The Case for Acceleration in Developmental English and Math

July 13, 2010

“Community colleges are the point of entry to higher education for the majority of nation’s
first generation, minority and low-income students. But there is a harsh reality that these
students may not understand when they receive their English and Math placement results:
the more semesters of remedial courses a student is required to take, the more remote that
student’s chances of passing college-level Math or English and being eligible to transfer
or earn a degree…”

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Acceleration, Basic Skills in Context, Literacy, Making Visible, Math, Multimedia, Reading, Using Institutional Research, Video Evidence, Writing | Comments (0)

Intersecting Literacies: What Happened At the Working Conference

April 20, 2010

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 [...]

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Equity, Integrative Learning, Literacy, Making Visible, Metacognition, Multimedia, Reading, Student Confidence, Student Voice, Technology, Video Evidence, Writing | Comments (0)

Capturing Your Video Footage into Final Cut Express

April 10, 2009

  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; [...]

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Door Number One

March 8, 2009

Door Number One offers introductory profiles of a dozen of the many Programs and Services offered at Chabot College. Students, Staff, and Faculty share their experiences and offer their perspectives about why these Programs and Services are so vital, and what students can expect if they just “Pick One.” And along the way, we see [...]

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Daraja: A Syllabus For Life

March 6, 2009

  The Daraja project, founded in 1988 at Chabot College is widely recognized as one of the best opportunities for success for underrepresented students, especially African-American students, in the California community-college system. In this film, current and former Daraja students speak candidly about their educational preparation before entering Daraja and then share their personal needs [...]

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RSS Feeds

March 4, 2009

This video will show you how to use the RSS Feeds on both FacultyInquiry.net & FINCommons.net to keep track of all the changes and updates.

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Adding Other Media

March 4, 2009

This video covers how to add / attach other types of files to a post. Keep in mind that this website supports the following formats, .doc .gif .jpg .jpeg .png .ppt .pdf Please do not try and upload other formats. The video also covers how to change any file to a PDF on the Macintosh.

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Adding Movies to Your Post

March 4, 2009

This video tutorial will show you how to add Videos to your post. Down-load either file below this is the technical information on uploading video. I couldn’t type it in here because it would display video where it shouldn’t. Video Guide (PDF Video Guide (DOC) The following services are supported for embedding video in a [...]

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Adding Images to Your Post

March 4, 2009

This video will show you how to add images to a post in WordPress.

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More Tags & Excerpts

March 4, 2009

This video will teach you how to use the More tag.

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