Cherie's Home Page

The Power of Social Networking Sites: their place on campus and in society (when MySpace, Face book & Twitter becomes “our space!”) Handout -- English Round Table Presentation, Marshalltown, April 9 2009 Power point Presentation -- Full Set of Slides PPT posted as a PDF
Power Point presentation -- cartoons ONLY PPT posted as a PDF (Cartoons only version) These presentations are also posted on Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/
Cherie's Supper Club Speech (April 21, 2009) Face book and Twitter “grow up”: how we’re using them to connect, interact, and advocate (and have some fun) In PDF form PPT (Face book & Twitter "Grow Up": how we're using them to connect, interact, and advocate (and have some fun).
Cartoons only from the presentation (PPT) Presentation As PDF Presentation handout in word
Getting Around My Faculty Site
Weekly Schedules By Semester, 2008
Here is my contact information and weekly schedule. Spring 2009
Fall 2008 Here it is in Word Spring 2008
Handouts and Helps for My Students
Composition 2 -- I have two sections online, using ANGEL. I am not teaching a F2F section this semester, but when I do, it also uses Angel for a supplemental website and discussion board. The public page posted here reflects a previous edition of the course materials.
Introduction to Literature -- Follow this link to my new Intro to Literature page. We will also be using Nicenet.org for a discussion board/announcements.
Technology and the classroom -- This is a fairly new class, first delivered in Spring 2007. We are using a supplemental website on Angel for the majority of the handouts and communication tools. However, I will post a few documents here. (I am not teaching this class during Spring 2009).
http://www.worksheetlibrary.com Jennifer Berry, editor at worksheetlibrary.com, contacted me about linking to her site and adding my site to their directory of links. "Worksheet Library is home to over 5,000 printable K-6 worksheets for teachers, parents, and homeschoolers. Many of our worksheets are available at no charge. We also offer a free extensive library of teaching tip articles from our staff."
Applied Writing (Written Communication in the Workplace) -- Here are the materials for my Applied Writing class. (I am not teaching this class Spring 09)
Inspiration Resources (Spring 2007/Fall 2008 HIP GRANT) Catharine Freeman (our Education instructor) and I were awarded a HIP Grant, which paid for an update to existing site licenses of Inspiration, and also purchased a new set of licenses for the Technology in Education and Comp. 2 classes. Here is a page with Inspiration materials, including a tutorial and introductory packet about concept mapping that prepares students to use Inspiration. Inspire Data (coming soon) A new tool that helps students learn about databases
Helps for Writers
Part One: References, Search Engines, Libraries, How to Use the Internet Part Two: Reading, Writing and Documentation Resources
Citation Builders & Creating a Works Cited Page How to use Online Citation Tools to Create your Works Cited page (New -- Fall 2008) Here is a handout that explains how to use a citation tool to create the Works Cited entries http://www.easybib.com/ -- Easy Bib ONLINE RESOURCES FOR DOCUMENTING SOURCES http://citationmachine.net/ The Citation Machine, a free web-based Citation Building tool Simply select the type of resource you have, and the website brings up a form for you to fill in. Click on create citations--and you will get a citation in both MLA and APA format, which you can then copy and paste into your word document. http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/ Knight Cite -- one of the best sites I've found so far, for variety of college level sources HELP DOING THE WORKS CITED PAGE FROM THE OWL at Purdue University http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/675/01/ New side of the OWL (Online Writing Lab) website – MLA style http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/ How to do an MLA style Annotated Bibliography Comp. 2 students: if your textbook had a pass code for Mycomplab, it is a great resource to check out--it includes the Auto Cite feature built-into Research Navigator. This creates your MLA or APA style citations and puts them into alphabetical order. It is a wonderful product, and students have been very enthusiastic about using it. Of course, always check your results against your handbook. http://mycomplab.com My Comp Lab website. Auto Cite is found inside the Research Navigator area. My list of Citation Builders has outgrown this page; here are some alternatives.

Other Sections of My Web site

Educational Technology Page on Google

http://cheriedargan.googlepages.com/home

Here is a new page where I will post thoughts on the use of technology in the classroom from time to time. (Google pages is a new feature of Google email).

Presentations Page

Here are several presentations about teaching over the ICN and hybrid courses.

I presented with a panel at the annual ISEA conference for Community Colleges in Ankeny, Iowa last fall. Here I am (in the middle) with Michelle and Pat, the other two presenters.

Cherie's resume (PDF) My expanded vita, with committees, projects, curriculum development, and other information

Personal Page (Cherie's bio, family pictures)

Cherie's Old Page, 2005

HELPS FOR TEACHERS

Technology Mentoring

Technology Mentoring Pilot, Spring 2004

This is a program that I helped to develop and pilot at HCC; it's a way of putting people together who want to enhance their skills using technology in the classroom, but the focus is on teaching and learning as much as the technology. I served as a Tech Mentor from 2004-2006.

