, 2007
Here’s a link to the ADCLI website. You will be able to get podcasts from the sessions in a few days. You can get last years (2006) podcasts now. Check the student showcase from Wednesday afternoon to hear (see?) NGCSU students.
Here’s a link to the blogs for the conference. More info should be made available all week as folks reflect and post.
In particular, take a look at the comments on the grand opening student showcase and the student panel discussions.
In addition, check out the resources blog site, sharing is good….
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more efficient Google searches anyone?
May 17, 2006
Here’s a link to a little google cheat sheet to help you with your searches. Share with your friends…
www.ajaxwrite.com — more toys for group projects
April 17, 2006
Check this out…group projects anyone?
Functionality
AjaxWrite is a streamlined word processor, comparable to Microsoft Word. To keep the program lean, we left out some obscure advanced features; you’ll find the functions you use most often, right where you’d expect them to be. (We’re still working on the spell checker.) You can import and export documents in all popular formats, including documents with graphics. The save function lets you save your work to a drive on your computer. Also, since you run ajaxWrite from your web browser, it is platform independent and can therefore be used with any operating system.
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