One of my students, Frankie, has been on me for weeks to check out as series of videos on YouTube. I finally did and wanted to share them with you. They call themselves "ASAP Science." This is the link to their channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AsapSCIENCE. They are similar to the RSA Animates videos, only dealing with various science topics, including many in psychology. There are so many ways to use them, whether it be as attention grabbers, resources for topics we have no time for, or as research ideas. Great stuff either way.
They have many videos covering many topics we teach--here are a few:
One of my long favorite sources for videos has been Learner.org, a site by the Annenberg Foundation that allows registered users to stream a variety of videos from a diverse set of topics. I posted this blog back in 2009 to highlight some previous episodes available--I am reposting below.
Annenberg Media has a new offering for psychology teachers in 2012--a video course in the history of and how to better understand neuroscience called, "Neuroscience and the Classroom: Making Connections." While I obviously love the "making connections" pun, I am looking forward to updating my knowledge of the brain and behavioral neuroscience. Based solely on the descriptions, they appear to be very interesting. The few I've watched are relatively dry, but extremely good for those of us learning or reviewing some basic content. They seem to be much shorter and helpful for teachers--only some are for high school students--preview and see if you can use them. The videos also contain closed captioning.
For some time now, I have been receiving regular emails from a web site called "Big Think." While the site contains content ranging from economics, technology, style, culture, history, and more, it also contains neuroscience, psychology, and identity.
Like TED, the site contains videos from experts, but they are more individual and up-close. These videos typically occur within longer blogs related to a variety of topics, the best of which relate to psychology and neuroscience. I will link to some favorites below. Because the videos are short, they can be wonderful additions to what we do in the class, to have another person (read: expert) explain an idea that we'd like to get across to our students. Additionally, the content creates a wonderful little professional development opportunity for we teachers.
For many years, the mainstay of videos in psychology classes were The Brain and The Mind Series as well as the Discovering Psychology with Phil Zimbardo. Anyone teaching psychology through these times is very familiar with Phineas Gage's accident, Vicki the split brain patient, the Stanford quarterback wearing displacement goggles, and much more. When I first started teaching the standard advice given to me, which I have repeated countless times to other new teachers, was you have to get these series for your classes.
All of these series, plus much more, are now available over the internet at www.learner.org . Below I've provided the web addresses for each of the specific series where you can stream any of the episodes into your class.
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