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Crucial Conversations in the Classroom: Sharing Good Practices, March 24
by Jean Kelly 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

>From the Center for Ethnic, Racial and Religious Understanding and the Center for Teaching & Learning: How do you handle crucial conversations that might arise in your classroom? These conversations may be related to the subject matter that you teach, or they may be brought into the classroom because of circumstances in students' daily lives that are affecting them. Do you have tried and true methods to diffuse or transform these conversations? Do you wish you had better resources? Space to exchange ideas? Please join Sophia McGee, director of CERRU, and John Vogelsang, director of the Michael Harrington Center, for an informal faculty workshop/idea exchange on crucial conversations in the classroom. We know that there are many years of combined expertise on this campus, and that we can all benefit from sharing that expertise and learning from each other. We will be gathering on Friday, March 24 for an exchange of ideas and good practices on having crucial conversations in the classroom. A light breakfast will be served. We hope that you will be able to join us, learn with us, and/or share your expertise. Date: Friday, March 24 Time: 10 am-12 noon Location: Q-Side https://goo.gl/maps/qVEc6qoJket RSVP: https://goo.gl/xtpj6F http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/crucial-conversations-in-the-classroom-sharing-good-…

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Fulbright Outreach Event - Lunch and conversation with two Fulbright Scholars - Thursday, March 30
by Michelle Fraboni 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Greetings, everyone: The Center for Teaching & Learning is pleased to invite you to learn more about the Fulbright Scholar Experience with Fulbright Scholars, Dr. Amy Werbel and Dr. Nur Uddin Ahamad. Date: Thursday, March 30, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 pm (Lunch will be provided) Location: Queens College, President¹s Conference Room #2, Rosenthal Library Dr. Amy Werbel is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the State University of New York Fashion Institute of Technology. At F.I.T., she teaches diverse courses on the history of American art and the contemporary art scene. In 2011-12, she served as a Fulbright Scholar in China; from 2013 to 2016 she served as a reviewer for the Fulbright Scholar Program; and this year, she has been chosen as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Alumni Ambassador: http://www.cies.org/alumni-ambassadors/amy-werbel. Dr. Nur Uddin Ahamad is an Associate Professor in the Chemistry Department at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. He is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University in the Chemistry Department http://www.cies.org/grantee/nur-uddin-ahamad. As a postdoctoral researcher in the Fairbrother Research Group, his current project is Exploring the Effect of Functionalization Strategies on the Flame Retardant Carbon Nanotube - Polymer Composites. For more information and to reserve a seat, please visit: http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/fulbright-scholar-experience-march-30/ Best! Michelle Michelle C. Fraboni, Director Queens College Center for Teaching & Learning http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/

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Make a Difference - Take Photos
by Ying Zhou 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Make a Difference: Help High School Students Get into College and Study Computer Science! A Day in the Life of Computer Science Students at Queens College Dear QC student: You are invited to submit photos you take that reflect a day in the life of Computer Science students at Queens College. A selection of these photos will be used at the upcoming NYC CS Fair<http://www.csfair.nyc/> on March 29. This is a city wide event to educate high school students about getting into college and studying computer science. Below are the rules you should observe: 1. Each photo must include Queens College Computer Science student(s), and/or students in the ACM club, Computer Graphics Design Association, Try! Swift NYC meetup, Python user group, FreeCode Academy. 2. You are encouraged to take photos that reflect what students do, e.g. projects, club activities, field trips, presenting in class or in workshops, attending QC or external events, networking, etc. 3. You are encouraged to team up with students from other departments to take photos together or of each other. 4. You must be the owner of those photos with consent from the people in the photo. 5. You must allow Queens College to use those photos for promotional purposes. 6. You should follow the naming convention as defined here: Your first name + your last name + 3 digits sequential number with no space in between, all lower case. For example, if I submit photos, I'd name them: yingzhou001, yingzhou002, etc. Here is the link you can use to upload your photos (this link will be open for entries until March 28): https://www.dropbox.com/request/NncP49J3greNd0f0vY3y If you have any questions, please send an email to ying.zhou(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:ying.zhou@qc.cuny.edu>, with "CS Photo" in the subject line. We are having a meeting to prepare for the NYC CS Fair on Friday, March 17 (that's today!), 3:00pm to 4:00pm at the Tech Incubator (CEP Hall 2). We welcome anyone who'd like to present a CS related project or product to come and help us plan the event. We also welcome anyone who signed up to volunteer to come and contribute your ideas. For more information to sign up for volunteering and presenting at the Queens College booth at the NYC CS Fair<http://www.csfair.nyc/>, on March 29, please use the link below: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/3ead78c5639f9e3a122face9a/files/0a93340e-9348… Thank you and have fun doing it! Regards, Ying Program Manager, TTP Residency at Queens College This project is jointly sponsored by the Computer Science Department and the TTP Residency @ Queens College.

