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By Gail O. Mellow and Cynthia Heelan (2008). This page is the announcement of the book from LaGuardia Community College and the text/video of Dr. Mellow's lecture for the Robert H. Atwell lecture.

By Tina Marie Macias in the advertiser. com (Louisiana), May 20, 2011. The author cites analysis by The Daily Advertiser (the print newspaper) that "the majority of 2010 ACT-tested Lafayette Parish students did not meet college readiness benchmarks." The article also compares the ACT as an indicator against TOPS (Taylor Opportunity for Students Award, a local grant).

Hands Across Curriculum - partnerships for college success 44th Annual CRLA Conference, November 9-12, 2011, San Diego, CA

T.S. mentioned in Coffee Klatch, April 2011. She suggested co-presenting.

By Jay Matthews in the Class Struggle column, The Washington Post, May 5 2011. Matthews writes about the recently published study, Assessing Developmental Assessment in Community Colleges (see tag assess_study), which finds that it might be the assessment process itself that is failing developmental ed students, rather than the content or delivery of the developmental ed courses.

According to their "About AACC" page, "The association represents almost 1,200 two-year, associate degree-granting institutions and more than 11 million students." This is a great "go-to" site, with a variety of statistics, demographics and "Fast Facts" as well as information on the White House Summit and related federal initiatives that pertain to community colleges.

Data on 2 year/4year/certificate attendees. Indictment of cc's for imitating 4 years and not emphasizing pedagogy/quality of sylibi

The mission of this organization is to improve community college effectiveness and student success by engaging in relevant and applicable research related to community college practice and policy.

By David Glenn in the Students column of The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 11, 2011. A Q&A with Rosemary Capps, who studied 9 community college students for her dissertation, which won an award at AERA. In this Q&A, Capps discusses the importance of developmental education, and how these teachers often made a real difference to the students that she studied.

College catalog, used by students for course selection. PHCC is one of the GSCC participating schools.

M.Z. used the course catalog in a lesson, week 13, semester 2.

Part of The Aspen Institute, "The purpose of the Aspen Prize is to recognize community colleges with outstanding academic and workforce outcomes in both absolute performance and improvements over time. By focusing on student success and lifting up models that work, the prize will honor excellence, stimulate innovation, and create benchmarks for measuring progress." (Program Summary)

By John N. Gardner and Betsy O Barefoot; 10th edition published by Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012.

ME asked about teaching the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and BT recommended this book. She used Chapter 3, in particular.

Recorded lecture by Terri Maddox at Jackson State Community College, Sept 20 2012 (approx 1 hour). In this video, Maddox discusses how and why instructors might flip their classrooms. Also provides an excellent resource list.

A member of the GSCC team of faculty in 2012-13, TM shared this presentation that she gave on flipped classrooms.

Wisc-Online, developed by faculty form the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) is a "digital library of Web-based learning resources called 'learning objects'." Categories include Business, General Education, Health, Professional Development, Service and Technical, with sub-categories under each.

AH recommended this library of learning objects, also drawing attention to the "game builder area," in which you can create an account and save favorites which can later be compiled to resource lists.

Prezi presentation by Dan Petrak of Des Moines Area Community College, part of TeamUp Faculty Mathematics Conference. This is an overview of some considerations of how technology might change the teaching and learning experience.

DM shared a list of flipped classroom resources that were useful in his (home) department last year.

Uploaded to YouTube by JCCCvideo on Nov 10 2011. This is a one-hour video looking at flipped classrooms. Speaker is Tracy Newman from the Ed Tech Center at Johnson County Community College. Newman discusses how and why one might flip the classroom, as well as some of the pitfalls.

DM shared a list of flipped classroom resources that were useful in his (home) department last year.

By Eric Hoover and Sara Lipka, in the Students section of the Chronicle of Higher Education, March 11 2013. An in-depth look at a semester of developmental writing at Montgomery College.

Presented by College Writing Center at Mermec, revised 2006. Student guide to writing effective outlines.

LH used this with her students, week 9, semester 4.

Excerpted from On Course, Study Skills: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life, by Skip Downing, posted on Google Books.

RO used this case study in class for discussion and to generate a writing assignment, week 3, semester 4.

Part of the University of Georgia's College of Education Initiative on Innovation in Teaching and Technology (ITT), this page links to presentations in the Innovation 20/20 series. Each topic is a 20 minute presentation on a specific innovation, followed by a 20 minute discussion period. Topics range from more reflective teaching (e.g. Using Metaphor to Explore Teaching and Learning) to using specific tools or strategies (Designing and Implementing an Undergraduate Blogging Community in EDIT 2000 or Motivating Students with Google Tools and More). Navigation on this page also points users to Innovation Resources, Innovation News, and the Discovery Series (another set of online videos).

Patrick Bahls in The WAC Journal, Vol 20, Nov 2009. Bahls, a professor at UNC-Asheville, writes of the success he's had with a poetry assignment for his pre-calc and calculus students. He cites that much of one's success with math (especially advanced math) comes from confidence and finds the "language" of math to be both cumbersome and outdated for most students. The examples of student poetry (and their reactions to the assignment) are also provided as evidence.

This is a really interesting article, and the poetry is both thoughtful and creative. I wonder what both math and writing faculty think of this idea. Has anyone tried something similar in their classrooms? Great cites (and nice poem) on math anxiety. -- Stephanie