Leonard Lopate show: digital nation interview - 0 views
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KPI_Library Bookmarks on 16 Mar 10From WNYC, Feb 2, 2010. Includes link to MP3 and listener comments.
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National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) - 0 views
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Like GSCC, NCAT was also the recipient of a Gates Foundation emerging technologies grant. NCAT will redesign developmental math courses in community colleges integrating technology and learner-centered pedagogy.
Fog city fundamentals : a proofreading skills book - 0 views
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By San Francisco State University English department. Published by Pearson 1998.
Achieving the Dream 2010 Strategy Institute - 0 views
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The Strategy Institute, Feb 2-5, 2010, had the theme Equity and Excellence. This document is a PDF of the conference program, which included a plenary presentation by Uri Treisman.
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From BM: "I also enjoyed hearing Uri Treisman speak on the "joyful conspiracy" he and the Carnegie Foundation are engaged in. This "joyful conspiracy" is just a little project....a complete overhaul of mathematics at the community college level. I encourage all math faculty to read and learn as much as you can about the Carnegie work here. I am certain that it will dramatically affect what you do for a living in the future."
VALUE: Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education - 0 views
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This program is offered by the Association of American Colleges & Universities, as part of its Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative, and is a contribution to the national dialogue on assessment in education.
Written Communication Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) R... - 0 views
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This pdf contains the rubric recommended for written communication, as recommended by the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U).
CUNY/ACT Scoring and Sample Essays - 0 views
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From the Hunter College Reading/Writing Center for the CUNY/ACT Basic Skills Tests, this rubric directs those who are grading the (New York City) city-wide exam.
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JEC says that faculty must attend an 8-hour training session to learn to grade these exams -- and not all pass in the first session.
Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) Rubrics - 0 views
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Description of the VALUE Rubrics, designed by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).
The autobiography of Malcolm X - 0 views
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By Malcolm X and Alex Haley, published by Penguin, 2007, copyright 1965.
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Mentioned in Choice Event: Imitation (RA). "...Malcolm X's language learning based on reading and copying the dictionary while in prison."
What Community College Developmental Mathematics Students Understand about Mathematics - 1 views
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By Jim Stigler, Karen B. Givvin, and Belinda J. Thompson for Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (n.d.). This version is a draft. One goal of this paper, according to the abstract, is "how we might help turn around the alarming statistics that show that an enormous number of those students drop out of college because they aren't successful in math courses."
A Guide to Actionable Measurement - 1 views
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Presented by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, April 2010. This guide, "is the result of a year-long cross-foundation effort to develop common principles, approaches, and taxonomies to help staff decide how best to allocate time and resources for data collection and analysis." Link to the PDF of the full guide from this page.
dimitriadis.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views
CompClass (product website) - 0 views
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From publishers Bedford/St. Martin's and connected to the 7th Edition Bedford Handbook, this is an online tool for writing students.
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RO recommends CompClass.
MyCompLab (product website) - 0 views
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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).
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We've had a lot of prior discussion on MyMathLab (MML). In the April 2010 coffeeklatch, NH asked about MyCompLab.
Cohorts in Cyberspace - 0 views
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A little old, but some basics about how to create community online in a learning community and a blended situation - but some ideas would work for just online
Using VoiceThread in an online course - 0 views
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from Professor Russ Meade. On VoiceThread Community Digital Library. There is a description and assignment to support this VoiceThread.
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Another VoiceThread selected by Lisa and shared in December Coffeeklatch.
The Learning Design Support Environment (LDSE) - 0 views
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An overview by Diana Laurillard. On ALT Open Access Repository. From OLWeekly, March 11
College Reading & Learning Association - 0 views
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Hands Across Curriculum - partnerships for college success 44th Annual CRLA Conference, November 9-12, 2011, San Diego, CA
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T.S. mentioned in Coffee Klatch, April 2011. She suggested co-presenting.
The Quiet Revolution in Open Learning - 0 views
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By Kevin Carey in the Commentary section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15 2011. Carey cites a recent negotiation between the US Departments of Education and Labor in which community colleges can compete for federal funds "to serve students online" but, in exchange, will also provide those online tools, free, via Creative Commons license.
Wordnik - 1 views
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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.
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