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FW: Friday, May 12, 3rd Annual CUNY Online Education Conference: Call for Proposals and RSVPs
by Michelle Fraboni 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Hello everyone: John Jay will be hosting the 3rd Annual CUNY Online Education Conference on Friday, May 12, 9:30-2. This year¹s conference title is ³The Virtual CUNYverse: Developing Synergies among CUNY Colleges to Support the Online Initiative.² The conference website is here: https://cunyoec.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ The deadline to submit a proposal is March 31. See details below. Best - Michelle Michelle C. Fraboni Queens College Center for Teaching & Learning @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ From: Center for Teaching and Learning <CTL(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> on behalf of Gina Foster <gifoster(a)JJAY.CUNY.EDU> Reply-To: Center for Teaching and Learning <CTL(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Date: Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 3:25 PM To: "CTL(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU" <CTL(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Subject: Friday, May 12, 3rd Annual CUNY Online Education Conference: Call for Proposals and RSVPs Dear Colleagues: I am pleased to announce that John Jay will be hosting the 3rd Annual CUNY Online Education Conference on Friday, May 12, 9:30-2. This year¹s conference title is ³The Virtual CUNYverse: Developing Synergies among CUNY Colleges to Support the Online Initiative.² Conference tracks include 1. Best practices in Hybrid Instruction 2. Effective/Innovative Collaborations across CUNY 3. Successful Online/Digital Education Partnerships within CUNY colleges and programs 4. CUNY Open Educational Resource Initiatives Conference website: https://cunyoec.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ Please submit proposals here <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__tinyurl.com_OEC17propo sal&d=DwMFAg&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=HtF-4PU5Z4O6X- yh5GPCIao7vEyBfqzG-vmE-hpv8iY&m=CzshJD0nvtjsVsZot-hijbKQwnJkzN47zGVems5a-tc &s=luhxf9FNyeS2lQJAL41IZKr6aRhxyo0NlUe0j9tRpqI&e=> (deadline March 31) Please RSVP here <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tinyurl.com_cunyonlin eeduconf&d=DwMFAg&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=HtF-4PU5Z 4O6X-yh5GPCIao7vEyBfqzG-vmE-hpv8iY&m=CzshJD0nvtjsVsZot-hijbKQwnJkzN47zGVems 5a-tc&s=4Ve3aNOcPUDbsMjyUH7MIdEepu3PQNmgE3eZLLf2nFk&e=> The conference is a collaboration between the John Jay College Teaching & Learning Center, the John Jay Pedagogy & Technology Training team (PATT), John Jay Online, and ePortfolio at John Jay. Please share this announcement with your colleagues and encourage proposal submissions! Best, Gina Gina Rae Foster, PhD Director, Teaching and Learning Center 335 Haaren Hall John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street New York, New York 10019 Email: gifoster(a)jjay.cuny.edu Phone: 646-557-4660

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CUNY Service Corps needs you! We are looking for volunteers to read and rate applications for our next cohort.
by Cecilia B Britez 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

Dear QC Staff and Faculty, I am emailing you on behalf of the CUNY Service Corps program at Queens College. We would like to ask for your contribution in helping us select next year's cohort! We are looking for volunteers to read and rate applications of some of the best and brightest Queens College students who have applied to our program. We have received over 200 applications! QC faculty and staff usually read a batch of 15-20 short applications, and this takes about 1-2 hours. Your support as a volunteer is tremendously valuable and a service to our campus! We would like to share with you the opportunity to select the students who will represent Queens College and CUNY to our community partners, government agencies, and faculty who lead service projects. Please register to help by completing this form: https://goo.gl/forms/q1hqR4bs7cc5kTxp1 Thank you for your consideration! Cecilia Cecilia Britez<https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilia-vega-britez-55530394> Director of Administration, Year of Korea<http://korea.qc.cuny.edu/> CUNY Service Corps at Queens College<http://qc.cuny.edu/servicecorps> 718-997-0548 | 314 Razran Hall

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April 3rd Startup Show and Tell Event
by Ying Zhou 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

? The April 3rd Startup Show and Tell event is specifically designed by CoLab Factory for Queens College students, all majors welcome. We will host a meet and greet information session this Friday, March 17, at 4:00pm at Tech Incubator. Come and find like minded students to form a team or just exchange ideas. Bring friends! Please RSVP via this link: https://goo.gl/forms/qUEDCukR8CMnqj533 ?You can come to the event to pitch your idea or just show support and have fun. Below is the event information: ------------------------------------- Startup Show and Tell, Monday, April 3, 6:00pm - 8:00pm CoLab Factory and Tech Incubator @ Queens College You are invited to participate in a Startup Show and Tell event, specifically designed for Queens College students, hosted by CoLab Factory, on April 3 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. This is an opportunity for you to pitch your idea to a seasoned entrepreneur / advisor and get feedback. The winning team will be offered the opportunity to work for two months this summer in CoLab Factory, where many startup companies and entrepreneurs meet and support each other. The students will be mentored by professionals to further develop and implement their idea. Startup Show and Tell is a regular event that happens at CoLab Factory, a co-working space in downtown Brooklyn. Here is an intro to the event: Startup Show and Tell is exactly what it sounds like. Up to five individuals or teams pitch their ideas that can originate from any number of businesses or startup fields from tech & robotics to product & services. If you have a startup business idea, we want to hear from you! You have 3 minutes to pitch us. Then we get to ask questions, share ideas and critique your service, product, business idea. That's it! Just come prepared to discuss and in some cases defend your presentation! Please RSVP via this link: https://goo.gl/forms/qUEDCukR8CMnqj533 If you form a team, please have each team member RSVP. Any questions, please contact: ying.zhou(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:ying.zhou@qc.cuny.edu> Regards, Ying Program Manager, Tech Talent Pipeline Residency @ Queens College Razran Hall, Room 348, Queens College CUNY 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY 11367 ying.zhou(a)qc.cuny.edu (718) 997-4636 (o) | (917) 319-4027 (c)?

