CUNY Academic Commons | Charles Hirsch | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/cfh10/activity/ Activity feed for Charles Hirsch. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 126d7aa6ffbacc5c5f70570e1988a102 Charles Hirsch wrote a new post on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/06/16/keeping-up-my-end-of-the-conversation-as-policy-wonk/ Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:50:32 -0400 I love reading policy reports and position papers. Think what you like, I just do. I’d like to pass along two recent reports from the Pew Charitable Trust, one of my favorite think tanks. The first report “paint(s) a rich and complex picture of the role that digital technology plays in people’s social worlds.” But […]

]]> ab6d4a10a7fa9cc2297bc66daee11f57 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Class Site and Group Research Project, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/06/13/class-site-and-group-research-project/#comment-185 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:53:47 -0400 Looks like the students had a good time with these websites. Oh, for those days to read, discuss, and explore. I’ll sign up for the course. Now for the teaching that goes into these two deliverables. As we muddle through gen-edding our work for the fall, we could benefit to see these websites in context. […]

]]> 2df2a6732fffeeb7a101e4fd8d76c123 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Teaching and Learning with Twitter, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/05/17/teaching-and-learning-with-twitter/#comment-179 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:24:41 -0400 Let’s tread cautiously here. One word: Weinergate.

Nine things Weinergate tells us:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/03/weinergate.twitter.insights/

]]> 580adfe6d4a3047ae635941f78fbf7a5 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, The open digital platform: what do we want?, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/08/the-open-digital-platform-what-do-we-want/#comment-178 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:19:53 -0400 A link to the Library’s Chicago Manual of Style. (I don’t know if that can be open sourced.) Urban Dictionary. Dictionary. com or any of the available dictionary sites. Google dictionaries. I’d put the selection up to the group or to a wise referencarian. (That means reference person–I wanted to make up a word. chagrin.) […]

]]> 3f9b04f567af842c374771c891e87dc9 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, The open digital platform: what do we want?, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/08/the-open-digital-platform-what-do-we-want/#comment-171 Mon, 23 May 2011 00:12:55 -0400 I would vote to put comments/posts in descending order: Most recent on top. Too much scrolling to find out what’s new.

And what do y’all think?

]]> 5ad16a66de2d48fcb61665e897c75fb8 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, The open digital platform: what do we want?, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/08/the-open-digital-platform-what-do-we-want/#comment-168 Sun, 22 May 2011 23:53:19 -0400 In reply to my previous post with the question on grammar, “it’s between me and the student, or is that ‘between the student and I’” ; could we have links to dictionaries, thesaurus, and grammar and style books?

And a really good spell and grammar check would reinforce good writing habits.

]]> b653b3b2d87ff3d0379f48c57cd7eac7 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, The open digital platform: what do we want?, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/08/the-open-digital-platform-what-do-we-want/#comment-167 Sun, 22 May 2011 23:49:39 -0400 I’ve set up individual digital learning logs for each of my students in Developmental Writing. These are private and sometimes very personal. I incorporate a template with questions/prompts that students follow. Students are encouraged to upload pictures, write reflections, ask for help. It’s sort of like each student’s own blog, but it’s between…[Read more]

]]> 186144e73e6b2beb55f14763baabf270 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Help, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/help/#comment-166 Sun, 22 May 2011 23:32:51 -0400 As far as I can figure out, Questions/Suggestions/Discussion does not have a reply or comment box so I’m coming here. Question: Is there any address book for user’s name available when sending a message? How are we supposed to know the user’s name? (It’s easier, of course, when the addressee is a “friend.”) Question: Now […]

]]> 92e923e6fc9cc178653c2cca7c39b025 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, How can we use the open digital platform?, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/04/11/how-can-we-use-the-open-digital-platform/#comment-136 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:14:29 -0400 Please explain “the Openlab” and “For the Openlab Project.” Doesn’t each one of us create an individual blog that’s course specific? What do you envision is the synergy among each of these blogs that we want to generate? In the old days we used to talk about the cybernetic perspective of the system. However it’s […]

]]> 0bcbd8c8b239af18d5441d7fbac02a98 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Is Drawing GenEd?, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/24/is-drawing-gened/#comment-134 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:04:18 -0400 “outliens” should be “outlines” (Can’t I edit my own posts?)

]]> bf03240730bc912d5a0401e244c8ad31 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Is Drawing GenEd?, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/24/is-drawing-gened/#comment-133 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:59:56 -0400 What’s there to question? Of course drawing is part of gen ed. It should be part of education, generally. Drawing, whether a formal product or a sketch as a means to an end, can be a way of knowing/thinking. I’ll give a couple examples. Fellini storyboarded his movies before they went to script. (He once […]

]]> b2edc19b5a2540871888b46cb0412489 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Proposed Format for May 20th Presentaion Day, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/04/08/proposed-format-for-may-20th-presentaion-day/#comment-132 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:09:32 -0400 I like the last point, “a short wrap up and lunch.” As opposed to the wrap ups we’ve eaten for lunch? (I can’t help it, my inner fifth-grader comes out when I have a chance to play with words. I can be such a smart ass-essment.) For lunch, hmmm. . . what about the fat […]

