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May 10, 2024 Hi Flex Publish & Flourish Workshop: Building a Publishing Pipeline: Concrete Strategies for Increasing Your Writing Productivity Erin Marie Furtak, Ph.D.
by QNS qcctlonline 26 Apr '24

26 Apr '24

On behalf of Natanya Duncan, PhD , Director QC Africana Studies: Colleagues, Hope the Spring reset is going well. On behalf of QC Sit N Write, the Dean of Social Sciences, Dr. Kate Pechenkina and CETLL<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/> , I write to cordially invite you to join us for our second Spring Publish and Flourish Workshop: Building a Publishing Pipeline: Concrete Strategies for Increasing Your Writing Productivity with Erin Marie Furtak, Ph.D<https://www.colorado.edu/education/erin-marie-furtak>. Dr. Furtak is a professor of STEM Education at the University of Colorado Boulder and a writing coach with the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity. The Publishing Pipeline workshop centers on how to: • Establish a sustainable daily writing practice with multiple writing projects • Experiment with a tracking system to analyze where to focus your writing and research efforts • Make a concrete action plan for moving several projects forward simultaneously • Celebrate the process of moving your work from one stage of the pipeline to the next We look forward to having you, your colleagues and advanced graduate students join us on May 10th. This is a Hi-Flex event. Please feel free to share the attached flier. Persons wishing to join us by ZOOM ONLY must register here: BUILD<https://tinyurl.com/3bu3e73p> Persons wishing to join IN PERSON (Rm PH 333) must register here: PUBLISH<https://tinyurl.com/2jjuxbbr> All registrants will receive a follow-up email with materials from Dr. Furtak. We ask that you register no later than noon on Thursday, May 9, 2024 so as to have time to review those materials in preparation for the workshop. Should you have any questions please let me know via email at nduncan(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:nduncan@qc.cuny.edu>. Sincerely, Nat Natanya Duncan, PhD Director QC Africana Studies Associate Professor of History [cid:74b96aae-521a-4598-ac8e-701de142cacd] “Black intellectual practice not as an approach to omniscience but as a perpetual desire activated in community as community.” Alexis Pauline Gumbs “The burden of working for racial justice is laid on the very people bearing the brunt of the injustice, and not the powerful people who maintain it. I say to you: I refuse." Nikole Hannah-Jones "Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy." Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

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Paid Professional Development Opportunity: Open Educational Resources Summer Training
by Soniya Munshi 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

Paid Professional Development Opportunity: Open Educational Resources Summer Training Learn how to incorporate Open Educational Resources into your teaching practice and earn $2,000. Applications due May 10. Apply today<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=s_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2Jq…> Nearly forty percent of CUNY students come from households with annual incomes of less than $20,000. For many of our students, the cost of textbooks can be a steep barrier to academic success. Students often choose not to register for courses that require expensive textbooks, or fail courses simply because they cannot afford the materials. These patterns can lead to increased enrollment time and reduced rates of degree completion. You can help! Queens College faculty have saved our students over $2 million in textbook fees since 2018 by using Open Educational Resources, or OER. Learn more about OER<https://qc-cuny.libguides.com/oer-ztc>. This summer, the Queens College Library is pleased to offer an accelerated OER Fellowship Program. Through this program, held over four days in June, OER Fellows learn the fundamental principles of OER and open pedagogy, develop technical skills to create and curate accessible course content, organize cohesive and coherent materials tied to overarching learning objectives, and apply rigorous assessment standards to identify existing resources for classroom use. Faculty Fellows receive $2,000 in compensation. Faculty Fellows commit to: * Participate in four 90-minute remote workshops June 3-6 * Develop a zero-textbook-cost course * Teach at least one section of the OER or ZTC course in the following academic year * Submit openly licensed course materials to one of our institutional repositories by August 27 * Write a brief (200-500 word) end-of-fellowship narrative Through the Fellowship program, faculty learn to: * Define and distinguish between open educational resources and zero textbook cost materials * Find and evaluate existing open educational resources * Assemble organized and easily modified syllabi * Navigate intellectual property, fair use, copyright, and Creative Commons licenses * Create accessible resources * Explore the principles and practice of open pedagogy * Enact social justice by reducing economic barriers to student success Faculty Fellows make the resources they create openly available for other faculty to adopt, and we are happy to be able to offer modest funding to each faculty member the first time they teach a ZTC section of a course using a Fellow's materials. Apply today<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=s_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2Jq…> =================== Dr. Leila Walker Assistant Professor Humanities & Digital Scholarship Librarian Queens College CUNY Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library Room 346 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Queens, NY 11367-1597 leila.walker(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:leila.walker@qc.cuny.edu> Dr. Soniya Munshi (she/they) (hear my name<https://namedrop.io/soniyamunshi>) Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership <https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/> (CETLL) Associate Professor of Urban Studies Queens College, CUNY

