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Downloading YouTube and other videos - There has been a lot of talk lately about how to download YouTube videos so they could be played offline. One recommended program is Zamzar as a good, free tool for downloading and converting images, audio, and video. Here is another program that can do much the same thing. Zamzar can be used online; the other program needs to be downloaded. Please pass along any other such suggestions or uses of these programs. [added 3/24/09]
Embedding YouTube clips in PowerPoint - Kristen Klaaren asked how one could embed some of the video clips I point you to into a PowerPoint slide. Having never done it myself, I went out to our friend "The Web" and poked around. I found this nice video tutorial (on YouTube) on embedding YouTube videos into your slides. You do have to be connected to the Internet to play it though. You may have some other suggestions as well (such as simply linking to the video). Feel free to pass them along. [added 8/14/08]
Google video tip - Want to jump right to the doll study segment of the video I recently added below entitled "A girl like me" which is 3 minutes and 20 seconds into the film? What is particularly nice with Google Videos is that you can link to a specific spot in a movie by simply adding the precise number of minutes and seconds into a film where a certain segment begins. To do that, you would add a # sign followed by the number of minutes and seconds in shorthand such as "#4m15s" to the link to tell it to take you to a spot 4 minutes and 15 seconds into the film clip. For example, the link to the "A Girl Like Me" video will take you to the beginning of the film. But if you want to jump right to the part where she recreates the doll study you can click on the following link to which I have added "#3m20s":
It should really be a great help in our classes once we identify online video clips worth using. If you know of any such clips, or have any other information to share about using these resources, please pass it along. [added 12/13/06]
Active learning with PowerPoint - very informative site about appropriate and inappropriate uses of PowerPoint [added 1/10/06]
Music in PowerPoint - Regan Gurung replied on a discussion list to a question about how to easily include music in a PowerPoint presentation. He gave me permission to share his tip with you:
"One easy way to bring music into PowerPoint is to first save a track/song onto your computer and then Insert Sound file in PowerPoint. I put in my CD into my computer and open Windows Media Player. Select RIP MUSIC from along the top. It will allow you to pick which songs to copy off the CD. Then insert the songs into your PowerPoint. NOTE: if you change your slide or click onscreen when the song is playing, it stops."
He says it saves him from having to bring the CD with him to class every time. If you would like the music to play for multiple slides, once you have inserted the song, you can right-click on a slide and select "custom animation." Then, right-click on the sound file and select "effect options." There you can choose the number of slides you want the song to play. [added 8/30/05]PowerPoint Tip: Want to draw on your slides while teaching? - How to use the whiteboard feature in PowerPoint and other tutorials can be found at Presenters University. [added 6/17/05]
SPSS Tutorials - This page contains a lot of good tutorials including these excellent video tutorials on a variety of SPSS analyses. [added 7/5/06]
Creating Online Quizzes - Another program that lets you create a variety of quizzes "and share them in all kinds of ways - e-mail, print, embed in your blog or website." [added 3/24/09]
OpenPSY - This fairly new and inexpensive ($60/annually) set of tools for conducting online research could be a valuable resource. I've never used it, but it claims to provide online data collection capabilities, statistical analysis and online collaboration tools, and bibliographic reference and project management tools. Anyone used it? [added 7/15/07]
Microsoft Producer - An article in the Winter 2007 issue of Teaching of Psychology describes how Microsoft Producer can help you create PowerPoint presentations that include audio, video and more, and can be shared online or via compact disc. [added 7/7/07]
Convert Word to PDF - Want to convert your Word documents to PDF but don't have Adobe Acrobat? Just e-mail the Word document as an attachment to doc2pdf@hotpop.com and it will be returned to you in a few minutes as a PDF document. Just about all of you probably have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer, the free program that reads PDF files. But it is the non-free Adobe Acrobat program that creates the PDF files. Now, if you don't have it you can simply use this e-mail service to make your own PDF documents. [added 3/21/02]
APA-Style Writer 3.0 - new version compatible with new (5th) edition of publication manual - software from APA "designed for new writers in the behavioral and social sciences who need to produce manuscripts and documents written according to APA style."
Hot Potatoes - excellent, free program for creating a variety of your own online tests (e.g., multiple-choice, matching, crossword, short essay)
Quiz generator - the html code, instructions and examples are provided to show you how to create your own interactive web quizzes (created by Chris Wetzel)
Quiz makers and more - links to online quizmakers and other interactive exercises
Multimedia Resources (Note: Any suggested resources? Please pass them on to jfmueller@noctrl.edu.)
Prejudice: Some more oral histories from the U.S. civil rights era - [3/29/09]
Prejudice: Studs Terkel interviews - The recent death of author Studs Terkel has reminded many of his excellent interviews on topics such as race. Hear several here. [added 3/29/09]
Prejudice: Voices on Antisemitism - podcasts from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum [3/29/09]
Attitudes and Behavior: F-I-T-D and D-I-T-F in a virtual world - Michael Britt has another good episode of The Psych Files, this time an interview with Paul Eastwick who did some interesting research on social influence within a virtual world. Here is an Eastwick research article on the topic. [3/26/09]
Prejudice: "How Latino immigration is changing in America" - an American RadioWorks program [3/26/09]Group Influence: Case studies - five different BBC radio programs looking at five different group experiences [added 3/24/09]
The Self: Interview with John Cacioppo on loneliness - [added 3/24/09]Prejudice: "King's last march" - An audio documentary broken into five parts which describes the last year of Martin Luther King's life. [added 8/14/08]
You may be familiar with subscriber Michael Britt's audio site called The Psych Files. Michael has passed on a few of his online lectures addressing social psych topics. Thank you, Michael:
This episode is a summary of the good samaritan study on helping
This is a summary of the famous "Robber's Cave" study conducted by the Sherifs
Here's a summary of Festinger's original study on cognitive dissonance
This is a popular episode on the blaming the victim bias [added 5/24/08]
Prejudice: The authoritarian personality - Shrink Rap Radio talks with Robert Altemeyer on the authoritarian personality. Or, follow this link and read a book on the subject by Altemeyer freely available online. [added 5/24/08]
Persuasion: "Design of desire" - A few podcasts from American RadioWorks on research on attempts to get us to buy stuff. I love stuff! [added 4/28/08]
Prejudice: "Politician's shocking, anti-gay rant" - Follow the link in this article to hear some of this "rant" -- homosexuality is a greater threat to the nation (U.S.) than terrorism. [added 4/28/08]Prejudice: "Voices from the desegregation era" - [added 4/9/08]
Helping: "The myth of the Kitty Genovese story" - Mike Britt produces podcasts on a variety of psychology topics including this one following up on the article by Manning et al. [added 4/01/08]
Persuasion: "Design of Desire" - "New research is lending insight into why we want stuff that we don't need. It also explains why some people are what are called tightwads, while other people are spendthrifts. This site is about buying and selling. About why we buy, how designers and marketers influence what we buy, and how individuals are using market ideas, tricks, and tools to market themselves." [added 4/01/08]
TV theme music and songs - Want to include some music from TV in a presentation? Remember the haunting intro to the Get Smart show? Chills. Can be freely downloaded and used for non-commercial purposes. [added 4/01/08]Discussions with psychologists - Listen to a series of discussions with a variety of scholars, including some psychologists such as Carol Tavris and Madeleine Van Hecke. [12/22/07]
"Hate crime and racism in Russia" - Part I and Part II - From The Leonard Lopate show (Parts I and II) -- "Three years ago, the brutal murder of a 9-year old Tajik girl in Saint Petersburg turned international attention to the rise of neo-fascist groups and hate crime in Russia. Since then, the situation has not only gotten worse, it’s also fallen off the mainstream media radar. Attacks are up 28% since 2006, and many observers think the actual number of crimes is even greater. On the first part of Underreported, Leonard will be speaking with Paul LeGendre, Interim Director of the Fighting Discrimination Program at Human Rights First, and Nickolai Butkevich, Research and Advocacy Director at the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union." [added 12/12/07]
Resisting persuasion - an interesting story told by a medical anthropologist who describes how those living in Myanmar (Burma) are manipulated emotionally by the State and the various ways people try to resist and survive [added 12/12/07]Darfuri womens' stories [added 11/23/07]
Conversation with Elliot Aronson - Why it's hard to admit being wrong: "We all have a hard time admitting that we're wrong, but according to a new book about human psychology, it's not entirely our fault. Social psychologist Elliot Aronson says our brains work hard to make us think we are doing the right thing, even in the face of sometimes overwhelming evidence to the contrary."
