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Presented by Dr. Robert Talbert of Grand Valley State University on YouTube; posted Sept 30 2011. This was presented (and recorded) as a one-hour AMATYC webinar. Talbert discussed flipping the college classroom in the context of teaching math.

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

From their About page, "The WIDE Research Center creates new knowledge about digital communication and promotes the transfer of this knowledge to school, workplace, and community contexts to promote learning, knowledge work, and citizenship."

By Lewis Carroll on Poemhunter.com. Mentioned in Using Context Clues in Vocabulary Learning discussion in the Comity Club pedagogy circle.

Website for the movie. Mentioned in Using Context Clues in Vocabulary Learning.

By Roger T. and David W. Johnson, published in In Context: A Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture. Originally published in in Transforming Education (IC#18)\nWinter 1988, Page 34. The article discusses the social and cooperative aspects of learning.

Dr. Constance (Connie) Weaver is a professor of English at Western Michigan University. In the coffeeklatch, she was attributed with popularizing the idea, "grammar needs to be taught in context." Librarians have not verified the quote or determined from which book it might have been taken.

Created by The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A large collection of handouts related to college-level writing. Categories include Writing the Paper (e.g. argument, audience, brainstorming); Citation, Style, and Sentence Level Concerns; Specific Writing Assignments/Contexts (e.g. Abstracts, Speeches, etc.); Writing for Specific Fields.

By Doug Lederman in the News column of Inside Higher Ed, Jan 25 2011. The Lumina Foundation has released a draft of their Degree Qualifications Profile (see link in article), with broad "degree objectives" for those who earn associate's, bachelor's and master's degrees. This article briefly describes the report and also provides some context, including some criticism from those who work in higher education. See degree_qualification tag for more.

Posted by George Siemens on his blog elearnspace, September 5 2011. Siemens argues that instructors can't provide "coherence" for knowledge just by "broadcasting" a course. He suggests that coherence is about how "*we* connect information elements and how we use artifacts and narratives to share that coherence." I am interested in the idea of "information foraging," especially in the context of content curation.

Goog*lio noun (1) a hybrid next generation e-portfolio that utilizes emerging open, social, web2.0, and Google applications such as blogs, wikis, social networks and software to create a student created and controlled personal learning environment and lifelong content management system that can be shared and viewed from different perspectives, within various contexts, and for multiple purposes. noun (2) a free and easy to use portfolio web site for individuals to design as a space, story, and system that functions as a workspace and showcase for learners to collect, select, reflect, publish, link, archive, and demonstrate knowledge, skills, reflections, through multimedia artifacts. verb (3) "googlio it" to publish and connect a digital artifact to your webfolio. origin: rooted in the word folio (as in Da Vinci) + Google (as in all the free Google Apps & Tools) and evolved from portfolio -->

This article relates to assessments and the importance of constructing assessments that ask students to apply concepts. It also relates to our themes of contextualization and connection.

An RSA "Animate" presentation based on a speech given by Sir Ken Robinson. RSA is the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, a "cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress." This animated presentation is a favorite of the KPI team.

TM shared this and several other TED videos in the context of innovation in her classroom.

Speaker: Sir Ken Robinson on Feb 2010; posted May 2010.

TM shared this and several other TED videos in the context of innovation in her classroom.

By Paul Nolting, published by Houghton Mifflin, 2008. Helps students to assess their math learning style, as well as building math study skills.

This book was mentioned in the "radical_ideas" group (Cohort 1) as well as a choice event.

Coach BM mentioned this book in the context of teaching study skills in conjunction with developmental math.

General information -- as well as ordering information -- about the HBO film, Temple Grandin.

In the context of "meaningful assignments," TM shows this film in class, discusses it with the students, and then students are assigned to write a letter to Grandin (using business format). TM mails the packet of letters to Dr. Grandin.

In a CoP, teachers learn collaboratively rather than through isolated means

to transform existing teacher education programs' course contexts into communities of learners that link the learning of preservice teachers with the learning of experienced teachers and teacher educators

An important compilation of articles about contexts, theories, and practices for the teaching of basic writing.

By Sol Garfunkel and David Mumford, Op-Ed Contributors, The Opinion Pages, The New York Times, August 24, 2011. The authors of this column argue for "quantitative literacy," where students are taught math in the context of real-life problems .