Quick Links for Busy Teachers & Students

http://refdesk.com (a general reference site packed with links)

http://libraryspot.com (another all purpose research site, with links to online libraries and references resources)

http://netlingo.com (an online dictionary of internet and computer terms)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ (the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University)

http://searchenginewatch.com (a website with links to search engines & how to use them)

Using Discussion in Traditional, Hybrid

and Online Courses

Discussion Resources

Discussion packet, fall 04 (compilation of resources from several documents)

Discussion Board Survey, Hawkeye Students, Fall Semester

Building Community & Collaboration with the Use of Discussion Boards -- a presentation for TYCA-Midwest (Two Year College English Association), Peoria, IL, October 7-9, 2004.

Notes from the power point

Notes from the power point (in .rtf for easy download)

Online Teaching and Learning Page

A collection of documents, presentations, papers, and other materials.

These relate to my experiences using WebCT, Blackboard, and Angel to develop web courses for HCC and BVU (Marshalltown Center & Main Campus).

How to put together a course website in Blackboard

A Guide for New Online Teachers (Working Draft)

Teaching with Technology Page (Under construction)

ISSWA.ORG

http://www.isswa.org/

Here is a website that I helped to develop with my cousin Charlene several years ago. ISSWA is the Iowa School Social Workers Association website, and a good source of information for new school social workers.

Michael Dargan's Page

http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu:16080/~dargan/index.html

My husband Mike works at both the Cedar Falls and Waterloo Public Library; he supervises the Reference Department at Waterloo and takes care of all of the technology at both libraries.

The WPL Reference Blog

Mike developed this blog to focus on the Reference Department.

Check it out at

http://wpl-reference.blogspot.com/

Notice that you can post your comments, response, questions, or other feedback to postings on the blog.....you can also use Instant Messaging to ask a reference question.

Lost in the Stacks (Book Reviews Blog)

http://wpl-reviews.blogspot.com/

Here is my favorite blog: Lost in the Stacks is a great place to read about a book you may never have heard of, but might want to read! Mike has invited me to be a contributor, so I've posted a few reviews as well.

http://www.cedarfallspubliclibrary.org/

The New Cedar Falls Public Library web page

http://www.wplwloo.lib.ia.us/wpl.html

The Waterloo Public Library web page

Michael's Picasa Web project -- Here is a new way to display photos online. http://picasaweb.google.com/dargan

The Ruth Suckow Page

http://www.ruthsuckow.org/

This is a page that Mike originally created and turned over to me. We are both members of the Ruth Suckow Society, and serve on the board. Ruth Suckow is a wonderful writer with Iowa roots. Her stories are set in another era, but her characters and storylines seem remarkably readable today.

Two Images of Ruth Suckow

The Ruth Suckow Blog -- New, Spring 2007

http://ruthsuckow.blogspot.com/

Here is a link to a blog that I began a couple of years ago; I want to use it to connect with people who are interested in our new project of collecting Suckow's books so that we can lend them to book clubs and teachers.

“Ruth Suckow is especially interesting to young feminists because of her own life and because of her portrayal of many strong, independent women who refused to be placed in a mold."
--Margaret Matlack Kiesel, 1978

Ruth Suckow was a writer whose novels and short stories reflected her Iowa background. A Hawarden native, she began her writing career as a poet, soon discovering that she could not earn a living from her poems. Suckow, therefore, mastered the art of beekeeping and supported herself by selling honey while she began writing novels and short stories. In the 1920s, Suckow was ranked as one of the top 10 American fiction writers by H.L. Mencken, a noted critic and publisher. Her writing is of special interest to feminists because of its portrayal of strong, independent women. Two of her novels, Country People and Iowa Interiors, were reissued in the 1970s in a series titled Rediscovered Fiction by American Women. Born in 1892, Suckow died in 1960. Suckow was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1978.

http://www.state.ia.us/government/dhr/sw/hall_fame/iafame/iafame-suckow.html

Iowa Commission on the Status of Women/Hall of Fame

Photo taken from http://www.library.uni.edu/speccoll/images/famous7.jpg

Disclaimer

The statements and opinions included in my website are intended to be useful, informative, and educational. However, any statements and opinions included here are mine, and not necessarily those of Hawkeye Community College. I also include a number of documents that contain links to resources on the Web; while I will make every effort to make sure that all links are active, please keep in mind that the Internet continues to change, and that some may not work. If you find broken links, please email me and let me know. Thanks!

Created by Cherie Post Dargan, Associate Professor -- Communications Department

Hawkeye Community College

Last updated May 8, 2009

E-mail me at: cdargan@hawkeyecollege.edu

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Cherie Post Dargan

Associate Professor,

Communications Department

Cherie's faculty web page

Spring Semester 2009

Office Location: Library Building, Second Floor, L209

(319) 296-2320, ext. 1701 (voice mail)

Getting Around My Faculty Site

Weekly Schedules By Semester, 2008

Handouts and Helps for My Students

Helps for Writers

Citation Builders & Creating a Works Cited Page

http://citationmachine.net/

The Citation Machine, a free web-based Citation Building tool