The Case for Acceleration in Developmental English and Math
Exponential Attrition and the Promise of Acceleration
Katie Hern and Myra Snell recently collaborated to create an article for the RP Group’s statewide newsletter Perspectives. The article argues that high rates of student attrition are structurally guaranteed in long developmental sequences and presents evidence from Chabot and Los Medanos colleges that one-semester, open-access courses are a promising way to increase student completion rates in college-level English and Math. The full article is linked above.
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
Capturing Your Video Footage into Final Cut Express
What follows may look complex and seem hard to follow. In light of that here are some things to consider:
Some of these steps will only have to be done the first time you open Final Cut Express;
If you have a tech person on your crew, have them go through this with you;
Video tutorial links are provided at the bottom of these instructions and can also be found on the Tutorials page of the FIN Commons;
You can contact me ANYTIME at 510-435-6198 if you are having problems—if I don’t pick up, leave a message and I will call right back.
Once you have done these steps once or twice, you will see that it is actually pretty easy to digitize footage.
Now that you have begun to shoot video footage using the Canon HV30, you are ready to move to the next step: getting the footage from your camera into your computer so that you can begin to edit it. This process is called “digitizing.” Steps to follow in digitizing your footage:
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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