March 2022 - Socrates - QC Mailman 3 Archives

Field-based Teaching and Learning, Friday, March 25
by Jean Kelly 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

On behalf of Allison Lehr Samuels, Director, Baruch Center for Teaching and Learning Dear Colleagues, I'm sharing this upcoming event that might be of interest to you and your faculty who would like to explore and/or expand community engaged and field-based teaching and learning in their courses. Best, Allison Field-based Teaching and Learning Friday, March 25 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Join a virtual luncheon on community engaged and field-based teaching and learning. The luncheon will showcase journalism professor Vera Haller, entrepreneurship professor Scott Newbert, and biology professor Stephen Gosnell. Each panelist will discuss how they use learning that takes place outside the classroom, offering ways to build greater engagement between courses and outside communities. Please register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckcuitrzgjEtBw7V785SUJyx1Sbn_dX5os After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the zoom meeting. Allison Lehr Samuels Director, Baruch Center for Teaching and Learning Lecturer, Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management Baruch College, The City University of New York http://ctl.baruch.cuny.edu

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A Sea of Dark Screens: Keeping Students Active in Zoom and Hybrid Classes
by Jean Kelly 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

>From the Online Learning Advisory Council (OLAC) at City Tech: Dear Colleagues, Join us on Friday, March 25, 2022 from 2:00-3:00 PM for a workshop on approaches to teaching synchronous online and hybrid classes. When confronted with a sea of dark screens and names, or perhaps profile pictures, how can professors create a lively, engaging learning experience for their students? Join members of the Online Learning Advisory Council (OLAC) at City Tech as we share our own experiences and encourage you to share yours. Dr. Karen Lundstrem, Chair of OLAC, will present the types of synchronous and breakout room activities faculty members have found most effective when designing hybrid and online learning spaces. Professor Eugenia Giannopoulou, Biological Sciences (Bioinformatics), will share techniques and resources from her own courses, such as using embedded questions in videos before sessions to prepare for better synchronous discussions. Professor Amit Mehrotra, Hospitality Management, will show examples from his courses and share some of his most successful tips and tricks, including the organization, management, and assessment of the course. Through polling, questions, and breakout room activities, CUNY faculty will explore how they might best use some of these techniques, or are currently using them, in their own courses. They will also have the opportunity to build on the vast resources and collective wisdom culled across CUNY over the past two years of teaching in the online or hybrid modalities. Register for the workshop here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-sea-of-dark-screens-keeping-students-active-…>. Dr. Karen Lundstrem is Chair of the Online Learning Advisory Council (OLAC) and Director of Instructional Technology at City Tech. She has been training faculty to teach online since joining CUNY through the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant, which helped fund the development of CUNY Online. Dr. Evgenia (Jenny) Giannopoulou was trained in online teaching as soon as she joined City Tech in 2014. She has taught multiple courses in Biomedical Informatics and her research experience is in the analysis of high throughput genomics data. She has been the PI of the “City Tech-WCM Big Data Training Program in Biomedical Informatics (BD2BMI)” NIH training program that was a collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM). Dr. Amit Mehrotra has been trained in online teaching, including certification from the Online Learning Advisory Council (OLAC)). He has engaged and collaborated throughout his teaching career at NYCCT and CUNY on best practices for hybrid and online teaching and learning. Additionally, he has presented at multiple national and international conferences on using technology effectively during the teaching and learning process. This event is presented as part of a virtual teaching workshop series called Teaching Matters<https://www.cuny.edu/academics/faculty-affairs/cuny-innovative-teaching-aca…>, featuring monthly, free, one-hour summits of CUNY faculty and staff devoted to sharing innovative teaching strategies and student-centered learning methods. Each gathering includes a focused, interactive and engaged peer-to-peer workshop, and a few practical teaching tips that can be used in any classroom. The CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy, established in 2020, aims to improve pedagogy at scale and recognize excellence and innovation in teaching by CUNY faculty. The Academy is predicated on the recognition that the quality of pedagogy and access to high-impact practices has a direct and measurable impact on the quantity and quality of degrees produced by CUNY and the ability of CUNY graduates to be well-positioned for meaningful careers and further study. For any questions, please email Innovative.Pedagogy(a)cuny.edu<mailto:Innovative.Pedagogy@cuny.edu>.

