COPPER: Communities of Practice: Pooling Educational Resources

to Foster the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

COPPER Cluster Blog (Weblog)

This Blog (Weblog) is a place you can visit easily and frequently to keep track of COPPER activities and information, as well as to contribute your thoughts and comments.  (Blogs are more informal and conversational than traditional web sites. They also allow for interactivity and discussion.)

COPPER Cluster Listserv / Mailing List

COPPER Pages 

Networking Information and Directory listing names of individuals in the COPPER Cluster, their email addresses, institutions, disciplines, SoTL projects, and interests/experience/expertise.

The Carnegie CASTL Campus Program WebCenter

This Carnegie WebCenter incorporates a list serve, discussion boards, and electronic chat space for all members of the COPPER Cluster.  In addition, this Web Center provides information, news, campus updates, and other resources.  Sign on here to the Carnegie CASTL WebCenter, or contact Don Margulis at margulisd@middlesex.mass.edu if you have questions. 

Middlesex Carnegie Summer Institute 2006 & NEFDC Conference Resources

Resources & Materials from the June 2006 Summer Institute / NEFDC Colloquium with links to session summaries, handouts, PowerPoint presentations, and photos to encourage further dialogue. 

Middlesex Carnegie Summer Institute 2005 Resources

Resources & Materials from the June 2005 Summer Institute with links to session summaries, handouts, PowerPoint presentations, and photos to encourage further dialogue. 

COPPER Cluster Newsletter (Fall 2004)      also (Fall 2003)

Middlesex Carnegie Summer Institute 2004 Resources

Resources & Materials from the June 2004 Summer Institute with links to session summaries, handouts, PowerPoint presentations, and photos to encourage further dialogue. 

COPPER Cluster Members 

List of member institutions with primary contacts, addresses, and links to member institutions, campus programs, and campus group members.

COPPER Active Worlds

(Coming soon:  a virtual interactive space -  not for COPPER Cluster members only. For information, contact Don Margulis at margulisd@middlesex.mass.edu ) 

Reading Circles

(Coming soon:  For information, contact Donna Killian Duffy at duffyd@middlesex.mass.edu) 

MCC's Carnegie Group's Blackboard site for electronic discussions

This is for MCC's Carnegie Group members only.

COPPER Institution Case Record (draft)

This instrument is designed to document each COPPER institution's progress over the course of one year and consists of two parts: (1) a description of your COPPER Project's planning and implementation and (2) a description of your collaboration within the COPPER Cluster.  Please complete the Case Record at the end of each project year in preparation for the COPPER Summer Institute and post your Case Record at the Carnegie Webcenter.