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Béatrice Coron: Stories cut from paper - 0 views

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    Part of TED2011, filmed March 2011; posted October 2011 on TED.com. Coron is an artist who works in paper-cutting. In this video, she recounts her own life and work, with examples.
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    RA used this video to help her students think about their own "storytelling" as they worked on their final essays. She felt that this video also helped to expand her students' worlds.
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Nourish: Food + Community - 0 views

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    Produced by WorldLink, (n.d.), Nourish is available for purchase from this web page. The video illustrates how our food choices have impacts outside of our own homes/bodies (e.g. environment, labor, etc.). There is a short excerpt available on this web page; full film runs 26 minutes.
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    We *think* that RA used the full-length version of this film in her class (week 3, semester 4).
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Yeo Valley Organic Enlists Cheesy Boy Band For Milk Ad (VIDEO) - 0 views

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    Posted to HuffPost Food on October 7, 2011, this music video parody is an ad for an organic dairy in the UK.
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    RA used this video to further the discussion about food in her class (semester 4).
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Attendance - 0 views

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    Created by/posted to Dave256apps.com, this is a downloadable app that facilitates attendance using iPhone/Touch/iPad.
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    RA uses this application to take attendance and also makes use of its ability to create random groups among the students present.
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Portlandia: Ordering the Chicken, Part 1 - 0 views

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    From the television program Portlandia, posted to Hulu.com.
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    RA used this clip to supplement discussions about food (theme for semester).
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Who's Hungry? Some Florida Schools Serving Lunch As Early As 9:30 A.M. - 0 views

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    By Megan Gibson, Education, Time.com. The article talks about the early hours that some Florida schools serve lunch, in order to accommodate early start times -- and early breakfasts. According to the article, while the timing may seem controversial, it has no real impact on students health and welfare.
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    JEC used this article to help her students learn about developing thesis statements (week 8, semester 4).
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Obama's Christmas Tree Tax? Agriculture Department scraps plan for 15-cent fee on growers. - 0 views

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    By Greg Howard, Slate.com, November 9 2011. A proposed 15 cent tax on fresh-cut Christmas trees was repealed at the last minute.
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    JEC used this article to help students learn about essay topics.
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Hugo - Movie Trailers - 0 views

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    Available from iTunes, movie trailers and a "featurette" for the film Hugo, 2011.
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    RA recommends Trailer 2 to help illustrate for students how "a reader is pulled through the coherent flow of ideas in an essay."
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Punctuating Dialogue - 0 views

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    This page has no attribution or create date. It includes directions (and examples) for 5 key spots where dialogue requires special punctuation.
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    NH linked to this page in Blackboard, it offers "good but simple instructions for writing dialogue with all of those nasty details...."
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Transformative Writing - 0 views

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    By Sherry Reiter on the website, Writing Away the Demons (no date given). An explanation of the process of transformative writing which, according to the article's author, is also known as "writing therapy."
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    TO'C used this article to help inform her discussion of the "heart scars" project, week 5, semester 4.
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Culture: The symbolic expressions of tatoos - 1 views

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    By Cody Hodge on the website Helium, December 4 2009. A brief exploration of the various reasons that (21st century) people might get tattoos.
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    TO'C uses this to further develop her heart scars project.
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Outlines - 0 views

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    Presented by College Writing Center at Mermec, revised 2006. Student guide to writing effective outlines.
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    LH used this with her students, week 9, semester 4.
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Developing an Outline - 0 views

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    Part of Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), this document helps guide students through the process of developing an outline.
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    LH used this guide with her students, week 9, semester 4.
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Graphing Calculator HD for iPad - 0 views

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    By Appcylon LLC on the iTunes App Store. Bookmarked version 1.0.4, updated March 28 2011. This is a graphing calculator app for various "smart" devices.
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    B.M. used this app with her students, using in-class iPads, week 6, semester 4
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MATH 25 FALL 2011 The Marshmallow Challenge - 0 views

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    Posted by TheChe808 on Sep 6 2011. Video of a classroom of students working on the "marshmallow challenge," a popular ice-breaker where small groups of students have to work together to build structures from kitchen items (marshmallows and spaghetti).
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    This is a video of LS's class (posted to YouTube by her); the marshmallow challenge became a popular ice-breaker among GSCC faculty. Week 1, semester 4.
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Fruit Machine - a random name/word picker - 0 views

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    Posted on website ClassTools.net, this tool helps instructors (and others) to select names from their class list at random. No creator name (or date) is given.
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    KP used this tool to help her select students at random when going over answers on the first day of class, week 1, semester 4.
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Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success - 0 views

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    TED2005, filmed Feb 2005, posted Dec 2006. St. John interviews a variety of "TED-sters" to learn their secrets of success, which are condensed into 8 points in this very brief talk,.
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    TS showed this TED talk and then asked her students to identify the thesis statement, week 3, semester 4.
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Natalie Warne: Being young and making an impact - 0 views

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    TEDxTeen, filmed April 2011; posted Nov 2011. Warne defines "anonymous extraordiaries," the unknown people who make a big difference, e.g. the man who wrote Dr. King's speeches, or the young organizers (like Warne) who helped to organize a world-wide event that made a difference in a 25-year war in East Africa.
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    RO used this video in her penultimate class, which also included discussion of service learning, week 14, semester 4.
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Nickelback - If Today Was Your Last Day, with lyrics - 0 views

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    Posted to YouTube by twilight28xo on December 26 2008.
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    MZ used this song in her lesson, Introduction to Analytical Writing. She began by distributing the lyrics to this song and the Frost poem, The Road Not Taken, and inviting students to compare the two. She then showed this video. Week 8, semester 4.
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"What Students Should Know About How People Learn" - 0 views

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    How to Get the Most Out of Studying: Part 2 of 5, posted to YouTube by SamfordCommunications (Samford University), August 16, 2011.
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    RO showed this video as part of a "How to Study" lecture, week 10, semester 4.
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