GlobalSkillsCC

on Guide to Grammar & Writing, sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation, Hartford, Connecticut.

MZ assigned this in week 7, semester 3.

The Faculty Inquiry Network (FIN) "is comprised of community college faculty from across California, working in teams to investigate a complex problem in basic skills education..." (from Info page). Together, they have produced this beautiful blog which describes faculty inquiry ("a form of professional development") and includes resources and a toolkit. There is also an email subscription available, to better keep current with this project.

By Galbraith, Michael W. and Melanie Jones. In Journal of Developmental Education; 30.2 (2007): 20-27. This was one of the pre-camp reading assignments, and is available on Polilogue. Article is available for purchase or may be available through document delivery in your college's library.

Camtasia video created by the Extended Learning Institute (ELI) of the Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA). Helps students to understand how to use MLA format to cite their reference sources.

NH used this video in her demonstration of citing reference sources (week 6, fall 2010 semester).

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.

Part of The Aspen Institute, "The purpose of the Aspen Prize is to recognize community colleges with outstanding academic and workforce outcomes in both absolute performance and improvements over time. By focusing on student success and lifting up models that work, the prize will honor excellence, stimulate innovation, and create benchmarks for measuring progress." (Program Summary)

By Glenda Ollero on her blog, List Five, April 9 2010.

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

By Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993.

CAT technique used from this resource: Double Entry Journals

TM cites Angelo & Cross as she discusses assessment techniques that she had used. Several other cites which I will also bookmark here.

Built by Thomas J. Petra, Real World Math uses Google Earth as a tool to help teach math. "Within this site you will find lesson ideas, examples, and downloads for mathematics that embrace active learning, constructivism, and project-based learning while remaining true to the standards." The lessons are targeted to Grade 5 and up.

By Tracy Jan in the Boston Globe, May 5 2010. In Massachusetts, a new plan to "measure and report student achievement," called the Vision Project. Development of the plan included all 29 of the state's public colleges, universities, and community colleges.

This site offers various writing-related resources from grades 7-12, through college and for professional writers. Resources range from rules of various citation formats to proper cover letters and resumes.

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."

Dan Pink makes a case for intrinsic motivation and explains the mismatch between knowledge and management around motivation.

Dan Pink makes a case. The mismatch between what we know about motivation and what management does.

Dr. Helen Barrett blogs about electronic portfolios and digital storytelling.

By Cody Hodge on the website Helium, December 4 2009. A brief exploration of the various reasons that (21st century) people might get tattoos.

TO'C uses this to further develop her heart scars project.

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.

Webinar designed to provide information on the Common Core State Standards initiative.

In R.O. Lesson 7, semester 2

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.

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

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.