[tips] Random Thought: Caring Lived

2009-11-08 Thread Louis Schmier
Well, the semester is coming to a close. November is just beginning and it's almost gone. The flow of my November is always disrupted by five high days at the Lilly conference on teaching at Miami University and the equally long Turkey Day break. Then, the students return in the daze

[tips] Eastern Psych Assn. 2010 Meeting

2009-11-08 Thread DIANE FINLEY
The link for EPA is http://www.easternpsychological.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1. The deadline is November 15. The purpose of this email is to invite you to submit a paper, poster, or symposium proposal for the March 4-7 2010 Eastern Psychological Association meeting at the New York

RE: [tips] NoNotes

2009-11-08 Thread Helweg-Larsen, Marie
It's just a transcription service. That's pretty old-fashioned really. It costs $9.57 an hour (pretty cheap - I'm guessing they contract with people in 3rd world countries). Note taking services have been around forever. Most big universities have professional local shops that hire students to

Re: [tips] Eastern Psych Assn. 2010 Meeting

2009-11-08 Thread Dr. Bob Wildblood
Diane, I have moved back to the east coast and have just renewed my membership (I know, very late), but when it asked for my affiliation, my new school (Germanna CC) isn't on the list, and although there are Virginia colleges on the list, I don't think there are any of the VCCS schools listed.

RE: [tips] NoNotes

2009-11-08 Thread Dr. Bob Wildblood
And then there are those who argue that there is an issue of intellectual property and copyright. If a student has notes given to them by a classmate, some say, then that is a favor to help a classmate. If someone sells notes taken in their class, some believe it is an infringement of

Re: [tips] NoNotes

2009-11-08 Thread Christopher D. Green
*From:* Don Allen [mailto:dal...@langara.bc.ca] *Sent:* Saturday, November 07, 2009 7:24 PM *To:* Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) *Subject:* [tips] NoNotes Being a student (with money) just got a whole lot easier: http://nonotes.com/index.htm The company says that their

RE: [tips] NoNotes

2009-11-08 Thread Helweg-Larsen, Marie
At UCLA the professor had to agree to having the notes sold. It doesn't seem that you could sell notes without the speaker's permission. With this website no notes are sold though - what is sold is transcription. Also, I don't know how you could have the notes transcribed if you were not in

Re: [tips] NoNotes

2009-11-08 Thread Jim Clark
Hi As someone who agrees that note-taking is helpful for learning and as someone who definitely abuses powerpoint (just like I use to abuse overheads!) in my teaching, I would raise one caution about Chris's (and Tufte's) criticisms. Namely, there is much evidence for the benefit of