April 2014 - Socrates - QC Mailman 3 Archives

Hybrid Bootcamp, June 2-6, 2014: Call for Participants
by Jean Kelly 27 Apr '14

27 Apr '14

Greetings, The Center for Teaching & Learning is offering a hybrid bootcamp focusing on the development and implementation of hybrid courses (courses that blend online and face-to-face instruction). Faculty from all academic disciplines are invited to apply, by completing this form: http://goo.gl/IiIoqZ Please apply no later than Monday, May 12, 2014. (Selected participants will be notified by May 23.) For more information: http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/hbc-june2014-cfp/ Best regards, Jean Kelly, Instructional Technologist Center for Teaching & Learning | Queens College, CUNY http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/ jean.kelly(a)qc.cuny.edu | 718.997.4857

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Teaching Innovation Carnivale, May 9, 2014
by Jean Kelly 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

The Center for Teaching & Learning invite you to celebrate innovative teaching at Queens College, at our second annual teaching and learning showcase, with a Year of Brazil (http://brazil.qc.cuny.edu/) carnivale theme! May 9, 2014 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Agora Café, Student Union Register at: http://goo.gl/nXAP1J For more information: http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/teaching-innovation-carnivale/

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FW: Next week, 5/1: Share It Now or Save It For Later: Making Choices about Dissertations and Publishing
by Nancy M Foasberg 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

I wondered if the members of this list would be interested in this event about dissertations and publishing. The topic is important and the list of speakers is impressive! Nancy From: CULIBS-L: CUNY Librarians List [mailto:CULIBS-L@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Maura Smale Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:34 AM To: CULIBS-L(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: Next week, 5/1: Share It Now or Save It For Later: Making Choices about Dissertations and Publishing You are invited to an event in the Information Interventions @ CUNY series: Share It Now or Save It For Later: Making Choices about Dissertations and Publishing http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/04/03/share-or-save/ Thursday, May 1, 2014 2-4 p.m. Graduate Center Room C198 Space is limited! RSVP by April 23: http://tinyurl.com/ShareVsSave Join us for a lively panel debate on the sharing versus embargoing of dissertations and theses. We’ll explore the pros and cons of this nuanced issue with a panel including representatives from Columbia University Press, Penn Press, and the Modern Language Association, as well as recent GC alums who made different choices about their dissertations. (We’ll also tell you how to change your embargo settings if you’ve already deposited!) Our panelists: • Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association • Philip Leventhal, Editor for Literary Studies, Journalism, and U.S. History, Columbia University Press • Jerome Singerman, Senior Humanities Editor, University of Pennsylvania Press • Gregory Donovan, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Urban Studies, Saint Peter’s University and Graduate Center Alumnus • Colleen Eren, Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice, LaGuardia Community College and Graduate Center Alumna • Polly Thistlethwaite, Chief Librarian, Graduate Center (Moderator) Background: Last summer, the American Historical Association made headlines when it issued a statement<http://blog.historians.org/2013/07/american-historical-association-statemen…> encouraging universities to allow their history Ph.D. graduates to embargo, or keep private, their dissertations for up to six years, claiming that “an increasing number of university presses are reluctant to offer a publishing contract to newly minted PhDs whose dissertations have been freely available via online sources.” Meanwhile, a survey of scholarly publishers<http://crl.acrl.org/content/74/4/368.full.pdf> revealed that a majority of university press editors are happy to consider proposals for books based on open access dissertations. And the executive director of the Association of American University Presses reported<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/business/media/historians-seek-a-delay-in…>, after talking to the heads of 15 university presses, “I haven’t found one person who has said if it is available open access, we won’t publish it.” These statements generated a raging debate that has left many graduate students unsure of their options and unsure how to proceed: • Are open access dissertations really less likely to be published as a book? Or are they more likely to be found, read, and responded to, thus demonstrating to book publishers their appeal and marketability? • Just how similar is a dissertation to a book, anyway? How much does it change between graduation and publication? • Is the real problem tenure and promotion committees that expect applicants to have authored scholarly books, which, as the landscape of scholarly publishing evolves, seem to be increasingly difficult to publish? Do they need to adjust their expectations in response to current publishing realities? • Do universities have a responsibility to share with the world the research produced in their graduate programs? Are long embargoes antithetical to scholarly values? Do they hinder disciplinary advancement? How long is enough? • And where does this leave graduate students — in all disciplines, not just history or the humanities? Should they make their dissertations and theses open access, or should they embargo them — and if so, for how long? Light refreshments will be served. This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Center Office of Career Planning and Professional Development, the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable, the Graduate Center Library, and Just Publics @ 365. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. This reply will go ONLY to the person who posted the original message unless you select ReplyAll. If you wish to unsubscribe from the CULIBS-L List, please send an E-mail to: "listserv(a)listserv.cuny.edu"<mailto:>. Within the body of the text, only write the following: "SIGNOFF CULIBS-L".