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Register for the April 18 Brightspace Assignments virtual workshop
by QNS Brightspace 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

The Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (CETLL) and the Queens College Brightspace Team are offering Brightspace ABCs: Essential Elements Workshops, a series of virtual workshops focused on specific features of Brightspace. These workshops will be conducted via Zoom and cover essential aspects of Brightspace. Each workshop will be offered twice to accommodate faculty schedules. Register at https://forms.office.com/r/RBBmCPbdkd (you must log into your CUNY Office 365 account to access the form). After you register, we will send you the joining information. The workshops will cover: * Assignments: Thursday April 18, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm * Quizzes: Thursday May 2, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm * Quizzes: Monday May 6, 11 am to 12 pm * Discussion: Thursday May 9, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm * Discussions: Monday May 13, 11 am to 12 pm * Gradebook: Thursday May 16, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm * Gradebook: Monday May 20, 11 am to 12 pm * Communication: Thursday May 23, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm * Communication: Wednesday May 29, 11 am to 12 pm * Open Topic: Thursday May 30, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm You are welcome to visit the virtual Drop-in Hours held jointly by CETLL and ITS. Currently, Drop-in Hours are held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 1:00-3:00pm. For more information, visit CETLL + ITS Joint Drop-in Hours<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/cetll-its-drop-in-hours/>. The Queens College Brightspace team is also available for individual support sessions. To schedule an appointment, please email Brightspace(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:Brightspace@qc.cuny.edu>. Best regards, Queens College Brightspace Team

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Revised with new schedule information: Best Practices for Teaching Online, Spring 2024
by QNS qcctlonline 09 Apr '24

09 Apr '24

The Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (CETLL) will be offering a five-session workshop designed to prepare you to teach online. Using Brightspace, the workshop enables you to experience being a student as well as an instructor in an online learning environment. Participants will review pedagogical practices and technology resources, join asynchronous discussions, and work with digital tools in Brightspace. Revised schedule information: This workshop will run from April 29 to May 31. The registration deadline is April 25 at 5 pm. The April 15 to May 24 cohort has been cancelled. All workshop sessions are asynchronous online. Note: As all QC online courses will be held on Brightspace starting in Summer 2024, we will be hosting this workshop on this platform. You can register for this workshop here (login is required to access the form): https://forms.office.com/r/vs8JSE6wPV After you register, we will send you a confirmation email that will include a video overview of the Brightspace environment for you to review before the course begins. You will be able to access the workshop's Brightspace course at 8:00 am on Monday of Week 1 of your course. Contact CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:%20CTLOnline@qc.cuny.edu> if you have any questions about this workshop.

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Best Practices for Teaching Online Workshop, Spring 2024
by QNS qcctlonline 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (CETLL) will be offering a five-session workshop designed to prepare you to teach online. Using Brightspace, the workshop enables you to experience being a student as well as an instructor in an online learning environment. Participants will review pedagogical practices and technology resources, join asynchronous discussions, and work with digital tools in Brightspace. This workshop will have two cohorts: Cohort 1 will run from April 15 to May 24. The registration deadline is April 11 at 5 pm. Cohort 2 will run from April 29 to May 31. The registration deadline is April 25 at 5 pm. All workshop sessions are asynchronous online. Note: As all QC online courses will be held on Brightspace starting in Summer 2024, we will be hosting this workshop on this platform. You can register for this workshop here (login is required to access the form): https://forms.office.com/r/vs8JSE6wPV After you register, we will send you a confirmation email that will include a video overview of the Brightspace environment for you to review before the course begins. You will be able to access the workshop's Brightspace course at 8:00 am on Monday of Week 1 of your course.

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April 17, 2024 Sit N Write Works in Progress: Chumnungwa glass beads w/ Robert Nyamushosho & Dr. Jeffrey Fleisher
by QNS qcctlonline 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

