Category: Pedagogy
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“Gramming” Religion: Instagram as a Pedagogical Tool
It was barely a third of the way through the spring semester, and I could already see students begin to burn out in class. The Brady-bunch zoom screen, once full of faces, gradually began to fade to black. Students’ initial interest in unraveling the relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic and religious practices was rapidly being overtaken […]
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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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10 Reflections from Online Teaching
1: Utilize breakout rooms/small groups for difficult questions or problems for which students need time to process. Small groups alleviate the pressure of speaking in front of the group. Furthermore, it gives students the opportunity to work on a problem or question together, and importantly the chance to gather their thoughts before speaking to the […]
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A Tip to Ward off Zoombification (And Get You Through to End of Term)
Feeling not-yet-at-the-finish-line exhaustion? Zoomed out? Facing Zoombification, your own and your students? Here’s something our TLH team did yesterday in the middle of an hour-long conference presentation on antiracist pedagogy that resonated with some 95 colleagues. It works in any synchronous online classroom or meeting to instantly change the energy level and keep us all […]
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“I Wake Up Counting”: A Free Online Publication of Syllabi and Activities from our Spring 2020 Course
“FOREWORD” to I WAKE UP COUNTING Genera Editor, Tatiana Ades A Manifold Publication https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/i-wake-up-counting It is a great pleasure to write this Foreword to I Wake Up Counting: A Guide to Transformative Teaching & Learning in the Humanities & Social Sciences. This book is both a document and a guide. It documents an extraordinary student-led […]
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Teaching With The Digital Archive
For students who are just learning how to wield digital literacy and assess sources in a critical fashion, digital archives provide a ready source of analysis. As a MA student at Oklahoma State University, I taught a section of First Year Writing which included the archive as a site of digital literacy. In introducing students […]
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Returning to the Classroom
This spring, I’ll be co-teaching a course that I’m really excited about, along with my colleague Matt Brim: Equity, Elitism, and Public Higher Education. We are teaching together as part of the Futures Initiative’s slate of interdisciplinary team-taught courses. The opportunity to teach is significant for me: the last time I taught in the formal, […]
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New Publication Alert: We Eat! A Student-Centered Cookbook
I am so excited to announce that our recent Futures Initiative publication We Eat: A Student:Centered Cookbook is now available to read on Manifold App. This pedagogical experiment in mindful and experiential learning resulted in a stunning collection of student stories, memories, photos, and recipes. Dreamed up by the brilliant Dree-el Simmons, the collection came […]
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Feminism, Activism, and the Digital Humanities: An Interview with Danica Savonick
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Danica Savonick over the phone on May 18, 2020. I am grateful for her time and energy towards this project and especially appreciate the opportunity to elevate her important insights about the transformative power and potential risks of using digital technologies in the classroom. As the pandemic ravages on, her considerations here remain […]
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Introductions of Nusrat Zahan Chowdhury: New HASTAC Scholar for the 2020-2021 Program
Hi folks! I am Nusrat Zahan Chowdhury, and I am writing to introduce myself as I have been selected as a new HASTAC Scholar into the 2020-2021 HASTAC Scholars Program. I am a first year PhD Student at the School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communications at the University of Texas at Dallas. I use […]