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Fri 1 Apr 2011
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You care about your students and watch their development with caring and enthusiasm.
Then……..you see their résumé.
Oh no! Not another dependable-hardworking-team-player-looking-for-an-opportunity-of-mutual-benefit-to-me-and-my-future-employer-while-we-hold-hands-and-walk-together-into-the-sunset-singing-Kumbaya.
You feel the résumé is not doing them justice. But what to do
Joe Student Résumé "before"
The first thing I did for Joe was to pull his transcript. Students are often suprised to find the honors they have earned.
I asked Joe if he had received any scholarships. Sure enough, he had.
Joe is the President of his campus’ student government. Leadership galore!
Once I found out Joe’s job goal and looked at the coursework he had and included it, we had ourselves a targeted résumé that does justice to Joe’s background.
Joe Student Résumé "after"
Even the smartest students have a difficult time putting together a résumé. Some focused investigation into their academic experiences might be just the thing.
Becky Washington is a Certified Professional Résumé Writer.
Tue 30 Nov 2010
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Free courses are now available to Oregon public, academic, tribal, and school libraries as part of the Statewide Database Licensing Program through LearningExpress Library. http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/technology/sdlp/LearningExpress/ .
Courses include:
• Citizenship Tests and Study Materials
• College Tests such as CLEP, MCAT, LCAT, AP, GRE
• Computer Courses including:
o Adobe Flash Courses
o Adobe Illustrator Courses
o Adobe Photoshop Courses
o Corel WordPerfect Courses
o Microsoft Access Courses
o Microsoft Excel Courses
o Microsoft Outlook Courses
o Microsoft PowerPoint Courses
o Microsoft Project Courses
o Microsoft Publisher Courses
o Microsoft SharePoint Designer Courses
o Microsoft Visio Courses
o Microsoft Word Courses
o Windows and Mac Operating Systems Courses
• Employment Tests for automotive technicians, firemen, EMT, CDL, Nursing and Allied Health
• GED Preparation Courses, including a set in Spanish.
• General Skills such as Math, Writing, Grammar and Vocabulary
• Résumés and Job Search Skills
Learning has never been more accessible!
Wed 17 Nov 2010
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Thu 28 Oct 2010
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The end of October is approaching – which means next month ushers in the annual AAWCC Fall Conference! Set for Thursday and Friday, November 18 and 19, the conference – “Obstacles and Opportunities: Thriving in Changing Times” – will take place at its new location, the Embassy Suites Hotel in Tigard.
This year’s conference promises an exciting slate of panels and workshops, as well as engaging keynote presentations – click on the link for an article loaded with detail.
And an opportunity for you: What questions would you like to ask our panel of community college presidents, slated to speak on Thursday, Nov. 18, from 1:30-2:30 p.m.? Now is the time to ponder – and we want to hear your ideas! Post your questions in the comments section; we’ll pool the submissions and choose a handful to lob to the following panelists:
- Linda Gerber/Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus
- Cheryl Roberts/Chemeketa Community College
- Mary Spilde/Lane Community College
- Joanne Truesdell/Clackamas Community College
If you haven’t yet registered for the conference, do so before November 1 to get the discounted member rate. Visit our Web site to get more information and/or to register: http://www.aawccoregon.org/fall-conference/
We’ll see you there!
Tue 14 Sep 2010
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Structural versus Cyclical Unemployment
Structural: Workers without jobs whose skills don’t match the types of jobs available.
Cyclical: The worker is available and willing to work but currently without work due to lack of demand in the economy.
Is our current situation structural unemployment? “The long-term unemployed—those who have been out of work for more than 26 weeks—now account for almost half of the jobless. A worry is that this cohort may become unemployable as their skills atrophy and they become increasingly detached from the informal networks that would lead them to new jobs.” http://www.economist.com/node/16889105
Christina D. Romer, Council of Economic Advisers believes unemployment is not structural but cyclical: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/Back-to-a-Better-Normal
When will it get better?
“In the ten-year window following severe financial crises, unemployment rates are significantly higher than in the decade that preceded the crisis… In ten of the fifteen post-crisis episodes, unemployment has never fallen back to its pre-crisis level, not in the decade that followed nor through end-2009.” http://www.aei.org/docLib/Reinhart-After-the-Fall-August-17.pdf
“Between December 2007 – the official first month of the recession – and December 2009, the U.S. economy lost more than eight million jobs. Even if the economy creates jobs from now on at a pace equal to the fastest four years of the early 2000s expansion, we will not return to the December 2007 level of employment until March 2014. And, by the time we return to the number of jobs we had in December 2007, population growth will have increased the potential labor force by about 6.5 million jobs. If job growth matched the fastest four years in the most recent economic expansion, the economy would not catch up to the expanded labor force until April 2021. Even if job creation rates were as high as the fastest four years of the 1990s recovery, we would not return to pre-recession employment levels until September 2012, and we would not cover the increase in the potential labor force until September 2014.” http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/urgent-need-2010-07.pdf
Should the Fed do more?
