1. Did you know that the Society for the Teaching of Psychology maintains Project Syllabus ? This is a list of juried syllabi for every psychology class imaginable. I went through the process of submitting my undergraduate Positive Psychology syllabus . In addition to performing a bit of national service, I also had the chance to improve my syllabi via peer review guided by the Project Syllabus rubric . In particular, I appreciated the suggestion to clearly spell out WHY I use the assessments that I use. I already had included my employer-compulsory linkages between learning outcomes and course assessment, but I added information, in plain English, regarding what I hope my students learn from the different assignments in the course. Project Syllabus includes hundreds of these juried syllabi. This list includes 12 different statistics classes as well as over 20 research methods classes. I highly recommend submitting your own syllabi for a great class that you teach, or using this...

Hackathorn, Ashdown, & Rife just shared some great resources for using humor to teach statistics.  In their own words, " This resource consists of a 21-page word document that reviews literature on the use of humor in teaching, describes an instrument for assessing the use of classroom humor, and offers tips on using two additional resource features specific to teaching statistics: (a) 42 visual jokes and cartoons, organized by 12 statistical topics, and (b) 12 slide presentations." You guys. It is a collection of hilarious jokes and memes to use when teaching. As well as some scholarly work about using humor to teach.  Here is a link that will download the .zip file to your computer. Here is a link to STP's Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology's Teaching Resources. Scroll on down to the Statistics, Research, and Teaching header to find this resource. A few samples of the cartoons they included:

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If you haven't already, please consider joining Teaching of Psychology  (Division 2 of APA). Your membership fees help fund plenty of great initiatives, including: Teaching Statistics and Research Methods: Tips from TOP by Jackson & Grigs This free e-book is a compilation of scholarship of teaching publications. Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology's (OTRP) Teaching Resources This page is divided by topical area in psychology (including Statistics) and includes instructional resources for every topic. Most of the material was created as part of OTRP's Instructional Resource Reward. Among the useful resources are a free booklet containing statistics exercises in both SPSS and R as well as an intense primer on factorial research design . UPDATE (2/24/16): This new resource provides a number of hands-on activities to demonstrate/generate data for all of the concepts typically taught in intro statistics.   Project Syllabus  Project Syllabus is a colle...