Bringing the world into the
classroom: Finding and using
online resources for learning
Jon Mueller
North Central College
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/mistop.ppt
What’s out there?
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Collections – course-specific sites
– Intro Psych / Intro Psych
– Social Psych
– Personality
– Ed Psych
– Cognitive Psych/Neuroscience
– Research and Statistics
What’s out there?
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Collections – topic-specific sites
– Stereotype Threat
– Science of Relationships
What’s out there?
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Collections – psych organizations
– Office of Teaching Resources in
Psychology
– American Psychology-Law Society
What’s out there?
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Video Sites
– YouTube, Hulu, etc.
– Learner.org
– Psychology Video Clips
– Collection sites
How can you find it?
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Google tricks
– Intitle:”child development” +syllabus
– “social loafing” filetype:pdf
– “social loafing” filetype:ppt
Best trick: Have others do
your work for you!
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Free e-mail Newsletters
– The Scout Report (http://scout.wisc.edu)
– Librarian’s Internet Index (http://lii.org)
– Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter
– Personality Pedagogy Newsletter
Best trick: Have others do
your work for you!
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Blogs
– BPS Research Digest
– Mind Hacks
– Science of Small Talk
– Teaching High School Psychology
– We’re Only Human
– Science of Relationships
Bestest trick: Have software
do the work for you!
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RSS Feeds
– Google Reader
– My Yahoo!
What do I do with it all?
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Collect
– Zotero.org
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Organize
– Delicious
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Use!
– Course web page
What do I do with it all?
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Provide opportunities for practice/application
– Online Psychology Laboratory
– Correlation or causation?
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Structure outside learning
– Scientific thinking assignments
– “Watch this video” and …
What else?
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Questions?
Comments?
Ideas?
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