UO professor Tim Duy says: “In sum, what Bernanke actually said is that yes, there is more that we can do, but really none of it is effective and we do not intend to go there unless things get really, really bad. How bad? Your guess is as good as his:
‘At this juncture, the Committee has not agreed on specific criteria or triggers for further action…’
They haven’t even agreed on current action… Paul Krugman sees the current situation as a monumental failure of Bernanke to follow his own research…
Seriously, millions of people looking for work, for years, according to the Fed’s own forecasts, and Bernanke is concerned about permanent damage to the federal funds market?” (emphasis mine) http://economistsview.typepad.com/timduy/2010/08/no-clothes.html
Mon 16 Aug 2010
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For those of us lucky enough to attend the AAWCC summer conference, we got the chance to learn from some great speakers: ”Enter the World of Google Apps”, Amethyst O’Brien, Google; “Tools for Educators”, Niki Taylo, Sunset High School; “Google in the College Setting”, Professor Grace Windsheimer, Columbia Gorge Community College. Resources here: http://www.aawccoregon.org/summer-conference/resources.html.
Oregon’s educational embrace of Google apps is mentioned on Google’s blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/alis-volat-propriis-oregons-bringing.html and at Mashable: http://mashable.com/2010/04/28/schools-google-apps/.
Sat 14 Aug 2010
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Are you in need of some brain stimulation? Why not learn something.
Whether you want to spend 20 minutes or months or years, these resources will keep your neurons creating new connections.
200 Free Online Classes to Learn Anything | OEDb, http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/200-free-online-classes-to-learn-anything
“it’s possible to take classes from big names like Yale, MIT, and Tufts without ever submitting an application or paying a cent in tuition. We’ve compiled 200 online classes from these and other respected institutions, and you can take all of them with no strings attached.”
2010 Horizon Report, http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2010-Horizon-Report.pdf project established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies
250 Free Online Courses from Top Universities | Open Culture, http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
Free online courses from top universities
About – About U. – Free Online Courses, http://u.about.com/
“A collection of free online courses from About.com. Each online course is sent to you via email on a daily or weekly basis and is designed to help you learn a specific skill or solve a particular problem. There are no grades or degrees, only a whole lot of free online learning.”
Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video Lectures, http://academicearth.org/
“Academic Earth now helps connect you to degrees and certificates that can be earned online from highly-respected universities.”
Academy of Achievement, http://www.achievement.org/
“The Academy of Achievement brings students face-to-face with the extraordinary leaders, the visionaries and the pioneers who have helped shape our world.”
AcaWiki, http://acawiki.org/Home
Annenberg Media, http://www.learner.org/resources/browse.html
Incredible resource for free videos for classroom and professional development
Apple – iTunes U – Learn anything, anywhere, anytime. http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/
BBC – Languages – Homepage, http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
CCOTC Textbooks by Subject, http://collegeopentextbooks.org/thetextbooks/textbooksbysubject.html
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, http://oerconsortium.org/
Educator.com – e-Learning Service Site, http://educator.com/Einztein – Find free online courses http://www.einztein.com/
FEMA Independent Study Program, http://training.fema.gov/IS/crslist.asp
The Emergency Management Institute (EMI) offers self-paced courses designed for people who have emergency management responsibilities and the general public. All are offered free-of-charge.
FORA.tv – Videos on the People, Issues, and Ideas Changing the Planet, http://fora.tv/
HP Learning Center, http://h30187.www3.hp.com/
Free online classes for home, home office, business and IT
JEA Digital Media | Journalism Education Association Digital Media http://jeadigitalmedia.org/
Justice with Michael Sandel (Harvard), http://www.justiceharvard.org/
Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history. Now it’s your turn to take the same journey in moral reflection that has captivated more than 14,000 students, as Harvard opens its classroom to the world.
Keppler Speakers Video Channel, Keppler Speakers Bureeau, Motivational Speakers, Celebrity Speakers, Professional Speakers, Campus Speakers http://www.kepplerspeakers.com/video_index.aspx
Khan Academy, http://www.khanacademy.org/
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. See report on PBS Newshour, 02/22/10 “Math Wiz Adds Web Tools to Take Education to New Limits”: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/north_america/jan-june10/khan_02-22.html
Kutztown Small Business Development Center, http://www.kutztownsbdc.org/course_listing.asp
Free, on-demand entrepreneurial training resources
Learning on Demand Online – Education in the United States, 2009, http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/pdf/learningondemand.pdf
Learning with ‘e’s, http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/
Links Browse: Free Software/Web Tools http://www.clrn.org/weblinks/browse.cfm?id=763
Marketplace Whiteboard | Marketplace from American Public Media, http://marketplace.publicradio.org/collections/coll_display.php?coll_id=20216
Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains complex economic terms and topics so the rest of us can understand them.
