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• Using Learning Themes to Link Developmental Studies
  Sharon North, St. Louis Community College
  
  
• Improving Student Performance in Developmental Mathematics
  Tom Carson, Midlands Technical College
  
  
• Teaching/Learning Literacy Strategies
  D.J. Henry, Daytona Beach Community College
  
  
• Confidence to Competence: Improving The Learning Atmosphere In The Writing Classroom
  Bill Kelly, Bristol Community College
  
  
• The Virtual Math Lab: On-line Courses and Assessment
  Pam Snow, Addison-Wesley Technology Specialist
  
  
• Reading Roadtrip and Longman Writer's Warehouse
  Matt Ball, Longman Publishers Technology Specialist
  
  

Using Learning Themes to Link Developmental Studies
How can we encourage our developmental studies students to better appreciate reading, writing, science and mathematics? Show them connections to the real world! Participants in this session will work through classroom investigations designed to engage the developmental mathematics student.

Improving Student Performance in Developmental Mathematics
This session will focus on techniques and activities that the presenter has found to be effective in improving student performance in developmental mathematics. These techniques include creative ways to handle student's anxieties, learning styles and even a math song.

Teaching/Learning Literacy Strategies
Cognitive Domain discussion/activities focus on revealing to students "teaching/learning literacy strategies" based on structure found at the core of every curriculum. Affective Domain discussion/activities focus on "Finding the TurnOn!" to inspire, motivate the teaching/learning process by Nurturing Self Actualization and Modeling Self Actualization.

Confidence to Competence: Improving The Learning Atmosphere In The Writing Classroom
With writing, confidence is the first step towards competence. Students need a classroom where they can feel comfortable asking questions. This presentation will offer some common sense suggestions to help make your classroom a better place for your students and for you.

The Virtual Math Lab: On-line Courses and Assessment
With the increasing demand for on-line courses and assessment, mathematics educators are in need of good tools that will help them develop such resources quickly and easily. This session will review several excellent web-based applications that Addison-Wesley has developed for both instructors and students. Foremost among them is MyMathLab, an on-line teaching and learning tool designed to accompany all major Addison-Wesley mathematics textbooks.

Reading Roadtrip and Longman Writer's Warehouse
Reading Roadtrip 3.0 is an interactive reading instructional program that combines traditional reading and study skills instruction with interactive technology and modern approaches to the reading process. The Longman Writer's Warehouse is an online resource for college-level developing writers and is designed to help students improve their writing skills and further their understanding of the writing process.