"If you download the (free) podcast via iTunes, the part with Aronson starts at 48:30" -- from Marianne Miserandino. Thanks. [added 11/13/07]
"Freud's nephew and the origins of public relations" - Listen to an NPR episode on Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, who was a pioneer in applying psychological motivations to public relations and marketing. [added 11/13/07]
"Inside Intuition" - A BBC radio program in which neuroscientist Mark Lythgoe investigates the concept of intuition -- includes a contribution from David Myers, author of Intuition [added 11/13/07]"The secret impact of social norms" - Listen to Robert Cialdini discuss "Which messages spur citizens to protect the environment?" [added 7/14/07]
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman interview - On NPR, Kahneman "explains why the 'hawkish' point of view so often prevails in times of national conflict." Here is an article written by Kahneman and Jonathan Renshon on the same topic. [added 7/06/07]
"Radio fights Jim Crow" - an audio essay (and slides) about a series of radio programs during World War II that tried to address the deep racial divide in the U.S. [added 7/06/07]
Voices on genocide prevention - a collection of interviews with those involved with sites of potential genocide such as in Darfur and the Democratic Republic of Congo -- from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum [added 12/27/06]
CBC archives in Canada - a large, searchable collection of audio and video from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television [added 12/27/06]
Interview of Claude Steele - Listen to an hour-long interview of Claude Steele broken up into six shorter pieces. [added 12/27/06]
Sounds: The Freesound Project - Looking for specific sounds (not songs) for research or to insert in a PowerPoint? You might find it here. Not too easy to find particular sounds in this site, but it is growing and may become a useful resource. [added 7/5/06]
Great African-American speeches - Hear and read the transcripts of a fairly large collection of famous speeches over the past century, from American RadioWorks. [added 1/8/06]
Voices of the civil rights era - Read and hear stories from the civil rights period; other resources are also available. [added 6/15/04]
Biology of aggression - Listen online to this discussion among scientists about the causes of violent behavior. May be somewhat dated (1995). I have not listened to it myself. If you do, let me know if there is anything worthwhile in it. [added 4/06/04]
"Voices from the days of slavery: Former slaves tell their stories" - a good collection of audio and photos from the American Memory project [added 4/5/04]
American speeches - The highlight of the American Rhetoric site is the Online Speech Bank which includes a "growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two." Includes famous speeches from movies, current events and memorable one liners which you can reference. [added 11/14/03]
Radio Zone - I know I am getting away from direct links to social psych, but I leave it to your imagination to find ways to connect any of this multimedia to your courses. The Census Bureau provides one-minute, audio factoids on a myriad of topics. There is also a Photo Zone and a Video Zone (from which you can order videos). It will be interesting to see how this resource develops. [added 11/14/03]
Women in Combat - text and audio from a conversation about women in combat - other relevant links are also included - from National Public Radio [added 7/23/03]
Famous Speeches - Provided by The History Channel, listen to a large number of speeches in a variety of categories including Arts, Entertainment & Culture and Politics and Government. Written commentary is also provided. [added 7/16/03]
Voices from the Twentieth Century - Historicalvoices.org is an ambitious attempt to capture audio worldwide from the 20th century. This is not a social-psych specific, but you may find some interesting material here. [added 12/03/02]
Voices from the Archive - more historical voices from BBC's archive [added 12/03/02]
Ghetto Life 101 - listen to this radio documentary about the life of two young boys on Chicago's South Side - transcript also available [added 11/07/02]
"Voices of the Holocaust" - a new project from The British Library that includes audio and written recordings from survivors who live in Great Britain [added 3/6/02]
Aggression
Afghan schoolgirls defy Taliban - After being sprayed with acid on the way to school, Afghan girls speak out and return to school. [3/29/09]
Reducing violence? - Texas superintendent explains why his district will become the first in the U.S. to allow teachers to wear concealed guns to school. [added 3/22/09]
Bandura's Bobo doll studies - A good video of the Bobo doll studies is available online. [added 8/14/08]
Rape in the (U.S.) military - [added 6/2/08]
"A short history of torture" - an hour-long lecture on the topic [added 4/15/08]- a blog entry about it [added 4/15/08]
"Why I am opposed to the war in Vietnam" - speech by Martin Luther King [added 4/9/08]
Darfur - The entire Frontline program, "On our watch," is available online. [added 4/9/08]
Militaryvideos.net - lots of video from Afghanistan and Iraq [added 4/2/08]
Contradiction of Arab support for terrorism - Brief clip in which Dr. Malik Mufti "contrasts Arab values of manliness and chivalry with support for terrorism and the murder of innocent civilians." [added 4/2/08]
Violence against Iraqi women - News report from NBC News [added 12/12/07]
"A brief history of violence" - a brief talk from Steven Pinker [added 12/12/07]
Children modeling parents - Cute little video [added 12/12/07]
"Saudi rape victim tells her story" - story and video of recent case in Saudi Arabia of rape victim who was punished [added 12/12/07]
"Nuremberg Remembered" - "This (13-minute) documentary about the Trials combines both archival footage and modern-day interviews with trial participants who served in a variety of roles, including members of the legal team for the prosecution and a journalist reporting on the events for the press." [added 11/27/07]
"Conflict, violence, and war" - This was a lecture series from 2004-05 featuring speakers from a variety of disciplines. Videos of those lectures are available. [added 11/23/07]
Specifically,
"Conflict and violence in animals"
"Violence in history"
"Does jihad mean violence"
"Are Leo Durocher and Paul Wolfowitz right? Do "Nice States" Finish Last?"