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Disaster Volunteerism 1: Apr 30, 12:15, Patio Room
by Eva Fernandez 19 Apr '14

19 Apr '14

Join us for a workshop on disaster relief, co-sponsored by the Office of Student Life, the Center for Teaching & Learning, and the Office of the Provost. The training will be provided by World Cares Center (http://www.worldcares.org) Participants will learn essential disaster volunteering skills from leaders in the emergency management field. At the end of this training, participants will be able to effectively support their community leaders and emergency managers in times of disaster. Light lunch will be provided so please RSVP by filling out the form at: http://goo.gl/nvKlFS Students, staff, and faculty are all welcome. For more details contact Judith Krinitz (judith.krinitz(a)qc.cuny.edu) Please post flyer: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2952778/Queens%20College%20Flyer%202014… Best wishes, Eva Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Queens College, City University of New York http://people.qc.cuny.edu/faculty/efernandez

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UPDATE: NYTPass: New York Times Academic Pass
by Eva Fernandez 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

Electronic Resources Librarian Kelly Blanchat has created an excellent instructions plus FAQ sheet that explains more about this new resource (including what to do if you already have an existing paid subscription, including an option to cancel an existing paid subscription): http://library.qc.cuny.edu/research/NYTimes-Academic-Pass-Instructions-and-… (Thank you, Kelly!) And the site to sign up is: http://nytimes.com/passes Best, Eva -----Original Message----- From: socrates-bounces(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu [mailto:socrates-bounces@lists.qc.cuny.edu] On Behalf Of Eva Fernandez Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 6:56 PM To: socrates(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu Subject: [Socrates] NYTPass: New York Times Academic Pass Greetings: Below is information about a possibly very useful resource: a year-long subscription to the NYTimes available to the CUNY student/faculty/staff community. Registering requires using a valid QC email address. If your QC email address is already associated with the NYTimes website, that works too. More information is below (I can't explain the random omission of spaces between words), or here: http://nytimes.com/passes Best wishes, Eva Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Queens College, City University of New York http://people.qc.cuny.edu/faculty/efernandez --------------- From: Elizabeth F Hendrey Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 10:14 AM Subject: FW: New York Times -- Please Share Good news-please share with faculty and staff. Betsy From: Curtis Kendrick <Curtis.Kendrick(a)CUNY.EDU> Reply-To: Curtis Kendrick <Curtis.Kendrick(a)CUNY.EDU> Date: Monday, April 7, 2014 at 3:32 PM To: "CAO(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU" <CAO(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Subject: New York Times -- Please Share Greetings, The Office of Library Services is happy to announce that the New York Times Academic Pass is now available to all CUNY students, faculty and staff. The Academic Pass gives anybody with a cuny.edu email domain a yearlong subscription to the New York Times Digital (and of course, we plan to renew this relationship for many years to come). Essentially, it works like any subscription to the New York Times Digital except it does not include the tablet app (it does include apps for mobile phones) and limits the number of downloadable articles from the New York Times archive. The newly created CUNY library marketing committee has begun exploring ways to promote this exciting new resource. In the meantime, please see the User Guide below and talk to your library for further information. ForUsers: An NYTimesAcademicPassprovidesyouwith full access to NYTimes.comand theNYTimes.com smartphoneapps*forthe periodof timedesignatedbyyour institution. Yourschoolhassetyourpass tobe goodfor52weeksfromthedate youactivateit. *Doesnotincludee-reader editions,PremiumCrosswords orThe New YorkTimesCrosswords apps. NYTimesappsare not supportedonall devices. Accessto archivedarticles within the date range1923-1980 is limited. Youmust havea valid emailaddress froma participatingschool. Other restrictions may apply. GetStarted: Go tonytimes.com/passes. 1. Clickon"Register" tocreatea NYTimes.comaccount usingyour schoolemailaddress. 2. At thebottomof theWelcomepage,click "Continue." 3. If your email addressis froman eligible school,you will then see"Check youremail." Lookfor ourmessage,ConfirmYourEmailAddress,which shouldarrive within15minutes. 4. Clickonthelinkin our confirmationemail.This will simultaneouslyverifyyoureligibilityand grantyour AcademicPass,which will provideaccesstoNYTimes.comforyour campus designatedperiod. 5. If you don'tgetour confirmationemail,check your spamfilter. If youstill do notreceiveit,send an emailfrom your schoolemailaccountto edu(a)nytimes.com IMPORTANT: If youhave previouslyregisteredonNYTimes.com, buthave notregisteredwith your campusemail address, youwill needto change youraccountinformation.To doso,login toNYTimes.comand then clickon yourlogin nameontheveryupperright.Whenthedropdownboxopens, clickon "My Account"and changeyouremailaddressto your campusemailaccountwhere indicated on thepage, then hit theSAVE button. ReturningUsers Once youhavefollowed thestepsforfirst-timeusersandactivatedan AcademicPass provided by your school,it shouldallow youfull accessfor52weeks (364days)with no further actiononyour part. However, if for anyreasonwhileonNYTimes.comyouare served themessagethatyouare reachingthe limitof freearticlesonthe site,do thefollowing: Makesure youare logged intoNYTimes.com with your schoolemailaddress. Goto nytimes.com/passes. Your passshould againbeactive. SmartphoneApps Your AcademicPass includesaccessto TheNewYorkTimes via theNYTimes smartphoneapps.To download your smartphoneapp, visit: nytimes.com/mobile. Once youhaveregistered andselected your AcademicPass,youcan then access nytimes.comfrom anywhereat any timeduringthelife ofthat pass frommostwebcapabledevices*. Curtis Kendrick University Dean for Libraries and Information Resources The City University of New York 205 East 42nd St. New York, NY 10017 646.664.8035 _______________________________________________ Socrates mailing list Socrates(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu To unsubscribe or change your preferences goto http://lists.qc.cuny.edu/mailman/listinfo/socrates

