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This chapter from Dr. Yu-Chung Chang's ePortfolio describes her work helping her students at Pasadena City College overcome their math anxiety.

By Claire E. Weinstein, published in Handbook of College Teaching: Theory and Applications, ed. by Keith W. Prichard, R. Mclaran Sawyer. Greenwood Press, 1994. This is an excerpt of Weinstein's article. Her basic premise is that developmental ed students often must learn how to learn. Full chapter can be purchased from this link. The book might be available in your college library, or via interlibrary loan.

Site where you can post videos, screencasts, etc. to make them publicly available or share with other users.

The full-text of this book, ed Terry Anderson, published by Athabasca University in 2008, is available for download in its entirety or by chapter, as PDF. Chapters 2 and 4 are bookmarked in our collection.

By John Paul Athanasourelis, published in Teaching English in the two-year college, v33(4), pp. 407-409, May 2006. This article responds to Murray's ideas about conferencing with students in "A writer teaches writing."

This is a screencast from Pearson.

Screen capture software. Free version available for download.

By Sheila Tobias, published by Paw Prints, 2008. Originally published in 1978.

This is a free questionnaire of approximately 20 questions that enables users to quickly assess their learning style.

LASSI is an inventory of learning and study strategies, and measures students' strengths and weaknesses in terms of strategic learning. Developed by Claire E. Weinstein, Ann C. Schulte, and David R. Palmer at the University of Texas, Austin.

By Donald M. Murray, 1985. A prominent writing teacher who advocates writing teachers conferencing with their students.

Lecture capture software

Trudy Smoke, Published in Journal of Basic Writing, Vol 20, No 2 Fall 2001, pages 88-96. This bookmark is to the citation in ERIC. Article is available through the ProQuest Research Library database.

Originally bookmarked by Brenda. By Terry Anderson. Chapter 2 of The theory and practice of online learning, ed Terry Anderson, published by Athabasca University, 2E, 2008. In this chapter, Anderson looks at learning theories generally, in order to look at and develop more useful theories of online learning.

Web-based presentation tool recommended by some of our faculty.

Screen capture presentation tool that is used by many of our faculty, including for GSCC presentations.

From Nikon Festival, video ironically depicting a day in the life of a math teacher.

Published by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as part of their Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC), 2008.

From this link, you can download the software needed to enter Second Life, a popular user-created, 3D virtual world community.