"Violence in the Mass Media"
"'In Others We Trust?' Roots of Human Cooperation and Conflict"
"The Psychology of Violence"
"Local Conflicts/Global Challenge"
Survivor of Rwandan genocide - You can read the transcript and watch the entire 60 Minutes episode (13 minutes) about a woman who managed to escape the Rwandan genocide of 1994. She is just now telling her story. [added 12/27/06]
Teenager's film on Holocaust survival - By clicking on the first Launch button you see on this page (Movie tells Holocaust horror), you will be able to view the NBC story covering this teenage boy's film about his grandparents talking for the first time about their Holocaust experience. If you scroll down a little and click the Launch button by "Survivors' stories" you can view the entire film he created. [added 9/20/05]
NBA brawl 2004 - story / video - The first link is to a story on the brawl that broke out at a Pistons-Pacers basketball game. The second link is to some video of that brawl. I don't know how long this video will be available, but perhaps you will be able to use it for awhile in your classes. This story can illustrate the effects of deindividuation, frustration, competition, alcohol and probably many factors on aggression. [added on 12/1/04]
Effects of Stress on Aggression - This website accompanying an episode of Scientific American Frontiers focuses on the detrimental effects of stress on health. It includes discussion of how a "hostile personality" can have physiologically damaging effects. Also included is a brief survey to help you see if "your anger and hostility are putting your heart at risk." Watch the video. [added 7/23/03]
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - The archive is in the process of making many films available for viewing online about the Holocaust and other Jewish experiences. More than 100 are available for viewing. [added 7/21/03]
Assault on Gay America - the five-minute video excerpt from this program is an excellent clip to show in class addressing some of the motivation behind these hate crimes [added 11/07/02]
The Killer at Thurston High - click on "special audio and video" to see and hear clips. Click on "tapes and transcripts" to read the entire transcript of the show [added 11/07/02]
Holocaust teaching guide - hundreds of images, videos and other resources
Altruism/Helping
Bystander effect and the smoke filled room - a brief recreation of one of the famous studies of Latané and Darley [added 4/2/08]
Children modeling parents - Cute little video [added 12/12/07]
Bystander Effect - an interesting (and ethically questionable) MSNBC video demonstration of the bystander effect -- a man and a young girl roleplay his abducting her on the street. Will passerbys stop to help? Watch what the hidden video captures. [added 7/5/06]
Attitudes and Behavior
Inconsistencies - humorous clip from The Daily Show of how commentators often contradict themselves [added 3/25/09]
"430 new demographics that will decide the election" - Amusing piece from The Onion that pokes fun at all the subgroups identified in election -- Dunkin' Donut Independents, Dinty Moore dads, dental office receptionists who plan on going back to school to get real estate degrees someday, etc. [added 3/22/09]
Procrastination - Just a fun video, in case you need an excuse to... [added 6/2/08]
Conversation with Banaji and Greenwald on the IAT - [added 4/15/08]
Shifts in attitudes on The Pill -- view brief clips of individuals describing their views before the pill and after the pill [12/10/07]
Short clips on news stories and poll results - The Gallup Organization provides some nice, brief video reports on some of its polling results. Works well for class presentation. [added 3/2/05]
How much money would it take to...? - Warning: This one is a little offbeat! Olde English, which appears to be some type of video sketch comedy group, produced this short film in which they ask people, "How much money would it take for you to kill a puppy with your bare hands?" You see how people respond to this question. Then, later in the video they return to these people with a live puppy and a blank check to see if they really will kill a puppy for the amount of money they said it would take. Just to let you know, the video ends with the line, "No puppies were harmed in the making of this sketch." [added on 12/1/04]
Attraction and Relationships
Morning exercise in the park - "Residents talk about their morning routine in Tian Tan Park, both an exercise spot and a social venue for many elderly Chinese." [added 3/22/09]
Liking those like us - Guess what, the people of Obama, Japan love Obama! [added 5/24/08]
Propinquity - That's physical proximity to young whippersnappers. Here's a song ("Somebody") from Reba McEntire that captures well our tendency to choose from those nearby. [added 12/12/07]
Conflict and Peacemaking
Russian-Georgian conflict - A good video overview of the recent origins of the conflict -- send your students to watch it before class leading into a discussion of conflict. [added 3/22/09]
"Why I am opposed to the war in Vietnam" - speech by Martin Luther King [added 4/9/08]
"Conflict, violence, and war" - This was a lecture series from 2004-05 featuring speakers from a variety of disciplines. Videos of those lectures are available. [added 11/23/07]
Specifically,
"Conflict and violence in animals"
"Violence in history"
"Does jihad mean violence"
"Are Leo Durocher and Paul Wolfowitz right? Do "Nice States" Finish Last?"
