Conference on Information Technology The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges Rose Asera, Molly Breen League for Innovation Conference on Information Technology Salt Lake City October, 2008

Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges A multi-site action research project Working with 11 California community colleges on basic skills Each campus built on their own local programs and strengths The community of campuses made it possible for campuses to learn from each other

Faculty Inquiry: A Different Way to Think about Professional Development Regular work, woven through ongoing tasks and activities Connected to goals for student learning Collaborative Grounded in inquiry and evidence A way to learn from experience in a complex setting

Faculty Inquiry: Part of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning…. Connecting with a vigorous movement throughout higher education, Involving faculty in all the disciplines asking questions, seeking answers to improve teaching and learning in their classrooms, Going public with what they’re learning in ways that others can build on.

The Power of Technology Multimedia gives us the opportunity to See the classroom Hear teacher and student voices Link to relevant documents including examples of work, assessments, etc. Connect comments and thoughts to action Invite responses and interaction with viewers

Documenting Teaching & Faculty Inquiry in SPECC Katie Hern teaches English at Chabot College When Capable Students Fail: The Academic Sustainability Gap Myra Snell teaches math at Los Medanos College Prealgebra Classroom Research: Working Together to Improve Student Learning Can Problem Solving Become a Habit of Mind?

Documenting Teaching & Faculty Inquiry in SPECC Yu-Chung Chang teaches math at Pasadena City College No Longer Lost in Translation: How Yu-Chung Helps Her Students Understand (and Love) Word Problems Nancy Ybarra teaches English at Los Medanos College A Glimpse into a Reading Apprenticeship Classroom

Creating a Multimedia Site What is the story you want to tell? Or the argument you want to make? What kinds of data and evidence will help you do that successfully? Where will you find that data and evidence? How much context will users/viewers need? What will draw them into the site?

Questions for Discussion How and in what settings could you use these examples? What questions/topics/examples could you investigate and document in multimedia?

Resources Windows on Learning www.carnegiefoundation.org/specc

SPECC Publications

Three Ways to Think About the Use of Evidence (Especially Video and Audio) Evidence as Illustration: The use of evidence reinforces and illustrates what is said elsewhere. Examples may also help the reader's experience by showing what an approach looks like in practice. Evidence as Interpretation: The use of evidence is critical to the argument. The evidence is important to the reader ability to interpret the meaning of the site's story. Evidence as Complication: The use of evidence helps readers develop a more complex or richer sense of the problem or approach. One or more examples (such as video clips) help complicate the case, lead to making connections and deepening the meaning of the site's issues. *Adapted from Katherine Martinez, "Imaging the Past: Historians, Visual Images and the Contested Definition of History" Visual Resources, Vol XI, pp. 21-45.