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The National center for Postsecondary Research (NCPR) at Teachers College, Columbia University, hosted this conference, September 23-24 2010. Downloads of all presentations are available from this site,as are some conference videos.

PA attended this conference.

ALP at Community College of Baltimore County, Conference dates: June 24th-25th, 2010.

Founded in 1880, today the Conference on Basic Writing (CBW) is a special interest group of the Conference on College Communications and Composition (CCCC). The CBW's mission "is to create a network of basic writing professionals."

Information about the upcoming conference on networked learning in higher education and lifelong learning

Media Advisory announcing a news conference to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Marisa mentioned that she and Liz were going to watch the streaming news conference.

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.

Sponsored by the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, the 2011 conference will be in Austin, Nov 10-13.

K.P. is considering attending; B.M. will be going.

Links on this page for the Proceedings, abstracts, and conference guide.

Subtitle: Employers' Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge and Applied Skills of New Entrants to the 21st Century U.S. Workforce. Prepared by The Conference Board, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, Corporate Voices for Working Families and Society for Human Resource Management, 2006.

TM uses this report in her class to stress the importance of writing in the work world.

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.

Resources for "makers," DIY folks who innovate, create and share projects & ideas. These resources include a subscription based magazine, a blog, videos & podcasts, shared project ideas, a forum/community and a store. Additionally, Maker Faire is an annual conference for the Make audience. Make Magazine, published quarterly by O'Reilly is a hybrid magazine/book "(known as a mook in Japan)".

By Belinda Allen and Kathryn Coleman (both of University of New South Wales), proceedings of ascilite 2011 conference, Australia, December 2011. ascilite is the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. "The paper explores creativity as a graduate capability, the creative potential of digital media, and how changing directions in assessment practice could support the assessment of creativity, with a focus on using eportfolios in assessment." Full text, as PDF, available on this page.

From the Delta College Daily Difference. Article is undated, but Valkenburg was a 2010 Fellow and was inducted at the Association for the Tutoring Profession (ATP) national conference on March 29 2011.

TO'C introduced Valkenburg to her students to help connect them to some of the academic support that will be available to them even after completing their developmental ed classes.

Brochure from 43rd Annual Conference, New York State Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges. Y.H. intended to present "Keys for Students-Faculty Success in Community College Completion: LaGuardia Basic Skills Initiatives."

This paper sets out to demonstrate that creativity can be fostered in learners through use of such Web 2.0 technologies, and in particular, through tagging and its social form, folksonomy.

By Andy Lapham, Faculty of the Arts, Thames Valley University, London, UK. This paper from the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on e-Learning includes a literature review and presents a cognitive analysis of tagging.

Originally EPAC, or Electronic Portfolio Action Committee (currently called Electronic Portfolio Action and Communication) formed within EDUCAUSE , this is an association of national leaders in ePortfolios formed in 2008. In the Fall of 2010, AAEEBL will have its first annual conference.

Hosted by the Research & Planning Group for California Community Colleges in Cosa Mesa, CA, October 6-8 2010.

RA to attend this conference

Published by Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in 1974, this document "includes the resolution on language adopted by members of CCCC in April 1974; the background statement explaining and supporting that resolution; and the bibliography that gives sources of some of the ideas presented in the background statement...."