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Recently Added Links

• Gerald Grow's articles on teaching

  Teaching Learners to be Self-Directed, The Writing Problems of Visual Thinkers, Channels of Attention: Modes of Student Attention that Compete with Classroom Learning, and more.

• Posting lecture notes on the web

  This is a mailing list thread, from 1999, on whether to post lecture notes on the web. Much of the discussion revolves around what we want students to be doing during class.

• Malcolm Gladwell on Predicting Success in Teaching (and NFL Quaterbacks)

  Interesting column follows a pro football scout as he reviews and watches a potential draft choice, and links the difficulties the scout faces to the difficulties faced determining who will be an effective teacher.

• Learning to Teach booklets - Order form

  There is a very helpful set of 4 booklets under the title 'Learning to Teach' on the web site above.

• AdjunctImpact.com

  (From POD...) Nancy: You may want to look at http://www.adjunctimpact.com/ This is a sample of the software we use at UTB and other colleges. It contains: 1. Professional development materials, a course in pedagogy that can be read through or used as a reference with interactive materials to enhance material 2. Orientation 3. Communication system through notes, lounge, and messages 4. Mandatory compliance trainings and reports to compliance officers 5. Progress reporting for institutional effectiveness 6. On-gong support and information 24/7 7. Courses for adjuncts, FT faculty, and Dual enrollment (T.A.'s will be up this year) We are in the process of redoing the free portal so colleges can see the new features we have put into the online software. If you would like to see UTB's portal go to: http://www.adjunctimpact.com/u/utbtsc register as a new user. Betsy Betsy Price, Support Office for Part Time Faculty University of Texas Brownsville Texas Southmost College 80 Fort Brown 244 South Brownsville, Texas 78520 956-882-7334

• Pulse SmartPen Demo

• Pandora.com

• UM iTunes U Community of Interest

• Sanford iPhone Commercial

• KEEP Toolkit

  "The KEEP Toolkit is a set of web-based tools that help teachers, students and institutions quickly create compact and engaging knowledge representations on the Web."