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A First Harvest: Reading the Project Reflections for the Summer Institute
Brett Eynon and Randy Bass offer a sample of participants' reflections
along with some initial impressions to identify common ground on which
the Project can build a collective sense of progress and inquiry.
Annotating Visual Evidence of Student Learning
Interested in having your students create multimedia projects?
This edition's Resources You Can Use looks at various tools for
annotating student products that use visual evidence.
Annual Summer Institute Focuses on Collaboration and Publication
More than fifty VKP participants from across the country gathered at
Georgetown for three days of sharing projects, working in peer groups,
thinking about collaboration across projects, and exploring options for
the public presentation of VKP projects.
Bridging Novice and Expert Thinking
A website designed by Prof. Viet Nguyen of the University of Southern
California helps students understand a challenging text.
Conversations About a New Discussion Tool
Starting a discussion about using a new tool, KeyTalk, developed by Georgetown's
KeyBridge web development team.
Cultural Issues related to Learning and Technology
Postings and other writings by Project participants on the intersection
of cultural issues with teaching, learning and technology.
Digital Storytelling: Some Selected Online Resources
Diversity is at the Core of the VKP at CSUMB
Feminist Pedagogies
Leona Fisher recommends "core" books in feminist pedagogies
which relate to some of the pedagogical concerns of the Project.
How do I study student learning without becoming an educational researcher?
Randy Bass reflects on the challenges of looking at learning and the question
of technology's role in the Visible Knowledge Project (VKP).
How New Communications Technologies Impact Student Work
Cheryl Richardson continues the review of project posters begun
in the last two installments of E-merging Issues. In this article,
Richardson discusses VKP participant research projects that explore
the impact of new communications technologies on student work.
I2U @ VKP: A Community of Independents
VKP focuses on the Independent Investigators, with a spotlight on Ed Gallagher
of Lehigh University and Gloria Harper Dickinson of The College of New
Jersey.
In Dialogue with Educational Research
VKP participants from various fields of education recommend resources
from educational research that could be useful to other VKP participants
and their projects.
Institutional Review Boards and the Work of theVKP: Some issues to consider
KeyTalk Workspaces Created for Further Testing
An invitation to log on, walk through the test exercises, poke around
the "test university" space, or browse around and contribute
to one of the new discussion spaces.
Listening to Each Other
Voices from the Project Reflections by 2001 Summer Institute Participants
Millersville University
At VKP Core Campus Millersville University, it's not only the faculty
who care about teaching.
New "Going Public Opportunities" Web Page
We have created a new resource on the VKP website listing opportunities
for VKP faculty to make public presentations of their projects. The site
will be updated as new opportunities arise.
New Logo and New Site Design Planned
In response to participants' requests, Project Management Team plans new
discussion and document-exchange tool.
New Poster Tool Goes Online
Based on rewritten code, the new VKP poster tool should bring
increased stability and ease of use across all browsers. Users will
notice a few small changes in the interface design.
New Themes and Issues Section
As a way of introducing visitors to the VKP website to the
great diversity of issues in student learning pursued by
VKP faculty, we have created a new "Themes and Issues" section.
New York Stories
Poster Next Steps: Working Towards Common Inquiry, Part One
Part one of a review of project posters and emerging clusters of questions
Poster Next Steps: Working Towards Common Inquiry, Part Two
Part two of a review of project posters and emerging clusters of questions
Profile Pages and Electronic Posters: Tools
for Making our Work Visible through the VKP Website
Project Themes Emerge from 2002 Summer Institute
Qualitative Research: Anita Salem's Experience
VKP's Cheryl Richardson interviewed Salem about her experiences
organizing and coding online discussion board postings and how
the knowledge gained from that experience informed her teaching.
Researchable Questions Resource Kit
Announcing a new resource: flexible tools for local use in workshops and
other conversations advancing the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Resource Kit on Coding Data
Many faculty in the Visible Knowledge Project are at a stage
in their research where they have large amounts of raw qualitative
data. This kit introduces a basic method for making sense of
and organizing this data in a clear and systematic way.
Resource Kit on the Institutional Review Boards
and the Work of the Visible Knowledge Project
Resource Kit on the Working Groups Process
Scholarship of Teaching: Beyond the Anecdotal
Scholarship of Teaching Bibliographies on the Web
VKP Project staff members write about some of the important web-based
bibliographies in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Simple Tools to Annotate Student Work
In this "Resources You Can Use," we offer annotated links to
sites which introduce some basic annotating, commenting and tracking
changes tools in MS Word and Adobe Acrobat. We also provide a link to
a tool for annotating web pages created by the Center for History and
New Media at George Mason University.
Sources for More Information on Coding and Qualitative Research
This article presents some online resources on coding and qualitative research,
including overviews of specific methods, lists of courses and
discussion groups on the subject, and bibliographies.
Summer Institute 2001
The Project builds a new University. And "Working Groups" lift
the Project off the ground.
Summer Institute Bibliography
A topical bibliography of the books available on the resource table during
the 2001 Summer Institute.
Summer Institute Readings 2003
This list gives two common readings we encourage all
participants to read before the Summer Institute as well as
background readings of interest.
The VKP@3 Faculty Survey
VKP Affinity Groups
An overview of affinity groups and plans for continuing dialogue beyond
the 2001 Summer Institute.
VKP Announces Writing Residency Fellowships
As a way of helping participants produce written versions of their
work, VKP will hold short writing residences at Georgetown.
VKP at ASA: Getting Visible and Visual
VKP 2002 Summer Institute
VKP Triad Update: Using Discussion Tools to Further the Project
VKP Scholars have been involved in "Triad" conversations for almost
seven months. They have begun using feedback from their colleagues
to interpret student work in order to find and evaluate evidence
of student learning. In this article, Cheryl Richardson discusses
one scholar's experience.
VKP Hosts Winter Writing Residency
At the first VKP Writing Residency of the year, Fellows explored
how to connect their research questions to student evidence.
VKP Workplace Survey
Visible Knowledge Project Highlights: 2002-2003
During the past year, the Visible Knowledge Project has increasingly
focused on creating and nurturing "local dialogues." This article
reviews events held by VKP faculty on both the East and West Coasts
to reach out to their campus communities.
Websites for Advancing Multicultural Teaching and Learning
Websites developed or recommended by Project participants on the topic
of multicultural teaching and learning with technology.
Websites for Advancing Multicultural Teaching and Learning (continued)
Web Resources about the Digital Divide
What's Happening, What's Next: A VKP FAQ
What We See @ 3: Preparing for the Summer Institute
Randy Bass introduces the VKP 2003 Summer Institute working groups.
Winter Institute Focuses on Collaboration, Evidence, and Writing and Representation
About 25 faculty from the VKP, along with a few interested colleagues
from West Coast colleges, joined together to discuss collaboration,
evidence, and writing and representation.
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