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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."

By Garr Reynolds on his blog Presentation Zen, Nov 28 2010. Reynolds interest is in presentations in general, but he feels that presentations are tied to teaching and learning, and so is interested in others' theories on education. He highlights a 30 minute presentation by physicist Dr. Tae about the difficulties in teaching in large (100s+) lecture halls, and the needs for connection and engagement in such settings.

in the Governments section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Gonzalez, November 4, 2010. ""Bridge" programs that help adult students acquire the skills necessary to succeed in postsecondary education are gaining momentum and could play a vital role in fulfilling the nation's degree-completion agenda, according to the results of a new study by the Workforce Strategy Center."

Create a customized jeopardy template. Games can be played online.

Download a jeopardy template and play.

Collection of definitions of Appreciative Inquiry on the Appreciative Inquiry Commons.

By Stephen King, New York: Scribner: 2000.

by the poet Taylor Mali on YouTube. The importance of editing your own work is cleverly demonstrated in this video.

On free4teachers.com blog, November 26, 2010. Many links to education based games sites and resources.

in The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Ed Dante (pseudonym), November 12, 2010. A for hire writer of student papers shares his story.

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.

From the Student Learning Assistance Center, Texas State University, 2002. This is an actual checklist for students, analyzing their study skills. For similar, see tag success.

LC used this site in her unit on study skills.

From the Academic Support Center of Cuesta College. Strategies for student success. For similar, see tag success.

LC used this site for her unit on student success.

From the Online Advising and Educational Planning office of Walla Walla Community College. For similar pages, see the success tag.

LC used this page in a unit on student success.

By Jerome R. Breitenbach, California Polytechnic State University, 1997. Tips on being a successful student. For similar pages, see success tag.

LC used this site as part of her unit on student success.

From the Department of Life Sciences, Santa Rosa Junior College. This page identifies strategies to help students be successful as students. Similar sites are also bookmarked, see success tag.

LC used this site as part of her unit on student success.

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).

Posted by Rick Davies to Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS (blog). No date, but note that this is updated from a May 2007 version published on another of Davies' blogs. From abstract, "Evolving storylines is a participatory method of developing multiple alternative views of the future, or interpretations of the past, in the form of branching stories." Davies describes the process, where each participant is both creating and evaluating the work of his/her peers.

Professional development that allows teachers to choose what they want to learn, is accessible through technology, and ties data to student success works.

By Laurel Rosenhall in The Sacramento Bee, November 18 2010. A nonprofit association, the Community College League of California, calls for community colleges to educate 1 million more students by 2020, ensure that more students leave community college with a degree, and "do a better job educating Latino and African American students." Recommended changes include "evidence-based solutions," thinking differently and joining "Complete College America."