A Simple Demonstration

Of an Academic Publisher's

Companion Web Site

Compiled by Andy Jones

SITT, 2000

1) Go to the Cornell University Bookstore list of academic publishers at http://www.cbs.cornell.edu/camstore/store_services.html

2) Choose the first listed publisher's (Allyn and Bacon) "Main Link" at http://vig.abacon.com/

3) Scroll down to "Technology Solutions," the home page for all of Allyn and Bacon's web-available, interactive, and distributed learning topics at http://www.abacon.com/techsolutions/

4) Choose the first button to visit the website gallery, at http://vig.abacon.com/gallery

5) Scroll down to the "Browse by Discipline" link at http://vig.abacon.com/gallery/dischome/1,3029,,00.html

6) Choose "Psychology" at http://vig.abacon.com/gallery/1,2990,SP:author,00.html

7) Choose the companion website of the first listed book, Robert A. Baron's Essentials of Psychology at http://www.abacon.com/baron/

8) Click the "Essentials Website" (on the right) at http://www.abacon.com/baroness/index.html

9) From here you can click on the Online Study Guide at http://cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/baron_ab/ ; at this site you'll find a drop-down menu linking you to topics covered by each chapter. A student (or instructor) might find this useful to print out to augment or structure lecture notes.

10) Right now, though, we are more interested in "Interactivities," at http://www.abacon.com/baroness/inter.html

11) Choose "Chapter 6" on the pull-down menu, or http://www.abacon.com/baroness/inter.html?place=Chapter+6&go_butt.x=10&go_butt.y=17 , and then choose "Short-Term Memory" from the options in the right navigation frame on the Chapter 6 page.

12) Once the new page appears in the right frame, click the "Short-Term Memory Demonstration." Here you'll take part in an timed, interactive and increasingly-difficult "test" of your short term memory. This is the sort of exercise that could allow your students to explore a topic on their own that you might have minimal time to cover in class.

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