Parachutes and Ladders IX: Faculty Inquiry and Student Learning
Intersecting Literacies: What Happened At the Working Conference
Hello and welcome to the home of Intersecting Literacies, a working conference held at San Diego Mesa College April 16th 2010. Here you will find materials passed out to participants as well as the responses and “queens” we collected. Stay tuned!
Click here for the Intersecting Literacies Multi-Modal Packet
Click above to see the Post its we compiled at Mesa, April 16th
Click to go back to the Flyer and Intersecting Literacies’ Homepage
Many Eyes: A Data Representation Tool
Recommended by our very own Inquiry coach and internal evaluator, Jan Connal.
About Many Eyes
Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project.
All of us in CUE‘s Visual Communication Lab are passionate about the potential of data visualization to spark insight. It is that magical moment we live for: an unwieldy, unyielding data set is transformed into an image on the screen, and suddenly the user can perceive an unexpected pattern. As visualization designers we have witnessed and experienced many of those wondrous sparks. But in recent years, we have become acutely aware that the visualizations and the sparks they generate, take on new value in a social setting. Visualization is a catalyst for discussion and collective insight about data.
We all deal with data that we’d like to understand better. It may be as straightforward as a sales spreadsheet or fantasy football stats chart, or as vague as a cluttered email inbox. But a remarkable amount of it has social meaning beyond ourselves. When we share it and discuss it, we understand it in new ways.
Examples of Representations:
FIN goes to Achieving the Dream!
The Faculty Inquiry Network was well represented at the recent Achieving The Dream Conference held February 2nd through the 4th in Charlotte, North Carolina. Tom deWit, Katie Hern, and Sean McFarland presented at 4 breakout sessions:
- Engaging Faculty and Staff in Student‐Centered Inquiry about Teaching,
- Learning and Student Success, Accelerating Students’ Progress to College‐Level English and Math,
- Listening to the Room: The Promise of Integrating Student Voices into Basic Skills Initiatives,
- Equity as the Practice of Love and Liberation.
deWit and Hern also served as panel members in two Strategy Institute’s Focus Area Networking Sessions: Developmental English and Success Initiatives for Men of Color.
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FIN Co-Directors hold all the secrets to successful Inquiry in the Red Suitcase.
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Below are documents passed out in Charlotte, North Carolina:
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Engaging Faculty and Staff in Student‐Centered Inquiry about Teaching,Learning and Student Success:
FIN’S Guide to Faculty Inquiry
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Accelerating Students’ Progress to College‐Level English and Math:
Accelerating Student’s Progress Through College-Level English and Math PDF
Chabot College’s acceleration data
Paulo Freire excerpt from Ways of Reading: an Anthology for Writers
Stat Path Handout from Los Medanos College
Link to LMC Puente Math’s StatPath Video
Instructor Myra Snell’s Observations about this Video
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Listening to the Room: The Promise of Integrating Student Voices into Basic Skills Initiatives:
Summaries of all 778 Films Movies
Link to the movie “Listening to the Room”
Student Voices Across California Brochure
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Equity as the Practice of Love and Liberation:
Equity as the Practice of Love and Liberation PDF
The Umoja Community’s Brochure
Link to the Umoja Community’s Website
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About FIN
The Faculty Inquiry Network’s (FIN) purpose is to support professional development which includes: conducting faculty inquiry; revisiting basic skills assumptions; interpreting and integrating data; accessing student voices; developing students as co-inquirers; making visible; using technology for teaching and learning; creating and supporting new initiatives, curriculum and program development; constructing educational tools using digital media; and hosting dialogue around student and faculty learning.
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