When I checked out Prezi, it was love at first glance. But after a brief trial,
I decided it wasn't for me. These are the problems I saw
1. You don't quite own your presentation files. You have to rely on either
always logging into the Prezi website and/or paying the on-going license fee. I
The fact that a video is posted on Youtube tells you nothing about its
copyright status. Some Youtube videos are public domain, other times the
copyright belongs to the person who posted the video, and others are illegal
copies of copyrighted material. In theory Youtube deletes copyright
For me the best strategy is to forget about counting papers and instead pay
attention to the clock. I'll sit down and grade papers for a predetermined
amount of time (around an hour is a good amount). Then, as long as I'm locked
into grading for that time period, I am highly motivated to get as
For the record, I now believe the people who say it changes for them, because
it did for me!
Yesterday all the pics looked definitely blue/black to me. Then today a little
picture of the dress popped up in a news feed that was white/gold. I clicked on
the link to see what was going on, but in
For a research methods class, I'm in search of some examples where results
report a Pearson's r with a confidence interval (with or without a
p-value/NHST). Finding such examples has been surprisingly difficult (searches
hit articles about confidence intervals, not those that happen to report
For those of you who teach lower-division introduction to research methods (or
have an opinion on what we SHOULD be teaching at that level):
In teaching students how to interpret statistical results, such as a t-test, do
you think it's important to have them find the critical value on a table
Does anyone have any favorite journal articles that would be easy and readable
for intro-psych level students? The specific topics don't matter, but should
have some surface appeal for students. I just want to put together a list where
each student picks one article to work with and integrate
