PsychBLOG.co.uk

One thing that I thought would be a great addition to the site is the ability for all you readers to get together and discuss what’s going on and add your own thoughts to the conversation.
www.psychblog.co.uk/discuss
This community forum is linked in with the blog so if you’ve registered on this site then you can [...]

An exciting announcement: PsychBLOG has a new site. Just opened is blogcast.psychblog – here I will be publishing interviews with notable psychologists that are relevant to the OCR specifications. The first interview is in relation to a study which is in the new specification: Griffiths 1994.
Adding to the ever growing empire blogcast.psychblog is [...]

“What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.”
This is going to be the first in a series of posts concerning becoming a psychologist and [...]

… I’m becoming a [insert expletive] mirror (I can’t take credit for the quote – thanks Mike)

Complete PDP
Write 10,000 words of reflection on assessment and planning
Write 2,000 word seminar paper
Deliver said paper
Spend 4 days at Huddersfield University

Mark 360 exam papers (well almost)

It’s been a long hard few weeks with little (no) blogging [...]

Yes indeed, it’s been oh so quiet around PsychBLOG over the past few weeks with only a few posts (and I even forgot to publish PSYlent last week too). I am still around just bogged down with examining (only 320 scripts to go) and having to write almost 10,000 words of assignments (although [...]

I have wanted for a while now to make a list of well known people who have an A level in psychology. The addition to the AQA specification of the ‘psychology of celebrity’ and the start of Big Brother has rekindled my interest in this question. If anybody could help me I would [...]

I know this isn’t related to psychology at all, but this tool has provided invaluable to me these last few weeks and I thought that I would pass it on. At the moment we are collecting in all the students coursework to get it sent off; some of the students have email us their [...]

Well, it was exactly a month ago when I made the first, tentative post here: The difficult first post… Well, it wasn’t really, this month has been fantastic. I have heard from lots of people from around the world who have sent me resources, links, or just comments about the site. Thank [...]

Recently I remember (well I had to search for it actually, even though I only wrote it three weeks ago) writing:
Blogs aren’t just something that you have to write to make use of them as a teacher; there are hundreds if not thousands of psychology related blogs out there, some useful, some not-so-useful, and reading [...]

So, we have reached the final part in this ‘e-learning resources’ series. Here we will be looking at VLE’s, with my concluding comments and a further reading section with plenty of links to keep you going for a while.
Part 1) The introduction and a look at wiki’s.
Part 2) Forums and Blogs as teaching tools.
Part [...]