Proudly announcing PsychClips.co.uk

Following the success of our file sharing site for psychology teachers (PsychExchange.co.uk if you didn’t already know) we now release to the masses a video clip sharing site. PsychClips is a great new web site for psychology teachers to share video and audio clips that are hosted on youtube-type sites.
There are already almost 100 [...]

Keeping Current: The British Crime Survey

Within Crime-Victim interaction we look at the ‘fear of crime’ and many students learn about the British Crime Survey as part of this. More-and-more so students are using out-dated versions of the BCS (like pre-2000 which seems to be in many text books) which are methodologically flawed in their delivery. Following [...]

Visible Body: brain and body tools

Another productive lost evening stumbling the web allowed me one gem of a site that I’ve spent the afternoon playing with. I still can’t work out if it’s absolutely amazing or not really that useful to us psychology teachers but I thought it worth a post anyway. The site is called Visible Body [...]

Missed Griffiths and Reicher & Haslam? Podcasts Avaliable!

Well after a brief hiatus preparing for an Ofsted inspection (which has thankfully passed) it’s back to normal posting … well as normal as possible with only 7 teaching weeks until AS exams and 9 until A2! After returning from a ‘Getting Started’ conference I found an email from OCR letting me know about [...]

The Wonder of Psychology: Inspiring Teachers and Learners

It was only recently that I first mentioned the upcoming ATP 2008 conference; but now we have conformation of the speakers and more.
The 26th Annual Conference of the Association for the Teaching of Psychology.
University of Lincoln: Thursday 10th July to Saturday 12th July, 2008
The conference is for teachers of psychology and will offer updating sessions [...]

From the makers of PsychBLOG: AQA Blogging

… a new site (again)! As this blog is specifically devoted to OCR Psychology there’s loads of research and stuff that I can’t really write about because it’s not realted to what we do - and I felt that you AQA people might feel a little left out - so we now have our very [...]

Move into the Ven (Evaluation Exercise)

As we have launched our new site recently (and if you haven’t already been over there - go - well after reading this) I am going to write about some great ideas that psychology teachers could change and adapt to their class room and teaching style. So, to start off is an exercise that [...]

Resources galore from BPS Research Digest

Along with the ever excellent resource which is PsychBLOG the BPS has collated some articles of interest … and we’re in there too with a link to my interview with Mark Griffiths.
Following the approval of the new 2008 specifications the always excellent BPS Research Digest Blog written by Christian Jarrett has published an excellent post [...]