Category: Connected Learning

  • 12 Ways to Up Your Canvas Game

    12 Ways to Up Your Canvas Game

    1: Configure your profile. Select a profile picture, add a bio or links to any relevant sites, and change your display name (if you have the appropriate permissions to do so) by navigating to the left sidebar and clicking the top button, “Account”  >  “Settings”  >  “Edit Settings” at the bottom. While you’re still setting […]

  • Reading the World: A High-School Curriculum in Post-Colonial Literature

    Reading the World: A High-School Curriculum in Post-Colonial Literature

    A collaborative project by Alexandra Hartley (alexandra.hartley@icsd.k12.ny.us) and Teodora Buzea (teodora.buzea@cortland.edu)    “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story” What is the legacy in 2020 […]

  • Learn more about “Unity” as a principle of design

    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 […]

  • Nocturnal

    Nocturnal

    Sometimes I can’t turn off my brain. It is a little after 4:00 a.m. and I can’t sleep. I have been up for almost an hour doing school work. There is a lot of paperwork (now digital work) with special education. Also, thinking about my mother-in-law as she may be moving in with us soon. […]

  • 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

    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • “Trust Your Students” – Remote Summit 2020

    “Trust Your Students” – Remote Summit 2020

    On Monday, July 13, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis presented at the REMOTE summit hosted by Arizona State University. Our talk, “Trust Your Students,” was about co-learning and using active learning tools like Think-Pair-Share and Entry and Exit Tickets to support peer-to-peer learning in a community, whether onsite or online. At our session, there were […]

  • Open Resources to Grow Pedagogies of Care: Student-Centered and Adaptive Strategies

    Open Resources to Grow Pedagogies of Care: Student-Centered and Adaptive Strategies

    Sixteen leading college and university educators have produced a collection of open-source resources, which focus on the notion of care, to share expert insights for faculty amid emergency remote instruction. The materials are based on pedagogy from their recent books, all of which have been —or will soon be—published, in West Virginia University Press’ Teaching […]

  • Scaffolding the Skills to Build an Anti-racist Future: How to Use a “Navigational Log” in the Literature Classroom

    Scaffolding the Skills to Build an Anti-racist Future: How to Use a “Navigational Log” in the Literature Classroom

    Image description: a row of texts I’ve assigned in my literature courses related to human rights, transnational American literature, migration, and Chicanx studies. This blog post provides a detailed account of how I implement the “Navigational Log” in my courses to scaffold the skills of close reading, critical thinking and reflection, listening, and dialogue. It builds […]

  • 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 […]