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Part of Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), this document helps guide students through the process of writing thesis statements.

M.Z. used this site in class, week 11, semester 2.

This is a thesis statement generator, published by University of Phoenix, 2006.

This was one of the thesis generator sites shown by M.Z. in week 11, semester 2 (argumentation).

This is a thesis statement generator, published on the website of Mr. John C. McGarvey's A.P. World History course, taught at San Dimas High School. The page was last updated on June 11, 2003.

This was one of the thesis generator sites shown by M.Z. in week 11, semester 2 (argumentation).

Audio on the Academic Minute, Inside Higher Ed, March 14, 2011. University of Rochester's C. Douglas Haessig discusses Pi.

D.W. posted this link in March coffee klatch.

TM shared that her school celebrates Pi Day with writing assignments that have to do with Pi.

Tool for creating interactive web pages for eLearning courses

D.W. posted a query about this tool in March coffeeklatch

By Kevin Carey in the Commentary section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15 2011. Carey cites a recent negotiation between the US Departments of Education and Labor in which community colleges can compete for federal funds "to serve students online" but, in exchange, will also provide those online tools, free, via Creative Commons license.

Posted by iLoveiLoveLucy1 to YouTube, March 24, 2010. No date given for the original television broadcast.

RA used this clip as comic relief following a series of re-tellings of the Red Riding Hood story (for a lesson on narrative vs. expository writing). Week 4, Semester 3.

By Ken Bain, Harvard University Press, 2004. According to its description, this book is based on a 15-year study and concludes that "it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand." The best teachers know their subjects well, but also know how to motivate and challenge their students. They believe "that teaching matters, and that students can learn."

RA discussed this in the notes for her lesson, week 3, semester 3.

By UNESCO Chair in E-Learning, UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning Blog, April 4 2011. A very brief explanation of, and link to, the OER Matrix, "a collection of college-level OER links, organized by course and by repository."

By Jeffrey R. Young in the Technology column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 10 2011. This article looks at a handful of schools that are using recommender systems to guide students' course selection.

By Jennifer Gonzalez, Students column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 10, 2011. Studies conducted by MDRC have found that, "while students [in learning communities] do make academic gains, such as progressing more quickly through developmental courses, the gains don't persist beyond the semester students are involved in the learning community." Authors acknowledge that these are early findings and that later findings may prove different results.

By Rosemary Capps, August 2010. In this dissertation, Capps looks deeply at the persistence of 9 adult learners in a community college, while also looking at the literature of persistence, demographic surveys, etc.

By David Glenn in the Students column of The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 11, 2011. A Q&A with Rosemary Capps, who studied 9 community college students for her dissertation, which won an award at AERA. In this Q&A, Capps discusses the importance of developmental education, and how these teachers often made a real difference to the students that she studied.

Announcement of a Summary Report produced by Community College Research Center (CCRC) by Davis Jenkins, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Josipa Roksa, November 2009. The analysis looked at the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), studying a dataset of 24,140 first-time college students who enrolled in at least one VCCS course in summer or fall 2004. A PDF of the summary is available from this page, as is a link to the full-length technical version.

By H.G. Wells, posted on HorrorMasters.com website. First published in book form in 1911 with other stories, Country of the Blind was originally published in The Strand Magazine in 1904.

R.S. assigned this for his class, week 9, semester 2.

By Diana Hacker. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's (2004)

A national public policy initiative to improve developmental studies in postsecondary education.

on YouTube. A one minute animation about climate change and energy from WWF-Brazil.

Make your own cartoon movie with this online tool.

Create a new comic strip