CUNY Academic Commons

On April 30th, 2020 KCeL offered its first Playing to your Strengths as an Instructor session. The session description is
Faculty have a wealth of experience in teaching dynamic, face to face classes that include […]

There was discussion about an event during the fall 2019 semester for faculty to showcase their online courses and/or to learn about online courses.  We brainstormed about what would be of greatest interest to […]

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Meeting 2 of Spring 2019 Semester- May 7 and May 8, 2019

At our meetings, we reviewed various tools people have been using with their classes.  Most were Blackboard tools.  H […]

Teaching with Technology FIG

Meeting 1 of Spring 2019 Semester- April 2 and April 3, 2019

We discussed the article, Gavassa, S., Benebentos, R,. Kravec, M., Colllins, T., and Eddy ,S. 2019.  “ […]

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We talked about how to create engaging materials for students using Toondoo and Adobe Spark.

Since this was our last meeting of the fall semester, we thought about what we would like to do […]

At today’s Teaching with technology meeting, John Acosta gave us an introduction to SCORMs, shareable content object reference model.  As John described it, a SCORM is like a box that you place all of your […]

Dorina Tila showed the group the various ways data can be gathered about students using Blackboard analytics. We reviewed:

Course reports:  one option is user activity. A report can be generated for each […]

The TWT FIG meeting on May 30th was presented by KCeL and Peter Santiago of Accessibility Services. Peter described how certain materials can be inaccessible to some learners. Tsubasa demonstrated how to make your […]

The TWT FIG met on April 25th.  We worked on an activity about how technology has changed education.  TWT s18 worksheet how tech has changed ed

Technology has definitely impacted how we teach and students le […]

The TWT FIG held its first meeting on March 28th and April 17th in order to try to accommodate as many interested colleagues as possible. Here is a list of tools we discussed:

Time toast – creates t […]

The topic of the TWT FIG Meeting was Using Google Features.
We discussed the benefits of using Google Drive and reviewed the following features:

Docs
Sheets
Slides
Sites
Forms
Hangouts

The […]

Our discussion was based on the reading of the article, “A comparison of reading comprehension across paper, computer screens, and tablets: Does tablet familiarity matter?” published in the Journal of Com […]

We discussed the reading, Helping Students Make the Right Call on Cell Phones.  The article presents different points about cell phones in the classroom, from allowing students to use them, to asking students to […]

We can all use more time with our students outside of the classroom.  A webinar might be a way to connect with students and provide them with more personalized guidance on a particular topic

Free Platforms: G […]

Today we talked about different ways you can use videos in your class.  Videos can be used as a way to help students prepare for class and engage learners is a way that might be more interesting than reading […]

Today we talked about Open Educational Resources (OERs).  Mark Eaton, KCC’s Librarian is actively involved in CUNY’s OER work.  If you are interested in developing an OER for your course, please contact Mark E […]