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During the Spring of 1994 and the Fall of 1995 I taught a perception lab at the University of Virginia. This was part of a third year class on perception. The goal was to consider each week a different phenomenon in visual perception, try demonstrations or short experiments and discuss the interpretations in depth. Frank Durgin before me started creating computer programs for class demonstrations and I continued this work adding new software. I have now a set of 14 different topics, from the structure of the retina to Event perception. All the software is Macintosh based.
A more recent development is my interest in the Shockwave technology to create interactive lectures and demonstrations. The advantage of this solution is that it allows me to use Director from Macromedia (powerful and reliable, great piece of softwere) to create demonstrations and lectures which then can be accessed by students from any WWW browser.
Teaching Psychology requires the ability to synthesize information from different areas, such as Statistics, Biology, Visual Arts and more. It requires an effort to produce a coherent story and communicate it to young minds which have a potential of going beyond the simple facts and get closer to an understanding of the great wonder that is the human mind.