Navigating Disparate Pathways to College: Examining the Conditional Effects of Race on Enrollment Decisions by Mark E. Engberg & Gregory C. Wolniak, 2009.

An incredible resource on Learning Through Digital Media Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy, edited by Trebor Scholz.

How a professor of media studies uses Facebook in and outside of class to engage his students in discussions, share resources, brainstorming, understanding privacy settings and how Facebook may be used constructively for our different selves depending on the groups we interact with, etc.

A wonderful 5-minute video that captures not only the concepts underlying a "more intensive pathway" in cc developmental studies but also the same thinking behind the MC-EC high school integrated approach--affective, academic, college success skills

ALP--accelerates basic writing students through their developmental writing course and ENG 101 in one semester. Builds on strengths of earlier approaches such as mainstreaming, studios, learning communities, and bridge programs. Showing great promise.

FastStart@CCD--how the community college of Denver put FastStart into place to provide a holistic approach to accelerate students through multiple semesters of developmental coursework.

Incredible mindmap with links to all the major web 2.0 social media possibilities.

Good comparison by Amy Greene at the Evergreen State College on Diigo vs. Zotero

Curt Bonk is an amazing instructional design professor at Indiana University. Here he has 27 videos (about 10 minutes long each) covering everything from discussion forums (I learned a lot!) to Blended Learning to wiki uses and applications. All free!

Exercises for helping a group use past experience to identify how they can and should work together by Sara Carney

Action Research tips for college bound teens to work together on a project, specifically that challenging phase when team members don't yet know what they want to work on.

Microsoft education site for Digital Storytelling inthe Classroom PDF

A free resource that delves into Google's lesster known search tools. Google Books, Google Scholar, Google News. How to access Google Books advanced search.

"But many of the problems we face today are COMPLEX, and methods to solve simple and complicated problems will not work with complex ones. One of the ways we addressed simple & complicated problems was through training. Training works well when you have clear and measurable objectives. However, there are no clear objectives with complex problems. Learning as we probe the problem, we gain insight and our practices are emergent (emerging from our interaction with the changing environment and the problem). Training looks backwards, at what worked in the past (good & best practices), and creates a controlled environment to develop knowledge and skills."

Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy

The basis for using digital media for learning on campus and off. The introduction to a book.

"I'm teaching a writing class this summer, and I recently stumbled upon an effective method for encouraging students to discuss each others' drafts. It involves their thumbs. Allow me to explain . . ."

"Corporations use TWO process form, BOTH missing entirely from dowdy lazy sloppy dishonest (Harvard) universities; a) process weaves----emediated process flows PUNCTUATED with mass workshop EVENTS b) pulsed systems---rhythms of engagement with disengagement, sameness with difference, local with global---so that mere addition of connectedness is not allowed to destroy all creativity. "

Great presentation on how to use Adobe Connect for synchronous learning by K-8 students and Encarde, a way to communicate with students and parents and keep them responding to deadlines on projects without using email, that most people read late or not at all. This virtual model could also work for SLI.

Blog on high school economics and 4th grade collaboration on Lawn Boy book that focuses on economic principles that guide a young boy's lawn mowing practice into a money maker. I like that because it takes sophisticated principles and presents them within an interesting story that grabs 4th graders and high school students. Then through a collaboration online between the two age groups, they discuss the book together through a series of Skype interviews/interactions.