This week’s #psychat is on writing in psych and will be hosted by @eecastro - 8 pm CST on Wednesday night. Join us.
We’ll start with introductions. Let us know what you teach and where you teach it (city if that’s sufficient; state if necessary).
Example
I teach AP Psych in San Francisco.I teach Sociology in Norfolk, NE.
Tonight’s #psychat (which, for those who may see this and not know, is a scheduled sharing session on Twitter between psychology instructors) will revolve around the general topic of “writing in Psychology classes”, and will start with the questions below. Please tweet your answer using the format: hashtag A(number of the question) Your Answer.
Example
#psychat Q68: Do you include ESP in Sensation & Perception Unit, or in the Consciousness Unit? Why? #psychat A68 I have always included ESP in the S&P Unit… because that’s where it was taught to me…
The reason for the format above is that it enables those who Follow you on Twitter but are not interested in the teaching of Psychology to either mute your tweets for an hour, or simply skip over them when reading their Twitter timeline. Further, it allows those who join us late to catch up, or those who read the archive to make sense of the stream of back-and-forths.
Further, know that most of us in the chat will be using the livestream search feature built into Twitter and most clients. If you want everyone in the chat to see your tweet, make sure it includes the #psychat hashtag.
Questions
Though the conversation will ebb and flow somewhat organically, as it does in our classrooms, below are some of the canned questions that we’ll kick around (generally in order, and generally asked of the group by me, as tonight’s moderator.)
- When do you teach writing?
- How do you teach writing?
- Do you use peer editing/ peer review of writing assignments?
- Do your students blog as part of their writing for psych?
- What is your first writing assignment?
- What percentage of your chapter/ unit/ topic-ending assessments include a significant “writing” component?
- How many writing assignments do you assign in a semester?
- Do you assign a “term paper” or research paper?
Conclusion
For the record, the collected tweets are at Storify.