mBehavioral/Social Science: mAcademic Divisions

Instructors can use this tool as a webinar to create a Study Hall for students.

The BSS Division has one cart for use within our division.

Allows instructors to display pictures, graphs, etc. to supplement course material; Doc cam comes in handy for going over handouts in class, as well as marking up the documents using Symposium.

We use this converter to activate Apple TV through VCR in classrooms that have projectors that do not have HDMI capabilities.

The Behavioral and Social Sciences Division utilizes iPads within our classrooms for testing, to allow students to search for information about class topics, and with apps to supplement course materials. We have a classroom set of 30 iPads housed within a Bretford cart.

Use this software to develop interactive and multimedia content to increase engagement in the online environment. One of our professors has a module on Appalachian Foodways allowing students to view text, video, online articles on web pages, and take interactive quizzes on the material.

Developed by Wiley to keep up-to-date on publications in the field.

Illustrate health-related concepts.

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. Any file you save to your Dropbox is accessible from all your computers, iPhone, iPad and even the Dropbox website.

This is a personal response system that allows teachers to poll their class during a lesson.

Whiteboard that is used for video tutorials in many courses. It has multiple pages.

Use to augment lectures and to help demonstrate and monitor movements.

Great for study sessions.

Has some great short videos that you can incorporate into lectures.

Help students track healthy living, calories, activity levels and overall wellness.

Help students track healthy living, calories, activity levels and overall wellness.

Track nutritional items.

Help students track healthy living, calories, activity levels and overall wellness.

A great tool to incorporate into lectures or PowerPoints to engage students and ensure they are interacting. This allows you to poll student answers via multiple choice or open answer and see immediate results. Can use an iPad, computer, or smart phone to answer.

Help students track healthy living, calories, activity levels and overall wellness.

Instructors use to follow various individuals and groups that discuss social issues and expel current social research. Some are political pundits or journalists, others are research groups (e.g.: Pew Research Center, Bill Maher, Joel Stein, All Things Census, WBIR, etc.); share current research by following Scientific America, Nature, the National Science Foundation, and Psychology Today.

Test your knowledge of Revolutionary history in the lite version of this fun, fast-paced and exciting history quiz written by a college history professor. The developer has many different similar topics from which to choose - WWI, WWII, Presidents, Napoleon, etc.

allows students to punish and/or reward a child’s behavior to see how different forms of discipline may impact that behavior

Full version of the constitution with images, documents, and information on signers.

Full version of the Declaration of Independence with text, notes, and images of original documents.

Students can target body parts and build specific training routines based on interest and nee.

An interactive game that students can play to understand how difficult it is to correctly guess and consequently judge someone’s race without knowing how the individual self-identifies among racial categories.

A collaborative learning game for the iPad focusing on US History. The game can be played by 1-6 players. As a single player game, a series of historical events are presented on the screen and the goal of the game is to place the events onto a timeline at the bottom of the screen in the correct sequence. When the event placed on the line is correct the date appears below.

A fun and educational collection of high-resolution historical maps.

Great source of information and clasical music to help studying.

Help develop cognitive maps related to Psychological Science.

MyCongress is a portal to detailed information about your elected U.S. Congressional officials. Track their news, video and Twitter feeds. Look up their official Open Congress profile or contact them directly. MyCongress helps you get in touch with your government.

Students can increase their conceptual understanding of certain foods and help determine their caloric investments.

App that allows individuals to monitor stress levels.

Comes in handy for showing short lectures on special topics.

Demonstrates how people suffering with autism can communicate with caregivers.

Provides up-to-date information regarding population trends in the United States, and comes in handy when discussing stratification concepts.

A good source of secondary information, and is preferred for demography questions.

Conducted by WSCC to enhance use of eLearn system.