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Part of Annenberg Learner, each series listed here has a selection of videos available for download. Topics range from surveys of American and World literatures, to teaching students to work with artifacts, to developing writers. Grade ranges vary by series. Production of these videos is supported by the Annenberg Foundation.

Essay by George Orwell on online-literature.com

Used for CAT assignment in jam on Shreds of Data (MD).

By Mark Twain, posted on the website American Literature. Originally published 1882.

Part of LC's lesson, What is Good Writing, week 2, semester 3.

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.

By Clifford Adelman, Senior Research Analyst, U.S. Dept of Education, 1999. This article is included in the literature review conducted by SRI (evaluation team) for the summer 2010 Institute. For access to the full monograph, see link in first paragraph.

Full text of this article is available in GSCC Polilogue. Login required.

Academic program within the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. The basis for this program is to listen carefully to patients' stories and use the stories to help treat the patients. The program's founder, Dr. Rita Charon, combines her MD with a PhD in literature.

By Thomas A. Angelo, DePaul University - School for New Learning. "This paper synthesizes theories, findings, and strategies from a variety of literatures into seven transformative ideas which, taken together, have the potential to make our mental models of and approaches to faculty development more effective."

Shared by Y.H. in January coffeeklatch

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.

By Rosemary Capps, August 2010. In this dissertation, Capps looks deeply at the persistence of 9 adult learners in a community college, while also looking at the literature of persistence, demographic surveys, etc.

Created by Billy Collins (former Poet Laureate of the US) and hosted by the Library of Congress.

RA (coach) shared this site as a poetry resource.

By Lucille Clifton, originally published in Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 by Lucille Clifton, 2001. Reprinted on poets.org.

Part of LC's lesson, What is Good Writing, week 2, semester 3.

By Cynthia Hawkins, an emerging writer award runner up on the site Our Stories.us.

Part of LC's lesson, What is Good Writing, week 2, semester 3.