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Links to Narrated PowerPoint Presentations
The following links takes you to narrated PowerPoint presentations that I shared at conferences and workshops. They are in the QuickTime format. Most computers should have the QuickTime movie player installed. Other links are for related PDF documents. -
Best Education Practices for TRiO Programs
I serve as Project Manager for the MAEOPP Center for Best Education Practices. We are soliciting submissions of education practices that support higher academic achievement and persistence for TRiO students.-
More information about the project gathering promising and best education practices for TRiO and other education access programs.
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This recording is from a webinar I hosted on April 4, 2012 for members of the Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP)
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Best Education Practices
These talks focus on best education practices for college achievement and completion.-
This talk provides suggestions and examples for submitting education practices to the Department of Education by April 30, 2012. The focuas is with practices that increase collge completion.
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This is the actual Federal Register announcement for the submission program. It contains the exact instructions for submitting an educaiton practice.
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This is a sample of a submission from a previous Department of Education program from twenty years ago. It is intended to only serve as a sample of items useful for a current submission.
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Best Practices in Access, Learning Assistance, and Developmental Education
These talks focus on best practices to produce higher student access to college, higher academic achievement, and higher graduation rates. Clear criteria identifies these practices and they provide a model to emulate.-
This is a recording of a webinar for Austin Community College (10/28/11) with best practices of DE for counselors, faculty, and student services personnel.
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Click on this link for a handout of the key slides from the webinar.
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This keynote talk identified common best practices among exemplary programs in learning assistance and developmental education. The talk was given at the national College Reading and Learning Association conference in fall 2008.
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Click on this link for a handout of key slides from the talk.
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Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) Groups
These cluster of talks center on postsecondary peer cooperative learning programs. Some talks focus specifically on Supplemental Instruction, others focus more broadly on the field of peer assisted learning (PAL) groups.-
This is a basic overview of Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) programs with an emphasis on Supplemental Instruction (SI). See materials below for handouts associated with this presentation.
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This handout provides all th4 slides displayed during the above PAL overview presentation.
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PDF handout for the nine basic principles that guide PAL programs.
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This is a manual to use with PAL facilitators to train and provide ongoing resources for them as they conduct the PAL sessions.
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This exercise from the 1970s demonstrates that understnading the context for a piece of prose increases understnading and memory retention of unfamiliar material. This exercise helps to simulate the expdrience of first-year college students in their class
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Engaging Students through Learning Technologies
These talks identify emerging instructional and learning tools, sometimes called Web 2.0 or social media, to engage students more deeply in the learning process.-
This is a ten-minute video interview posted through YouTube with me how I use various learning technologies in my class. This was recorded and edited by Allison Link, Technology Fellow for our academic department, through her iPad.
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Universal Instructional and Learning Design by Classroom Instructors
Faculty members can make no-cost and inexpensive modifications of the class learning environment to improve outcomes for all students. This includes embeding best practices of learning assistance in the class activities and removing barriers to learning.. -
Student Persistence and Graduation Talks
These talks focus on topics related to increasing academic achievement and persistence to graduation for college students.
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