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By Jane Magruder Watkins and Bernard J. Mohr. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2001. GSCC utilizes an AI approach to working together. There is a new edition of this book being published next month. This link goes to the title on Worldcat where you can locate a copy in a library.

Trudy Smoke, Published in Journal of Basic Writing, Vol 20, No 2 Fall 2001, pages 88-96. This bookmark is to the citation in ERIC. Article is available through the ProQuest Research Library database.

Eric Berlow on Ted (Talks in Less than 6 Minutes series). Posted November, 2010. Ecologist doesn't feel overwhelmed when faced with complex systems. He knows that more information can lead to a better, simpler solution. Illustrating the tips and tricks for breaking down big issues, he distills an overwhelming infographic on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan to a few elementary points.

By Diana D. Woolis and Gail O. Mellow. This page is the abstract for the book chapter on the Emerald website.

By Charles Leadbeater. This is the web page for the We-think project, and includes downloads for chapters 1-3, as well as links to other materials related to the book (including an early draft).

By Gail O. Mellow and Cynthia Heelan (2008) This page is the announcement of the book from LaGuardia Community College and the text/video of Dr. Mellow's lecture for the Robert H. Atwell lecture.

From TED.com

Charles Leadbeater We Think video on YouTube.

By Michael W. Galbraith, and Melanie Jones in Journal of Developmental Education; 30.2 (2006): 20-27. Author's abstract: This article suggests that a balance of the art and science of teaching is essential if the learning and teaching process is to be a meaningful and rewarding educational journey. This notion is explored through a dialogue, held over a 3 year period, with a developmental mathematics instructor at a community college who discovered that technique alone was not sufficient to becoming a good instructor. An unusual situation occurred as a result of the dialogue: Discussion of research-based literature on college teaching and personal experiential reflectivity merged and resulted in an organizing framework for understanding the artistic and mechanic elements of effective instruction. Full text by subscription. Check with your local library. This is a link to the TOC on the National Center for Developmental Education's website.

By Anthony S. Bryk in Phi Delta Kappan April 2009, vol 90 (8), pp. 597-600. Bryk, president of the Carnegie Foundation, argues for a "Design, Educational Engineering, and Development infrastructure...." Abstract available on this page. Full text by subscription. Check with your local library; they might be able to obtain it for you through interlibrary loan.

By Diana Laurillard, London Knowledge Lab, London Institute of Education, Inaugural professorial lecture, February 2008. From the abstract, Laurillard argues for "an education-driven approach to the use of digital technologies to achieve our ambitions for education."

By Andy Lapham, Faculty of the Arts, Thames Valley University, London, UK. This paper from the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on e-Learning includes literature review and presents a cognitive analysis of tagging.

By Jim Shelton and John Easton of the U.S. Education Department. The authors blogged as part of the National Journal's Expert Blogs - Education area. In the initial post, Shelton and Easton post some questions about effective innovation. In the comments section (24 posted as of 4/1/10), others in the field respond.

An online exhibition of presidential campaign commercials from 1952-2008, presented by the Museum of the Moving Image.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread.

A documentary produced by Centillion Productions Ltd. in association with CBC-TV (Canadian Broadcasting), first broadcast Feb 2010. From this page, you can download the full documentary (45 minutes) or the 30 second trailer.

Part of an assignment in a course described in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread. Students were allowed to select a documentary of interest, and the documentary selected was Google World.

Part of Phil Taylor's Web Site, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK. This is an excerpt from his book, The Fine Art of Propaganda: A Study of Father Coughlin's Speeches by The Institute for Propaganda Analysis, and published in 1939.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread.

By Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963, as posted by the African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread.

By Stanley Milgram, as it appeared in Harper's Magazine. Abridged and adapted from Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram, 1974.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread.

By Jonah Lehrer, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. This bookmark points to the Worldcat record, which will direct you to alternate editions, as well as the closest library with a copy of this book.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread. Instructor also mentions that this is "a great piece of writing."

On YouTube, posted July 2007. Episode 1 of Def Poetry Jam. Mali's poem looks at the role of the teacher. For related work by Taylor Mali, follow the mali tag.

Part of the Passion thread (Faculty Skills and Attributes), this video was included on the poster's own teaching blog and, for him, exemplifies passion.