SOCR Events SMC2008

SOCR News - Santa Monica College CMC³ Continuing Teacher Education Workshop

Summary

CMC3-South is a non-profit organization dedicated to the professional growth of community college mathematics educators in Southern California. CMC3-South is an affilate of AMATYC and CMC. The chief activities of CMC3-South include hosting two professional conferences each year, one each semester.

Agenda

Morning Conference Schedule

• 08:00am–08:30am: Registration: Come early and join your colleagues for refreshments before we begin the day’s activities.
• 08:45am-10:15am: Session 1:
  • BSI (Basic Skills Initiative) 101: Who are Basic Skills students? How well are we addressing their needs? What are the key components in effective developmental mathematics pedagogy?
  • UCLA’s SOCR isn’t a Sport!: SOCR, the Statistics Online Computational Resource, provides portable online aids for probability and statistics education. Learn how to make SOCR work for you.
• 10:30am-12:00pm: Session 2:
  • Effective Practices in Mathematics Take advantage of learning research to increase your students’ success by implementing some new strategies in your classroom.
  • Teach & Meet Online via CCCConfer! Funded by a grant from the Chancellor’s Office, CCCConfer provides free online and phone communication/collaboration for faculty, staff and students at California Community Colleges. Learn how to take advantage of this excellent resource for teaching math! P.S. bring your cell phone!

Afternoon Conference Schedule

• 12:00pm-01:00pm: Lunch
• 01:00pm-02:30pm: Session 3:
  • Rubrics and Assessment: How do your students know what you want? How do you know if your students "get it"? Learn how to build a rubric that reflects your expectations and the difference between assessing and evaluating your students.
  • Guided Tour of MAA’s MathDL: Created and maintained by the Mathematical Association of America, MathDL, the Mathematical Sciences Digital Library, provides exemplary online resources for mathematics education and research. Come check it out!
• 02:40pm-03:00pm: Closing & Door Prizes

SOCR Presentation

• California Math Council Community Colleges (CMC³) 2008 Continuing Teacher Education Workshop at Santa Monica College.
• Title: UCLA’s SOCR isn’t a Sport! (Continuing Science Education for Teachers using Information Technologies)
• Abstract: The overarching aim of the Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) are to design, validate and freely disseminate knowledge using modern information and communication technologies. We showcase our multi-disciplinary instructional materials, extensible computational libraries and interactive hands-on activities, which are available anonymously and in their entirety over the Internet to all users all the times (www.SOCR.ucla.edu).

Presentation Outline

• What is SOCR (http://socr.ucla.edu/)?
• History http://socr.ucla.edu/htmls/SOCR_Acknowledgements.html
  • Resource types: data + methods + demonstrations + tools
  • About SOCR: http://socr.ucla.edu/htmls/SOCR_About.html
  • SOCR Users and GeoMap: http://www.socr.ucla.edu/SOCR_UserGoogleMap.html
  • EBook: http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook
  • SOCR HT Viewer: http://socr.ucla.edu/SOCR_HT_ResourceViewer.html
• SOCR News (http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_Events_SMC2008)
• Philosophy
  • In teaching and educational research, one-size-rarely-fits-all. SOCR resources provide materials, tools and infrastructure for instructors to build course curricula tailored for their specific courses and student needs.
  • All SOCR materials are open (development and usage)
  • Multilingual resources
• Integrated data + methods + demonstrations + tools!
  • Data: http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_Data
  • Methods: http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook
  • Demonstration/Activities: http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_EduMaterials
  • Tools: (e.g., Analyses: http://socr.ucla.edu/htmls/SOCR_Analyses.html)
• SOCR Usage in Middle/High School

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• SOCR Home page: http://www.socr.ucla.edu

Additional Materials

• Intensive 3-day SOCR Continuing Education Workshop, August 10-12, 2009 at UCLA
• SOCR Brochure

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