GlobalSkillsCC

Jointly authored by researchers, faculty, and administrators from The Center for Student Success and the RP group (the Research and Planning Gropu for California Community Colleges), March 2007.

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This article in the Aug 8 Chronicle of Higher Ed makes the bold proposal that "we need something grander and more comprehensive, something that will lead to a conceptual sea change in the way the nation understands and deals with the issue of academic underpreparation. "I propose that a wealthy foundation or consortium of foundations support with great fanfare a National Center for the Study and Teaching of Basic Skills. Such a center would have a long-term effect on education, social justice, and economic prosperity." Rose continues, something like the Smithsonian Institution or a National Endowment for Basic Studies.

Hotel hosting Camp TAG-a-Lot in Baltimore, August 9-12, 2010.

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.

From the shifthappens wiki. this page briefly outlines the history of the Did You Know video, and provides links to various commentaries on it. Also on this wiki (follow the table of contents in the left-hand navigation): sources used for the presentation and suggested uses of the presentation.

New blog for Parents, teachers of, and students with LD/ADD online resource for postsecondary transition news

This may be a good resource for some of your students.

On Faculty Inquiry Network. This page links to an article written by Katie Hern and Myra Snell for RP Group's statewide newsletter, Perspectives. The article, Exponential Attrition and the Promise of Acceleration, June 2010, argues that attrition can be guaranteed in long developmental sequences and presents evidence that one semester, open-access courses are a way to increase student completion rates in college-level English and math.

ALP at Community College of Baltimore County, Conference dates: June 24th-25th, 2010.

By Carol Pogash, from the Bay Citizen; published in the New York Times, June 24 2010. This story looks at City College of San Francisco (CCSF), a community college with a particularly long sequence of remediation courses. A trustee made a controversial recommendation that the sequence be shortened.

By Elizabeth Redden in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Government section, June 6, 2010.

A course presented by Innovative Educators, the course is available on-demand as a webinar. Full details of learning objectives and faculty bios available on this page.

Comic piece on YouTube; no date for Father Sarducci's original presentation. In 5 minutes, he can teach you what the average college graduate remembers 5 years after having graduated from college.

Posted by Kristine to The official blog of PBworks, June 1 2010. As of June 14, camp was closed. Unfortunately, there are no further camp-related updates.

Presentation at Stanford University, November 19, 2008, by Lee Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Shulman discusses the need for routine and surprise in educating professionals.

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.

Brochure from 43rd Annual Conference, New York State Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges. Y.H. intended to present "Keys for Students-Faculty Success in Community College Completion: LaGuardia Basic Skills Initiatives."

By Lisa Linn Kanae, Saneohe, HI: Tinfish, 2001(?)

From YouTube, an inspiring story of a service dog and the owner/trainer who was able to play to the dog's strengths.

Video used in a student exercise for a CAT in jam on Shreds of Data (R.O.).

Essay by George Orwell on online-literature.com

Used for CAT assignment in jam on Shreds of Data (MD).

by Byron Pitts. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009. Author outlines the disadvantages he overcame in the pursuit of his career. See pitts tag for related bookmarks.

Mentioned (by MZ) in jam on Shreds of Data