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Quia is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. It provides instructional tools including: templates for creating online activities, online testing tools, access to over 3 million online activities and quizzes, a schoolwide network to promote collaboration, a centralized classroom management system, a class Web page creator and online surveys for gathering student and teacher feedback

By David R. Arendale from New Directions for Teaching and Learning, vol 1994, issue 60, pp. 11-21. This is a widely-cited article that explains supplemental instruction.

By Elizabeth M. Zachry, December 2008. Achieving the Dream model of instructional reform implemented for developmental education courses at three community colleges: Guilford Technical Community College in Greensboro, North Carolina; Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, Virginia; and Patrick Henry Community College in Martinsville, Virginia.

by Dianne Rees on Instructional Design Fusions blog. December 12, 2010.

Diana suggested using diigo with students. This slideshow is less than 3 minutes. December 2010 coffeeklatch

Created by Ann Carlson of Western Washington University and posted on the Center for Instructional Innovation & Assessment, Western Washington University, January 2010. In this short video (5 mins), Carlson outlines the "muddiest point" assessment technique, as well as some background on how and why instructors might use this technique.

Developmental Education - Beyond Remediation through Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction. "The purpose of the Summer Institute is to give those who work with developmental students the theory and practical applications to improve the success, retention, and persistence rates of their students."

The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges was founded in 1974. It is the only organization exclusively devoted to providing a national forum for the improvement of mathematics instruction in the first two years of college.

Based in the Educational Communications and Technology Program in Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Games, Learning, and Society group is a collection of academic researchers, interactive media (or game) developers, and government and industry leaders who investigate how interactive media environments or "video games" can be used in education.

"Free Instructions to many useful icebreakers, group games, and team building activities!"

Teachers whose students described them as skillful at maintaining classroom order, at focusing their instruction and at helping their charges learn from their mistakes are often the same teachers whose students learn the most in the course of a year, as measured by gains on standardized test scores, according to a progress report on the research.

By Laura Spencer, published in Freelance Folder, Jan 10, 2010. While targeted to freelancers, this article provides an excellent overview to Diigo features, and clear instructions for how to get started. It is current and all examples are for the current version of Diigo.

Unsigned, published in Instructional Strategies Online, Saskatoon Public Schools, n.d. Article includes links. Classroom strategy where instructor poses a question and students first think about the answer, then discuss it in pairs, and finally come together to discuss their answers.

Foothill College (a GSCC school) offers the innovative and award-winning Math My Way program. From the description, Math My Way offers "a hands-on series of self-paced math learning modules that combine patient, caring, understanding instruction with a group of students who have similar math skill levels."

KP, a GSCC faculty member, is part of the Math My Way team. On March 12, 2010, she posted that the team would be meeting with Bill Gates in April.

MyCompLab, a product of Pearson Education, "empowers student writers and facilitates writing instruction by uniquely integrating a composing space and ePortfolio with proven resources and tools." (from What Is page).

We've had a lot of prior discussion on MyMathLab (MML). In the April 2010 coffeeklatch, NH asked about MyCompLab.

By Michael W. Galbraith, and Melanie Jones in Journal of Developmental Education; 30.2 (2006): 20-27. Author's abstract: This article suggests that a balance of the art and science of teaching is essential if the learning and teaching process is to be a meaningful and rewarding educational journey. This notion is explored through a dialogue, held over a 3 year period, with a developmental mathematics instructor at a community college who discovered that technique alone was not sufficient to becoming a good instructor. An unusual situation occurred as a result of the dialogue: Discussion of research-based literature on college teaching and personal experiential reflectivity merged and resulted in an organizing framework for understanding the artistic and mechanic elements of effective instruction. Full text by subscription. Check with your local library. This is a link to the TOC on the National Center for Developmental Education's website.

Based in Washington State, the stated goals of this project are: (1) "aligning standards and expectations for mathematics....(2) increasing student success in completing math requirements in high school and college....(3) building capacity of teachers and instructors to align curriculum and instruction to standards....(4) communicating math expectations to students...." The project bridges the high school/college divide.

This page has no attribution or create date. It includes directions (and examples) for 5 key spots where dialogue requires special punctuation.

NH linked to this page in Blackboard, it offers "good but simple instructions for writing dialogue with all of those nasty details...."

TED2006, Filmed Feb 2006; posted June 2006. From the description, "Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity."

Looking to add "variety in instruction," KP closed her class with the first 6 minutes of this TED talk, week 1, semester 4.

TM shared this and several other TED Talks as examples of innovation in her classroom.

By Deb Aronson. In Council Chronicle, published by the National Council of Teachers of English, Vol 19(#2), Nov 2009. pp. 18-21. Click to page 18 of this PDF for the start of the article.

NH says, "In this article Scott Warnock and others describe the high level of detail that is needed in an online syllabus and writing assignments."

by David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1994. Goal structures, interaction among students, and instructional outcomes; basic elements of cooperative learning.