Motivation and emotion/Tutorials/Needs/Instructor notes

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These are some instructor notes and tips about running this tutorial.

This tutorial was run in 2010 for this first time, with three tutorial groups.

It was significantly revised in 2011 to include more interactive activity-based exploration of the content, with smaller improvements in 2013 and 2014. The quality/preparation of the activities for the group activities could be further refined/improved - e.g., see notes below.

Equipment

1. Whiteboard markers
2. Projector
3. Handouts
4. Pictures

Preparation

1. Brain structures, hormones and neurotransmitter exercises: One set of neurotransmitter and hormone names and functions should be cut up beforehand - depending on numbers in class, either cut extras and hand-out extras. Count the class size and hand out an appropriate number of pairs, so that each person has a neurotransmitter, a hormone, or a description of the function. See answers.
   1. F2F materials should be printed, precut, and put into labelled envelopes
   2. VT interactive mix/match exercises should be prepared and preloaded

Improvements

1. Brain structures etc.
   1. A brain map exercise could be added/integrated e.g., hand out brain structure names and ask participants to arrange themselves so as to represent approximate anatomical location - or could be done on the board
   2. more distinguishing info/clues should be provided so as to better specify/differentiate