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No author or date listed, published on Edudemic. This post promotes a guide to Google+ for educators, written by Steven W. Anderson. I bookmark this post for two reasons. First, obviously, the opportunity for educators to learn more about Google+ and it's potential educational applications. But also the format, LiveBinder, is an interesting way to present and share resources.

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 -->

Google offers a collaborative writing tool (similar to MS Word), with JEC uses with her writing students in order to manage the draft-edit-revision process.

As described on the Google website.

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.

Google Books excerpt of Language, literacy, and learning in educational practice: a reader by Stierer and Maybin, see pp 45-58. This excerpt includes Vygotsky's work on proximal development. Also known as Vykotsky.

By Nicholas Gage, collected in New Directions: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking by Peter S. Gardner (via Google Books). Make sure that you are on page 88 for the Gage essay. This material is under copyright, so the full essay is not available here. Check with your local library for access to the full essay.

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).

By W. Norton Grubb, et al., published by Routledge NY 1999. The WorldCat page also enables a preview (through Google Books), which makes the table of contents available. From the WorldCat summary, "Based on extensive research on community college teaching to date, this book examines the nature of teaching and the institutional forces that shape it."

PA's comment: "There's an interesting book by Norton Grubb entitled Honored But Invisible based on a thorough qualitative study of pedagogy in a whole bunch of community colleges. His basic point is that while we claim to be "teaching" colleges, there is little support for improving teaching."

By Diana Laurillard, London Knowledge Lab, London Institute of Education, Inaugural professorial lecture, February 2008. From the abstract, Laurillard argues for "an education-driven approach to the use of digital technologies to achieve our ambitions for education."

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.

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.

Built by Thomas J. Petra, Real World Math uses Google Earth as a tool to help teach math. "Within this site you will find lesson ideas, examples, and downloads for mathematics that embrace active learning, constructivism, and project-based learning while remaining true to the standards." The lessons are targeted to Grade 5 and up.

From the Student Learning Assistance Center, Texas State University, 2002. This is an actual checklist for students, analyzing their study skills. For similar, see tag success.

LC used this site in her unit on study skills.

By Howard Fogel and Linnea C. Ehri. Published in Contemporary Educational Psychology, vol 25 (2), April 2000, pp 212-235. Article is available for purchase or may be available through document delivery from your college's library.

By Colby and Colby. Published in Computers and Composition, Volume 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 300-312. Reading Games: Composition, Literacy, and Video Gaming. Abstract only available here for free. Full article for purchase or through document delivery at your college library.

By Adam Bryant, Business Day section of The New York Times, March 12 2011. Outlines Google's Project Oxygen, where the company studied the patterns of their most effective managers, in an attempt to understand what works, and to bring under-performers up-to-speed.

Diana shared this article with the GSCC faculty and team, pointing out the many similarities between Google's process and that of GSCC.