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This fun site, one vision of a social media-enabled dictionary, offers not just definitions of words (from a variety of sources), but also contextual references, and the ability to tag and/or build a community around a given word. It's quite hard to describe; I recommend clicking through a few words as they float by on the home page.

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.

Dan Meyer video lecture on TED.com, posted May 2010.

This often-cited video was mentioned in Cohort 1 coffeeklatch and the Pedagogy Matters Jam.

TM included this on her list of favorite TED talks.

By Stanley Fish, August 1, 2008. On Hover Institution, Stanford University

R.S. assigned this essay, week 12, semester 2.

Posted to YouTube in September 2006.

Produced by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, Division of Information Technology at LaGuardia Community College, part of The City University of new York. September 2010. Includes profiles of the student body (general and entering students), enrollment profile, and demographics about degrees earned.

By Tom Stoppard, published by Samuel French, 1993. This is the worldcat record, which will direct you to other editions and formats, as well as help you to find Arcadia in a library near you.

Part of Phil Taylor's Web Site, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK. This is an excerpt from his book, The Fine Art of Propaganda: A Study of Father Coughlin's Speeches by The Institute for Propaganda Analysis, and published in 1939.

An online exhibition of presidential campaign commercials from 1952-2008, presented by the Museum of the Moving Image.

By Jonah Lehrer, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. This bookmark points to the Worldcat record, which will direct you to alternate editions, as well as the closest library with a copy of this book.

By Stanley Milgram, as it appeared in Harper's Magazine. Abridged and adapted from Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram, 1974.

By Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963, as posted by the African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.

A documentary produced by Centillion Productions Ltd. in association with CBC-TV (Canadian Broadcasting), first broadcast Feb 2010. From this page, you can download the full documentary (45 minutes) or the 30 second trailer.

By Melissa E. Lee, from the Do Your Job Better column of The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 13 2011. Lee, an adjunct English instructor at the State University of New York at Canton, offers suggestions to support students who she describes as "at-risk." Her three over-arching ideas are: provide structure in the classroom, show the connection between classroom learning and the real world, and make your students accountable.

Lee's ideas call to mind such GSCC themes as scaffolding, contextualization, caring, college transition, structure, self-efficacy. There are interesting comments, as well.