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Research in the Classroom - A CUNY workshop
by Rowena Li 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

The Vice Chancellor for Research, Gillian Small, is sponsoring a new workshop: Research in the Classroom Integrating Authentic Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum: A CUNY Workshop CUNY Graduate Center, April 23, 9:00am – 3:00pm The event is free and open to all CUNY faculty. The goal of the workshop is to broaden participation of undergraduates in research by promoting tighter integration of the teaching and research missions among CUNY faculty. The workshop will feature platform presentations and breakout sessions led by CUNY faculty that will discuss current examples of how to incorporate research into the classroom. We will also be announcing a new CUNY-sponsored grant program. Register here (deadline for registration is April 11): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CUNYworkshop More information on the workshop can be found here: http://www.cuny.edu/research/sr/undergrad-research/for-faculty/ResearchInte…

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Midnight Run Tomorrow night
by Emanuel Avila 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

Join our Knights of Service, tomorrow night, as we come together and hit the streets of New York to provide food, clothes, and other items to those who are less fortunate and are homeless. We will have the initial, Peanut Butter and Jelly Jam, along with NYPIRG, in the Dining Hall, from 4pm-5pm. Stop by and bring donated items, a loaf of bread, peanut butter, jelly, or any other kind of foods that we can use to give away tomorrow night. Shortly there after, at 8:30pm, we will be departing from the Gym, in one van, to go serve the homeless. There is limited space in the van, but if you would like to accompany us in your own vehicle, you are more than welcome to do so. We are scheduled to stop by 4 assigned locations, and other alternatives, if we have left overs. Chartwells will provide coffee for the homeless. If you want to participate, or need further information, please feel free to contact my office. Thank you all and let's continue to live by the QC motto: "We learn so that we may serve." PLEASE CIRCULATE AMONGST OTHER PEERS AND COLLEAGUES. Respectfully, Emanuel Avila, M.S.Ed. Associate Director of Judicial Affairs & Service Learning Queens College-City University of New York (CUNY) 65-30 Kissena Blvd Flushing, NY 11367 718-997-3971 718-997-3972 Fax "Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals." - Aristotle CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: Please note that the contents of this e-mail, and its attachments, are solely intended for the addressee(s) listed above and are CONFIDENTIAL in nature. Any copying, distribution, and dissemination of any of the enclosed information, other than for the intended recipients and their constituents, is prohibited and may be a violation of Federal Law(s).