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The Open & Digital Pedagogy Workshop Series
by Jean Kelly 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Dear colleagues, The Open & Digital Pedagogy Workshop Series will offer guidance for teaching with CUNY’s university-wide open platforms, the CUNY Academic Commons<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.g…> and Manifold<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…>. These workshops aim to provide support for faculty who are looking for opportunities to increase the openness of their teaching by developing innovative assignments and exploring new digital tools. Workshops will share strategies for fostering student engagement on the Commons, developing and assigning digital projects, teaching with social annotation, engaging in ungrading, designing digital art, and creating OER. Workshops are offered through the Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center and GC Digital Initiatives. The workshops are open to all CUNY instructors, staff, and graduate student instructors. The sessions will be geared towards faculty who have some knowledge or experience working with the open platforms. All workshops will be held virtually on Zoom and a link will be sent out prior to each event. Please register for the workshops here: http://cuny.is/odpseries<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> Workshop schedule: March 23rd | Developing & Assigning Digital Projects on the Commons 4:00-5:30pm, Hosted by Laurie Hurson & Anthony Wheeler April 6th | Social Annotation with Hypothesis and Manifold 4:00-5:30pm, Hosted by Laurie Hurson & Robin Miller April 27th | Ungrading on the Commons 4:00-5:30pm, Hosted by Laurie Hurson May 11th | Exploring Digital Art and Design on the Commons: Techniques and Applications for the Classroom and Beyond 11:00am-12:30pm, Hosted by Ryan Seslow & Anthony Wheeler May 25th | Offering Opportunities for Student Creation of OER 11:00am-12:30pm, Hosted by Laurie Hurson & Robin Miller https://tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/03/03/open-digital-pedagogy-wednesday-…<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftlc.commo…> For further information please contact Matthew K. Gold, Associate Professor of English & Digital Humanities & Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, CUNY Graduate Center: mgold(a)gc.cuny.edu<mailto:mgold@gc.cuny.edu>

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Fulbright Information Session
by Moira Egan 07 Mar '22

07 Mar '22

Please join the fellowships office on March 21st at 4:00 for an interactive Group Presentation Session to learn about opportunities for U.S. citizens to pursue graduate or professional study, conduct research, or teach English. During the session, Fulbright staff will discuss the types of Fulbright awards, application components, tips, and answer questions. Following the program overview, attendees will enter a breakout room with their campus Fulbright Program Adviser(s) to learn more about applying through their institution. The session will be held on Zoom; to receive the details, please register at the following link: https://apply.iie.org/register/GPS3.21.22 The focus is on student, but faculty are of course most welcome to attend, and I'd appreciate your help in spreading the word to your students. Best, Moira Egan ~ Moira E. Egan, Ph.D. National Fellowships Advisor Rm. 23 Honors Hall Queens College, CUNY 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Queens, NY 11367 (718) 997-2863 Moira.egan(a)qc.cuny.edu

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Reminder: Application deadline 3/4 for Open-Source Digital Tools for Teaching
by Jean Kelly 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

Dear Colleagues, Please apply to join--and also share the following announcement for the Open-Source Digital Tools Workshop that Baruch CTL is conducting in collaboration with the CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy. Application deadline is tomorrow, Friday, March 4, 12pm. Baruch College CTL Presents: Open-Source Digital Tools for Teaching March 2022 Seminar Overview The Open-Source Digital Tools for Teaching seminar, hosted by the Baruch Center for Teaching and Learning, offers faculty an opportunity to discover and develop skills with technologies that will build engagement among students and faculty in and out of the classroom space. We’ll discuss the affordances of openly-licensed and accessible digital platforms that diversify opportunities to learn. Faculty who are open to learning new digital tools are welcome to participate in the seminar and are eligible to earn a certificate of completion in one of two possible tracks. Schedule Introductory Session Wednesday, March 9, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. (Online) and Track 1 Workshop: Tools for Faculty-Created Materials Wednesday, March 16, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. (Online) ———or——— Track 2 Workshop: Tools for Student-Created Materials Wednesday, March 23, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. (Online) + plus one additional lab hour with a facilitator-partner All CUNY Faculty/Staff are welcome. Participants who fulfill these attendance requirements and who create an artifact demonstrating a working proficiency in the use of one or more open-source tools will receive a certificate of completion for the seminar. Participation is unpaid. Please apply via this form by March 4 at 12 PM<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_…>. This seminar is supported by the CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy and the campuses’ Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs). It is led by Baruch CTL staff members Shiraz Biggie, Seth Graves, Pamela Thielman, and Katherine Tsan. For questions, please reach out to Katherine.Tsan(a)baruch.cuny.edu<mailto:Katherine.Tsan@baruch.cuny.edu>.

