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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Google Sites: Creating and Sharing Free Websites
Thinking of creating a website?
Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages.
1. Create rich web pages easily
2. Collect all your information in one place
3. Control who can view and edit
Use Google Sites to:
1. Plan club meetings and activities
2. Share info on a secure company intranet
3. Collaborate on a team project
4. Stay connected with family members
MoodleShare
MoodleShare is a community of Moodlers sharing their Free Moodle courses, Moodle Sites, and Moodle Units/Lessons. If you want to discuss courses and see even more resources please visit us and create an account.
Laguardia Community College Center for Teaching and Learning
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an Act of Congress, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center. Through its current work, it seeks to revitalize more productive research and development in education toward the Triple Aims of Improvement: more active, engaging environments for student participation and personal growth, greater effectiveness overall in advancing student learning, and increased efficiency in the use of educational resources
NextFaculty: a social learning place for faculty members
NextFaculty
Seminar Topics, Paper Presentation, Jobs, Events and Learning form the core part of NextFaculty.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Project Information Literacy
Our goal is to understand how early adults conceptualize and operationalize research activities for course work and "everyday life" use and especially how they resolve issues of credibility, authority, relevance, and currency in the digital age.
The Tech Learning Website
For 30 years, Tech & Learning has served the K-12 education community with practical resources and expert strategies for transforming education through integration of digital technologies. Our audience includes all job roles within the district community, with district-level technology coordinators the primary recipients. Beyond that, our magazine is often used as a professional development tool to help educators across the board get up to speed with the newest technologies and products in order to best prepare students for the global digital workforce.
Friday, June 10, 2011
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Colin Powell Advises For-Profit College Leaders to 'Self-Police' and 'Fight Back'
June 8, 2011
By Goldie Blumenstyk
Colin L. Powell, the former secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who is now an adviser to an investment firm whose holdings include stakes in several for-profit colleges, told his new colleagues in that industry on Wednesday that they should "self-police" and operate with best ethical standards, but should also "do a better job" of making the case to Congress and the American people about their institutions' value.
"You've been taking some heat. Fight back and make that case for what you're doing," Mr. Powell exhorted the luncheon audience at the closing event of the annual convention of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities.
In a 35-minute speech that focused largely on broader themes of world security and personal anecdotes about his own early academic career as a student at City College of New York—where he noted there is now a center named after him despite his being a self-described middling student in most subjects except ROTC—Mr. Powell also offered the crowd some encouragements.
"Don't dismiss the criticism that you're receiving," he told the college leaders, but he also advised them to make the case that their purpose "is not only shareholder value."
"Don't wait for a new regulation to come down the road," he said. "Make the positive case."
While some veterans groups and members of the U.S. Senate have raised questions about the way for-profit colleges are recruiting current and former military students—and the disproportionate share of military tuition-assistance funds and GI Bill benefits the sector receives through those students—Mr. Powell did not mention that issue specifically.
He did note, however, that he's now an adviser to Leeds Equity Partners, a private equity firm that owns a stake in Education Management Corporation, the parent company for Argosy University, the Art Institutes, and other colleges and other education companies.
"For most of my life, I was an educator," said Mr. Powell, referring to his 35-year career in the Army. Today, he said, he continues that interest with leadership of America's Promise Alliance, which champions programs to reverse the "national tragedy" of the country's poor high-school graduation rate, particularly among minority students.
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