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FW: CUNY NLP seminar this Friday: Lei Chen (ETS) on essay scoring, speech, and multimodal
by Eva Fernandez 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

Greetings: The talk advertised below might be of interest to some of you: presentation by Lei Chen, research scientist at ETS, speaking on automated scoring of essays and speeches. Friday, 4/11, at 2:15 at the CUNY Graduate Center. Best wishes, Eva Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Queens College, City University of New York http://people.qc.cuny.edu/faculty/efernandez -----Original Message----- From: Bissoondial, Nishi [mailto:NBissoondial@gc.cuny.edu] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 2:32 PM Subject: FW: CUNY NLP seminar this Friday: Lei Chen (ETS) on essay scoring, speech, and multimodal See below. -----Original Message----- From: Liang Huang [mailto:liang.huang.sh@gmail.com] Dear All, I'm very happy to announce our second talk this semester, featuring Dr. Lei Chen from ETS. Lei is a research scientist at ETS working on speech and NLP, and he will be talking about automated scoring of essays, speeches, and videos (e.g., public speaking). Date/Time/Place: Friday 4/11, 2:15pm, Graduate Center (365 Fifth Ave), Science Center (Rm. 4102). Lei will also give a brief overview of ETS's NLP/speech research, as well as ETS internships. If you're interested in ETS, definitely come join this talk. See you on Friday, Liang Automated Scoring: from Essays to Speeches and finally to Videos More assessments have been used recently to track students' skill levels and to support their learning processes. Accordingly, scoring such rapidly increasing assessments in a timely and cost efficient way becomes an important challenge. A solution is provided by Automated assessment (AA), a technique that uses natural language processing (NLP), speech processing, and machine learning, to simulate human raters' behaviors in order to automatically rate students' essays or speech responses. In this talk, I will first provide a brief overview of the research efforts carried out in the AA area by the ETS NLP & Speech group. Then, focusing on speech scoring, I will introduce my previous research on AA's two major areas: (a) finding useful features and (b) building accurate machine learning models. With respect to the former, I will talk about the use of the acoustic features widely investigated in Phonetics, such as vowel space. With respect to the latter, I will talk about using feature bagging in order to achieve more robust and accurate scoring models. Finally, I will present my recent work of using multimodal signal processing technology - such as body tracking, for example -to extend the scoring capability to nonverbal communication. Bio Lei Chen received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. He worked as an intern in the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) during the summer of 2007, and he is currently a research scientist in the R&D division at Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, NJ. Before joining ETS, his research focused on using non-verbal communication cues, such as gestures and eye gazes, to support language processing. He has been involved in the NSF KDI project and ARDA VACE project to investigate multimodal signals, including speech, gestures, and eye gazes, used in human-to-human conversations. In the 2009 International Conference of Multimodal Interface (ICMI), he won the Outstanding Paper Award sponsored by Google. At ETS, his research focuses on the automated assessment of spoken language by using speech recognition, natural language processing, and machine learning technologies. Since 2013, he has been working on multimodal signal processing technology for assessing video-based performance tests in areas such as public-speaking.

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NYTPass: New York Times Academic Pass
by Eva Fernandez 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

