I'm not so troubled by the use of rental books. I kept mine...and almost never looked at them after I was done with them...and recently cleared them all out after moving them a dozen times.
I think rental books are fine, or purchased books are fine, as long as they are read! Even though I do lots of little things to motivate reading, I know there are too many students who still don't read. Does anyone have things they do that are new and inventive? I use reading quizzes; I test over material students read but I have not time to discuss in class; I repeatedly emphasize in class how important it is to do the readings and reinforce that as often as possible with examples of things that transpire in class. I try to add in "interesting" readings with the hope that the textbook nonreaders will read the more interesting stuff (example: I have a facebook page where I post interesting news in psych). Any novel ideas? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 7:02 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Textbook rentals? I want to thank all of you who responded to my post on textbook rentals. As someone who loves printed books and who kept most of his college textbooks from the 1970s until very recently (had to make room), it pains me to see the newer trend in students' more detached relationship to their textbooks. Miguel PS I kept my copy of little "Garrett" (Elementary Stats) and Cambell and Stanley's. ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0&n=T&l=tips&o=3751 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-3751-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-3751-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=3761 or send a blank email to leave-3761-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