On behalf of Natanya Duncan, PhD, Director QC Africana Studies Good Day! The QC Spring Sit N Write Works in Progress will take place on April 17, 2024, at 12:15 in PH333 and via Zoom. Robert Nyamushosho of QC Anthropology will be joined in discussion by Dr. Jeffery Fleisher Department Chair and Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. Their dialogue will focus on Nyamushosho's "Chumnungwa glass beads: New insights into the geochemistry, circulation, and consumption patterns of pre-European glass beads in Iron Age southern Africa, CE 980 – 1650". Abstract: Glass beads in southern Africa's archaeological record, circa mid-first millennium CE, mark early links between the region, East African coast, and the Indian Ocean rim. Key research focused on glass beads, particularly from notable southern African polities, like the renowned Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe sites, has laid the groundwork for a regional taxonomic series of these beads, emphasizing their role as indicators of wealth and social status. New findings from Chumnungwa, a lesser-known Zimbabwe culture site, reveal five glass bead series. Analysis, using non-invasive techniques like Laser Ablation-ICP-MS, identifies compositions (v-Na-Al and m-Na-Al) widely circulated in Asia and Africa from the 10th to 17th centuries. Chumnungwa stands out as the first Zimbabwe culture site with m-Na-Al 6 beads. The study highlights challenges in typological categorization without scientific methods, offering insights into bead consumption and sociality in Iron Age southern Africa. We look forward to having you, your colleagues, and your students join us for this event. Please feel free to share our flier for the event. To participate via Zoom please register at: https://tinyurl.com/yufjjmtv We will have light refreshments for those who join us in person in PowderMaker Hall 333. Sit n Write would like to thank Dean Kate Pechenkina and CETLL<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/> for their continued support. Sincerely, Natanya Duncan, PhD Director QC Africana Studies Associate Professor of History [cid:5a4fd357-6e27-4090-8780-8635649c57b4] “Black intellectual practice not as an approach to omniscience but as a perpetual desire activated in community as community.” Alexis Pauline Gumbs “The burden of working for racial justice is laid on the very people bearing the brunt of the injustice, and not the powerful people who maintain it. I say to you: I refuse." Nikole Hannah-Jones "Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy." Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

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Brightspace ABCs: Essential Elements Workshop Series, Spring 2024
by Jean Kelly 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Beginning April 8, 2024, the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (CETLL) and the Queens College Brightspace Team are offering a series of virtual workshops focused on specific features of Brightspace. These workshops will be conducted via Zoom and cover essential aspects of Brightspace. Each workshop will be offered twice to accommodate faculty schedules. Register at https://forms.office.com/r/RBBmCPbdkd (you must log into your CUNY Office 365 account to access the form). After you register, we will send you the joining information. The workshops will cover: * Backing Up Your Blackboard Course: Monday April 8, 11 am to 12 pm * Backing Up Your Blackboard Course: Thursday April 11, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm. * Assignments: Monday April 15, 11 am to 12 pm * Assignments: Thursday April 18, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm * Quizzes: Thursday May 2, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm * Quizzes: Monday May 6, 11 am to 12 pm * Discussion: Thursday May 9, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm * Discussions: Monday May 13, 11 am to 12 pm * Gradebook: Thursday May 16, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm * Gradebook: Monday May 20, 11 am to 12 pm * Communication: Thursday May 23, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm * Communication: Wednesday May 29, 11 am to 12 pm * Open Topic: Thursday May 30, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm For individual assistance with Brightspace, email CETLL at CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu to schedule an appointment. You are also welcome to join the virtual Drop-in Hours (no appointment necessary), where CETLL collaborates with ITS to provide technical and pedagogical assistance. The schedule and joining information are at https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/cetll-its-drop-in-hours/

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Reminder: QC Publish & Flourish April 19, 2024 - Finding Publishing Peace in Pieces: How to Develop a Publication Strategy
by Jean Kelly 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

On behalf of Natanya Duncan, PhD, Director QC Africana Studies: Colleagues: On April 19, 2024, at 10 AM in PH 333 we will be joined by Dr. Stephanie Evans of Georgia State University for our first 2024 Publish and Flourish Workshop, "Finding (Publishing) Peace in Pieces: How to Develop a Publication Strategy." We ask that you share the flier<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/wp-content/uploads/sites/99/2024/04/Finding-P…> and this email with your colleagues and advanced graduate students. Download the flier<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/wp-content/uploads/sites/99/2024/04/Finding-P…>. This will be an in-person-only workshop at the request of Dr. Evans. Please note that space is limited. You will need to register for the workshop here: https://forms.office.com/r/0ydqvN2bTP *. The focus of this workshop is to help participants work through where they are with multiple projects toward getting those pieces published. In support of those who will attend the workshop, Dr. Evans asks that attendees complete the following brief survey: https://forms.gle/NJB1x2D8ELt5Snrw8 . QC Africana Studies would like to thank Dean Kate Pechenkina, of the School of Social Sciences, and CETLL<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/> for their continued support of QC Sit N Write and Publish & Flourish. Should you have any questions about the workshop, please feel free to contact me directly at nduncan(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:nduncan@qc.cuny.edu>. Sincerely, Nat Natanya Duncan, PhD Director QC Africana Studies Associate Professor of History

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