CUNY Academic Commons

Hi all, I am Guido D. Giordano; glad to salute you. Below my answers.

1) Some skills that I believe are most necessary for the Students to absorb and apply the content/topics of my EJS 240 class are: a.- […]

Hello Noriko! I was sorry you were not with us in the group yesterday!

I’m glad to know you’re interested in Argentina’s history. We have a considerable Japanese community here (in fact, my first girlfriend is […]

1) Students would be working in a collaborative “Short guide to define and identify environmental crimes” for my Environmental Crime (EJS 240) class.

I would provide a very simple template, composed of two tit […]

Hi Mengia! I am again replying to you, which is not the best in terms of diversity, LOL. But I will be so busy for what is left of the week that I fear I may not be able to reply to somebody else. Additionally, […]

Hello Bruce! Thank you for your comments.

Ok, I should correct myself, saying “Latin American studies” was perhaps irresponsible of me… but I do think that in the wider (i.e. not necessarily academic) view we […]

Hi to all! I hope you are doing well!

As per my answer to the prompt, I personally found many pieces of the essay interesting, and others (or the same) useful as well.

It was interesting to me to see the […]

Hello to all, I hope you are doing well. Below, my Assignment for Week 02.

The assignment I intend to build for a course of mine using OERs would be based on defining “Environmental crime” for my Env […]

Hello María Elena! Yes, I agree, this is definitely a matter of balance between our own needs and wishes, and our Students’ needs and wishes, which are often not the same! It is good to know I am not alone in […]

Hello again, Mengia! I am glad to see we chose the same piece, I was also intrigued by it.

I am also rather pleased to see we struggle with the same doubts! I am 33 years old and have been educated mostly in […]

Oh, yeah, also: hello to all! I started writing kind of “for myself” and forgot to start with a salutation for all, just that!

I chose to work with Robin DeRosa’s piece, because I was (and still am) intrigued about how Open Textbooks may work.

Many things interested me and surprised me as well. The mention to interdisciplinary s […]

My choice would be to have Students working in a collaborative “Short guide to define and identify environmental crimes” for my Environmental Crime (EJS 240) class.

1) I would like Students to start working fro […]

Hello Diana! The same is happening to me. I am actually now replying to your post but only as a mean to post my own thread, since my answer to Mengia stayed, but my own post did not. Below, my post (no need to […]

Hello to all, I hope you are well; happy to salute you. I am Guido D. Giordano. As some details about myself, I am an Argentinian-American; I identify myself as a male (he/him); I am a lawyer, a Specialist in […]

Hello Mengia! I hope you are well. It is always good to get to know a John Jay colleague, and your areas of expertise are certainly interesting, with clear points of contact with mine (which are, roughly speaking: […]

Hello to all, I hope you are well; happy to salute you. I am Guido D. Giordano. As some details about myself, I am an Argentinian-American; I identify myself as a male (he/him); I am a lawyer, a Specialist in […]