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International Journal of ePortfolio - 0 views

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    The International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP) is a new journal from Virginia Tech that will begin publication in the summer of 2011. Manuscript submission to begin Jan 2011. IJeP is to be a "double-blind, peer-reviewed, open access journal freely available online."
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The need for connection & engagement in education - 0 views

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    By Garr Reynolds on his blog Presentation Zen, Nov 28 2010. Reynolds interest is in presentations in general, but he feels that presentations are tied to teaching and learning, and so is interested in others' theories on education. He highlights a 30 minute presentation by physicist Dr. Tae about the difficulties in teaching in large (100s+) lecture halls, and the needs for connection and engagement in such settings.
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Bridge Programs for Underprepared Adults Could Improve College Completion - 0 views

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    in the Governments section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Gonzalez, November 4, 2010. ""Bridge" programs that help adult students acquire the skills necessary to succeed in postsecondary education are gaining momentum and could play a vital role in fulfilling the nation's degree-completion agenda, according to the results of a new study by the Workforce Strategy Center."
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JeopardyLabs - 0 views

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    Create a customized jeopardy template. Games can be played online.
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Writing Review Jeopardy Template - 0 views

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    Download a jeopardy template and play.
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Appreciative Inquiry Definitions - 2 views

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    Collection of definitions of Appreciative Inquiry on the Appreciative Inquiry Commons.
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On writing : a memoir of the craft - 0 views

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    By Stephen King, New York: Scribner: 2000.
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The The Impotence of Proofreading - 0 views

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    by the poet Taylor Mali on YouTube. The importance of editing your own work is cleverly demonstrated in this video.
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Seven Ways to Build Your Own Educational Games - 0 views

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    On free4teachers.com blog, November 26, 2010. Many links to education based games sites and resources.
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The Shadow Scholar - 0 views

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    in The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Ed Dante (pseudonym), November 12, 2010. A for hire writer of student papers shares his story.
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Save The Words - 0 views

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    A website, developed by the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary, devoted to saving words that are rarely used and therefore risk losing a place in the dictionary.
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The Successful Student's Study Skills Checklist - 0 views

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    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.
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    LC used this site in her unit on study skills.
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Characteristics of a Successful Student - 0 views

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    From the Academic Support Center of Cuesta College. Strategies for student success. For similar, see tag success.
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    LC used this site for her unit on student success.
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Characteristics of a Successful Student - 0 views

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    From the Online Advising and Educational Planning office of Walla Walla Community College. For similar pages, see the success tag.
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    LC used this page in a unit on student success.
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How to Be a Student - 0 views

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    By Jerome R. Breitenbach, California Polytechnic State University, 1997. Tips on being a successful student. For similar pages, see success tag.
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    LC used this site as part of her unit on student success.
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Being a successful student - 0 views

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    From the Department of Life Sciences, Santa Rosa Junior College. This page identifies strategies to help students be successful as students. Similar sites are also bookmarked, see success tag.
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    LC used this site as part of her unit on student success.
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Q & A: Judith Rodin - 0 views

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    By Eric Nee, Stanford Social Innovation Review, May 20, 2009. Rodin heads the Rockefeller Foundation and, in this interview, discusses their new initiative to fund organizations that work on innovation processes. The two examples are crowdsourcing (they fund InnoCentive, a for-profit that sponsors contests to solve other company's R&D problems) and collaborative competitions (they partnered with Changemakers, where the participants collaborate on each other's solutions).
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Evolving storylines……..(ES): A participatory design process? - 0 views

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    Posted by Rick Davies to Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS (blog). No date, but note that this is updated from a May 2007 version published on another of Davies' blogs. From abstract, "Evolving storylines is a participatory method of developing multiple alternative views of the future, or interpretations of the past, in the form of branching stories." Davies describes the process, where each participant is both creating and evaluating the work of his/her peers.
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Assessment Insights: November 2010 | Research Insights - 0 views

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    Professional development that allows teachers to choose what they want to learn, is accessible through technology, and ties data to student success works.
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Community colleges urged to focus on performance, completion rates - 0 views

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    By Laurel Rosenhall in The Sacramento Bee, November 18 2010. A nonprofit association, the Community College League of California, calls for community colleges to educate 1 million more students by 2020, ensure that more students leave community college with a degree, and "do a better job educating Latino and African American students." Recommended changes include "evidence-based solutions," thinking differently and joining "Complete College America."
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