Dell Rhode's Participant Page

Participant: Dell Rhodes

     I've previously put my syllabi and assignments, etc. in a folder on the courses server, and I have asked students to: (1) run demonstrations on the internet, (2) do certain kinds of information-finding on the net, (3) use PsychInfo and EndNote to generate reference lists and bibliographies. But none of this has been centralized in a class web page.

     In the fall, I'll be teaching our Junior Seminar course. The course is not yet well put together, as I'm changing the topic from the last time I taught it (fall, 2000). I'm enclosing the syllabus from the previous course for your information. The topic for this fall will be face, person, and self-perception. There are a fair number of web sites that provide perceptual demonstrations, so it will make sense for me to provide access to them through a class web page.

     I've never put together a PowerPoint presentation, and I'm looking forward to learning about PP. However, I suspect my primary use will be as much to provide student access to some of the Figures I present in class rather than to generate "polished" PP-based lectures (which means I'm particularly interested in finding out how to either "scan in" Figures from research papers, or to download things from the Web into PP -- and what the copyright limitations are on this kind of approach). I'm afraid I'm a bit of an "old-style" performer in class (and even in professional presentations), and I find many PP presentations to depend too much on the computer, not enough on the human wetware. Who knows, maybe I'm not too old a dog to change.