Psych Club Meeting Sept. 3

Today the Lunch & Learn advisors met to hash out schedules for this year's activities. Psych Club's scheduled monthly meeting time will be the first Friday of each month.

This means our first meeting is one week from today! Friday, Sept. 3, during Lunch B, in room 136. Wheeeeee!

On the agenda:

• Selecting a T-shirt design for this year and placing orders
• Determining interest in a trip to the Twin Cities to see Next to Normal on May 17
• Fundraising ideas for Next to Normal, if the club is interested

AP Info Night Approacheth!

Mark your calendars! Our first-annual AP Info Night is scheduled for Monday, February 1st at 7:00 PM. For all of my current AP students, this will be a chance for you to learn about testing scheduling and procedures for the spring AND to register and pay for your AP exams.

For students returning next year (i.e. juniors and younger), you can also learn about what other AP classes are offered at Chi-Hi and meet with teachers to determine if any of them are right for you.

I will probably be looking for assistants for various duties during that evening, so at our next Psych Club meeting (Friday, Jan 29) I will be doing a bit of recruiting. Also, if you are attending be sure to wear your Psych Club attire & REPRESENT!

If none of the above reasons is enticement enough, consider the fact that yours truly will be there to extoll the virtues of AP...and who would want to miss that?

Psych Club Meeting This Friday: Charlie Brown Christmas

Come celebrate the holidays with Psychology Club and Charlie Brown!

Our next Psych Club meeting will be this Friday, during Lunch B. We will be watching A Charlie Brown Christmas and generally enjoying each other's company. We do have some "business" to take care of first: we have inherited an uninhabited bulletin board near the office and need to discuss how best to use it to entice people into exploring psychology!

But then we will sit back, relax, and watch the sub-par depiction of therapeutic practice given by Lucy. For info on Lucy as a "psychiatrist", check out this post from Dr. Philm (whose blog wins points for its creative title, let alone its content).

Bring your favorite holiday treats and enjoy some animated psychology!

Movie Night - Memento - December 10th

This Thursday, Psychology Club will be sponsoring a movie night for interested students. Since we will be in the midst of our unit on Memory, the film Memento seems like a great choice.

Described by the authors of the book Welcome to Your Brain as one of the most accurate film depictions of amnesia, the plot follows Leonard, an anmesic attempting to avenge the murder of his wife. As you can imagine, not being able to remember anything makes this a difficult task.

My students have enjoyed this film when we've shown it for psych club in the past. However, a parent permission slip is required, as the film is rated R. Because of the strong language and some violent scenes, NO ONE gets in without a signed permission slip. Sorry, no exceptions.

Thursday, December 10th - 7:00 PM - Chi-Hi Cafeteria

Friday's Psych Club Meeting

Disappointed that you missed the Psych Club meeting on Friday? You should be. We had a marvelous time making cutesy dragon optical illusions. We also snapped photos of ourselves wearing our fetching new Psych Club T-Shirts. Don't we look awesome!?

We also set the date for our first Movie Night of the year. Pending availability of space (which Mrs. Welle will check into on Monday), our Movie Night will be Thursday, December 10th at 7:00 PM. The tentative plan is to watch Memento, a film about a guy who is suffering from anterograde amnesia (yet is trying to solve his wife's murder. Tricky.). It will fit very nicely with what we'll be learning about in class at the time, since we'll be in the middle of a unit on learning & memory.

We will have to have signed parent permission slips for this one, since it is rated R. I'll get that information posted soon.

Why You Should Come to Psych Club this Friday: The Dragon Illusion!

Here's what we're doing in Psych Club this Friday (during Lunch B): making cool dragon optical illusions! Check out the final version:

T-Shirts Have Been Ordered!

It's about time!

I've given up on those stragglers who have not paid for the shirts they signed up for. If you had payment in for your shirt as of today, you can expect to get one. If not, well....you snooze you lose.

The order is scheduled to come in by November 20th, which (conveniently) happens to be the date of our next Psych Club meeting! Oh boy! I can hardly wait to see us all decked out in our finest Freud-wear.

Psych Club T-Shirts

I've posted a preview widget so you can get a final look at what our Psych Club t-shirts will look like when you visit the blog. Unfortunately, I can't embed it in a post, so if you are reading this in your email you won't be able to see it. Just direct your browser to www.pumaattack.blogspot.com and the final version will be visible on the top left side of the page.

Money ($16 per shirt) and Orders for T-shirts will be due Friday, October 16th. Sign up in rm 136 and be sure to indicate your size.

October 16th is also our next Psychology Club meeting, and my current plan is to make some sort of food related to the brain...perhaps brain cupcakes?

Freudicon Wins! But details remain undecided...

For those of you unable to make it to the first official psych club meeting this year, a report on our progress.

Voting on T-shirt designs resulted in the selection of the "Freudicon" design depicted at left. However, at the close of the meeting, there were still some decisions left to be made.

There was considerable disagreement about the font choice for the lettering on the back of the shirt, which reads, "Psychology Club 2009-10".

Also, we voted on a color choice for the shirt, but following the meeting during my prep period I was able to adjust the image settings so the white space on Freud's head is no longer transparent... thus opening the possibility of using a darker color of shirt without distorting the image.

SO....in response to feedback from my 6th and 7th hour classes, I've come up with some new options for voting. I selected a font that I would argue is a happy medium, given the opinions expressed at the meeting. It's not simple block lettering (sort of funky), but also not so flashy as to be distracting.

Below are links to the new shirt color options. I'm including the color choice we voted on at the meeting in case there are those who wish to stick with it (despite the new options). At the bottom of this post you will find a poll where you can cast your vote for your favorite choice. The poll will close on Tuesday, September 22, so we can get the order rolling and get our shirts ASAP.

Each option would cost the same amount: $16.00 (assuming we can get an order or 25 shirts or more).

• "Light Blue" Freud (this was the choice made at the meeting before the image was fixed)
• "Metro Blue" Freud
• "Black" Freud
• "Ice Gray" Freud

Survey Results - GlowDay.com

Psychology Club T-Shirt Designs

This friday during Lunch B the first Psychology Club meeting of the year will be held in rm 136. The most important item on the agenda: Club T-shirts! No self-respecting club in our school should be without a snappy t-shirt, and we in the Psych Club like to set the bar when it comes to academic apparel. This year will be no exception.

Below are links to images of the options we will vote on. Feel free to post comments in an attempt to persuade others of the correctness of your opinion and the credibility of your taste. Each listed price is the estimate for an order of 20 shirts (it may ultimately go up or down based on the size of our final order).

PsychoPath - $12.41

Rorschach Inkblot - $11.40

Freudicon - $14.71