"Violence in the Mass Media"
"'In Others We Trust?' Roots of Human Cooperation and Conflict"
"The Psychology of Violence"
"Local Conflicts/Global Challenge"IraqJournal.org - This site contains lots of print, audio and video resources from journalists who claim to be providing an independent voice and alternative perspective on Iraq. In their words, "With Washington on the verge of seeking to destroy an already devastated country, a group of independent journalists and activists - spearheaded by Voices in the Wilderness and the Iraq Peace Team - are breaking ranks with the war chorus." [added 12/06/02]
Conformity
A song about the Milgram obedience studies - This is a link to a video performance by Dar Williams of her song Buzzer which is about the Milgram studies. Here are the lyrics. Here is an NPR interview Williams did about her music including discussion of this song (which begins about 3 minutes, 20 seconds into the show). [3/26/09]
What would you do? - Here are some ethically questionable episodes (including this second one) presented in ABC's Primetime series "What would you do?" [added 6/2/08]
Frozen in place - An improv group had 200 people freeze in place for five minutes in Grand Central Station. Fun stuff. [added 4/28/08]
Food court musical - More work from the same improv group. For both of these improv videos, you and your students can discuss possible reactions, acceptable and unacceptable. If you do anything with these videos in your class I would love to hear how you used them. [added 4/28/08]
Zimbardo presentation - a 71-minute presentation on the situational forces of evil from Philip Zimbardo [added 4/15/08]
Breaking social norms - an interesting, brief video of someone asking for free hugs [added 4/15/08]"12 Angry Men" -- The entire original film can be found on YouTube divided into nine segments [added 12/10/07]
Interview of Phil Zimbardo - Watch recent interview in which Zimbardo discusses his prison study, Abu Ghraib and how good people turn evil. [added 11/13/07]
Conformity: "The Lottery" - Apparently, this is (was) a very popular film in high school English classes. I had never seen it before. Based on a Shirley Jackson short story, this 18-minute film is a very spooky look at norms, and tradition, and conformity. Warning (and spoiler alert): Very disturbing ending. [added 7/14/07]
Breaking a social norm - Do you ever have your students break a social norm? Apparently, that was the assignment for this class. Here is the students' video capturing their efforts. [added 7/14/07]
"Are you popular?" - "We learn about the key to popularity in high school. Surprisingly, it's not parking on deserted roads." [added 7/8/07]
The Lost Children of Rockdale County [added 11/07/02]
General
Psychology video clips - a nice collection of videos specifically for psychology [3/29/09]
Video lectures - From the Claremont Colleges Digital Library, find a number social psych related lectures from Elizabeth Loftus, Philip Zimbardo, and others. [added 3/22/09]
Genes, Gender and Culture
Afghan schoolgirls defy Taliban - After being sprayed with acid on the way to school, Afghan girls speak out and return to school. [3/29/09]
Classic Enjoli perfume commercial - Remember the "Bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never, never, never, never let you forget your a man" commercial? A classic! [added 6/2/08]
Violence against Iraqi women - News report from NBC News [added 12/12/07]
"Saudi rape victim tells her story" - story and video of recent case in Saudi Arabia of rape victim who was punished [added 12/12/07]
The story of David Reimer - This video describes the famous story of a boy who lost his penis during circumcision and then was raised as a girl. Here is an article about it. [added 12/12/07]
Dating - You may have seen some of the old "educational" films which tried to explain or instruct about human behavior. Often they were misinformed and insulting. Here's one that portrays how "Kay learns that the key to popularity is dating as many boys as she possibly can. She schemes and plans and outwits boys into asking her on dates." [added 7/8/07]
Sex differences? - Here's another (and another) example of the older "educational" films from a series on "Psychological differences between the sexes." Your students could research which of these claims hold up and which do not. [added 7/8/07]"Trouble with women" - A film from 1959: "With such a provocative title, this film illustrates some of the perceived problems a supervisor might face working with women, but ultimately demonstrates where the real problem lies." [added 7/8/07]
Pink's Stupid Girls video - very interesting music video from Pink attacking the media and popular culture's influence on female's self-image [added 7/5/06]
Rock a Bye Baby - "The Time Life documentary "Rock A Bye Baby" describes the influence of different practices in infant treatment and child rearing on emotional development, both in humans and in monkeys." [added 1/16/06]
Reproductive health and related social issues - a series of video lectures from a conference held at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study -- easy to find and select lectures to view [added 6/17/05]
Genetic and cultural evolution - an hour-long lecture from Edward O. Wilson on the borderlines between science and the humanities [added 6/9/04]
Killing us softly 3 - preview - a fairly long preview video of the Killing us softly 3 video about the media's protrayal of female body image [added 6/9/04]Group Influence
Methods
Statistics video series - a video instructional series containing 26 half-hour programs on statistics is now available on the Web. [added 12/27/06]
Daniel Kahneman lecture on the Day Reconstruction Method - Kahneman gave this lecture last July as part of his reception of an honorary degree from the University of Wuerzburg. In the very interesting hour-long video, Kahneman describes the motivating questions (e.g., "Are people happier in California?"), the thinking and the research that led up to the development of the Day Reconstruction Method. The different sections of the talk are listed so you can skip to a specific part in class. I had a few technical problems, but I was able to make it work. Well worth viewing! [added 3/2/05]
Ethics videos online - extensive list of currently available video online related to topics of ethics from Lawrence Hinman at the University of San Diego[added 4/5/04]
View a research study - Delroy Paulhus provides a long and a short version of a video of a study on self-enhancement. I don't know what you might do with it, but it does illustrate some common steps in the research process. Scroll down to the end of the self-enhancement section. [added 3/23/04]
Persuasion
Ads
Presidential Campaign Ads - The Political Communication Lab at Stanford University is another great source of campaign ads. [3/24/09]
Presidential Ads from 1952-2004 - Even more impressive is this site providing video of campaign ads stretching back 50 years, and the site will be updated soon to include more recent ads. "Presented by the American Museum of the Moving Image in cooperation with the Political Communication Center, University of Oklahoma." [added 6/15/04]
Apple Computer TV ads [added 7/06/07]TV commercials from the 1950s-1960s - Since these commercials are available through Google, you can try the Google video trick I described above to link to a specific commercial in this collection if you like. [added 12/27/06]
TV ads - Here are some more ads you can show in class from the International Advertising Awards. [added 7/6/06]
Public service announcements - This excellent resource provides a history of many of the public service announcements from the Ad Council over the last 60 years. It includes lots of images and some video. Remember the "Crying Indian" television ad? Watch it here. [added 4/5/04]
Super Bowl Commercials and More - Ads.com, a site I had linked to on this page, no longer has television commercials available for viewing. So, where can you go if you want to show old or current ads in your classrooms? Ifilm.com is such a resource. View this years' (2005) and last years' Super Bowl ads as well as many other commercials including a number of controversial ones discussed in the media. [added 2/11/03]
How cults work - [3/29/09]
"Cults: Dangerous devotion" - A History Channel program on cults that is broken into 10 parts on YouTube -- This link is to Part 1. [3/29/09]Darkening the skin of the candidate - [3/29/09]
The last 48 years of U.S. presidential debates - This PBS site contains transcripts and video clips from the debates. Here is an MSNBC resource about the 2008 U. S. presidential debates including the full debate videos. [3/26/09]
Don't Vote - This would be an interesting video for your students to analyze in terms of persuasion techniques. [3/26/09]Follow the 2008 presidential elections through video - [added 4/9/08]
Getting people to sign a petition - A funny bit from Penn and Teller in which they send a woman to collect signatures at an environmental rally to ban dihydrogen monoxide (H2O). Here is a link to the mock website against DHMO. Definitely worth a look if you haven't seen it. [added 7/14/07]
