https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/cathym/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Catherine Ma's friends. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 6fe298dbfd3170f81ef9de4da8690fdf https://teachqueens26.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=779 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:49:06 -0400 Place-based textsTexts: New York City Whitehead, Colson. The Colossus of New York (New York: Penguin, 2003), excerpt. Texts: Queens Hum, Tarry. “Black Dispossession and the Making of Downtown Flushing.” Progressive City (2021)

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]]> 7727d49cb070557abcb449174f20c036 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=169278 Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:41:45 -0400 I feel that I have the strongest growth mindset as it relates to my research- I will often need to learn a new methodology or literature (or sometimes both!) to be able to work on the research questions that I am interested in, and I strive not to let that stop me. Learning new methods is hard and messy and full of mistakes, but incredibly…[Read more]

]]> a283fc70a7be6a1deed7da944b466725 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=169276 Tue, 20 Aug 2024 19:56:00 -0400 I taught my first university class in Spring of 2006- since then, my teaching has evolved to be almost unrecognizable from where I started out. This is due naturally to the passage of time and changes in technology, but also to my reflecting on how well teaching the way I was taught (all lecture) was working for my students (not super well!).…[Read more]

]]> 6b6b89132ad32d9c2f171940abff4c00 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=169275 Tue, 20 Aug 2024 19:50:28 -0400 Sarah, this openness and honesty with your students is amazing!  I have found in my own experience that letting students know that I know I don’t know everything, and that I will make mistakes during our class, is extremely powerful (I only wish I had learned this earlier in my teaching career, as you have already figured out).

]]> e716069e13f3aaa90e68889b5747c327 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1001196/ Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:29:08 -0400 5c27c5825ea39c2d101fa92dc1a062bd https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=168731 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:54:54 -0400 This live session really encouraged me to make a fresh welcome video (and make it separate from my “course tour” video, which I should also make!).  I also want to find a way to use the “intro slideshow” I have students make (maybe in a gamefied way, as Cassandra discussed).  I was also very impressed by James, who shared (what I would have felt w…[Read more]

]]> 60d88315236426d4700573394b4ca2e0 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=168710 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:23:28 -0400 Hi Cynthia & Gordon!  On my better days, I remember that learning, like Gandalf the Wizard, is never late.  Nor is it early.  It arrives precisely when it is meant to.

]]> f7862dcebb3fba2463eaa0e84820d452 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=168708 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:20:33 -0400 I love the framing of failing with style!!!  It reminds me of the meme, “I’m not a hot mess, I’m a spicy disaster.”  The way we see ourselves is important- I try to stress with my students (and myself), we might fail, but that does not mean we are failures!

]]> 5483c69770f46a3a6546e07bf8282bc1 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=168692 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:15:27 -0400 The sum total of my pedagogical training in graduate school was 2 minutes on orientation day, where one speaker said, “procrastinate your teaching, so it doesn’t take up too much time.”  I’m very glad to see that the TLC at the Graduate Center, and professional development across CUNY, has advanced substantially since 2005 ;o)

]]> 15464b1593c4543b0d209714347a7e5a https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=168671 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:13:31 -0400 I love this quote!  It reminds me of my favorite Beckett quote, “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”  A few years ago, I wrote it on a snake in an interactive art exhibit in Tokyo, released the snake into the exhibit, and watched it immediately get eaten.  I think it’s very powerful to fail and learn from it…[Read more]

]]> 819e732a8956a5acb71d84e47f942339 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1000865/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:07:26 -0400 0b47e4880c893a64425069e91dee0633 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/999039/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:59:35 -0400 2ff5af34e9ea99168533cd34cfbd80c0 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/999029/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:42:14 -0400 dce6e598d1ad5d2a9ae5f62d97181e9d https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/998250/ Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:00:24 -0400 654eb8fd5a5937669b70b8729833e678 https://shawnabrandle.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=335 Thu, 30 May 2024 15:43:12 -0400 The immaculate vibes of the Zombie Pandemic Simulation A few weeks ago, my intro to IR class engaged in my favorite activity of the semester- the zombie pandemic simulation, and, as a great […]

]]> f8c1e17588a4db3656f3fa542f5810a2 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/995992/ Mon, 20 May 2024 19:32:37 -0400 be89003c248a9e83b95a8c99b6338d9d https://shawnabrandle.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=328 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:00:33 -0400 Open Ed Talk:  Keeping the Person in Personalized LearningOn March 20, 2024, I gave a talk (rant?) about keeping the person in personalized learning. The slides can best be described as a […]

]]> 778ca781e468f8306ce51ceb86d67dc5 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/976886/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:20:18 -0500 87ce39bcbcf754f47e3ff126f668c327 https://shawnabrandle.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=319 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 21:02:36 -0500 My scholarly valentine Roses are red, violets are blue I love these open tools and I think you might too.   Here are three of the essential open t […]

]]> fea05750e80e011b535d468ef20455f7 https://polsdighums.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=210 Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:13:47 -0500 A great start, and we're off to the races!It was a pleasure to meet you all last night! I am really looking forward to learning with this group (and to experimenting with ways to […]

]]> c5e79cf38c6979bd67784829ecceae17 https://shawnabrandle.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=315 Thu, 11 Jan 2024 03:24:32 -0500 You don’t have to mandate ice cream I heard today that once upon a time, CUNY tried to mandate that every faculty member be required to use Blackboard and only […]

]]> 9b9b503ec1f5329049705cc9ef68f316 https://shawnabrandle.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=311 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:38:26 -0500 One LMS to rule them all?  one LMS to find them, one LMS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them The draft policy for mandatory sole LMS usage is a […]

]]> 380d7c612cf3cbc9f1ec240bf3ff4c4d https://shawnabrandle.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=301 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 22:10:30 -0500 Does it though?   (TL:DR summary: increasing administrative efficiency does not justify radically curtailing academic freedom, surveilling instructors and […]

]]> 65f294c18809a29f9e141ae53322cfd0 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/969403/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:49:36 -0500 12863d7b50cf115dac8ac42dc4061c84 https://ilyas.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2023/12/13/final-blog-post/#comment-127 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 08:13:10 -0500 Congratulations on the successful completion of the course. I know it wasn’t easy, nor was it fun (for the most part), but you made it. I agree completely with your self-grading assessment, and wish you very […]

]]> 3767629af7bb050e762b1a310f4f47fb https://shawnabrandle.commons.gc.cuny.edu/draft-lms-policy-is-a-giant-lump-of-coal-for-faculty-and-students/#comment-2 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 18:05:14 -0500 Hi Miriam, The text of the draft policy are linked in the post, and should have been emailed to you by your campus as well. My short list of reasons is: academic freedom dignity of students and […]

]]> 24e714b6100bf8d4559d802cc22fae16 https://shawnabrandle.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=298 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 01:10:58 -0500 Draft LMS Policy is a giant lump of coal for faculty and students“Lump of coal” is the most suitable-for-work way I can describe the terrible draft policy on LMS usage I received today. I can’t find […]

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