We were invited to present two sessions at The Association for the Teaching of Psychology in Scotland 10th Anniversary Conference on the 5th February 2011.
The first session included a full and interactive exploration about how to use www.psychexchange.co.uk
The second session discussed the many other uses of web 2.0 to aid teaching and learning.
We had a great time in Edinburgh and Stirling.
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The Association for the Teaching of Psychology Annual Conference is to be held at the University of Hertfordshire, 8th to 10th July, 2011.
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English Exchange has now been added to our portfolio of exchange sites.
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Our latest addition to the exchange network sites is HSCshare.co.uk A number of health and social care teachers contacted us about the need to share resources and hopefully this new web site will be as popular and usefull as our other sharing sites.
We can now have sharing sites up and running very quickly so if you do have any suggestions for further exchange sites do drop us an email.
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We have updated www.sociologyexchange.co.uk
The site now has lots of extra features such as double tagging, bookmarking and a new drop down menu. Importantly the site now allows members to create profiles, write blogs, create links to their own work and much more.
Currently SociologyExchange has over 3,000 users sharing over 400 resources.
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We started psychnews.co.uk a couple of years ago and then got a bit sidetracked with PsychExchange which we thought would make PsychNews a little bit silent.
Now we have learned that psychology teachers enjoyed having a regular digest of easily searchable psychology news and therefore have redesigned the site and more importantly recruited experienced psychology teachers to contribute to PsychNews.
If you would like to contribute to www.psychnews.co.uk please do get in touch with us.
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Save the rennets was one of our first ventures into web 2.0 development as it originally included the ability for users to both upload their own pictures of rennets and rate other users’ rennets.
Unfortunately the popularity of this site meant that we did have to delete this function as the moderation of rennet pictures became too time consuming and embarrassing/distasteful even for us.
We are so chuffed that savetherennets.com though has gone on to be a major website for courses in the USA (and just a few in the UK) that evaluate websites. As well as appearing in numerous American and Canadian online courses it is also in print in US textbooks and we even got a mention here in the UK in the Guardian and The Big Issue.
What’s next? We need to do a new one as www.savetherennets is now over five years old.
Seagull Bating – Oh no we have done this one.
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The 2011 ATP annual conference will be held on 8th -10th July 2011 at the University of Hertfordshire and one of the key note speakers will be Elizabeth Loftus. Website details to follow.
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During the 4th July 2010 psychexchange.co.uk reached one million downloads. Which means that half a million resources were downloaded in just the past 5 months. Not suprising though as there are currently over well over 4 thousand resources to download from psychexchange.co.uk
Thank you most of all to all of the users of Psychexchange.co.uk who have uploaded resources, ideas and comments.
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We have recently redesigned and now host the Folens Psychology Companion blog.
The Complete Companions are written by leading Psychology authors Mike Cardwell, Cara Flanagan, Michael Griffin and Rosalind Geillis, The Complete Companions have been completely re-designed to meet the needs of the AQA ‘A’ and WJEC specifications.
The Online Companion features a lively blog and provides lots of helpful resources. Contributors to the blog include, Mike Cardwell, Cara Flanagan, Adrian Frost, Evie Bentley, Jean-Marc Lawton and Mike Griffin.
We are currently upgrading our exchange sites so that they are all as feature rich as PsychExchange.
The portal for all of our exchange sites can be found on The Exchange Network site.
Our list of exchange sites include: PsychExchange.co.uk, PEShare.co.uk, Law-Exchange.co.uk, SociologyExchange.co.uk, ScienceShare.co.uk, MediaFilmExchange.co.uk.
The details of the ATP Conference 2010 are now online. The 28th Annual Conference is to be held at Keele University, Staffordshire, Friday 2nd July to Sunday 4th July, 2010.
The conference is for teachers of psychology and will offer updating sessions on psychology, presentations and workshops on teaching and learning, and opportunities to share good practice. It is the number one CPD event for teachers of psychology in the UK
The ATP Conference website is of course developed and managed by Slapes.com
On the 5th of February 2010 PsychExchange reached a milestone in that we reached 500,000 downloads.
We have created PsychExchange PLUS as a way of paying for some of the server costs that this amazing web site runs up. For £15 a year PsychExchange PLUS members gain a number of extra features.
Some of these extra features include: the option to preview most of the resources on the site prior to downloading them, ability to send private messages to all users, an INSET directory, a personalisable my.PsychExchange landing page, online chat, a private forum and also the ability to tag your own resources.
The money generated will help with the costs of around £200-per-month to keep the site running.
Here’s to the next half a million – downloads that is.
If you are a teacher of psychology you can now join The Association for the Teaching of Psychology online via the the ATP web site manged and hosted by Slapes.com
“As a member of the ATP you will be able to enjoy all the benefits of the site which include access to an archive of The ATP magazine online, a full copy of the magazine posted directly to you every 3 months and you will be eligible to attend the annual ATP Conference. Also, as a member you will have access to the forum on the site and be able to comment on all of the articles”
Check it out – www.theatp.org
Slapes.com manages and hosts Cara Flanagan and Mike Cardwell’s very successful South West Conferences company web site which specialises in Psychology A level student conferences and teacher INSET.
They are still taking bookings for their Science and Pseudoscience conferences starring Phil Banyard, Richard Wiseman, and Andrew Newton.
To find out dates for Zimbardo’s return do check out the SouthWestConferences web site.
ScienceShare.co.uk is a new addition to our exchange sites. Sarah requested this site and, at the time of writing this blog, Sarah has already uploaded 129 of her own resources.
We do hope other scientists will be willing to share their resources with Sarah and other science teachers.
We are hosting Rob Makey’s film and media blog – www.RobMakey.com. If you are are a film or media student you will love his thoughts and reports.
If you are a teacher of film or media you should also check out www.mediafilmexchange.co.uk which is a resource sharing site we have developed that will make sharing that bit easier.
We are pleased to have been given the opportunity of working with The Association for Teachers of Psychology in developing their new website.
There is still along way to go but do feel free to have a look around.
This site is of course hosted, developed and designed by Slapes.com
The association for teachers of psychology (ATP) conference website 2009 has been updated. There is now a full list of keynotes and a selection of workshops to view.
Directions to the University of Exeter are also included as is a facebook group for ATP members.
TeachActive.co.uk is a collaboration we chose to do. Kim Higgins has written a fabulous resource for teachers who want to learn and share ideas about active teaching.
It is wonderful that Kim is willing to share her experiences, ideas and suggestion about how to encourage active learning and we are pleased to have worked with her designing and hosting this site.
Kim (with Mark Holah) is delivering a course on active teaching strategies for Keynote Educational on the 17th June 2009 in London.
