GlobalSkillsCC

By Rob Jenkins in the On Hiring [blog], The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 30 2012. A brief post in which Jenkins talks about how community colleges' requirement of college-level teaching experience scares off (or at least causes concern) among some recent PhD seekers, who were under the impression that community colleges did not have stringent teaching experience requirements.

By Greg Howard, Slate.com, November 9 2011. A proposed 15 cent tax on fresh-cut Christmas trees was repealed at the last minute.

JEC used this article to help students learn about essay topics.

By Megan Gibson, Education, Time.com. The article talks about the early hours that some Florida schools serve lunch, in order to accommodate early start times -- and early breakfasts. According to the article, while the timing may seem controversial, it has no real impact on students health and welfare.

JEC used this article to help her students learn about developing thesis statements (week 8, semester 4).

Available from iTunes, movie trailers and a "featurette" for the film Hugo, 2011.

RA recommends Trailer 2 to help illustrate for students how "a reader is pulled through the coherent flow of ideas in an essay."

Produced by (Channel) Thirteen in association with WNET, 2012. This site provides students with real-world examples of how professionals use math: in music, fashion, video games, restaurants, basketball, and special effects. Primarily created for students in middle and high school.

Might this be of interest to students in developmental math, as well?

By Rebekah Nathan (pseudonym), published by Cornell University Press, 2005. In this book, an anthropology professor goes "under cover," enrolling in a local university as a student, in order to better understand the students in her class.

Amazon reviews were mixed, with many in the academic community (especially anthropologists) critical of Nathan's going "under cover," rather than more explicit observation, as an anthropologist might.

Collected and hosted by Cook Counseling Center at Virginia Tech, this web page offers study skills resources for students, with a focus on time management, but also looking at test taking, reading comprehension in textbooks, and how to improve concentration.

Faculty might find resources here to share with students or integrate into curriculum.

Published by American Association of Community Colleges, April 2012. From this page, you can download a PDF of the full report, as well as video about the report, information on the 21st-Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges, and coverage of this report in the media.

Part of TED2011, filmed March 2011; posted October 2011 on TED.com. Coron is an artist who works in paper-cutting. In this video, she recounts her own life and work, with examples.

RA used this video to help her students think about their own "storytelling" as they worked on their final essays. She felt that this video also helped to expand her students' worlds.

Posted to HuffPost Food on October 7, 2011, this music video parody is an ad for an organic dairy in the UK.

RA used this video to further the discussion about food in her class (semester 4).

Produced by WorldLink, (n.d.), Nourish is available for purchase from this web page. The video illustrates how our food choices have impacts outside of our own homes/bodies (e.g. environment, labor, etc.). There is a short excerpt available on this web page; full film runs 26 minutes.

We *think* that RA used the full-length version of this film in her class (week 3, semester 4).

Created by/posted to Dave256apps.com, this is a downloadable app that facilitates attendance using iPhone/Touch/iPad.

RA uses this application to take attendance and also makes use of its ability to create random groups among the students present.

From the television program Portlandia, posted to Hulu.com.

RA used this clip to supplement discussions about food (theme for semester).

Scientists have discovered proof that the evolution of intelligence and larger brain sizes can be driven by cooperation and teamwork, shedding new light on the origins of what it means to be human. The study appears online in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B and was led by scientists at Trinity College Dublin: PhD student, Luke McNally and Assistant Professor Dr Andrew Jackson at the School of Natural Sciences in collaboration with Dr Sam Brown of the University of Edinburgh.

Scientific study of how working collaboratively enlarges brain size

Sponsored by the Center for Recruitment & Retention of Mathematics Teachers at the University of Arizona, this site is a compilation of one-hour television shows, originally presented weekly on a local cable channel. The team has moved the programs to YouTube to expand their reach.

Produced by Learn Alberta (Canada), this site provides (online) interactive exercises in math.

By Evan Weissman, Dan Cullinan, Oscar Cerna, Stephanie Safran and Phoebe Richman, with Amanda Grossman. National Center for Postsecondary Research (NCPR) Teachers College Columbia University. February 2012. Link to full report at the bottom of the summary on this page. The colleges in this study are two of six in the NCPR Learning Communities Demonstration, in which random assignment evaluations are being used to determine the impacts of learning communities on student success. NCPR has presented finding from all six colleges. They show that when one-semester learning communities have impacts, they tend to be concentrated in the semester in which students are enrolled in the program. Another report, a final one will be released in 2012. That report synthesizes the findings across all colleges studied and includes an additional semester of student follow-up at each college.

Edited by Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, MPublishing, 2011. (Print edition forthcoming) This site is an open-access version of a volume of over 300 responses to questions posed by the editors in their social networks. Contributors were allowed only one week to respond. The approach, encouraging interactivity as well as a time limit, and the questions intended to provoke thinking on how digital media and technology can beneficially reform the academy. The editors convincingly state a good case for their choice of the word "hack." (originally bookmarked September 9, 2011. The previous link is no longer active.)

A tumblr created by Luke Neff. From his "About" page, he describes himself as a teacher. This page has over 400 writing prompts, most of which include a photo or illustration, a quote, and then a suggestion for a writing exercise.

These might be useful in writing classes.