]]> c0a5c463b224eec828b0836945ff834a Charles Hirsch wrote a new post on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/04/09/keeping-up-my-end-of-the-task-this-is-gen-ed/ Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:40:05 -0400 I’ve been keeping this from you all semester. These dudes at some college in Massachusetts came up with:  A PROGRAM IN GENERAL EDUCATION: http://www.generaleducation.fas.harvard.edu Park your car in Harvard Yard .  Surf the  site. Download the Report of the Taskforce. Read some of the digital essays on General Ed. Look at some of the trailers under Courses. […]

]]> dc1521e18ad3ee7e9f84ce95d4316616 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Today, We Write a Manifesto, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/04/05/today-we-write-a-manifesto/#comment-128 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:03:04 -0400 Jonas, since you thanked me in print, the least I can do is try to appeal to your mathematical sensibilities. First (1), we might want to think of a replacement set for {manifesto}. Perhaps we could use either {personifesto} or {humanifesto}. Either term provides a necessary and sufficient condition for gender-neutral language, which in turn […]

]]> b5207e86b4aa00350798a79ce93b9e1c Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Jane Jacobs and Baby D, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/31/jane-jacobs-and-baby-d/#comment-119 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:47:14 -0400 The University, the classroom itself, must be a safe space. I feel strongly that the classroom should be safe to fail. We learn from failure, but students want a linear path from concept to done deal. (Don’t we all.) As a writer most of my work is failure (throw away, rewrite) all the way up […]

]]> 8f7f77deb5c7b138282e4674e831e7e8 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Jane Jacobs and Baby D, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/31/jane-jacobs-and-baby-d/#comment-116 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:16:55 -0400 BTW: Cut and paste the link. Linking is beyond my capacity tonight.

]]> 62729685be52f3629a15f10a4a1ee0de Charles Hirsch wrote a new post on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/31/jane-jacobs-and-baby-d/ Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:13:12 -0400 When I was in high school, my adopted aunt, Dorothy Holtz, (Baby D we called her behind her back) introduced me to reading Jane Jacobs. Dorothy was one of the foremost city planners at the time–she created the first urban pedestrian mall in downtown Minneapolis and helped put Minneapolis as a leader in the “new” […]

]]> b043e435c3b35d1d11f20e059e12343c Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Developmental courses and the First-Year Experience, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/22/developmental-courses-and-the-first-year-experience/#comment-115 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:59:00 -0400 DEVELOPMENTAL ED/GENERAL ED/ A LIVING LABORATORY AND MY WEB LOG (Thanks, Jonas, for letting me segue into my concerns du jour) Before I dive into the blogosphere, I have a couple questions. What is the synergy of these blogs? What do we foresee as the interaction of these blogs among us fellows? How are these […]

]]> 47c139cf775d9037e15e99374fe547d6 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Gen Ed Committee and Gen Ed Seminar combined meeting, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/05/gen-ed-committee-and-gen-ed-seminar-combined-meeting/#comment-86 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:37:32 -0400 Soooooooo. Groups let you read stuff; blogs let you do stuff such as entering a post. It was the proper noun and common noun usage of “Living Lab group” and “My Groups” that got me befuddled.

]]> 996a0d4d6af1a331443f7e699ba91958 Charles Hirsch wrote a new post on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/12/keeping-up-my-end-of-the-conversation/ Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:05:46 -0500 At the end of this beautiful Saturday afternoon, I decided to take a stroll through CUNY Commons. I thought linking to Jim Groom’s site might be a lively way to spend cocktail hour. Join me — “Going Looney (sic) at CUNY: A Presentation Posted on March 1, 2011 by Reverend So going loony at CUNY […]

]]> 2f2ef9ec49521c3d1ebfad0a9f48fe1a Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Gen Ed Committee and Gen Ed Seminar combined meeting, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/05/gen-ed-committee-and-gen-ed-seminar-combined-meeting/#comment-80 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:13:58 -0500 “Living Lab group.” Where? And I’ll be on my way.

]]> 6cc171677500ddc3b8b595454b884608 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Gen Ed Committee and Gen Ed Seminar combined meeting, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/05/gen-ed-committee-and-gen-ed-seminar-combined-meeting/#comment-64 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:34:04 -0500 Do you have minutes from the meeting?

]]> 8ca381788f0718f45de61f8583ef4e69 Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Readings for Seminar Meetings, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/readings/#comment-60 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:39:30 -0500 Thanks, Jonas, I’ve stopped in today and I have your same predicament.

]]> 4e1845ce3fdd87112e9521c1daf1c96c Charles Hirsch commented on the post, Jim Groom's blog, on the site A Living Laboratory: General Education Seminars at City Tech http://livinglab.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/24/jim-grooms-blog/#comment-51 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:49:11 -0500 Now I get it!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> acf02f1f45a40c4973d04cf5501e0b40 Charles Hirsch became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/35304/ Mon, 04 Oct 2010 02:05:25 -0400