Category: Collaboration
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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…
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Call for Submissions for General Issue of the the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy with a Forum on Teaching in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Dec. 2, 2020 Deadline
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy General Issue with a Forum on Teaching in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic Issue Editors: Nicole Zeftel (SUNY Buffalo) Alexis Larsson (CUNY Graduate Center) Teresa Ober (University of Notre Dame) Call for submissions URL: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-submissions/ The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work at…
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Come Read About Me and What I Think We Should Write About
My name is Leshawn Anderson and I am a student at New Jersey City University in English Composition 1 , a first-year writing course taught by Christina Katopodis.I have strength and weakness when it come to writing . My weakness is not knowing how to start off my paragraphs sometimes , every so oftenI have a…
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Anatomy of a Team Meeting
At the Futures Initiative (FI), we have a 2-hour meeting with the whole team every week where we plan our collective work, update each other on the state of our individual or small group projects, and discuss pedagogy. This week, we had our second meeting of the semester, together with old and new team members.…
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Asynchronous Discussions Online: Challenges and Suggestions
Asynchronous Discussions Online: Challenges and Suggestions This blog post was co-authored with HASTAC Scholar Norah Elmagraby. You may have heard the anecdote from a friend. Or you may have experienced it yourself. You log into your online course to contribute your weekly post to the discussion thread. You try to navigate your way through the comments shared…
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Between Us: Practicing the Future in Uncertain Times
I enrolled in Engaged Teaching and Transformative Learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences led by Profs. Cathy Davidson and Eduardo Vianna because I hoped it would help me build a stronger, more theoretically grounded, transformative/activist agenda through my scholarly, pedagogical, and administrative work at the helm a platform for publicly-engaged research addressing societal urgencies…
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Accessible Syllabus for Transformative Learning
WHUM 10100 Course Syllabus Draft (Distance Learning Edition) City College of New York Instructor: Nik Valdez, they/them/theirs Class Meeting: Office Hours: —- or by appointment Email: — COURSE DESCRIPTION City’s stated purpose of this course goes as follows: We will travel through history and around the world in the hope that we can…
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Presentation of Decolonial Self in Academic Life (Distance Learning Edition)
On the week of March 9, 2020, the City University of New York announced that it would transition to distance learning, in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City. Already, individual classes were beginning to make the switch from physical classroom meetings to online video conferences. (Official online instruction by CUNY was…
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Language Panda: Finding and Sharing Digital Tools for Language Teaching
In 2016, a group of graduate students at Vanderbilt University identified a need on campus for a stronger language teaching community: While instructors were using technology in their classes to enhance language learning, they had few opportunities to share their digital pedagogy or learn how other teachers implemented such technology in their classes. To address this need,…
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A Short Message From a Senior During These Crazy Times
So it’s been a while since I’ve posted – I’m sure everyone knows why. I hope everyone is staying safe and sane in the midst of the crazy that has taken over the world. It’s a time of uncertainty, anxiety, and fear. It has disrupted our daily lives in a way that no one alive…