CUNY Academic Commons | Ryan Donovan | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/ryandonovan/activity/ Activity feed for Ryan Donovan. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 705056ab69526913df988712c191652a Ryan Donovan wrote a new post on the site Visible Pedagogy https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1880 Tue, 02 Jul 2019 15:05:59 -0400 By Ryan Donovan

In my second year of grad school, I came close to quitting to become a professional dog trainer. I became so excited by teaching my dog, understanding how dogs learn, and the ethical and […]

]]> a81ed88def38815532f7a038b17a2774 Ryan Donovan wrote a new post on the site Visible Pedagogy https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1801 Thu, 11 Apr 2019 18:35:17 -0400 By Ryan Donovan

Occupying the dual roles of graduate student and professor is simultaneously exciting and challenging. Working to find a balance between research and teaching is an ongoing process that shifts […]

]]> 8ae5a511467f18e032476fdc774df827 Ryan Donovan's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/571385/ Wed, 10 Apr 2019 19:51:21 -0400 54179e61ad694dd8fb232b9c6e60cc87 Ryan Donovan wrote a new post on the site Machinal https://machinal.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=39 Sun, 25 Feb 2018 23:56:13 -0500  

Pre-1920’s, pre Machinal: 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, 15th Amendment (universal male suffrage)- and 1886 AERA (written by Lucy Stone, Fredrick Douglas, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, looking […]

]]> ea6d006ca780e87d7114407eb8f9bba5 Ryan Donovan created the site Machinal https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/485202/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:45:53 -0500 48c6a7191ebff0697228296ec4bfcf7a Ryan Donovan created the site Broadway Bodies https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/453986/ Fri, 03 Feb 2017 20:55:27 -0500 b0d4934f103a7130bfd017d6ea18f310 Ryan Donovan joined the group The WAC Resource Center https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/409697/ Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:32:11 -0400 4d2ea29905a7ee619802a3df3cca670e Ryan Donovan wrote a new post on the site Futures Initiative http://futures.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1409 Sat, 30 May 2015 20:35:58 -0400 I could only hope that my students got half as much out of our semester together as I did as a result of participating in “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education.” Being a part of this experiment was a profound […]

]]> 65f2222955a49da0e880ac820963511c Ryan Donovan wrote a new post on the site Futures Initiative http://futures.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1323 Wed, 06 May 2015 02:14:16 -0400 Hi all,
Here are two resources I have been meaning to share:
KQED’s MindShift blog. This is a wonderful resource from the Bay Area’s public radio station, and though many of the articles are geared for K-12 it’s […]

]]> 9abce2524f00ecd0c93a98adf00be400 Ryan Donovan wrote a new post on the site Futures Initiative http://futures.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1293 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:36:20 -0400 In last week’s session on “Embodiment and the Classroom,” I briefly spoke about the lifelong importance of play after we had done two exercises that incorporated elements of play. Play is often used in K-12 […]

]]> e0f23459d2cd0087de47f78f1f571e83 Ryan Donovan wrote a new post on the site Futures Initiative http://futures.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1280 Sat, 25 Apr 2015 15:53:11 -0400 ThumbnailStudents in Hunter College’s Intro to Theatre course were assigned to see a performance of their choice and write a reflection on their experience. This map (still in progress) links the individual reflections […]

]]> 1938172e61a162ea5526f3cb792a4e0d Ryan Donovan wrote a new post on the site Futures Initiative http://futures.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1230 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:58:22 -0400 Our class sessions on Professors & Persistence got me thinking about the role of forgiveness in the classroom, particularly inspired by writer Anne Lamott‘s essay on “shitty first drafts.” In this essay, Lamott […]

]]> e3c6355553991ec3d3540b5f9b8a83c4 Ryan Donovan wrote a new post on the site Futures Initiative http://futures.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1222 Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:22:48 -0400 Yesterday’s class session with John Mogalescu, Senior University Dean for Academic Affairs at CUNY, was really wonderful, inspiring, and a bit troubling, but I’ll get to that in a minute. The undeniably astounding […]

]]> 2b0c3934ca643390ca2971d0895bae02 Ryan Donovan wrote a new blog post What we (don’t) talk about when we talk about adjuncting in the group Futures Initiative http://futures.gc.cuny.edu/blog/2015/03/27/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-adjuncting/ Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:12:38 -0400 I came across this wonderful post from The New Yorker about the adjunct problem and thought it could spark a good conversation.
Have you come out to your students as an adjunct?
Coming out as an adjunct is […]

]]> 524b3e11261627f5a255f4978811b23f Ryan Donovan wrote a new post on the site Futures Initiative http://futures.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1009 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:21:54 -0500 As we worked on our assessment units in class, I began to think about how assessment follows us from birth to death. For many of us, the first words we’ll hear are “It’s a (insert gender pronoun here)!” And as I […]

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