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The Social Network review - 0 views

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    By Tong Xiang in the (Duke) Chronicle, October 7 2010. Review of film, The Social Network.
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    Part of LC's lesson, What is Good Writing, week 2, semester 3.
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Smarthinking, Inc. - 0 views

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    This site describes itself as online tutoring and on-demand student support.
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    DS incorporates a Smarthinking.com review along with peer-review and students' own self-assessment, as part of the review of students' drafts.
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Innovating the 21st-Century University: It's Time! - 1 views

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    By Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams in EDUCAUSE Review, vol 45, no. 1 (January/February 2010). Authors discuss how and why the university should embrace collaborative learning and collaborative knowledge production.
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The Education of Diane Ravitch - 0 views

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    Book review in The New York Times, Sunday Book Review, Published May 6, 2010. The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch.
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MathGrapher | The Mathematical Graphing Tool for Students, Scientists and Engineers - 0 views

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    From the Introduction, "Mathgrapher is a mathematical graphing tool for 2D and 3D functions and data. It includes linear and nonlinear curve fitting, integration and analysis of coupled ordinary differential equations (ODE's) and multi-dimensional iterative maps, matrix operations, Lindenmayer systems and some cellular automata." Though the site indicates that the MathGrapher hasn't been updated since 2007, the site was recently given a positive review by University of Wisconsin's Internet Scout Report.
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Report Calls for Renewed Focus on Raising College-Completion Rates - 0 views

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    In the Students section of The Chronicle of Higher Education by Katherine Mangan, Jan 23 2013. The article summarizes a report by the National Commission on Higher Education Attainment. The commission just completed a year-long review of completion issues.
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edshelf - 0 views

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    From their About page, "edshelf is a directory of websites, mobile apps, and desktop software that are rated & reviewed by educators, for educators. We decrease the friction of using and procuring effective technology into the classroom." Concentration is on K-12, but these apps might also be useful for postsecondary teachers.
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Computers and Compostion Online - 0 views

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    Website of the online journal, published at Bowling Green State University. The journal publishes on the theoretical and the practical, as well as articles covering professional development and reviews of relevant products/apps.
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Problem-Based Learning at University of Delaware - 0 views

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    Part of UD's Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, this program offers workshops at the K-12 or post-secondary level for how instructors can integrate problem-based learning into their own classrooms. The PBL Clearinghouse, a "peer-reviewed online resource" collects PBL problems and articles. Additionally, the site offers resources including sample syllabi and projects.
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Creativity Through e-Learning: Engendering Collaborative Creativity Through Folksonomy - 1 views

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    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.
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    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.
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Answers in the Tool Box: Academic Intensity, Attendance Patterns, and Bachelor's Degree... - 0 views

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    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.
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    Full text of this article is available in GSCC Polilogue. Login required.
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Remediation in the Community College: An Evaluator's Perspective - 1 views

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    By Henry M. Levin and Juan Carlos Calcagno, published in the Community College Review, vol 35 #3, pp. 181-207, January 2008. This link provides a brief abstract and citation. Link to full-text PDF (purchase). For full article, see your local library.
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    Full text of this article is available in GSCC Polilogue. Login required.
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Your School's Secret Change Agents - 0 views

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    Posted by Robert Jacobs in Education Innovation (blog) on September 2, 2010. The model for school change that Jacobs outlines looks very similar to the GSCC project, in that both look at what's working and how it might be replicated, focusing on the positive (solution) rather than the more negative (problem). NOTE: The Harvard Business Review article that Jacobs refers to was published in 2005.
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Teaching Concepts: Cooperative Learning - 0 views

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    Excerpted from Biehler/Snowman, Psychology Applied to Teaching, 8th ed., 1997, this page is part of Houghton-Mifflin's Project-Based Learning Space. This review of cooperative learning resources looks at the models of the Johnson Brothers, Slavin, and Sharan & Sharan, comparing and contrasting each. This page includes resources, results, and methods for using cooperative learning in the classroom.
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Q & A: Judith Rodin - 0 views

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    By Eric Nee, Stanford Social Innovation Review, May 20, 2009. Rodin heads the Rockefeller Foundation and, in this interview, discusses their new initiative to fund organizations that work on innovation processes. The two examples are crowdsourcing (they fund InnoCentive, a for-profit that sponsors contests to solve other company's R&D problems) and collaborative competitions (they partnered with Changemakers, where the participants collaborate on each other's solutions).
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Writing Review Jeopardy Template - 0 views

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    Download a jeopardy template and play.
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International Journal of ePortfolio - 0 views

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    The International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP) is a new journal from Virginia Tech that will begin publication in the summer of 2011. Manuscript submission to begin Jan 2011. IJeP is to be a "double-blind, peer-reviewed, open access journal freely available online."
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Best Evidence Encyclopedia - 0 views

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    A project of Johns Hopkins University and the University of York (UK), this site provides an encyclopedia of evidence and reviews of K-12 education programs. There might be useful information here; as well the presentation might be one that we can learn from.
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Revisiting the Efficacy of Postsecondary Remediation: The Moderating Effects of Depth/B... - 0 views

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    By Peter Riley Bahr, published in The Review of Higher Education, vol 33(2), winter 2010. The article looks at remediation. Full abstract available on this page. Full article is available by subscription. Check with your college library for access via document delivery.
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Need for interdisciplinary studies on the teaching of writing - 0 views

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    By George Hillocks, Jr. Published in Rhetoric Review, Vol 7, Issue 2 Spring 1989, pages 257-272. This bookmark is to the citation within the publisher's database. Article is available for purchase or may be available through document delivery in your college's library.
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