Category: Collaboration
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Digital Projects and Student Engagement in the Era of COVID-19
Anyone teaching this year knows how challenging it continues to be in the era of COVID-19. Wasn’t 2020-2021 supposed to be the most difficult year for educators?! Throughout most of the pandemic, I’ve taught World Studies at the secondary level. I’ve observed students struggling to adjust to unfamiliar structures, where they seem unsure about how…
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Welcoming New HASTAC Scholars!
The New HASTAC Scholars Welcome Event is just one week away and I couldn’t be more excited! For those of you who don’t know me, I recently joined the Futures Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center as the new HASTAC Scholars Co-Director and will be serving alongside Shaun Lin (the other outstanding HASTAC Scholars Co-Director.)…
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5 Habits for Intending Students to Succeed in 2022
After graduation from high school, I had no idea what I would do in college. Sure enough, I chose subjects, went to lectures, and got ready for exams. But I didn’t understand how to organize the process to grow my academic productivity while my stress would decrease. It took me two years to make changes and succeed…
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What teaching writing taught me about my own work
When I was younger, I used to weave fantasies about what it might be like to be a writer when I grew up. I read voraciously at the time, with no discerning taste. My writing was similarly haphazard. I drew from the styles of authors I fell in love with. First Tamora Pierce and J.D.…
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Visualizing Comics Using Wikidata
I’m mindful that the summer is time for “academic” rest. This is to say, a lot of work is done that could not be done during the academic year. However, it is also a time to call attention to those meaningful partnerships and collaborations that made the year worthwhile. I’m especially pleased that the Graphic…
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Looking Back at COVID-19
COVID-19 has been hard on all of us. I teach Principles in Health Science to undergraduate students at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. I’ve been teaching this class for several years. When COVID-19 first arrived and instructors paused in-person classes, I had to effectively and quickly move to on-line instruction. Way back in…
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Introductions: R Baker (HASTAC Cohort 2020-2022, UCSB)
Hi folks! I’m writing to introduce myself, as one of the new HASTAC Scholars for the 2020-2022 cohort. My name is Rebecca Baker (call me Baker), and I am a 4th year English PhD student at UC Santa Barbara. In various capacities, I have been a teacher for nearly 15 years (from community college math tutor…
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Collaborative Close Reading Online
This blog explains how collaborative close reading can be done online. I recommend reading that post before this one. Since posting my collaborative close reading activity nearly two years ago, photographs of colorful, annotated excerpts have circulated on social media from classrooms all over the world. As professors have adapted this activity for different classroom…
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Learn more about “Unity” as a principle of design
I created this short video to demonstrate to my students of “Design I” how to show the concept of “unity” in their works. Unity is one of the most important principles of design and many artists try to use it in their works. In this short video, I tried to illustrate a creative way to…
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Teaching Online Writing Etiquette to Teens
Teens don’t imagine their life without devices. Spending more than 7 hours in smartphones, they rejoice the benefits of living in the online world up to the limit. But, as we know, pros and cons always go hand in hand: Cyber addiction, communication with online predators, sexting, cyberbullying, and online deception are among the risks of…