Day 1 Wednesday, April 6th - Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM DESIGN THINKING & PROBLEM RECOGNITION Students will learn the basics of solution-based thinking. Exercises and case studies will teach participants how to think outside and apply effective brainstorming to the creation process. Day 2 Thursday, April 7th - Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM HOW…
Day 1 Wednesday, April 6th - Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM DESIGN THINKING & PROBLEM RECOGNITION Students will learn the basics of solution-based thinking. Exercises and case studies will teach participants how to think outside and apply effective brainstorming to the creation process. Day 2 Thursday, April 7th - Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM HOW…
Room 9206 This workshop will explore a range of text and image annotation tools, and explore how they can be integrated into a range of disciplines to help students engage more deeply and collaboratively with texts.
Thursday, April 14 | 1 PM to 2 PM EDT | http://bit.ly/FuturesED-live | #fight4edu |#teach4justice | RSVP Details WHERE: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue Room: 9204-9205 WHEN: Thursday, April 14, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM EDT CONTACT INFO: futuresinitiative [at] gc.cuny.edu; (212) 817-7202 Description How can teaching address the unequal distribution of resources, wealth, privilege, and opportunity along axes of race, gender,…
Join us for a hands-on demo of Hip-Hop Word Count and its applications with project creator, Tahir Hemphill. Hip-Hop Word Count is a database of thousands of rap songs that can be searched using a range of metrics (including date, artist, word, word complexity, and locality) to allow for in-depth analysis of the lyrics. Learn…
Room 9207 Increasingly, our writing happens in social spaces rather than in isolated ones. This workshop, organized in collaboration with the Graduate Center's Digital Initiatives, will explore how to to integrate social writing tools (such as the CUNY Academic Commons's Social Paper, the WordPress plugin CommentPress, Google Docs, and others) and methodologies into a range of disciplines and course levels.
Tableau is business intelligence software that allows anyone to easily connect to data, then visualize and create interactive, sharable dashboards. This session will focus on using Tableau Public. Tableau Public is a free service that lets anyone publish interactive data to the web. Once on the web, anyone can interact with the data, download it,…
Concourse Level of the Graduate Center Teach@CUNY Day will feature a series of talks and workshops that explore what it means to teach at CUNY, and will immerse attendees in a range of pedagogical approaches used throughout the university. It will be a terrific opportunity to join and help further build a community of practitioners who are…
Monday, May 2 | 4:30-5:30 PM Details WHERE: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue Room: 9204 WHEN: Monday, May 2, 4:30 PM-5:30 PM EDT CONTACT INFO: futuresinitiative [at] gc.cuny.edu; (212) 817-7201 Description Students from Global Perspectives on Language and Education, a Futures Initiative course led be Ofelia Garcia and Carmina Makar in Fall 2015, will…
GameSalad is a simple and free platform that game developers at any level of expertise can use to create, test, and publish interesting and engaging games. Using a drag-and-drop interface, developers can make games that are publishable on both Mac and Windows systems, and even iOS and Android mobile devices. During this workshop, participants will…
New Media Lab general meeting are held monthly during the fall and spring semesters and are an opportunity to learn more about lab, to meet active and interested student researchers and faculty, and to discuss two or three projects in progress. All are welcome. Spring 2016 meetings will be held: Tuesday, February 9, 12:30 –…
Join us at Baruch College for the final Spring event of our Writing Program Speaker Series on Thursday, May 5, 12:15-1:30p for a talk by Rhet/Comp scholar Dr. LuMing Mao. Lunch and coffee served/Newman Vertical Campus 14-266. Mao will discuss what it means to study non-Euro-American rhetorical traditions through the lens of comparison, addressing questions such as: What material conditions…
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Hosted by The City College of New York Language and Literacy Graduate Student Organization: The Institute for the Emergence of 21st Century Literacies E-Merge 2016: Breaking Cycles Saturday, May 7 2016 9am - 3:30pm Keynote Speaker: Jane Maher Author of Mina Shaughnessy: Her Life and Work Professor of Basic Writing at Nassau…
Room C198 This workshop will explore the range of ways that one can go about building out a plan for a course. Participants will explore forking existing syllabi, building around learning goals, and conceptualizing new courses that take curricula in exciting directions.
