CUNY Academic Commons

Hunter College

A thorn:( in actuality b/c I still haven’t been given a class to teach and have been unable to ‘push in’ as I had hoped to do.

A bud in my mind b/c my artifact has grown based on my digestion of all things CITE this summer and other webinars/workshops on AI I continue to attend.

What are your thoughts on the teacher candidate visual resource? What surprised you? What resonated with you? What other perspectives do you wish had been included?

The visual resource shared here resonated with me because it reminded me of a graphic novel/PSA mashup.

It was very useful to read about individual TC’s experiences, and also within…[Read more]

As your gif on the splash page says, there is [certainly] a lot to unpack here. I love the image Beatrice posted. It’s a powerful reminder of the differences in access.

Starting off this summer’s PD with the National Equity Project’s Liberatory Design Framework was already eye opening for me. It really helped me conceptualize my mindsets in r…[Read more]

For this module I decided to use Canva for the first time. I “tinkered” with Jamboard and Loopy, but ultimately chose Canva because it was the easiest to operate as a beginner-and visually appealing for a step-process approach. I also think this would be helpful for my teacher candidates to in turn use with their own students, and I could easily…[Read more]

Hi Hunter team!

I purposely did not look at anyone’s slides, which may be a huge mistake, but here I go working with fear and discomfort:/

I wanted to come at this activity with fresh eyes so to speak. I don’t particularly like the label “remix”. I think of it more as an iteration– as one teacher passing a lesson plan/activity to another…[Read more]

Introduce yourself 

Hi, it’s Debbie from Hunter’s TESOL dept. I have two roles: adjunct and administrator

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?

The three cards that remained constant for me were 18 (teachers and their s…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

My name is Eugenia, but I go by Debbie (she/her). I’m an adjunct lecturer in the TESOL dept., and I also run the two adult literacy programs connected with our TESOL department.

Looking forward to using all the tech tools we’ll be exploring this summer and passing along this knowledge to the graduate students I work with. I’m…[Read more]