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

Testing system by Epstein Educational Enterprises. IF-AT transforms multiple-choice testing into an interactive learning opportunity for students and provides an informative assessment tool for teachers.

on YouTube. A teacher "raps" the order of operations.

Getting started guide for Adobe Presenter

On the blog Kaironews: A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy. This post introduces the class discussion technique, Conversacolor.

Budget cuts to community colleges highlights the fact that as a society we were never fully committed to remedial students in the first place. Young people and adults who have been criminalized and imprisoned are ineligible for loans, and cannot afford college to turn their life around. These cuts target the working poor, undereducated, and disadvantaged and are a threat to our democracy.

Democracy is dependent on educating those students who require developmental education. Funding dev ed is a moral and social issue, not just an educational one.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

Essay by George Orwell on online-literature.com

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

The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges was founded in 1974. It is the only organization exclusively devoted to providing a national forum for the improvement of mathematics instruction in the first two years of college.

Originally EPAC, or Electronic Portfolio Action Committee (currently called Electronic Portfolio Action and Communication) formed within EDUCAUSE , this is an association of national leaders in ePortfolios formed in 2008. In the Fall of 2010, AAEEBL will have its first annual conference.

By Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister, published by hackerhandbooks.com, this book helps students to navigate use of MLA when citing sources in their research papers.

NH used this link in her ePort for week 6, fall semester 2010.

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.