February 2005 - Posts

Cultivating a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Culture at Community Colleges
28 February 05 06:00 AM | margulisd | 528 Comments   
The following questions were recently posed by Donna Duffy in an email addressing a future conference presentation on the role of SoTL in community colleges. With her permission, the questions are published here for us to consider. What sorts of conditions Read More...
Keeping Connected in a SoTL Project
24 February 05 06:00 AM | margulisd | 5 Comments   
The members of the SoTL Group at Northern Essex have developed several individual projects that we have discussed and partially critiqued one by one at our meetings, but perhaps because our projects do not relate clearly to each other, we do not feel Read More...
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The Learning Community Initiative at Northern Essex
23 February 05 06:00 AM | margulisd | 386 Comments   
Other members of our COPPER group have expressed interest in how the Northern Essex Learning Communities initiative has been developed and maintained for several years on campus. Here is a brief explanation from Barbara Stachniewicz, our current LCRP—learning Read More...
NECC to Host Blog
20 February 05 11:07 AM | margulisd | 1 Comments   
Northern Essex Community College will host the blog during the week of February 21-25. They will be using the upcoming week to encourage an exchange of ideas and questions related to our SoTL research projects, and seeking ways to maintain connection Read More...
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Antivirus Protection
16 February 05 06:00 AM | margulisd | 505 Comments   
The foundation for any computer's security is an up-to-date antivirus program . It's very likely that campus computers connected to a college's network have a antivirus program already installed. Home computers tend to come with a trial version of an Read More...
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Downloading and Installing Programs
14 February 05 06:00 AM | margulisd | 361 Comments   
The majority of educators have not taken a computer course , but rather have developed their computer skills through practice and perhaps a workshop here and there. One of the most valuable computer skills is the ability to download and install a program Read More...
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Surfing Safely
10 February 05 07:02 PM | margulisd | 503 Comments   
We're all being encouraged to make use of the Internet ... visit the blog, teach an online or hybrid class, add a web component to your regular class, bank online, shop online, etc. Yet we're also aware that the web has many hazards including viruses, Read More...
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Establishing a Collaborative Action Research Community
07 February 05 07:22 PM | margulisd | 1 Comments   
Thanks to Judith Kamber for forwarding the following article from Innovation Abstracts highlighting the creation of a SoTL community of practice involving a community college and a four year institution. The following abstract is provided by NISOD and Read More...
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The Valencia Forum
01 February 05 05:35 PM | margulisd | 8 Comments   
The Valencia Forum for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment is an on-line journal authored by and for Valencia Community faculty, administration and staff. Marketplace: The Valencia Forum will present the products of our professional reflections on teaching, Read More...