Marketplace Whiteboard | Marketplace from American Public Media http://marketplace.publicradio.org/collections/coll_display.php?coll_id=20216
MIT World | Distributed Intelligence, http://mitworld.mit.edu/
MIT World is a free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT. MIT World’s video index contains more than 700 videos.
Online Tutorials – Baycon Group provides tutorials on a growing list of computer-related topics, http://www.baycongroup.com/
Online University | Online Degree | Accredited Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees, http://www.wgu.edu/
Open Education Resources – Blogs, http://oerblogs.org/
Open Learning Initiative, http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Open & Free Courses are for independent learners and include self-guiding materials and activities that are freely available for you to use. They are available all the time so you can learn at your own pace.
Open Learning Initiative, http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Open & free classes from Carnegie Mellon
OpenLearn – The Open University, http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
OpenUW Free Courses http://www.extension.washington.edu/openuw/
p2pu | Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything, http://p2pu.org/
Peter Haberman’s Home Page, http://spot.pcc.edu/~phaberma/
PopTech : popcasts http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/
Technophilia: Get a free college education online – Back To School – Lifehacker, http://lifehacker.com/software/education/technophilia-get-a-free-college-education-online-201979.php
TED: Ideas worth spreading, http://www.ted.com/
Test Prep Online for GMAT, LSAT, and SAT Exams with Knewton, http://www.knewton.com/
Toastmasters International – Home, http://www.toastmasters.org/
Tufts OpenCourseWare, http://ocw.tufts.edu/
UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts: Spring 2010 Courses, http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php
UC Irvine, OpenCourseWare, http://ocw.uci.edu/
University of the People – The world’s first tuition free online university, http://www.uopeople.org/
VideoLectures – exchange ideas & share knowledge, http://videolectures.net/
Welcome | Flat World Knowledge, http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/
Whatcom Online Math Center, http://math.whatcom.ctc.edu/content/Links.phtml?cat=3
Free online classes from Whatcom Community College
Wikiversity:Main Page – Wikiversity, http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
Yale Open Courses – Online Video Lectures and Course Materials, http://oyc.yale.edu/
YouTube – Education – YouTube EDU, http://www.youtube.com/education?b=400
Tue 13 Jul 2010
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This just in…from Oregon Employment Forecast, Amy Vander Vliet, Regional Economist, State of Oregon.
“…with no foreseeable ‘magic bullet’ in the near future, OEA [Office of Economic Anaylsis]
expects a slow start to the recovery.
6 major industries are expected to contract this year
3 will expand & 1 will be flat
Construction will suffer the steepest decline by far (-15.0%) in anticipation of continued weakness in the housing market and tough times for commercial real estate brought on by tight credit, rising vacancy rates, and low demand.
Manufacturing will decline in step with the nation, although at a slower pace than OEA forecasted earlier in the year.
The outlook for high tech has brightened; chip sales are up and expected to go higher.
Financial activities will lose more jobs this year before starting to rebound in 2011.
The government sector will cut positions as state and local governments struggle to balance their budgets.
Education & health services weathered the recession better than every other sector. It will be the fastest growing sector this year (+1.9%) due almost entirely to the expanding health care component.
Professional & business services will show signs of life after suffering sharp losses in 2009.
Leisure & hospitality should benefit from the consumer slowly relaxing their grip on their wallet.
The information sector, which includes software, is expected to end this year flat compared to 2009” [emphasis mine.]
Thu 8 Jul 2010
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While Congress debates federal deficit spending, the situation for American Workers is troubling.
Unemployment for men is worse than for women and the outlook is not good.
For older workers, the risk that to the federal budget is that more of them will be funded permanently on disability rather than temporarily on unemployment insurance. Cutting Off Unemployment Benefits Could Worsen Deficit. It also means that we will permanently loose expertise that could be useful once the economy bounces back.
For young workers, the lack of opportunity to gain skills can have a lasting, even permanent effect on their future prospects. Something’s Not Working.
In “Outliers,” Malcom Gladwell gives evidence for his claim regarding the “10,000 hour rule.” The assertion is that mastery of a skill or task is achieved after 10,000 hours of practice.
If young workers don’t get started on their skill development, how will this impact their potential?
If late career workers cannot find work, does it make sense for them to start over on a new skill very late in their working life?
Job creation now is an investment in our future. Unemployment is costsly. Disinvestment now is “penny wise and pound foolish.”
Mon 28 Jun 2010
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In the community college setting, white papers are often used to provide information to support a proposed solution to challenges in technology or planning.
If you see a problem and want to propose a solution to a decision maker, it’s easy to download a template to formulate your ideas into a white paper.
Go to: Office.microsoft.com
Click on “Templates”:
Type “White Paper” into the search box. The result looks like this:
When you download and open it in Word, it looks like this:
You are provided with a Table of Contents which you can change. It will look like this:
“Praxis” simply means “the process of putting theoretical knowledge into practice.”
If you see a problem and want to propose a solution, why not write a white paper?