Greetings: Below is information about a possibly very useful resource: a year-long subscription to the NYTimes available to the CUNY student/faculty/staff community. Registering requires using a valid QC email address. If your QC email address is already associated with the NYTimes website, that works too. More information is below (I can't explain the random omission of spaces between words), or here: http://nytimes.com/passes Best wishes, Eva Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Queens College, City University of New York http://people.qc.cuny.edu/faculty/efernandez --------------- From: Elizabeth F Hendrey Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 10:14 AM Subject: FW: New York Times -- Please Share Good news-please share with faculty and staff. Betsy From: Curtis Kendrick <Curtis.Kendrick(a)CUNY.EDU> Reply-To: Curtis Kendrick <Curtis.Kendrick(a)CUNY.EDU> Date: Monday, April 7, 2014 at 3:32 PM To: "CAO(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU" <CAO(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Subject: New York Times -- Please Share Greetings, The Office of Library Services is happy to announce that the New York Times Academic Pass is now available to all CUNY students, faculty and staff. The Academic Pass gives anybody with a cuny.edu email domain a yearlong subscription to the New York Times Digital (and of course, we plan to renew this relationship for many years to come). Essentially, it works like any subscription to the New York Times Digital except it does not include the tablet app (it does include apps for mobile phones) and limits the number of downloadable articles from the New York Times archive. The newly created CUNY library marketing committee has begun exploring ways to promote this exciting new resource. In the meantime, please see the User Guide below and talk to your library for further information. ForUsers: An NYTimesAcademicPassprovidesyouwith full access to NYTimes.comand theNYTimes.com smartphoneapps*forthe periodof timedesignatedbyyour institution. Yourschoolhassetyourpass tobe goodfor52weeksfromthedate youactivateit. *Doesnotincludee-reader editions,PremiumCrosswords orThe New YorkTimesCrosswords apps. NYTimesappsare not supportedonall devices. Accessto archivedarticles within the date range1923-1980 is limited. Youmust havea valid emailaddress froma participatingschool. Other restrictions may apply. GetStarted: Go tonytimes.com/passes. 1. Clickon"Register" tocreatea NYTimes.comaccount usingyour schoolemailaddress. 2. At thebottomof theWelcomepage,click "Continue." 3. If your email addressis froman eligible school,you will then see"Check youremail." Lookfor ourmessage,ConfirmYourEmailAddress,which shouldarrive within15minutes. 4. Clickonthelinkin our confirmationemail.This will simultaneouslyverifyyoureligibilityand grantyour AcademicPass,which will provideaccesstoNYTimes.comforyour campus designatedperiod. 5. If you don'tgetour confirmationemail,check your spamfilter. If youstill do notreceiveit,send an emailfrom your schoolemailaccountto edu(a)nytimes.com IMPORTANT: If youhave previouslyregisteredonNYTimes.com, buthave notregisteredwith your campusemail address, youwill needto change youraccountinformation.To doso,login toNYTimes.comand then clickon yourlogin nameontheveryupperright.Whenthedropdownboxopens, clickon "My Account"and changeyouremailaddressto your campusemailaccountwhere indicated on thepage, then hit theSAVE button. ReturningUsers Once youhavefollowed thestepsforfirst-timeusersandactivatedan AcademicPass provided by your school,it shouldallow youfull accessfor52weeks (364days)with no further actiononyour part. However, if for anyreasonwhileonNYTimes.comyouare served themessagethatyouare reachingthe limitof freearticlesonthe site,do thefollowing: Makesure youare logged intoNYTimes.com with your schoolemailaddress. Goto nytimes.com/passes. Your passshould againbeactive. SmartphoneApps Your AcademicPass includesaccessto TheNewYorkTimes via theNYTimes smartphoneapps.To download your smartphoneapp, visit: nytimes.com/mobile. Once youhaveregistered andselected your AcademicPass,youcan then access nytimes.comfrom anywhereat any timeduringthelife ofthat pass frommostwebcapabledevices*. Curtis Kendrick University Dean for Libraries and Information Resources The City University of New York 205 East 42nd St. New York, NY 10017 646.664.8035

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Experiential Learning Lunch, Tuesday, April 29, 2014
by Jean Kelly 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

You are invited to lunch to review and reflect upon your teaching this semester. Share your own experience with what worked and what didn’t work and hear from colleagues across many disciplines about what they tried in their classes. This will be an informal meeting of faculty interested in improving their teaching, related to recent Experiential Learning workshops. We request that participants prepare a 2-3 minute discourse about something that they tried this semester and a self-evaluation of what went well and what could be improved in the future. Lunch will be provided by the Queens College Center for Teaching & Learning. If you would like more information or if you would like to be notified about future Experiential Learning events on campus, contact Christopher Hanusa at Christopher.Hanusa(a)qc.cuny.edu or 718-997-5964. We hope to see you there! Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 Time: 12:15pm – 1:30pm Location: President’s Conference Room #2, Rosenthal Library, Queens College Lunch will be provided by the Queens College Center for Teaching & Learning. Register at: http://goo.gl/Xd9Qdl

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