Downloads

Below are categories of things you might want to download from this site. Click on a category name to see the items contained within. Neat, huh?

Presentations

Below you can find materials related to presentations I've made for various purposes over the years.

An Overview of Relational Frame Theory and Its Relevance to Organizational Behavior Management

Click on the links below to download the PowerPoint and Flash files used for my presentation at the 2006 Association for Behavior Analysis conference in Atlanta. Depending on your version of PowerPoint and its settings, the Flash files may not play from within the PowerPoint show itself, but you should be able to view them individually.

Constructing a Pragmatic Science of Learning and Instruction with Functional Contextualism

Below you will find the PowerPoint slides from my talk at the 2005 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) conference in Orlando. The talk was titled "Constructing a Pragmatic Science of Learning and Instruction with Functional Contextualism" and was eventually published in the journal Educational Technology Research & Development in 2006. You can download the paper in the publications section.

How to Give Effective Oral Presentations

Below you can download the presentations from a panel discussion (chaired by Kristen Alyssa Rost of Queens College) titled "How to Give Effective Oral Presentations" at the annual convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis (May 2008 in Chicago, IL).

  • Effective Oral Presentations: Lessons from Instructional Design (Download: PowerPoint | PDF)
    Eric J. Fox, Western Michigan University
  • A Primer in Oral Presentations (Download: PowerPoint | PDF)
    Gregory J. Madden, University of Kansas
  • The Dos and Don'ts of Professional Presentations (Download: PowerPoint | PDF)
    Raymond G. Miltenberger & Stacie Neff, University of South Florida
  • My Presentation (Download: PowerPoint | PDF)
    Matthew P. Normand, University of the Pacific

 

Psychological Flexibility: A Behavioral Framework for Studying and Teaching Critical Thinking

Click on the links below to download the PowerPoint and Flash files used for my presentation at the 2006 Association for Behavior Analysis conference in Atlanta. Depending on your version of PowerPoint and its settings, the Flash file may not play from within the PowerPoint show itself, but you should be able to view it as a separate file.

Relational Frame Theory: A Pragmatic Approach to Understanding and Treating Human Suffering

Below you can download the PowerPoint slideshow and related Flash animations (linked to from within the PowerPoint file) for the workshop presented in Stockholm, Sweden on November 28, 2008.

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Analogy6.96 KB
Arbitrarily Applicable Relational Responding29.73 KB
Pragmatic Verbal Analysis22.31 KB
Relational Families9.61 KB
Relational Networks66.44 KB
Relational Responding 127.33 KB
Relational Responding 258.49 KB
Rule-Governed Behavior28.42 KB

The Need to Move Beyond Skinner's Analysis of Verbal Behavior

Click on the link below to download the PowerPoint file for the talk I delivered to the Missouri Association for Behavior Analysis (MOABA) conference on Nov. 2, 2007. "MOABA" is a lot of fun to say.

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The Need to Move Beyond Skinner's Analysis of Verbal Behavior780 KB

Using Wikipedia for Good and Not Evil in Education

Although Wikipedia is often considered a woefully inaccurate, no-good, downright evil source by many academics, there has actually been a great deal of interesting discussion on how Wikipedia (and other open content projects) can be incorporated into course writing assignments. For me, the bottom line is this: Yes, Wikipedia and other online sources have their limitations and problems. However, we all know that students rely heavily on such sources (heck, many educators rely heavily on such sources, too), so rather than simply ignoring them or forbidding their use in a course, educators should be teaching students to critically examine all sources of information and helping them to understand the variety of ways in which knowledge is constructed in the digital age.

A great way to educate students about the nature of open content like Wikipedia is to engage them in the process involved in creating that content. The more students learn about how such content is created, reviewed, evaluated, changed, and discussed by the global community, the better prepared they will be to evaluate and understand the context of such information. Incorporating Wikipedia assignments into your course has two additional benefits: 1) you might learn a little more about open content and Wikipedia yourself, and 2) your students can contribute to improving the quality, accuracy, and depth of the articles that you may have so harshly criticized in the past. It's win-win, baby. A wiki-win for everyone! Yay.

Below you will find a list of resources providing guidance on best practices for incorporating Wikipedia assignments into courses in higher education. You will also find some helpful links for learning to navigate, use, and contribute to Wikipedia, and at the bottom I've attached PowerPoint presentation from a workshop I did on this topic

Articles and Blogs on Using Wikipedia in Teaching

Three Blogs by Mark Hatlie on Using a Wikipedia-Based History Assignment

Using Wikipedia

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Wikipedia Workshop1.04 MB

Publications

Below you will find some of my publications for your reading pleasure. Click on an item to view its abstract or to download the full publication. Please try to contain your excitement.