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From Channel Thirteen's Ed Online, books, articles, and websites that promote collaborative and particularly cooperative learning.

A website, developed by the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary, devoted to saving words that are rarely used and therefore risk losing a place in the dictionary.

This website collects user-contributed definitions of today's slang.

Website for the movie. Mentioned in Using Context Clues in Vocabulary Learning.

As described on the Google website.

From PBS's Frontline, this documentary looks at how learning and work have changed with the advent of digital tools. Website includes full program as well as supplementary materials.

This website,created by the Clinton RESA, Ingham ISD, Macomb ISD & Shiawassee RESD, offers 21 technology concepts (e.g. blogs, digital citizenship, online video resources) that teachers might want to incorporate into their classrooms. While the site is aimed at K-12 teachers, it is likely that teachers at all levels can find something worthwhile here. NOTE: the site was built in 2008; in the fast-moving 2.0 world, there might be tools that are since out of date.

Based on the 1977 book about architecture, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, and three subsequent volumes, this website expands upon the ideas of architectural pattern, looking at community, but also at computer patterns. "A Child's History of Pattern Language" (first click on the pattern link) attempts to make these ideas even more accessible.

While on the surface, architectural patterns have little to do with pedagogy patterns, the underlying ideas here seem very similar to those of GSCC. Also interesting to see how they've built them out on the web.

Presented by NADE (National Association for Developmental Education), this resource page includes articles, books, and a listing of national centers and websites.

On Virginia Western Community College website

By Diana D. Woolis and Gail O. Mellow. This page is the abstract for the book chapter on the Emerald website.

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 Carl J. Jung (2005) in Journal of Developmental Education; 28.3 (2005): 2-11. Author's Abstract: The guiding premise of this article is that developmental education and learning assistance programs will continue to be undervalued and vulnerable as long as there is no overarching, shared theoretical framework that practitioners can (and want to) call their own. The traditional approach to addressing this theory crisis has been to import theories from outside the field. This article presents an alternative approach. Advantages and benefits of a practice-oriented approach are identified and briefly discussed. 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 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 is a thesis statement generator, published on the website of Mr. John C. McGarvey's A.P. World History course, taught at San Dimas High School. The page was last updated on June 11, 2003.

This was one of the thesis generator sites shown by M.Z. in week 11, semester 2 (argumentation).

By H.G. Wells, posted on HorrorMasters.com website. First published in book form in 1911 with other stories, Country of the Blind was originally published in The Strand Magazine in 1904.

R.S. assigned this for his class, week 9, semester 2.

Presented by Atul Gawande, author of Better. Posted to website 5minLife, Videopedia in the Health section. For more on Gawande and Better, follow the gawande tag.

NH assigned in Week 1, semester 3.

Website for MoMath.

This site, run by teacher Jennie Dougherty, tries to connect edtech start-ups with faculty for real-life user testing.

If you are interested in participating in user tests of new educational technology, contact Dougherty via this website.

Collaborative tool for instructors and students to interact in real time to add synchronous content to asynchronous distance learning.