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Queens COVID Memorial Project
by Lori Wallach 02 Mar '22

02 Mar '22

Hi all, I thought some of you might be interested in viewing and/or contributing to this remembrance project that Queens Memory is co-sponsoring, which honors Queens residents who lost their lives to COVID-19. The physical exhibit will be up at the Elmhurst library through the end of this month, but the digital collection will be permanently housed at Queens Public Library and displayed on Urban Archive: Queens COVID Memorial This month, on the two-year anniversary of pandemic shutdowns across New York City, Queens Memory is proud to partner with artist Hannah Ernst and the Queens Covid Remembrance Day Committee to present an exhibition of portraits depicting those we have lost during the pandemic. The exhibit will be on display at the Elmhurst Library<https://queenslibrary.org/about-us/locations/elmhurst> through March 31st. If you would like to honor a loved one lost to COVID-19, we are gathering memorials that will appear on QueensLib.org/covid<https://queenslib.org/covid>; make your contributions here: https://airtable.com/shrrw8SydXQeG7403?utm_source=offline&utm_medium=variou… Lori Wallach (she/her) Queens Memory Outreach Coordinator queensmemory.org<http://queensmemory.org> Queens College Rosenthal Library, room 317 Lori.Wallach(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:Lori.Wallach@qc.cuny.edu> (718) 997-3686 (voice mail)

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RSVP Today: Pedagogy of Kindness: Faculty Excellence through a UDL Approach Across CUNY
by Jean Kelly 01 Mar '22

01 Mar '22

>From the QC Center for Teaching & Learning: The Pedagogy of Kindness is a pedagogical approach focused on creating an atmosphere of consideration and care for each learner. This discussion series will expand upon previous installments, where educators connected to learn more about building communities of inquiry. In collaboration with the CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy (https://www.cuny.edu/academics/faculty-affairs/cuny-innovative-teaching-aca…) we are expanding on the extremely successful Queens College discussion series of the pedagogy of kindness. This CUNY-wide discussion will delve into the Pedagogy of Kindness (https://hybridpedagogy.org/pedagogy-of-kindness/) and the Universal Design for Learning (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/) aspects of teaching. In this iteration of the discussion series, we cover a greater scope of topics, focusing on facilitating faculty excellence through both Pedagogy of Kindness and Universal Design Learning, such as the origins of the pedagogy of kindness, inclusive teaching through UDL, trauma-informed teaching, etc. Join us as we embark on a journey of care within our diverse CUNY community! Below is an outline of the sessions for the series, as well as a link to register for any or all of the sessions. Session 1 (3/9): Origins of the Pedagogy of Kindness Session 2 (3/11): Building an International Environment for Collaborative Learning Session 3 (3/16): A Universal Design Learning (UDL) Approach to Inclusive Teaching Session 4 (3/30): Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Session 5 (4/6): Navigating the Classroom Environment through Mindset GPS Session 6 (4/13): Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education Session 7 (4/27): Alternative Assessments: Ungrading and Assignment Scaffolding Session 8 (5/4): Setting Boundaries in the Classroom Session 9 (5/11): Flipped Classroom Approach to Teaching Session 10 (5/18): Humanizing the Classroom ***All sessions are from 12:00-1:30pm. Register for any or all of the sessions here: https://forms.office.com/r/pfyMGL0xxY For event descriptions, please visit https://pokudl.commons.gc.cuny.edu/. If you have any questions at all, drop us a line at CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu

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