I may be a late adapter on this, but I just started using Microsoft’s Office Mix for PowerPoint, at the suggestion of daughter Karen Freberg. I’ve used Panopto over the years, but feel somewhat guilty about holding onto one of our very expensive campus licenses when I don’t use it more. Read more…
After a fun and restful holiday season with family, it’s back to work bright and early (8 a.m. class) tomorrow morning! Not only is it a new year, but I’m also going to be using my two new textbooks for my classes (Discovering Psychology: The Science of Mind with John Read more…
As my career winds down, and my daughters’ university teaching careers get started, I’ve asked myself how university education might look when they reach my age. I’m pretty sure it will look much different. I doubt the current “bricks and mortar” model will survive, except for the very wealthy students. Read more…
My dissertation advisor was fond of repeating a quote attributed to Albert Einstein–“If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” One might assume that physics is harder to explain than psychology, but that is not always the case. In spite of over 30 years in Read more…
One of the main reasons I bought an iPad (okay, in addition to the coolness factor) was that I strongly believe this will be the textbook platform of the future. I am hopeful that we can move in the direction of providing easily updated, heavily linked content that will allow Read more…