CUNY Academic Commons

Lisbeth’s and Evelyn’s stories resonated the most for me.  There is an assumption that everyone understands technology now days and there’s not that much effort by institutions to provide people the first few steps to using it.  In the Library we saw this a lot in COVID with students not knowing how to use word processing programs or even k…[Read more]

Something that stood out to me in “Equitable Cite Pedagogy: Putting It Into Praxis” was the “access to what?” section.  A lot of hype that comes from computer science initiatives usually seems to think that just access to technology itself is the answer to equity issues, taking a “if you build it they will come” approach. Usually this might…[Read more]

I choose Loopy since I’ve never heard of it before and thought the FAQ was fun and appreciated how the creator fully supports public domain work. Also I didn’t want to create yet another account.

Normally I draw out steps similarly to Miro or make bullet lists to help me approach a project in a more structured way so also wanted to try something…[Read more]

Remixing the project was difficult since it was very straight forward, but i decided to turn what was there into a bit of a game.  I combined the two “Options” as two different  game play phases, first where you select mindsets that you feel are important to you when working in a group, and  second where as a group you discuss what mindsets sh…[Read more]

Thomas Cleary, LAGCC, Librarian

I’ll start with how I interacted with the game. I followed the planned rules for the first few cards, but then made a “keep” and “discard” pile, where the keep cards were values I was interested in and wanted to revisit later.  I then went through the “keep” pile more slowly drawing 5 cards and swapping into my…[Read more]

• Thomas Cleary, Assistant Prof at Lagcc, College Archivist/Librarian, he/him
• I think the Commons is great, I’ve used it as a student and to host projects on.  It’s based on WordPress so the experience of interacting with it as a student carries over to the real world. Plus as a professor it lets you create both public and private website to…

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