GlobalSkillsCC

By Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963, as posted by the African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.

A documentary produced by Centillion Productions Ltd. in association with CBC-TV (Canadian Broadcasting), first broadcast Feb 2010. From this page, you can download the full documentary (45 minutes) or the 30 second trailer.

Movie-making software available through the cloud (e.g. to everyone; free registration required).

Spearheaded by John Squires (who has since moved to Chattanooga State Community College), this page outlines the redesign, looking at impact on students, cost savings, lessons learned, and sustainability. All data as of June 2009.

This site is the "home" of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality inventory, which is used both in the workplace and to identify learning styles in students.

By Kristen di Gennaro in Journal of Basic Writing, v 27(1), p. 61-79, 2008. This page, from the ERIC database, includes an abstract for this article. The article itself is subscription only. Please check with your local library for more assistance.

By Gerry Everding, as part of the Washington University in St. Louis Newsroom, March 1 2006. Researchers from Washington University completed this study, saying that frequent quizzes may help students in terms of understanding and retaining information.

By Robert Kirkman; Tony Moore. Berkely, Calif.: Image; London : Diamond [distributor], 2006 "An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living."

By Richard A. Schwier and published June 2011. This page offers free download of the .epub. Schwier is at the University of Saskatchewan and studies virtual learning communities. For more, see the scheier tag.

Posted to YouTube by twilight28xo on December 26 2008.

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.

Article created by Dawn Hawkins in Helium, January 01 2011 (last updated Jan 4 2011). The article offers several legal/technical definitions of domestic violence, as well as a number for support.

This article helped TO'C's students prepare for their work on the Tombstone Project, week 8, semester 4.

No author/creator's name given and no date. The forum offers both a poll, in which users can vote (with scars winning at 60%, as of May 2012), and a forum where users can express more complete opinions.

TO'C used this article to help inform her discussion of the "heart scars" project, week 5, semester 4.

Resources for "makers," DIY folks who innovate, create and share projects & ideas. These resources include a subscription based magazine, a blog, videos & podcasts, shared project ideas, a forum/community and a store. Additionally, Maker Faire is an annual conference for the Make audience. Make Magazine, published quarterly by O'Reilly is a hybrid magazine/book "(known as a mook in Japan)".

From Bowling Green State University, resources provided by their Center for Teaching and Learning. They use Shelfari to collect and describe their Library Holdings; the Center Archives has an excellent compilation of favorite websites; and the Teaching and Learning Guides are also helpful.

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.

B.M. used this app with her students, using in-class iPads, week 6, semester 4

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."

TO'C used this article to help inform her discussion of the "heart scars" project, week 5, semester 4.

This page has no attribution or create date. It includes directions (and examples) for 5 key spots where dialogue requires special punctuation.

NH linked to this page in Blackboard, it offers "good but simple instructions for writing dialogue with all of those nasty details...."

Presented by College Writing Center at Mermec, revised 2006. Student guide to writing effective outlines.

LH used this with her students, week 9, semester 4.

Part of Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), this document helps guide students through the process of developing an outline.

LH used this guide with her students, week 9, semester 4.

By Rob Jenkins in the On Hiring [blog], The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 30 2012. A brief post in which Jenkins talks about how community colleges' requirement of college-level teaching experience scares off (or at least causes concern) among some recent PhD seekers, who were under the impression that community colleges did not have stringent teaching experience requirements.