Principles of persuasion in advertising - Robert Cialdini describes several of the principles of persuasion he has identified as most effective. [added 7/14/07]
The cautious twins - Is this an example of a fear appeal? Rational? Would this be effective for a young child or just scare the bejeebers out of them? And how do you spell "bejeebers"? [added 7/8/07]
Talking urinal cakes - Okay, I sent you the article about this before, so I figured I had to add the video to your collection. [added 7/8/07]
The Persuaders - Did you get a chance to see this excellent PBS show recently on how marketers and politicians figure out how to persuade us? If not, you are in luck. The entire episode is available for viewing online at the above link. Definitely worth seeing. As with many PBS shows now, the streaming video is broken up into segments for easy display in the classroom. [added 12/1/04]
Budweiser commercials - Many of the more recent TV commercials from Anheuser-Busch are available online. [added on 12/1/04]
Propaganda analysis - at the Institute for Propaganda Analysis - includes descriptions and examples of common techniques and some examples of propaganda, including some video examples
Prejudice
Clips from "American Black Journal" - This show premiered in Detroit, MI in 1968. [3/29/09]
Afghan schoolgirls defy Taliban - After being sprayed with acid on the way to school, Afghan girls speak out and return to school. [3/29/09]
Darkening the skin of the candidate - [3/29/09]
First openly transgender mayor in U.S. - see video story [3/29/09]
Some humor about prejudice - some good video examples from the blog This Week in Race [3/29/09]
"69% of African-Americans voted for Proposition 8" - this and other interesting tidbits in this Daily Show clip [3/29/09]Kids sing against Prop 8 in California - Just adorable. Proposition 8 is a measure on the 2008 California ballot to ban same-sex marriage. [3/26/09]
Snickers runs another "homophobic TV ad" - [added 3/22/09]
"Bad questions to ask a transsexual" - interesting video from Calpernia Addams, a transsexual, describing the annoying questions often asked [added 3/22/09]"Who can use the N-word?" - This link takes you to part 1 of five videos capturing a debate and discussion about the use of the N-word between a political scientist and a professor of culture and communication. Could be used to prompt discussion in your class. [added 5/24/08]
The secret Black language -- Blanguage - amusing video from The Daily Show [added 5/24/08]Violence against gays - "Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres discusses the recent tragic death of 15 year-old Larry King from Oxnard, CA." [added 4/28/08]
Conversation with Banaji and Greenwald on the IAT - [added 4/15/08]
The Mormons - The entire four-hour Frontline program on the Mormon religion is available online. [added 4/15/08]
Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech - [added 4/9/08]
Darfur - The entire Frontline program, "On our watch," is available online. [added 4/9/08]
"A Sunday in Clarkston" - interesting story of a church's changing population which led it to adapt [added 4/2/08]
"Confessions of a Hitler Youth" - Brief but interesting description of some of the Nazi indoctrination of the youth -- second brief video continues by discussing the Hitler youth movement. [added 4/2/08]
Disturbing Snickers ad - Is this an example of Tajfel's minimal groups and formation of social identity? [added 4/2/08]
The Selma to Montgomery march - "Lynda Lowery turned fifteen years old during the Selma to Montgomery march. She was arrested fifteen (15) times over the years in which she participated in the civil rights movement. Lynda describes "Bloody Sunday" and the resolve that carried her through to the final march two weeks later." [added 4/2/08]
"Not in our Town" - Watch a fairly lengthy clip from the documentary about hate crimes in Billings, Montana and how the community responded. Other materials here as well. [added 4/2/08]
Jesus Colon's dilemma - Read about and watch the story of Black and Puerto Rican Jesus Colon who, in the 1950s, encountered a white woman on a subway who was clearly in need of some help. Should he help? What went through his mind? Did he help? I'll let you find out. [added 4/2/08]Violence against Iraqi women - News report from NBC News [added 12/12/07]
Gay stereotypes - A clip from the TV show Desperate Housewives [added 12/12/07]
Speech from F. W. de Klerk - "From Apartheid To Democracy" -- a speech from former South African President F. W. de Klerk [added 12/12/07]
Jena 6 - I assume those of you in the U.S. have heard of the case of the Jena 6, the six black students in Jena, Louisiana accused of beating a white student. The first link takes you to a good, detailed overview of the incident and the subsequent controversy. If you want to show a brief news clip about such an event, you can search the video sections of news sites such as ABC or CNN. This link takes you to a number of Jena 6 video clips from such a search at ABC News. This link is to one of the many accompanying stories in which two nooses were found hanging from the back of a pickup truck. [added 11/17/07]
Asian-American experience - This 10-minute video on identity is primarily composed of interviews of Asian-Americans at Columbia College, asking them what it means to be Asian-American. [added 7/8/07]
"Crayola Monologues" - Just for fun - a fairly silly video about stereotyping involving crayons [added 7/8/07]"Anti-Semitism in the 21st century: The resurgence" - You can view a 90-second trailer here for this PBS show which aired in January 2007. [added 7/06/07]
Michael Richards' "racist" tirade - "Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous L.A. comedy club last Friday, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping." [added 1/1/07]
Survivor of Rwandan genocide - You can read the transcript and watch the entire 60 Minutes episode (13 minutes) about a woman who managed to escape the Rwandan genocide of 1994. She is just now telling her story. [added 12/27/06]
Steppin' - I never heard of this "dance style popular today among black fraternities and sororities" -- probably because I teach at a small school. [added 12/27/06]
Twee Vaders - A young boy signs a song about having two fathers and some of the discrimination he faces. The song is apparently in Dutch with English subtitles. To our Dutch subscribers, what is the cultural acceptance of such in a song in your country, if it is from your country? [added 12/27/06]
"A girl like me" - I came across this interesting film (7 min, 15 sec) created by a 17-year old high school student in which she attempts to recreate Kenneth and Mamie Clark's famous studies of black and white dolls which was integral to the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. More to the video as well. You can read an article about it here. [added 12/12/06]
The science of sexual orientation - From the TV show 60 Minutes, these are a variety of clips from this episode including a fascinating video clip of nine-year old twin boys and their very different preferences. [added 7/5/06]
"Dealing with a racist cabbie" - A segment from a recent ABC's Primetime show in which unsuspecting riders encounter a cab driver who goes off on a racist tirade. The "driver" is a confederate in on the little stunt. How would you respond? Raises ethical questions for the riders and about the show itself. Would this make it through an IRB? [added 7/5/06]Teenager's film on Holocaust survival - By clicking on the first Launch button you see on this page (Movie tells Holocaust horror), you will be able to view the NBC story covering this teenage boy's film about his grandparents talking for the first time about their Holocaust experience. If you scroll down a little and click the Launch button by "Survivors' stories" you can view the entire film he created. [added 9/20/05]
"How has your life changed after September 11?" - a number of short videos providing a variety of perspectives on 9/11, including from Muslim/Arab-Americans -- from the Independent Television Service [added on 12/1/04]
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - The archive is in the process of making many films available for viewing online about the Holocaust and other Jewish experiences. More than 100 are available for viewing. [added 7/21/03]
"A Class Divided" - Frontline (PBS) recently rebroadcast its 1985 episode of the famous story of Jane Elliott, the 3rd grade teacher in rural Iowa, who in the late '60's began an exercise in her class in which she separated her white students into blue-eyed and brown-eyed kids to teach them lessons of discrimination. The entire episode can now be viewed online at this address. It begins with the fascinating original footage in Elliott's 3rd grade classroom and includes follow-up experiences since that time. The episode is broken into five segments online. I love when such material is made available online because I can pick certain clips to show in class or I can send students to view them outside of class. Nothing to put on reserve! [added 7/16/03]
