Comments for AP Psychology

Comment on Blog Feedback by Gail Chen

Gail Chen — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:59:37 +0000

I think AP Psychology Class Blog helped me a lot because of the resources like slide shows, assignment sheet, and extended articles. I personally prefer electric document than paper hand outs, because I can’t always carry my hand outs around, but I can get the resources from the blog wherever that I have an access to internet.
Maintaining personal blog didn’t really help me with tests prep, but I think it was helpful in the sense that I learned more about psychology and get to read the information apart from the ones in the book, and compare information.
Though I think a class blog does not help AP Psychology in particular, but a blog is a good thing to have because it makes us think deeper and allows us to jog down these thoughts.

Comment on Mock Exam Handy Hints by Robert Zhang

Robert Zhang — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:39:00 +0000

I’ve never even see half these words before haha

Comment on Blog Feedback by Rob Johns

Rob Johns — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:14:14 +0000

I find the AP Psychology Class Blog to be somewhat useful. I am sure that once I start my exam review it will be cool to have all the powerpoints up there in order for me to find and use. However before now I haven’t really used it that often because i haven’t had much of a need for the stuff that is up there since we get most of it in class
To a large extent maintaining a personal blog has been good for me in this class. I usually absorb things pretty easily but often don’t have to write them down. By forcing me to think about what i want to say in a way that works on paper has helped me to organize my thought. Being forced to write often is a good way to develop better writing skills because often we are not encouraged to write more than one sentence answers to our daily school things.

To further enchance the use of blogs for teaching and learning I would suggest having having more motivated students. The thing about blogs is that you put in as much effort as you want to get back from it. So making a higher level of interest (like discussing the things we cover in class in group discussion rather than just reading out sections……………………) will enevitably lead to more benefit from the blogs. By making people care, they will have more to write.

Comment on Blog Feedback by Susie Lee

Susie Lee — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:02:17 +0000

1. AP Psychology Class blog was helpful to a very large extent because it helped us keep track of assignments for the unit as well as the outline of the actual class. It enabled us to have access to all study materials such as the power points and handy hints for the test. The blog helped us to be organized throughout the course.

2. Individual blogs were helpful to some extent because it allowed me to recap and to reveal what I learned from the chapter. Especailly, refelcting on articles let me to apply the theories and terms we learned in the text to real world situations. Writing about how I feel about certain subjects with evidence from the text book and what we learned, helped me to reorganize the main idea of the unit.

3. I think the class blog should definitely continue. It helps us to be on track and to organize. The individual blog could be improved by having more blogs on articles or other recent studies because reflecting on articles widens the knowledge of the concept and helps us view different aspects of it. Also, when people comment on other people’s blog, more origniallity of ideas should be revealed not just rephrasing what’s already written in the post. Class blogs and individual blogs should all continue; it’s a great reasource!

Comment on Blog Feedback by Timothy Sun

Timothy Sun — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:01:06 +0000

To some extent, the class blog has helped me prepare for certain activities in class such as having the Blog Log readily avilable online. I think that the blog post for each unit is particularly helpful in listing the homework and the “Handy Hints”.

To little extent has the personal blog been actually helpful. I wouldn’t say that it hindered my learning in AP Psych, but it hasn’t really helped me. Generally, I found that I was reluctant in doing so and would much rather do actual studying.

Overall, I reject the overzealous embrace of technology in classes and find that it’s generally used in the wrong way: i.e. homework is done online instead of being handwritten as practice for the AP exam.

Comment on Blog Feedback by Robert Zhang

Robert Zhang — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:58:12 +0000

To a small extent did I find the blogs helpful in managing the course. To a small extent did I find the blogs helpful in providing resources and explaining certain concepts and activities. The blogs do provide information that is useful and helpful to learn that is beyond the boundaries of the topic.

To some extent, maintaining a personal blog helped reinforce what I had learned in class. It did not really help me learn anything new, but summarizing the things that were taught in class through blogs helped me retain a lot of information.

