...better yet, just show the Zimbardo videos and go drink coffee. Why waste
your time showing up for class to read someone else's notes when the kiddoes
can watch TeeVee? Hey, to make this palatable to your pointy-haired dean
(you do have Dilbert as a colleague, don't you? Oh, you ARE Dilbert??!!?), you
could call it distance learning--after all, Zimbardo is way out there in
California and you could be way over yonder in the faculty lounge.
Then get your pay check direct deposited to your banking account and maybe
you wouldn't even have to come to campus!
Pat Cabe
> >
> >I loved this. Shoot, maybe instead of writing my own lectures, I'll just
> >buy some notes myself.
> >
> >
> >
> >At 08:07 PM 9/9/99 -0700, Gary Peterson wrote:
> >> I was thinking, I could get Zimbardo's notes for General--just assign
> >>the students to use his notes and I would come to class for
> >>discussion/demos, and assessment. Of course, some profs would still have to
> >>lecture so that students could get their notes, but since people don't think
> >>much of lectures now-a-days, why not just have electronic books, or students
> >>take notes from the book and post them on the web? Now, are there ethical
> >>and copyright issues to consider? Intellectual property rights? If my
> >>students use notes from someone at UCLA and exercises from someone at Boston
> >>can they put on their resume that they had coursework from these
> >>institutions? Class evaluations would be interesting. If we could each
> >>prepare a video lecture and transmit this to other classrooms of the future,
> >>I would pick out some tipsters to make presentations on various areas,
> >>transmit their notes to the students, and I'd be happy to do likewise for
> >>others. Isn't this possible now via web instruction? Students could just
> >>go to the contributor's respective web sites to take an exam or solve
> >>problems, etc. As these are completed, appropriate documentation obtained,
> >>then I pass or otherwise give a grade for the course. Students can fashion
> >>their own course work from notes and on-line programs. I could check to see
> >>if I thought notes from Zimbardo's class were worthwhile. Now, when the Net
> >>goes down there might be a problem, but each student would be working at a
> >>different pace and the course would not have to conform to quarters or
> >>semesters...a kind of Keller method? Interesting possibilities to consider.
> >>Gary
> >>
> >>Gerald (Gary) L. Peterson, Ph.D.
> >>Professor, Department of Psychology
> >>Saginaw Valley State University
> >>University Center, MI 48710
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>1-517-790-4491
> >>
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Rick Froman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 2:04 PM
> >>Subject: Re: StudentU.com
> >>
> >>
> >>Nina Tarner writes on 9 Sep 99,:
> >>
> >>> Faculty can also protect themselves from having their notes posted on the
> >>web
> >>> by copyrighting the notes.
> >>
> >>Or, you could just do what I and others do and post your notes to the web.
> >>I
> >>actually post my powerpoint presentations to the web for all to see. Having
> >>the notes should not be equivalent to the experience of being in class and
> >>taking your own notes. If it is, let's just sell the notes with the
> >>textbook and
> >>all get together for the final exam.
> >>
> >>Rick
> >>
> >>
> >>Dr. Rick Froman
> >>Psychology Department
> >>Box 3055
> >>John Brown University
> >>Siloam Springs, AR 72761
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>http://www.jbu.edu/sbs/psych
> >>Office: (501)524-7295
> >>Fax: (501)524-9548
> >>"I can't promise to try but I'll try to try." --Bart Simpson
> >>
>
>
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Patrick Cabe, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
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