Interesting+ATL+Resources

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1. Youtube

Yes, youtube. CalState, Long Beach has a series of ten videos, playfully called "Assessment Quickies", with resources: []

Colleges are posting their on campus professional development presentations. LBCC has a number of their videos including program SLOs and assessment plans [].

UCI has resources on classroom assessment techniques [].

Vanderbilt has a two-day video conference by Lee Shulman on learning []

The University of Hawai'i posts their series [] as does Miami Dade.

There are many more, you just have to surf.

2. ItunesU (iTunes University)

iTunesU has become a remarkable resource with short series, seminars and even courses that have been uploaded. Some are video, some audio, all good, all free.

Many institutions have developed channels. Once you go to the site and download the player which links you to the "store" (remember the lessons are free). The key is to surf the site as broadly as you can... and focus on the results in iTunesU.

One of the biggies is UC-Berkeley which has many, many courses uploaded. Berkeley has courses on cognitive science and learning, statistics and methods and even educational measurement co-taught with Vanderbilt and Michigan (which I am currently watching).

The Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford also has presentations on teaching pedagogies. CUNY has a Master Teacher Series. Other providers on iTunes include Edutopia and UCTV (assessment and educational planning).

4. [|www.learner.org]

Funded by the Annenberg Project this site has teaching, learning and assessment videos. It is here you will find the informational processing theory video "A Private Universe". The videos cover all educational levels, but the concepts presented transfer nicely from level to level. (e.g., Check out the feedback loop and use of rubrics as formative assessment by Martha Duran-Contreras, a second grade teacher from Santa Monica - social constructivism at its best.) You need to sign up, but, again, it is free.