Social psychology (psychology)/Lectures/Relationships/Instructor notes

What was done in 2008

 * Removed animations
 * Replaced many proprietary images (there are still several to be worked on) and added many free culture images
 * Rationalised some slides (e.g., several are now hidden)
 * Kept the Social Exclusion video in
 * Adjusted master slides to aid visual clarity
 * Didn't read chapter – near 0 pre-knowledge – this was poor

Comments

 * Timing was better than 2007; approximately 30 in attendence
 * Tended to read “down into the slides” a bit too much; rather than look at audience
 * Skipped some slides back and forth; some re-ordering helpful; several slides skipped
 * Somewhat mellowish/tiredish/stayed low key; 6.5/10
 * The audio contains several additional comments
 * Beauty activities worked well – add some more
 * Add heat map of beauty marketing (available on web)
 * Breaking before social exclusion
 * Showing the social exclusion video at the start of Pt2
 * It could be good to add a briefer summary slide of the consequences of social exclusion and to find /show relevant references (and effect sizes)
 * Add slide/reference to Gottman's studies - “thin slices” (did provide a useful summary)
 * Lienke's Law mentioned
 * Showed 4 relationship adds at the end; worked; maybe 3 enough though (e.g. leave out plane add)

What's to be done

 * Not all 2007 comments were addressed
 * Not all animations were removed – grrrr (mostly the remaining ones are towards the end).
 * If possible, reduce some image file sizes – the handout is almost 3MB

Summary

 * This was "OK" e.g., 7/10 - no more.
 * Intrinsically interesting topic
 * I was a bit mellow/flat, but OK.

Slides

 * Several slides were skipped - see video
 * Took too long on initial material, so Social Exclusion was skipped
 * Also, video on social exclusion wasn't shown bec. no audio from laptop - need additional cord.
 * Basic structure of material is pretty good.
 * Add slide back in about Harlow's Monkeys.
 * Some proprietary images from the textbook used; replace these.
 * What is love? Some more romantic, widespread, definitions?
 * More activities (e.g., attractiveness) - these invariably worked nicely - build more of these.
 * Not all animations removed
 * Summary to be developed / relate to assessment items

Assessment

 * Add some assessment items around slides only presented in the lecture (i.e., around attractiveness)
 * Need to generate assessment items for additional lecture content e.g., Hatfield's model

2005
(note that the trailer needed to be downloaded and buffered before the lecture started)
 * 6 topics - 3 in each lecture half - overall, good scope and efficient - aiming to give 15-20 minute insight into each
 * Time was about right; finished a few minutes early and had time to indulge a bit with each section
 * At lecture break time, I showed the trailer for "An Inconvenient Truth" - could replace with trailer for Blue Eyes / Brown Eyes and Rwanda 3rd year videos.
 * Use document projector to show / pupil / faces from Manwatching and the Manwatching cover