SOCR Events SMC2008
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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.
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).
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 Home page: http://www.socr.ucla.edu
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