Middle College National Consortium

By Janet E. Lieberman, Ed. in New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 63, Fall 1988. A collection of essays that provide background to joint programs between colleges and schools and describes a sample of approaches. This link to to the record on Eric. Full text PDF available to download.

home page for Change.mooc.ca

Fascinating must read on how "attention blindness" prevents us from seeing the bigger world and how unstructured charges to students on finding academic uses of iPods they had been given as Duke first year students led to interconnected learning, innovation, etc. Excerpt: But it got me thinking: What if bad writing is a product of the form of writing required in college-the term paper-and not necessarily intrinsic to a student's natural writing style or thought process? I hadn't thought of that until I read my students' lengthy, weekly blogs and saw the difference in quality. If students are trying to figure out what kind of writing we want in order to get a good grade, communication is secondary. What if "research paper" is a category that invites, even requires, linguistic and syntactic gobbledygook? Research indicates that, at every age level, people take their writing more seriously when it will be evaluated by peers than when it is to be judged by teachers. Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers. Longitudinal studies of student writers conducted by Stanford University's Andrea Lunsford, a professor of English, assessed student writing at Stanford year after year. Lunsford surprised everyone with her findings that students were becoming more literate, rhetorically dexterous, and fluent-not less, as many feared. The Internet, she discovered, had allowed them to develop their writing.

The DECA Institute was formed with grant funds awarded to the Dayton Early College Academy. The purpose of the grant was to share successful practices for urban students with other Ohio schools. Video and PowerPoint resources from the Institute are available on the website.

Unbelievable!!!!

"The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board provides leadership and coordination for the Texas higher education system." Agency reports are available to download from the site.

Organization that promotes and supports academic advising in institutions of higher education.

"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 . . ."

Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy

Twitter feed of Lucian Duma, teacher, researcher and social media curator based in Caransebes, Romania . website: http://luciandumateachweb20.eu/

TED has set up an education Brain Trust of short lectures that it says anyone may contribute to. Should be fascinating.

Douglas B. Reeves is the founder of the The Leadership and Learning Center and author of 30 books and many articles on leadership and organizational effectiveness, particularly in the school system.

K-12 Open Curricula community

PechaKucha is a presentation format: 20 slides x 20 seconds.

SIL Team, Doris told me about this and Eric Markinson sent it to me. It's an awesome idea to share with your students as they go out to present, but it's also something you could organize in your School, Local Community, etc. Terry

Kayne's work studies the connections between poverty and education. She is best known for her book (also a training workshop), A Framework for Understanding Poverty (also bookmarked, follow payne tag).

Video on wikis in plain English by Common Craft at YouTube

Richard Byrne's blog on Free Technology for Teachers always comes up with excellent resources. This one is the Story of Bottled Water produced in 2010. I noticed below on this page videos about plastic and how 1 cheeseburger=15,000 Googles. I assume the last one is about the environmental costs of technology.

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

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!

Dawn Cooper's organization website