This update includes additions to the Movie List, Games in
the Classroom, Taste Demos, Memory Video, Social Video, Research Methods in the
Classroom, and a new page—Gender and Sexuality in the Classroom.
New ToPIX Content
Nicole
Bies-Hernandez added three new movies to the Movie List page: Limitless, Fly Away,
and The Final Cut.
Sue Frantz provided another web-based Jeopardy game
creator on the Games in the Classroom page, and posted an activity to investigate
sour taste preferences, and a taste buds demonstration to the Taste Demos page.
Stephen Chew passed along an updated Think-Pair-Share
(TPS) file and it was uploaded to the Memory Video page. Ruth Frickle also submitted
her TPS matching items for Stephen’s third video.
Debbie Podwika had mentioned the AT&T U-Verse
commercials and how they can demonstrate Social concepts. Two videos were
posted to the Social Video page.
Rachel Soicher posted links to four short videos she
created with Jing. These include simple, systematic, stratified probability
sampling, and cluster sampling and are available on the Research Methods in the Classroom page. If you find these useful, please provide Rachel
feedback. Rachel also added a new page to ToPIX: the Gender and Sexuality in the
Classroom page and posted a research analysis assignment she uses in her Human
Sexuality course.
A big thanks to
Nicole, Sue, Stephen, Ruth, Rachel, and Debbie for this installment of ToPIX
updates!
