CUNY Academic Commons

OMG! This module took a lot out of me. This is the first time I work with any of those digital tools! PHEW! Much more than the 2 hours it says it should take on the pacing tab. I was really impressed with Sara’s presentation in our orientation breakout room. She shared a timeline she created with her students using Knightlab for a topic from a…[Read more]

i’m baaaaaack with no further injuries, hooray.  Okay so:

Share the rationale cards you kept in your hand all the way to the end of the game. Why did you keep these to the end? Why did you discard particular cards?

I didn’t find any ONE card that specifically spoke to the phenomenon I’m interested in (as summarized above), but I discarded those…[Read more]

So, before I do the card thing (I’m still haunted by the vicious papercut they gave me when I opened them a few weeks back), I want to jot down my “why” and see if there is a card (or a series of cards) that match this sentiment.

I’m a big believer that just because we can DO a thing doesn’t mean we know how to effectively teach it. Every soccer…[Read more]

Kristin Scarola, Adjunct Teacher Education (Prek- 2nd)

I explored the card deck through the game and saw that my selections mirrored my own values in my teaching practice: equity and social justice, personal agency and joy and fulfillment, competencies and literacies, and innovation. I selected:

#30: “Students will need to be literate in new…[Read more]

Here is my slide, I decided to use this activity as an ice-breaker with multilingual students in mind. Students will use all 4 modalities (listening, speaking, reading and writing) to interact with each other and find out about each other’s…[Read more]

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Y6rlw94qD2OCh5knrwcSKgvo5UFfcDrL114A90GfgxU/edit?usp=sharing

Hello everyone!

My name is AJ Stachelek and I am the Director of Assessment and an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Hostos Community College.

I go by they/them, although often get read as he.

As for my thoughts about the Commons, it is either incredibly intuitive or completely baffling depending on the activity involved. It took me way…[Read more]

Hello, I am Dominika McPartland, I am an adjunct lecturer in a TESOL department. Looking forward to meeting everyone and learning about tools that can support our teachers in developing fun and engaging lessons.

• Thomas Cleary, Assistant Prof at Lagcc, College Archivist/Librarian, he/him
• I think the Commons is great, I’ve used it as a student and to host projects on.  It’s based on Wordpress so the experience of interacting with it as a student carries over to the real world. Plus as a professor it lets you create both public and private website to…

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Hi Virginia,
Works for me — give it a refresh and see if it doesn’t work now… Unless you’re clicking another link. Can you share a screenshot with me where you see a broken link: sara.vogel@cuny.edu

SV

Sara Vogel, Ph.D. (she/her)

Associate Director of Computing Integrated Teacher Education

Central Office of Academic…[Read more]

Hellerrrr 🙂

I’m Beatrice (she/her), adjunct lecturer with the TESOL Masters program (and proud alum of the same!).  I was impressed by CODAP – I played around with the 2010 Census info and learned a lot about the diversity (*cough* lack thereof) of my home “county” in the state of Indiana and felt that much more grateful that Brooklyn is and…[Read more]

Hey folks,

In module 3, the link for Artifact Design Task Guidelines gives me a 404 error. Is there another path to the guidelines?

Best,
Virginia

I was inspired by the question in the flipgrid and “growth mindset” ideas to combine both a mindset that students feel more experienced with and one less so. I hope this activity also allows for reflection at individual, small group, and class-wide level and helps to build…[Read more]

Hi, everyone! Here is my remix of the NEP’s Liberatory Design Mindsets activity:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1giEKm-RdPdIxub9mgq64Adr7OhAomyx53lfi39q0pc8/edit?usp=sharing

Hi Everyone! I like card games, and made a game out of this like the card game we did individually, because I think it would be fun to do with a group. It will be interesting to see if there are intentions that many students agree are important or if everyone has their own. My hope is that teacher candidates could use this game to set their…[Read more]

Hi everyone! I’m Alfonso Pérez, Clinical Professor in the Bilingual Education Program. The 5 rationale cards that I kept were:

(8) teachers and students can use new media and computing as a tool for voice, participation, activism and critique related to causes they care about.

(16) because the process of tinkering and making can lead to wonder,…[Read more]

Saludos, my name is Vianela Tapia (she,her/s,ella) you can call me Vee. I am an adjunct lecturer in the Teacher Education Department at BMCC where I teach foundations of Bilingual Education. I’m still navigating and getting the hang of Commons. I’m looking forward to using the digital platforms we will be working with.

Jolie: I love your remix activity!