GlobalSkillsCC

Posted by beyonceVEVO on October 2 2009.

This was one of three videos that R.O. (week 7, semester 3) shared with students in a lesson on video analysis.

Published by CollegeBoard, revised 12/2008. This guide provides practice for the WritePlacer test including information about how the exam is scored.

R.O. (week 5, semester3) used this guide with her students to help them prepare for their retest.

From Tailored Essays (a custom essay service), this article (no author or date listed) helps students to understand how to find a topic that will be both interesting and about which there is enough to say.

R.O. (week 3, semester 3) used this article in a discussion with students about inventing their essay topics.

From the Delta College Daily Difference. Article is undated, but Valkenburg was a 2010 Fellow and was inducted at the Association for the Tutoring Profession (ATP) national conference on March 29 2011.

TO'C introduced Valkenburg to her students to help connect them to some of the academic support that will be available to them even after completing their developmental ed classes.

Written by Haley Drucker; edited by Laurie Patsalides; posted on Bright Hub, updated Oct 10 2011.

TO'C (week 4, semester 3) used this article as the source for students to practice their summarizing. At the same time, she felt this article on managing stress would be relevant to their school experience.

By Professor Terry Doyle, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, Ferris State University. No date.

TO'C (week 3, semester 3) used this presentation with her students to generate conversation on their feelings about/experiences of deep learning.

From the website Research and Documentation Online, 5th Edition published by Bedford/St. Martin's. Outlines the various rules for formatting the paper and preparing the list of works cited.

NH (week 12, semester 3) projects this for the class when discussing how they will finish their research papers.

From InfoTrac College Edition, published by Cengage Learning. This excerpt was originally in The Sundance Reader, Third Edition, Web Site by Mark Connelly.

NH used this reading (week 7, semester 3) to help her students understand argumentation.

Posted to YouTube by AssociatedPress on June 3 2009. This video, produced by Associated Press, looks at the issue of whether taxes on "unhealthy" food and drinks will help to slow sales, thus keeping people healthier (and holding health care costs in check).

NH (week 6, semester 2) used this video and a companion (also bookmarked) to help illustrate the issues that students were reading/writing about.

Posted to YouTube by NoBevandFoodTax on January 13 2011. This is a TV ad arguing against taxing food and beverages .

NH (week 6, semester 2) used this video and a companion (also bookmarked) to help illustrate the issues that students were reading/writing about.

Posted to YouTube by LadyGagaVEVO on Dec 19 2009.

This was one of three videos that R.O. (week 7, semester 3) shared with students in a lesson on video analysis.

Posted on YouTube by UsherVEVO on Mar 29 2010.

This was one of three videos that R.O. (week 7, semester 3) shared with students in a lesson on video analysis.

Help page (no author cited, no date) of the library of one of the GSCC schools.

R.O. shared this resource (week 10, semester 3) as she guided the students through (online) library research.

By Belinda Allen and Kathryn Coleman (both of University of New South Wales), proceedings of ascilite 2011 conference, Australia, December 2011. ascilite is the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. "The paper explores creativity as a graduate capability, the creative potential of digital media, and how changing directions in assessment practice could support the assessment of creativity, with a focus on using eportfolios in assessment." Full text, as PDF, available on this page.

From the blog Connectivism by George Siemens, December 14 2011. Siemens argues the importance of artifacts to help students make sense of their experiences in MOOCs and other online learning experiences.

From this librarian's perspective, GSCC has proven the richness of an e-community's artifact collection. We are thinking about how to integrate the artifacts even further into the experience in GSCC 2.0.

Contents of eLearning Papers No 27, published by elearingeuropa.info December 2011. This collection of 6 papers (plus an editorial) focus primarily on how technology has (or has not) impacted learning design. Full text of all articles is available here, along with a PDF of the print version.

Familiar terms in some of the article titles, including patterns, students as learning designers, invitational online learning environments, and "blended collaborative construction participation."

By Kevin Carey, Commentary in The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 11, 2011. Community Colleges will now have an opportunity to vie for a top prize. "The Aspen Institute is awarding the first annual Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, with the winner and up to three runners-up sharing in the $1-million prize fund." Among the 10 finalists, Aspen Institute's evaluators conducted site visits and looked closely at employment outcomes, teaching practices and student learning. "The best community colleges, they found, were focused and intentional when it came to structuring the learning experience."

Part of the OWL site, within the multi-part Essay Writing section. Contributors Jack Baker and Allen Brizee; last edited 3/23/11.

TS used this resource in her classroom description, week 6, semester 3.

Mobi View is an interactive whiteboard developed by eInstruction.

LS uses this tool in her classroom, as mentioned in week 8, semester 3.

This edition of UPDATE focuses on partnerships, beginning with an interview with Dr. Gene Bottoms, founder of High Schools That Work (HSTW). Dr. Bottoms provides important insights into the ways partnerships were used to create HSTW, as well as the ways they are necessary to involving high schools and community colleges in the implementation of Programs of Study. This volume also includes two invited articles, one by Dr. Pamela Eddy, College of William and Mary University, and Dr. Marilyn Amey, Michigan State University, that give OCCRL readers a glimpse into their new book on partnerships and collaboration, and a second by Dr. Louise Yarnell, who shares a model that she and her colleagues at SRI are developing for the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF).