Midterm project description of the Zine Union Catalog project for ITP Core 2

ITP Core 2 Midterm, Spring 2018

ITP Core 2 Midterm- A proposal for a culturally sustaining and critical sociolinguistic grammar game for speakers of World Englishes.

  This proposal explores digital annotation as an opportunity for making solitary reading practices more visible and social. I aim to modify an existing annotation tool to use in my English 220: Introduction to Writing about Literature class at Hunter College. As an instructor for this course, I learned the difficulty of modelling, scaffolding, and […]

Hi All, I have two kinds of projects cooking in the oven at the same time. So, I wrote two of these and focused on the full-fledged version while briefly giving direction on how the stripped down version will work too. I imagine that for whichever project I decide to go with, I will be […]

General Description For my project, I am planning to design a video game that is devoted to exploring issues of technology in society.  Both the gameplay mechanics and narrative arc will follow a basic intention:  to compel the player (as they play) to reflect critically on the place of technology in daily life.  I envision […]

Wendy Tronrud 4/16/2017   Introduction   Distribution for Underserved Communities has distributed art books free of charge to public libraries, prisons and schools throughout the U.S. for over 15 years. Because the art books are donated by various publishers, the specific books change each year. However, throughout the years a number of librarians have asked […]

Turning Books Into Data:
Creating a Historical Database of 20th Century Women Scientists in the U.S.

Reflection and description about a podcast dedicated to discussions about being Black, Brown, and queer in academia & in life 🙂

PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE AT THE MURPHY INSTITUTE: WORKER ED BLOGGING Introduction At the risk of sounding grandiose, my inspiration for this project is my belief that there is an urgent need to extend big picture critical analysis and political engagement to working class people of the larger social, political and economic situation they face as individual […]