New ToPIX Content: 11/29/12

This update includes additions to the Sensation Video, Developmental Video, and Intelligence Video pages.

New ToPIX Content

Sue Frantz posted two videos on the ear and hearing to the Sensation Video page, a video on identical twins on the Development Video page, and an excerpt of PBS's "How Smart Can We Get?" Intelligence Video page. A link to the entire episode can also be accessed online. Parts of the episode could serve as a good lecture launcher for those teaching Intro, Cognitive, or Neuroscience.

A big thanks to Sue for this round of ToPIX updates! 

As we get close to the end of the Fall term, please consider sharing any videos, songs, demonstrations, or activities for your colleagues to try in the Spring! Feel free to update the wiki yourself or email TOPIX@TeachPsych.org.

New ToPIX Content: 10/25/12

This update includes additions to the Movie List and the Social in the Classroom page.

New ToPIX Content

Nicole Bies-Hernandez added movies related to Ethics, Statistics, and Social Psychology to the Movie List page.

Sue Frantz shared a smartphone game, Social Knowledge, that could be used in a number of ways within the classroom or outside of class. More information on this game is available on the Social in the Classroom page.

Thanks Nicole and Sue!

If you have found ToPIX useful, please consider contributing your suggestions for content!  You are welcome to update the wiki yourself or simply shoot me an email: (TOPIX@TeachPsych.org). 

New ToPIX Content: 10/4/12

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!

New ToPIX Content: 9/20/12

This week we had a new page added to the In the Classroom section. 

New ToPIX Content

Stephen Wurst emailed a content suggestion, and I was excited to add a new page on ToPIX to accommodate future updates. What's more-- Stephen has made a number of his Psych Jeopardy games available to instructors. Check them out here on the Games in the Classroom page. If you find yourself inspired to create your own Flash-based Jeopardy boards for class, a link to do so is also included.  

Thanks Stephen!

ToPIX continues to grow thanks to our recent contributors. You are welcome to update the wiki yourself or simply shoot me an email and I will post for you: (TOPIX@TeachPsych.org). 

New ToPIX Content: 9/13/12

This week we had an update to the Student and Instructor-Created Songs page.

New ToPIX Content
One of the newer pages to ToPIX is the Student and Instructor-Created Songs page. It serves as a nice complement to the Song List and covers a variety of domains within psychology. At present, the page includes songs about the history of psychology, neuroscience, learning, memory, social psychology, psychological disorders, and therapy.

Jason Prenoveau sent along a two-part video of his students performing their rendition of research methods & statistics concepts over Matchbox 20's 1996 song "3 a.m." 

Thanks Jason!

We are always on the lookout for more Student and Instructor-Created Songs as well as other helpful resources to share on ToPIX. You are welcome to update the wiki yourself or simply shoot me an email and I will post for you: (TOPIX@TeachPsych.org). 

New ToPIX Content: 9/6/12

This week we had an update to the Memory Video page.

New ToPIX Content

Stephen Chew’s How to Get the Most out of Studying videos have “gone viral” on YouTube with over 184,000 views for the first video of the series.

Stephen was so kind to make his Think-Pair-Share questions for each study video available to all on ToPIX. If you are familiar with the video series already, you might want to go straight to the questions here on ToPIX. 

If you would like to check out the video series first, please visit the Memory video page here. Find out more about the development of the videos here.

Thanks Stephen!

As always—if you have found ToPIX useful, please consider contributing!  You are welcome to update the wiki yourself or simply shoot me an email: (TOPIX@TeachPsych.org). Thanks to all those who contributed over the summer.

New ToPIX Content: 8/30/12

We hope your Fall term is off to a good start!

This week we had updates to a couple of the “In the News” pages, as well as Perception in the Classroom. A video was posted to the Gender and Sexuality Videos page. Songs continue to be posted to the ToPIX Songs List.

New ToPIX Content

The ToPIX song list continues to grow, and thanks to Julie Carpenter, the list is beginning to represent more genres. Thanks for sending along the songs for the Development and Health sections, Julie!

An excerpt of a TED Talk by Phil Zimbardo (“The Demise of Guys”) was posted to the Gender and Sexuality Videos page. 

A change blindness demo published in the New York Times a couple weeks ago was posted to the Perception in the Classroom page.

A short Bloomberg Business video describing the general findings of the “lipstick effect” study (Hill and colleagues, 2012, JPSP) was posted with a discussion question on the Social in the News page

A segment on animal phobia and exposure therapy (ABC News) was posted to the Therapy in the News page. 

If you have any new resources that students would enjoy, please post them to ToPIX directly or feel free to email them to ToPIX@TeachPsych.org