Any chance of a droid app in the future? some of use live in areas where ATT's service is absolutely HORRIBLE but Verizon is just dandy. That determines my phone more than anything.
Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected] ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 3:46 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] New Psychology iPhone App Michael, is the app formatted to take advantage of ipad size and video quality? Or is it just iphone app that then needs to be magnified on the ipad, usually with loss of detail? Gary GPeterson Gary's iPad On Oct 21, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Michael Britt <[email protected]> wrote: > Tipsters, > > Over the summer I mentioned I was working on an iphone/ipod/ipad app designed > to bring the latest news in psychology to these devices. I'm happy to say > that as of today the app is available in the iTunes app store. I hope you > all don't mind if I say a few words about the app - an app which is all about > psychology. > > The app is called PsycExplorer. It consists of 4 sections - News, Video, > Audio and Twitter. I break down all the news and video into the major > subfields of psychology: Bio & Neuroscience, Cognition, Developmental, > Disorders, Gender & Sexuality, Motivation & Emotion, Personality, Social & > Applied and Therapy. I also have a section on Critical Thinking which > includes items from research, statistics and the scientific method. > > I personally select all the news, videos and audio that appears in the app. I > draw from a large list of psychology blogs as well as traditional news > sources (NYT, CNN, etc) to find what I believe are the most interesting news > stories, research summaries, video and audio clips, etc., and then I place > the items in the appropriate subfield. The video clips (about 10 per > section, so over 40 clips) are some of the best video I can find on the web > (typically from Youtube) and include clips demonstrating Asch's conformity > study, Milgram's study, Zimbardo's prison study, the visual cliff studies, > etc. The videos are constantly being updated and users can email themselves > the links to any of the clips in order to build up their own video libraries. > > What is especially neat is that the app is built to allow me to update the > content at any time with new items, new videos, new audio, etc. In addition, > the Twitter section contains real-time tweets from a group of psychologists > who, over the years, I have found consistently tweet about interesting news > in our field with links to the original articles. > > I want to thank the large group of reviewers, many of them contributors to > TIPS, who provided feedback on the app during its development. I hope to be > able to offer the app on Android and Windows-based phones in the future, but > for now it operates on Apple devices only. I personally think it's a very > cool app and I hope you'll take a moment to check it out and that you find it > worthy of recommending to your colleagues and students. Here's the link to > the iTunes homepage for PsycExplorer: > > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/psycexplorer/id389372937?mt=8 > > Michael > > Michael Britt > [email protected] > http://www.ThePsychFiles.com > Twitter: mbritt > > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd94b&n=T&l=tips&o=5873 > or send a blank email to > leave-5873-13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0&n=T&l=tips&o=5878 or send a blank email to leave-5878-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@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=5900 or send a blank email to leave-5900-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
