Author Archives: William Ashton

About William Ashton

I'm an associate professor in the Behavioral Sciences Department and the Director of the York College Honors Program. I'm a social psychologist and currently my research project is in attribution theory, blame and sexual assault. I teach Social Psych, I/O Psych, Organizational Behavior and Research Methods.

Post – Sandy internet

Posted on November 7, 2012 by William Ashton

Unfortunately, faculty are as much in the dark about what is going on at York and what will happen as you are. York has been housing evacuees from Queens.  Unlike Manhattan, Queens evacuees’ homes have been damaged and are unlivable, … Continue reading →

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Postmortem: Research Wiki project

Posted on July 30, 2012 by William Ashton

The extended summer session is over as is the work for two groups of students working on the research wiki project in my summer I/O class. How did they do and how well did the facilitators idea work? Here’s what happened. I had … Continue reading →

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Something new this summer … student facilitators

Posted on June 29, 2012 by William Ashton

I’m doing my summer online course again – Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Again, I’m having groups of students work online on a written project.  This year it’s a group research wiki on a topic in I/O Psych. For each step of the … Continue reading →

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Using group wikis online

Posted on June 29, 2012 by William Ashton

Dr Wenying Huang-Stolte, the head of York’s Bb program, invited me to give a talk to the faculty in the summer workshop for new Bb instructors.  I’ve attached a copy of my powerpoint show: Here is a PDF of the … Continue reading →

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Research memes

Posted on June 20, 2012 by William Ashton

Last semester, I gave my research methods students a new assignment on creating image macros. There were two assignments, one for the chapter on statistics and the other for the chapter on the philosophy of science. For the philosophy of … Continue reading →

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The Creepy Treehouse

Posted on June 10, 2012 by William Ashton

I originally found this article by Jason Jones on the Creepy Treehouse problem in online courses.    Jared Stein defined the CTE in his blog: creepy treehousesee also creepy treehouse effect n. A place, physical or virtual (e.g. online), built by adults … Continue reading →

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Digital Storytelling and FOUNDATIONS OF RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY

Posted on February 16, 2012 by William Ashton

I’ve always been jealous of the methods for assignments Michael Smith and the rest of the ds106 group can use.  Those methods seem to fit the topic of storytelling much better than the topic of research methods in Psychology.  I … Continue reading →

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Did I say that?

Posted on August 3, 2011 by William Ashton

Dealing with losers?!?!?! Yep. Here’s the email I sent to  student who wrote to me upset about how poorly her project group was working together.  The material between  the six hyphens is copied from the project instructions. Comments, criticisms or diatribes from … Continue reading →

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More Instructional Technology Themes in this blog — or — a blog on blogs

Posted on July 2, 2011 by William Ashton

When I started this blog last month, I thought it would be … things I say to my blackboard students.  However, I’m working on a new class — which is not an online class — which uses other instructional technology. … Continue reading →

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Here’s some advice on the group methods assignment

Posted on June 15, 2011 by William Ashton

If I were in the groups, I would suggest the following: 1. Everyone should post their individual answers to their group’s forum (the bulletin board) as soon as they submit them to me tonight. Thus, by tomorrow morning, you should … Continue reading →

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