With the support of JISC (part of the Higher Education Funding Council of England) www.theFaculties.org has made approximately 300 films of lecturers speaking on themes and topics from the A-level curriculum.

More than 30 of those themes are in Psychology  – see www.thepsychologyfaculty.org  More will follow in the coming weeks. The videos also offer advice to A-level students about where they might study Psychology at University, and about the careers that can follow their degree. .

Although this resource has only just been launched it is promised that in time it will cover the entire UK A-level curriculum. It is possible on the site for Psychology teachers and students to suggest further topics and ways in which the expertise of academic Psychologists can be employed in the secondary school classroom.

www.thepsychologyfaculty.org

Some summer listening (unfortunately not in podcast form):

BBC – BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Case Study.

PsychClips is a great new web site for psychology teachers to share video and audio clips that are hosted on youtube-type sites.

There are already almost 100 video clips on PsychClips and with other psychology teachers help this should grow considerably. Some of the videos are the better-known ones such as the Milgram and Zimbardo clips but there are already some lesser-known ones that psychology teachers may not have seen before embedded on the site.

The site is free although you do have to register. Teachers who have already registered for PsychExchange can use their existing user name and password to access PsychClips.

Possibly the best feature of PsychClips is the book-marking facility. Teachers can add clips to their own profile so that they have instant access to these psychology clips when they log on. This is so useful for teachers who have access to networked interactive white-boards in their classroom – like me.

For a list of youtube-type video sharing sites check out yube.co.uk

Following the successful insight conferences held in January, OCR has provided a number of resources for those teachers unable to attend the events. I attended the Leeds event and it was excellent.

On this page you can listen to the full length speeches from Mark Griffiths and Rebecca Rhodes. There are also edited speeches by Mark Griffiths, Rebecca Rhodes, Stephen Reicher and Alexander Haslam.

There is also a page where you can download research posters for each of the five new core studies, which have been compiled in collaboration with the British Psychological Society. You will need to sign up for these.

http://www.ocr.org.uk/campaigns/psychology_event/

http://www.ocr.org.uk/campaigns/psychology_posters/