Personally, I don’t think that blogs are all that productive in helping one to learn. As I said previously, I feel that it helps retain information when blog posts and collaboration are about the topics covered in the class. I think blog posts should be kept because they help raise grades and are not extremely time consuming. It is also a good way to communicate with other classmates and see what they have to say. When I think back to my blogs, I don’t have a strong impression of how the blog has helped me score higher on tests; although it did help me understand the topic more in the sense of how certain concepts are related to the real world.

Comment on Blog Feedback by Gina Ryu

Gina Ryu — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:52:13 +0000

1. AP psychology class blog was very helpful for keeping track of what we are learning. But I don’t think the personal blogs would have been useful to everybody. Although it is fun to read other articles on psychology, it doesn’t help us prepare for the ap exam.

2. the personal blogs were helpful to some extent. Blogging is fun and interesting, and makes me more interested in psychology. But personal blogs didn’t help to prepare for the ap exam. the class blog with review points and powerpoints, however, helped a lot for classwork and preparing for the exam.

3. I think it is good to keep personal blogs, but would be better if they were used to a less extent. The ap psych class blog should be kept.

Comment on Blog Feedback by Joowon Lee

Joowon Lee — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:50:06 +0000

1. To a large extent, I found the class blog helpful. I was able to obtain resources that were provided for the unit and the powerpoints were especially helpful. I was able to keep track of myself and check what I had to do for each unit.
2. To some extent,I found the personal blogs helpful. I would have found them helpful to a large extent if it was not the random psychology articles we had to find that were not related to the current unit. Besides that, I found our posts extremely helpful because I was able to become familiar with the topic as I wrote about it.
3. I think the blogs should definately be maintained next year. One suggestion would be that it could focus more on the unit at hand.

Comment on Blog Feedback by Vikram Kulkarni

Vikram Kulkarni — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:48:57 +0000

1. The Psychology Class Blog is possibly my most valuable resource for AP psychology. It provides a succinct list of the things we need to accomplish in the chapter and the assignments due. It provides a wealth of links and resources for studying. The fact that you took time out to put up “handy hints” to help us review was also extremely helpful.
2. To a large extent blogging helped me learn more effectively in AP Psych. The mix of required blog tasks allowed for a good balance. We were able to research and post on topics of our interests, discuss these posts with our friends. At the same time we had specific blog posts that were meant to reinforce what we learned in class. Knowledge is nothing without application and our blogs provided an effective outlet.
3. In all other classes we have a moodle site which is discussion based. Our individual blogs are an effective learning tool that are not utilized by these other classes, but the moodle sites also have some value as well. I think if we could integrate the two by having both blogs and some sort of seperate discussion forum we could get the best of both worlds. Mr. Anthony says that socratic seminars are one of our greatest strenghts as a class, so why should this good discussion be restricted to the classroom when we could have valuable and continual discussions online.

Comment on Blog Feedback by Daniel Chien

Daniel Chien — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:41:08 +0000

To a medium extent, the blog helped to provide me with resources and explaining activities. It does not provide us with more resources, but the activities are explained. The reason it only helps us to a medium extent is because it does not help us earn the A on tests that we all desire.

To a large extent, keeping a blog helps maintain my interest in psychology, but it does not necessarily help us get the A that we all so much desire. To get the A, we would need to post about the terminologies in the chapter that we read or the summary of each sub-chapter in the textbook. This will help us all reach our goal for that A, but at the same time that would be detrimental to most of us students because we would regard it as more ‘work’. The blog posts, on the other hand, are less of ‘work’ than our own will to explore psychology. We choose what to post, with the exception of some class posts, but even so we are given the freedom to write about anything we want on that specific topic. This makes it interesting for students because then they are able to write their own perspective on that topic, not necessarily the correct perspective. And by reading other’s blogs, we learn more about psychology in general.

I think the blog work right now is just right. It is not too heavy, and it is interesting to explore psychology on your own time. Overall, I think the blog is a good idea.