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1. Professional Development: Getting Results. Want to participate in some professional development but don't have to time to meet face-to-face? Try Getting Results, a selfpaced, online professional development course. This course includes topics such as building communities, active learning and teaching, and teaching with technology. The key theme of the course is to encourage you to focus on what the students will do and take responsibility for their success. To access this resource, login to iStream, go to "Professional Development" and click on "Getting Results" 2. Webinar: Identifying and Reaching Unprepared Students: Strategies for Creating Success in the College Classroom https:// innovativeeducators.webex.com/ innovativeeducators/lsr.php? AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=11219102&rKey=3f9356b 9a0dc28ec 3. League Publications (League Books): Getting Connected: A Social Media Report by Cecilia Rios-Aguilar and Regina Deil-Amen. This is a report describing recent research on social media in the college setting. From the report: “Beginning in fall 2011, as part of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant funded intervention, nine urban, small town, and rural U.S. community colleges (located in Arkansas, Arizona, California, New York, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming) were selected to adopt a Facebook-based application known as Schools App for limited use by invited students, staff, faculty, and administrators. This is the first longitudinal research study to use realtime data generated by the users of Schools App to examine how commuter based community colleges attempt to use social media technology as a mechanism to increase students’ connection to and success in college.” To access this resource, login to iStream, go to "Publications" and click on "League Books" then "Getting Connected: A Social Media Report" To learn more about iStream, go to http:// www.league.org/istreamsite/.