Small Grants, Big Opportunities

I was very excited to see the type and scope of projects the new APS Teaching Fund is supporting in its first round of initiatives as described in the March 2006 issue. In particular, I am interested in the small grants program for promoting teaching activities. This new grants program will fill a very important need to “disseminate resources that support the effective teaching of psychology and the development of effective psychology teachers.”

Some readers are probably familiar with my Web site, Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology at http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow. The site includes more than 1,000 resources for instructors of social psychology and related courses. I would like to see more such sites, and many who have sent me feedback have said the same.

Instead of all of us wading through the Web looking for that one little nugget we can use in a course, it is far more efficient if one person or a small team of people collect and organize the resources, saving the rest of us hundreds of hours.

If anyone is interested in constructing such a resource, please drop me an e-mail ([email protected]). I would be glad to share my experiences over the last six years of creating and maintaining the social psychology site.

— Jon Mueller
North Central College

Editor’s Note: The Call for Applications for the APS Teaching Fund grants program is available www.psychologicalscience.org/direct/teaching_fund.cfm