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This is sort of cool and humbling….

Dave Brodbeck — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:10:14 +0000

I was nominated for a SSMart award run by the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre this year as ‘Innovative Educator of the Year’. Due to my podcasting of my lectures, popularizing science using the web etc etc. So that was cool… Apparently, I won. I could not make it to the awards, but I asked the university president, Dr. Celia Ross to accept on my behalf if I won.

I was following on twitter and on the liveblog of the event as you can see below.

Celia read this little speech for me, thanks Celia

“I wish I could be there, but I am off to Podcasters Across Borders 2010 in Ottawa to moderate a panel. I would like to thank Algoma University for being a great place to work, and for their encouragement for my teaching and research. Universities are great, you can try new things, and while I may be one of the first profs ever to podcast their lectures (man that sounds pretentious…) I am first and foremost a faculty member at Algoma, which I am very proud of.

Thanks to the Innovation Centre people for picking me of course and for this event. Cool stuff is happening in Sault Ste. Marie and dare I say, especially at Algoma University.

I would like to thank my colleagues in the psychology department (Cheryl Reed-Elder, Laurie Bloomfield, Paul Dupuis and Dwayne Keough), Marc Pelletier and Tom Merritt of TWiT.tv, my buddies Ken Hernden and Robin Isard who I do one of my podcasts with and all of the people that download my lectures on iTunes.

Finally, on a purely personal note, thanks to my wife Isabelle and our kids, Jon and Maddie for putting up with my obsession with technology and frankly for putting up with me. This year my brother won a Juno award for recording engineer of the year, and now I have an award too. So there Dan. Our Dad Rick and Mom Leslie inspired us both, so my final thanks are to my parents.”

Biology and Psychology 2606 (Spring 2010) - Thinking

Dave Brodbeck — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:42:41 +0000

We started philosophically, so we shall end that way as well…. This is the last lecturecast of the term. This fall I will be teaching Learning, Evolutionary psychology and brain and behaviour, so tune in for those.
If you have some odd need to hear my voice… why not check out Broca\’s Area, Tangential Convergence or thunderbird six, and if you are a kid, or just child like (or childish…) check out Why?

Have a great summer.

Music ”Hundred Times Over” by Private Joker

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Psychology 1106 (Spring 2010) - Consciousness

Dave Brodbeck — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:19:22 +0000

Sleep, dreams, drugs, stuff like that.

Music “Delusional” by Battery Life

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Biology and Psychology 2606 (Spring 2010) - Vision

Dave Brodbeck — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:26:23 +0000

Vision is cool, and after a while, not that hard to understand actually.
Music “Elvis Lives” by Skinner

Here is the schematic sort of diagram I did of V1

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Psychology 1106 (Spring 2010) - Memory

Dave Brodbeck — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:48:04 +0000

Encoding, Storage, Retrieval… that pretty much sums it up.

Music “Hello” by Dan Brodbeck and Corey Thompson

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Psychology 1106 (Spring 2010) - Learning

Dave Brodbeck — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:04:22 +0000

For some reason, I did learning today and not consciousness…. Anyway, we will do Memory on Monday and finish with consciousness then. Sorry about that.

Today is the second anniversary of the death or my Dad, Rick Brodbeck. I dedicate this to him.
Music “Today” by Dan Brodbeck and Corey Thompson

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Psychology 1106 (Spring 2010) - Test 1 and 2 Marks Posted

Dave Brodbeck — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:45:31 +0000

The marks are now posted for both tests here. As you can see the average has increased to about 24/35 or about 68.5, nice progress!

Biology and Psychology 2606 (Spring 2010) - Development

Dave Brodbeck — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:00:49 +0000

My recorder died on this one, so this is a repost of my 2008 class on development, it is pretty much the same, though, but the slides were a little different. Anyway, sorry about that, and here you go:

Brains change, behaviour changes, and we call this mystery, development, man was that lame…

Music “You Don’t Need an iPod” by Uncle Seth

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