Video Documentaries: Civil Rights - Although these three video documentaries were designed for high schools, they contain some good video. [added 2/1/03]
Assault on Gay America - the five-minute video excerpt from this program is an excellent clip to show in class addressing some of the motivation behind these hate crimes [added 11/07/02]
The Two Nations of Black America [added 11/07/02]
Holocaust teaching guide - hundreds of images, videos and other resources
Psychology of the Courtroom
False memories - very nice animated example of false memories from an upcoming television show [added 6/2/08]
Psychology in the Courtroom - The Court TV website provides some clips of opening and closing arguments, witness testimony, verdicts and more. [added 7/5/06]
Documentary of an entire criminal case - "The shooting of big man: Anatomy of a criminal case" is now available for viewing online. The 1 hr, 40 min. documentary first shown on ABC News quite a few years ago follows a single case from beginning to end. [added on 12/1/04]
Social Beliefs
Keeping options open - Dan Ariely, in a very brief video, describes an example of what he calls predictably irrational behavior. [added 3/22/09]False memories - very nice animated example of false memories from an upcoming television show [added 6/2/08]
Change blindness or inattentional blindness or... - Whatever you call it, this is an excellent clip illustrating a clever study on the topic. [added 5/24/08]
First impressions - a fascinating video of side-by-side people making guesses about the other from their first impressions [added 4/9/08]
Vividness effect/availability heuristic - A classic and hysterical video from The Daily Show, "Summer of the sharks" [added 3/28/08]
Inattentional blindness - another video example of this phenomenon [added 11/23/07]
Why too much choice is bad for us - an interesting video lecture from Barry Schwartz -- begins with a brief ad [added 11/23/07]Mindblindness - This short video which appears to be about a card trick is actually an interesting demonstration of mindblindness. [added 7/15/07]
Feeling it vs. Thinking about it - This is the first episode of The Colbert Report show with Steven Colbert. In the first five minutes of this hilarious and now famous clip he introduces the word "truthiness" where he discusses how it is better to feel the truth than to know it. [added 12/27/06]
"Face to face: The science of reading faces" - Watch an hour-long interview of Paul Ekman. Transcript is also included. [added 1/16/06]
Lecture by Daniel Kahneman - View a 40-minute lecture entitled, "Maps of Bounded Rationality" given by Daniel Kahneman in 2002. This video is provided in a nice format in which the video is played alongside a script of the speech. You can also just read a transcript of the speech at this site. [added 4/5/04]
Visual illusions related to social judgment - Some interesting videos are made available online from the Visual Cognition Lab at the University of Illinois. Actual videos used in studies of change blindness and other topics. Illustrates some social perception and expectation errors. Quicktime is required. [added 7/23/03]
Social Psychology and the Sustainable Future
Dan Gilbert lecture - Interesting 20-minute talk on the impact bias, "the tendency to overestimate the hedonic impact of future events." We're not very good at predicting what will make us happy. But I think you will enjoy this video. Hey, I wonder if we are better at predicting what will make other people happy? [added 7/19/07]
The Self
Impulse control of sextuplets - a video showing a test of delay of gratification among a famous set of sextuplets [added 12/12/07]
Self-efficacy -- Find some videos in this extensive resource on Bandura's theory and the work of many on this topic. [added 12/10/07]
Dan Gilbert lecture - Interesting 20-minute talk on the impact bias, "the tendency to overestimate the hedonic impact of future events." We're not very good at predicting what will make us happy. But I think you will enjoy this video. Hey, I wonder if we are better at predicting what will make other people happy? [added 7/19/07]
"The Happiness Formula" - A BBC program has an extensive accompanying website with lots of video and other good resources on happiness. Even take a happiness test. [added 7/6/06]
View a research study - Delroy Paulhus provides a long and a short version of a video of a study on self-enhancement. I don't know what you might do with it, but it does illustrate some common steps in the research process. Scroll down to the end of the self-enhancement section. [added 3/23/04]
General
News Video
ABCNews.com videos - a lot of short video news stories are freely available. Some are relevant including [added 1/16/06]
The Ten O'Clock News - "The WGBH Media Archives and Preservation Center has preserved and described 523 tapes from The Ten O'Clock News, WGBH's in-depth nightly news program. Dating from 1974 to 1991, this collection focuses on news stories relating to Boston's African American community. Browse our site for detailed descriptions and video clips of these stories." [added 6/20/05]
Hundreds of free video clips from CBSNews.com - For example, there is a recent (2004) video clip available on the politics of gay marriage. [added 3/30/04]
Local news stories - Over 10,000 brief local television news stories are available here from the Graduate School of Urban Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Delaware. Search video clips by topic, story type and market. All clips appear to be from 1998, but you may find some examples of certain topics. [added 11/20/03]
News Archive of September 11, 2001 - view the actual news broadcasts from around the world on that day as the events were unfolding - a very rich resource
125 most memorable political moments in American radio/television history - video of the top ten is provided [added 4/2/08]
Video Nation in the UK - a very large collection of video telling personal stories throughout the UK -- The site archives the collection that began with a TV show that passed out video cameras to citizens to capture many and varied stories. [added 12/27/06]
CBC archives in Canada - a large, searchable collection of audio and video from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television [added 12/27/06]
"Human Behavior Experiments" - This new one-hour film that has been shown on TV describes a number of classic social psychology experiments. A couple good clips from the film can be found on this page. [added 7/5/06]
Guiding questions for videos - In Teaching of Psychology (Winter, 2006) there is an article describing the use of guiding questions in the student viewing of "The Power of the Situation" video from the Discovering Psychology series (which is freely available online at the above link). Students in one section were given eight guiding questions to be answered in writing during the watching of the video. Students in this section outperformed students in a no-guiding questions section on video related questions. The full set of guiding questions can be obtained from Timothy Lawson at tim_lawson@mail.msj.edu. [added 7/5/06]
Mediasite.com - "a growing library of expert presentations and lectures" [added 1/16/06]
Discovering Psychology Series Available Online - So, our department lost one of the videotapes from the Discovering Psychology series with Phil Zimbardo. No problem! The entire series (the 2001 updated version) is now freely available online, including the social psychology programs! You can also find The Brain and The Mind series. [added 1/4/06]
"Using The Simpsons to teach social psychology" - Judy Eaton and Ayse Uskul present an interesting description of how they use clips from the animated series The Simpsons to illustrate key concepts in their social psych courses, published in the most recent edition of Teaching of Psychology, 31, Autumn 2004, pp. 277-278. The link above takes you to a table listing the specific clips and how they are used. Do you have other clips you use? Pass them along. [added on 12/1/04]
Lectures from Stanford University - view some brief lectures online from Claude Steele, Philip Zimbardo and others [added on 12/1/04]
The Human Zoo video
http://www.films.com/id/4654/The_Human_Zoo.htm
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2001/may2/zimbardo-52.html
