Week 4 — Group 1: Assessment Co-authors for this post: Janey Flanagan (BMCC) Urban Ed, eLearning Maria Greene (BMCC) Urban Ed, Chemistry Irene Morrison-Moncure (Hunter) Classics In week four, we continued […]
Archive | February, 2015
Investing in CUNY Community College Students
From The Chronicle of Higher Ed February 26, 2015 Program’s Extra Support for Community-College Students Is Paying Off By Katherine Mangan “A program at City University of New York that […]
CUNY GC Trance Conference March 5-6
Join us at the Graduate Center on March 5th and 6th for panels, conversations, performances, and workshops at Trance: the 2015 CUNY Graduate Center ESA Conference. Trance not only challenges […]
If Academe is Part of the Problem of Inequality and Oligarchy, What’s Our Solution?
Here’s a link my morning hastac.org blog, in our Futures Initiative group: “If Academe is Part of the Problem, What’s Our Solution?” http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2015/02/24/if-academe-part-problem-inequality-and-oligarchy-what-solution-futur This begins with a new study that […]
Literacy: Assessable or Inconclusive?
I just finished teaching a literacy course, called “Intensive Reading.” I think of this class like an intensive yoga workshop that focuses on building our practices slowly but effectively. The […]
Anatomy’s Assessment of Assessment
Last Tuesday’s in-class discussion of assessment strategies really got my juices flowing. How was I going to get my 35 Anatomy students to participate in this first topic of “Mapping […]
Intro to GIS Workshops using Open Source Software
Do you have a research question that you’d like to envision geographically? Maybe you’d like to study neighborhoods and businesses to target a market, or to provide a public service. […]
What We Did: Feb 17 (Third Class; Assessment, Part 1)
Week 3 — Group 1: Assessment Co-authors for this post: Janey Flanagan (BMCC) Urban Ed, eLearning Maria Greene (BMCC) Urban Ed, Chemistry Irene Morrison-Moncure (Hunter) Classics Week three marked the first […]
Getting the most out of CBOX: Where and how to post content
CBOX offers many options on where to post content—but sometimes having so many possibilities can be overwhelming. With that in mind, I’ve outlined a few places you might want to post, with […]
Bowling Alone? Learning Alone? We Can Do Better
In his classic study Bowling Alone (2000), Robert Putnam argues that we have lost our connection to friends, family, neighbors, and our democratic structures. He warns that our “social capital” […]
