Marc- It has been a couple of years since I used Sniffy. But the results were primarily positive- it worked well for the students and I had no problems using it on a smart-board in classes for in class demos.
The student's had primarily positive experiences. There were some complications reported (like, "I can't get him bar press trained!") but I found them to be quite consistent with failures of the students to understand the concepts rather than "stupid rat" syndrome which was present in some early versions. Of course, any luck you have will be interactive with your student's level of computer experience (so you may want to provide at least one or two "help sessions" early in the exercises for the computer anxious, etc), with your operating systems (I can't vouch for VISTA or MAC attempts but XP and Windows 2000 worked well), and with your campus network set-ups and security settings etc. (If you haven't done so already benchmarking and testing the program in your lab and on a variety of computer set-ups, speeds, memory configurations, etc. will always help as with any software in class- depending on your time and expertise of course). Tim _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Psychology Albertson College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems "it is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too." - Taylor Mali -----Original Message----- From: Marc Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 8/14/2007 12:24 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Sniffy! Hi, All -- This semester in my Learning class I've decided to use Sniffy, the Virtual Rat in lieu of having each student have a rat. I'll still have a real rat for group things (and so that they can see that yes, this "learning" stuff really happens), but I wanted to use Sniffy as the principal source of exercises and data for lab reports. I'm curious if any of you has used Sniffy, and if so, whether you'd be willing to share something about how you've used him (it). Thanks! m ------ "There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." -- Margaret Wheatley --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
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