I have not seen it, but a few sources recommend this video which appeared on the Discovery Channel (2000) in a three-part (50 minutes each) series. The first link takes you to the pricey ordering info. The second link gives you a fuller description of what is in the video. [added on 12/1/04]Frontline/World shows available online - All the entire episodes of Frontline/World dating back to 2002 are available for viewing online through streaming video. "FRONTLINE/World is a national public TV series that turns its lens on the global community, covering countries and cultures rarely seen on American television. Each episode of FRONTLINE/World features two or three "short stories" told by a diverse group of reporters and video journalists. These first-person stories will take viewers on adventurous journeys to foreign lands from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Taking advantage of easily portable digital cameras, our correspondents roam widely, observe closely, and when necessary, film surreptitiously." Some shows address group conflict, prejudice and other social topics. [added 4/06/04]
United Nations webcast - 24 hours a day, streaming and on-demand video from the U.N. security council, general assembly and press briefings! [added 4/06/04]
Columbia News Web Video Archive - The School of International and Policy Affairs at Columbia University provides a large number of video lectures related to conflict and peacemaking in its archives. [added 4/5/04]
Sociological social psychology films - Looking for some movies to illustrate concepts? This page lists a few by topic (if you scroll down the page), and it also lists some other resources. [added 4/5/04]
Scientific American Frontiers episodes - You can view two complete, social psych-relevant episodes online by searching for "Facing Feelings" and "Power of Persuasion" in the search box. [added 3/23/04]
Harvard lectures/addresses available online - Harvard University makes available a variety of speeches/addresses which can be viewed online. [added 3/23/04]
Follow President Bush's daily agenda - lots of video, audio and text from many of President Bush's speeches and stops [added 3/23/04]
"Reefer Madness" online! - You can watch the entire movie online! A classic! And with many social psychological connections! Best viewed .... well, I'll let you decide. [added 3/23/04]
Events from around the world - Want to show examples of "famous" events from around the world (e.g., Pamplona running of the bull; wife carrying) to illustrate certain ideas? Find a good variety at this travel and entertainment site. [added 11/20/03]
"Videos in Psychology: A Resource Directory" - This book, from APA, "contains summaries of almost 1,000 videotapes with psychological content, as well as contact information for distributors that carry the titles." [added 5/1/02]
"Teach with Movies" - intended more for K-12 educators, this site nonetheless provides you with an extensive list of movies and some description of each that might give you some clue as to whether it could be useful [added 5/1/02]
"Internet Moving Images Archive: Movie Collection" - free to download and show for non-commercial purposes. Many are of the documentary and instructional type and at least 30 or more years old. But that is what makes some of them fun and useful. The "social guidance" films of the 40's and 50's can be good illustrations of changing norms, gender roles and conformity. A good example is the 10-minute film from 1947 entitled, "Are you Popular?" A few other titles that may be relevant to social psychology include Are you Ready for Marriage?, The Bully, and Office Etiquette. It is not always easy to get these movies to play. Read download and play instructions. I was able to use Quicktime to play them. Search Tip: On the "Movies by Title" page at this site all the movies are listed in alphabetical order. Instead of scrolling through all of them you can find the "social guidance"
films by hitting Ctrl+F (Find in Windows) and typing in social or guidance. [added 5/1/02]"Early Motion Pictures in American Memory Collections" - more old films from The Library of Congress - most are historical in nature but you may find something of interest or relevance [added 5/1/02]
Videographies - a large collection of videographies (annotated lists of topic-specific movies) - some, like this one for the Black Panther Party, include audio and video clips
Large Collections
Copyright-free images - I have mentioned before that photos on government web sites are copyright free. Now, a new site, Uncle Sam's Photos, has made finding those images a little easier. [added 7/19/07]
Huge collection from the New York Public Library [added 7/14/07]
Smithsonian Photography Initiative - This new initiative should make available tens of thousands if not millions of photographs, with a very liberal copyright policy. [added 7/7/07]
Public domain images - a large list of links to freely available images you can use in your lectures or elsewhere [added 7/06/07]
Large photo database - Fotosearch is one of a number of stock photography websites. This one has over 700,000 images including photos, clipart and illustrations. Two things make this site better than most for educators. First, I find it easier than most other sites to search for an image, pull it up, and display a large version of it in class. However, that is probably not something you would do that often. But, the second feature is much better! We educators have been given permission to occasionally download an image, free of charge, to insert into our PowerPoint slides, or web pages, or other projects as long as it is for non-commercial, educational purposes and we give credit to Fotosearch! So, take a look, and let me know if you have further questions about its use. Thanks, Fotosearch. [added 7/6/05]
Images and Clipart - Classroom Clipart provides a large and very good collection of images and clipart you can insert into your PowerPoint, web pages, etc. [added on 12/1/04]
Lots of random images - Just for those of you who are often looking for an image of all kinds of things to stick in a slide or a webpage, this new site begins with a few thousand images and promises to add many more, all free to download and use. [added 4/06/04]
Specific Topic Collections
World War I color photos - [added 4/15/08]
Prejudice: "Images of the anti-slavery movement in Massachusetts" - [added 4/9/08]
Photos from Auschwitz - "Auschwitz through the lens of the SS: Photos of Nazi leadership at the camp" is a collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. [added 1/25/08]
Images of Darfur - This exhibit from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum provides images of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. [added 7/06/07]
Famous Native Americans - [added 12/27/06]
Boston African Americana Project - Lots of images of pamphlets, posters, caricatures, illustrations, manuscripts, political cartoons and more related to slavery, the abolition movement, free blacks and other aspects of the life of African Americans from 1770 to 1950, with most of the collection from around 1865 [added 12/27/06]
Stereotyping Native Americans - a set of images and comments from the California Museum of Photography [added 12/27/06]Psychological Image Collection - "This is a collection of images useful for research in Psychology, such as sets of faces and objects. They are free for research use." [added 1/10/06]
Women of Protest - over 2000 photos from the suffrage movement, from the Library of Congress [added 1/8/06]
Ansel Adams' photographs - of the Japanese-American internment camp at Manzanar [added 6/17/05]
Photos from the civil rights struggle - a collection of interesting, annotated photos from the civil rights struggle from photojournalist Charles Moore [added 3/20/05]
Political memorabilia - More interesting images and propaganda from past political campaigns -- buttons, postcards, pins and watch fobs, sheet music, etc. [added on 12/1/04]
Military images from the U.S. Air Force - If you are looking for military images for some purpose, the Air Force provides a few thousand at this site. [added 3/30/04]
More military images from Iraq - from "Faces of valor: A photo tribute to the men and women of Operation Iraqi Freedom" [added 3/30/04]
Korean American Digital Archive - Thousands of pages of documents and hundreds of photos and sound files document the Korean experience in America, from the Archival Research Center at the University of Southern California. [added 3/30/04]
Covers of Life Magazine: 1936-1972 - searchable database of covers -- perhaps there are specific images you would want to use or have students analyze changes/trends across the covers - also available are many "classic" pictures from the magazine [added 2/1/03]
Images of Native Americans - From the Bancroft Library, this collection contains portrayals of Native Americans by the Europeans, advertising posters and more. [added 2/1/03]
"Suffering Under a Great Injustice" - Here you will find a large collection of Ansel Adams' photographs of Japanese-American internment at Manzanar - perhaps you can incorporate some of these images into a lecture or send students to analyze them in some manner [added 6/6/02]
Social Issues Image Database - "The Social Issues Collection is an ongoing database of historial images from the Western United States and the Pacific Northwest region. The collection covers political and social topics such as women's issues, labor and government, as well as ethnic groups." Lots of high quality images of Japanese internment, women's issues and more.
