Resource Checkout

Overview

CAT offers free, short-term checkout of educational technologies and books from our teaching and learning library. Any Santa Fe College employee is welcome to request our resources using the link below. Please note that these resources are not for student use.

Olympus Recorder

Equipment We Checkout:

Digital Voice Recorder
A digital video recorder allows you to easily record meetings or classes, or to transcribe notes.

Camcorder Studio In A Bag Webcam

Books We Offer:

Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers Book - Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses A Guide to Faculty Development Social Media for Educators: Strategies and Best Practices

Increase communication and interactivity in a course.
Facilitate engaging learning activities.
Enhance students' satisfaction, learning, and performance.

Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty ePortfolios for Lifelong Learning and Assessment A Guide to Online Course Design: Strategies for Student Success Excellent Online Teaching: Effective Strategies For A Successful Semester Online Promoting Active Learning: Strategies for the College Classroom The Excellent Online Instructor: Strategies for Professional Development

Includes models based in adult learning principles and best practices.
Offers guidelines to test instructors' readiness to teach online.
Contains ideas for overcoming faculty resistance.
Reveals how to develop an effective mentoring program.
Shows how to establish a long-term faculty development effort.

Cooperative Learning in Higher Education: Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy (New Pedagogies and Practices for Teaching in Higher Education) (2010) by Barbara Millis (Editor), James Rhem (Foreword)

Experienced users of cooperative learning demonstrate how they use it in settings as varied as a developmental mathematics course at a community college, and graduate courses in history and the sciences, and how it works in small and large classes, as well as in hybrid and online environments. The authors describe the application of cooperative learning in biology, economics, educational psychology, financial accounting, general chemistry, and literature at remedial, introductory, and graduate levels.

Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors (2010) by Linda B. Nilson (Author)

This third edition of the best-selling handbook offers faculty at all levels an essential toolbox of hundreds of practical teaching techniques, formats, classroom activities, and exercises, all of which can be implemented immediately. This thoroughly revised edition includes the newest portrait of the Millennial student; current research from cognitive psychology; a focus on outcomes maps; the latest legal options on copyright issues; and how to best use new technology including wikis, blogs, podcasts, vodcasts, and clickers. Entirely new chapters include subjects such as matching teaching methods with learning outcomes, inquiry-guided learning, and using visuals to teach, and new sections address Felder and Silverman's Index of Learning Styles, SCALE-UP classrooms, multiple true-false test items, and much more.

What the Best College Teachers Do (2004) by Ken Bain (Author)

What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.

The short answer is—it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the best teachers know their subjects inside and out--but they also know how to engage and challenge students and to provoke impassioned responses. Most of all, they believe two things fervently: that teaching matters and that students can learn.

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life, (2007)

The Courage to Teach builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher. Good teaching takes myriad forms but good teachers share one trait: they are authentically present in the classroom, deeply connected with their students and their subject. These connections are held in the teacher's heart—the place where intellect, emotion, spirit, and converge in the human self. Good teachers weave a life-giving web between themselves, their subjects, and their students, helping their students learn how to weave a world for themselves.

How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (2010) by Susan A. Ambrose (Author), Michael W. Bridges (Author), Michele DiPietro (Author), Marsha C. Lovett (Author), Marie K. Norman (Author)

In this volume, the authors introduce seven general principles of learning, distilled from the research literature as well as from twenty-seven years of experience working one-on-one with college faculty. They have drawn on research from a breadth of perspectives (cognitive, developmental, and social psychology; educational research; anthropology; demographics; and organizational behavior) to identify a set of key principles underlying learning-from how effective organization enhances retrieval and use of information to what impacts motivation. These principles provide instructors with an understanding of student learning that can help them see why certain teaching approaches are or are not supporting student learning, generate or refine teaching approaches and strategies that more effectively foster student learning in specific contexts, and transfer and apply these principles to new courses.

For anyone who wants to improve his or her students' learning, it is crucial to understand how that learning works and how to best foster it. This vital resource is grounded in learning theory and based on research evidence, while being easy to understand and apply to college teaching.

Engaging Students through Social Media: Evidence-Based Practices for Use in Student Affairs (2014) by Reynol Junco (Author)

Engaging Students through Social Media outlines a research-based and practical plan for implementing effective social media strategies within higher education settings. This groundbreaking book reveals how social media is already being used in effective ways across disciplines and how it can best be used to meet the goals of student affairs professionals.

As the author explains, the benefits of social media engagement include a wealth of positive outcomes such as improvements in critical thinking skills, content knowledge, diversity appreciation, interpersonal skills, leadership skills, community engagement, and student persistence. Based on Junco's extensive research and that of established scholars in the field, the book dispels commonly held myths about the effects of social media on students and explores how to successfully integrate social media into both formal and informal learning environments, offering evidence-based practices that can be applied to any educator's curricular development process.

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (2007) by Chip Heath (Author), Dan Heath (Author)

Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions. Inside, the brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the “human scale principle,” using the “Velcro Theory of Memory,” and creating “curiosity gaps.”

In this indispensable guide, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds–from the infamous “kidney theft ring” hoax to a coach's lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony–draw their power from the same six traits.

Designing Group-work: Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom, (2014) by Elizabeth G. Cohen (Author), Rachel A. Lotan (Author)

As teachers today work in ever more challenging contexts, group-work remains a particularly effective pedagogical strategy. Based on years of research and teaching experience, the new edition of this popular book features significant updates on the successful use of cooperative learning to build equitable classrooms. Designing Group-work, Third Edition incorporates current research findings with new material on what makes for a group-worthy task, and shows how group-work contributes to growth and development in the language of instruction. Responding to new curriculum standards and assessments across all grade levels and subject areas, this edition shows teachers how to organize their classroom so that all students participate actively. This valuable and sensible resource is essential reading for educators at both the elementary and secondary levels, for teachers in training, and for anyone working in the field of education.

Adding Some TEC-VARIETY: 100+ Activities for Motivating and Retaining Learners Online (2014)

At this very moment, tens of millions of learners around the planet are navigating through seemingly endless pages of their online courses. Unfortunately, most of these learners are swimming in this sea of content without much hope for interaction, collaboration, or engagement. The emergence of massive open online courses or MOOCs with tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of learners in a single course has made the present situation even more prominent and precarious. We propose the TEC-VARIETY framework as a solution to the lack of meaningful engagement. It can shift learners from highly comatose states to extremely engaged ones. Adding some TEC-VARIETY helps instructors to focus on how to motivate online learners and increase learner retention. It also is a comprehensive, one stop toolkit for online instructors to inspire learners and renew their own passion for teaching. Using ten theoretically-driven and proven motivational principles, TEC-VARIETY offers over a 100 practical yet innovative ideas based on decades of author experience teaching in a variety of educational settings.

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