1. C REATING A COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS TO INCREASE STUDENT SUCCESS George Woodbury – College of the Sequoias Email Address: georgew@cos.edugeorgew@cos.edu Web Site: georgewoodbury.comgeorgewoodbury.com

2. S URVEY

3. S URVEY – P ART 2

4. C REATING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY

5. M ATHEMATICIANS

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8. D AY 1 S URVEY I use a survey similar to this in all of my classes on the first day of class. Survey

9. C OLLECTING THE S URVEYS

10. U SING THE F OLDERS

11. W HY IS COMMUNITY IMPORTANT ? W HAT CAN BE GAINED ?

12. B UILDING C ONNECTIONS

13. C OMMUNITY M ATHEMATICS It’s important that the class understands that learning mathematics is the priority.

14. H OMEWORK /R EADING Q UIZZES

15. D URING L ECTURE

16. W ORKING T OGETHER O UTSIDE OF C LASS

17. G ROUP A SSIGNMENTS – M ATHEMATICIANS IN H ISTORY

19. M ATHEMATICIANS IN H ISTORY Example

20. G ROUP A SSIGNMENTS – N EWSLETTER A SSIGNMENT

21. N EWSLETTER A SSIGNMENT Example

22. S OLUTIONS M ANUAL Example

23. I N C LASS G ROUP A CTIVITIES

24. W EB 2.0 T OOLS T O B UILD A C OMMUNITY OF L EARNERS

25. W HAT A BOUT D ISTANCE L EARNING ?

26. S TRATEGIES FOR D ISTANCE L EARNING C LASSES

27. U SING W EB 2.0 T OOLS FOR D ISTANCE L EARNING C LASSES wiziq.com

28. S UGGESTED R EADING Successful Beginnings for College Teaching Angela Proverita McGlynn (Atwood Publishing) Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom Paloff & Pratt (Jossey Bass – Wiley)

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