Muslim veils [added 7/15/07]
Your Copy Rights - a few good brochures that summarize your rights to use and copy a variety of media in your courses [added 7/7/07]
Tutorial: Searching the Internet for images - Want to find images on the Internet to insert into presentations or to use for other purposes? This site provides a nice tutorial on how to find images. [added 4/5/04]
"The women's archives" - SPARROW (Sound and Picture ARchives for Research On Women) contains audio, video, and images [added 4/15/08]
TV and print advertisements - View hundreds of tv commercials at bestadsontv.com. Also, the site has begun adding print ads. [added 1/14/06]
Multimedia to accompany New York Times stories - New from the Times, you can view slideshows, interactive graphics and more multimedia that accompany many Times stories. This a very nice resource if you want to incorporate media into your presentations or send students to view such material. To actually view the multimedia or stories one must register (free of charge) at the website. [added 8/30/02]
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia - collection of racist cartoons, images and videos
Communication tools
An INFOBITS newsletter I receive from the ITS teaching and learning division at Univ. of North Carolina included the following useful links on some current social software tools that students and schools are increasingly using.
"The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's "7 Things You Should Know About..." series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies including briefings on
YouTube
Instant Messaging
Blogs
Wikis
Social Bookmarking [added 7/06/07]
Discussion board grading scheme - Stephanie Coker passed along the following text from her syllabus about how she grades contributions to the class discussion board. "It is really important that the discussion remain relevant and interesting. Keep in mind that many people will not go back to the DB once the assignment due date is passed. If you are late in your posts and responses, this means that no one will get to enjoy your idea!! Therefore, there will be ten points deducted for each calendar day that the assignment is not complete. In other words, if your post is submitted on time, but there is no response to another's post, 10 points are deducted each day the response is late, up to 0 points. Posting early and giving more than one thoughtful response or post will be considered excellent participation and is highly encouraged. Discussion Board posts and responses will be graded on the depth of knowledge of course material, amount of original contribution to the discussion (not just "I agree with you"), and ability to apply and/or integrate course knowledge. See the grading scale below for an idea of how the posts and responses will be graded.
10 = a "model" response that shows that the student
understands the course material and is able to "go
beyond" basic knowledge to apply the material and
concepts
5 = an "average response"- it answers the question,
but doesn't go beyond it
1= a response that doesn't make sense or shows no
comprehension of the material.
All numbers in between these anchor points will be
assigned, but this gives you an idea of what they
mean." [added 11/13/07]Online discussion: Students' self-analysis of contributions - If you have students engage in online discussion you might find this article interesting. [added 1/10/06]
HyperNews and Chat - Paul Skolnick promotes discussion and sharing outside of class asynchronously (not in real time) through HyperNews and synchronously (in real time) through virtual office hours in the online chat center
Posting thought questions - students required to post questions and replies related to course material using discussion software
Online Discussion Rubric
I often require my students to extend the course discussion outside the classroom on an electronic discussion board (e.g., Blackboard or WebBoard). Most of the time I just require that they participate in the online discussion without evaluating their individual entries. Typically, I will require that each student posts at least two thought questions during the term and reply to at least eight questions that I or other students have posted. But, on occasion, I have used a simple rubric to evaluate the quality of their postings. Here is an example:You can receive either 0, 1 or 2 points for an entry.0 = not adding to the discussion in any substantial manner; typically entries that simply agree with what someone else said or just restate what someone else said will fall into this category1 = entries that do contribute some original thinking to the discussion but a) are still somewhat superficial in thought or b) do not use the theoretical terminology of the course2 = entries that contribute substantially to the discussion and use the theoretical terminology of the courseIt is not easy to evaluate online discussion entries. If you have any other models of how to do so I would love to hear about them.
Improving the quality of student papers - using a discussion board
Doing research on the web - good set of exercises for students to complete to learn how to use the web as a research tool
Website evaluation assignment - variations on this assignment could be used to help students learn how to evaluate sources of informationEvaluating websites - excellent resource to teach studentsEvaluating websites - another excellent resource
Creating multimedia PowerPoint presentations - This is a recent Teaching of Psychology article entitled "Microsoft Producer: A software tool for creating multimedia PowerPoint presentations" describing how the tool can be used for creating multimedia presentations. [added 11/13/07]
PowerPoint Tips and Tutorials - some excellent tips on PowerPoint including how to insert multimedia into your PowerPoint presentations - start with the Tips; if what you need is not there then try the other tutorials
Online course evaluation: Hammer's Perpetual Online Evaluation (POE) - students usually provide feedback at the end of your course, and maybe you have asked them for feedback halfway through or so - but Elliott Hammer has created a nice online evaluation form that his students can fill out and submit anytime they feel like it [3/6/02]
Do online surveys - free, easy-to-use service created by Bruce Ravelli and colleagues - It allows you to create surveys in a variety of formats that can be administered online to do course evaluations or to ask other questions. The responses are tabulated for you online or you can download them into an Excel spreadsheet [3/6/02]
Interactive quizzes for review - created using Hot Potatoes program listed below
Online quizzing - detailed case study of Robert Holt's use of online quizzing through course management software (WebCT) in his social psychology course
CORAL: An online, collaborative social psychology course across distant sites - Tom Treadwell and his partner, Donna Ashcroft, have created an innovative model of a student-centered, collaborative course in which students at different institutions can participate in creating a research proposal and other course assignments through communication tools and other interesting resources. Worth a look. [added 12/27/06]
How to integrate technology into teaching - lots of good ideas, tutorials and resources from The University of Washington [added 11/14/03]
Effective uses of online course tools - excellent site listing a variety of strategies for incorporating discussion boards, online quizzing, chat rooms, group work areas, etc. into courses
Virtual resource site for teaching with technology - another excellent collection of ideas for incorporating technology into teaching organized by pedagogy or technology
Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology is a part of the CROW Project, Course Resources on the Web. CROW is sponsored by the Associated Colleges of Illinois and generously supported by UPS. This site was created by Jon Mueller, Professor of Psychology at North Central College, Naperville, IL. Send comments to Jon.