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Fw: Queens College Closed Tuesday, March 14
by Jean Kelly 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

Greetings, In case you didn't receive the announcement below, the college will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday, March 14. Be safe! Jean Kelly, Instructional Technologist Center for Teaching & Learning<http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu> Queens College, CUNY Razran 316 jean.kelly(a)qc.cuny.edu 718 997 4857 ________________________________ From: Office of Communications/Queens College <sima(a)queenscollegecuny.ccsend.com> on behalf of Office of Communications/Queens College <qcmailer(a)qc.cuny.edu> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 3:14 PM To: Jean Kelly Subject: Queens College Closed Tuesday, March 14 Having trouble viewing this email? Click here: http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103033957415&ca=62a48c37-… >From the Office of Communications: Due to the severe weather, Queens College will be closed on Tuesday, March 14. Please note that the college's shuttle bus service will not be operating. All events scheduled on campus have been canceled. All essential and emergency personnel are expected to report to work on Tuesday, March 14. These individuals should contact their immediate supervisor for instructions on work assignments and hours to report to work. We appreciate the work of our essential and emergency personnel, particularly the Building and Grounds staff and Public Safety Officers, who have to respond in severe weather situations like this one. For the most up-to-date information on campus conditions, please visit the college's website at qc.cuny.edu/alert. News about weather-related closings will be distributed through CUNY Alert, email, and the college's Twitter and Facebook accounts, as well as on radio stations WCBS 880AM and WINS 1010 AM, and on TV stations NY1 and WNBC Channel 4. [City University of New York logo] This mail was sent by an automated process. Do not reply to this mail, which cannot accept replies. At the bottom of this email, you will see Constant Contact language that offers the option of using "SafeUnsubscribe" to remove yourself from the email list. We strongly advise you not to unsubscribe because QCmailers may contain critical, timely information you need, such as WebAttendance and WebGrade information for faculty; Human Resources announcements for faculty and staff; and announcements from the Registrar or Bursar for students. This information may not be communicated in any other way but through the QCmailer. Queens College, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY 11367

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FW: Two upcoming talks by woman ACM Distinguished Speaker
by Eva Fernandez 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

Greetings, colleagues: See below for two talks coming up next week, by ACM Distinguished Speaker Margaret Burnett: Wednesday on the topic of making software work for women as well as for men, Thursday on the topic of the design of programming environments. Please distribute the announcement to students/colleagues who might be interested. Best, Eva Eva M. Fernández Acting Assistant Provost Queens College, City University of New York http://efernandez.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu<http://efernandez.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/> ======================================== WHO SHOULD GO: Anyone who is interested in making their software work as well for women as for men, especially software that helps people solve problems. Wednesday March 22, 2017 5:30PM — 8:00PM Sponsored by Bloomberg L.P. 120 Park Avenue New York, NY 10017 Gender-Inclusive Software: What the Software industry Needs to Know Gender inclusiveness in software companies is receiving a lot of attention these days, but it overlooks a potentially critical factor: software itself. Research into how individual differences cluster by gender shows that males and females often work differently with software for problem-solving (e.g., tools for programming, debugging, spreadsheet modeling, end-user programming, game-based learning, visualizing information, etc.). Burnett will present the first real-world investigation of software practitioners’ ability to identify gender-inclusiveness issues in software they create/maintain, using a method called GenderMag. At the core of the method are five facets of gender differences drawn from a large body of foundational work from computer science, psychology, education, communications, and women’s studies. In addition to reporting results from the investigation, she will recount tales from the trenches on what it’s like to use GenderMag, where the pitfalls lie, and all the things still to be learned. Speaker Bio: An ACM Distinguished Speaker, Margaret Burnett’s research is in human issues of software development, which lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering. She focuses on end-user programming, end-user software engineering, information foraging theory as applied to programming, and gender issues in those contexts. Burnett’s awards for her work include several Best Paper recognitions, IBM’s International Faculty Award, and the NSF Young Investigator Award, in addition to being honored for her mentoring, collaboration, and teaching at Oregon State University. She has chaired workshop and papers committees for the ACM and IEEE and co-chairs the Executive Committee of the Academic Alliance of the National Center for Women In Technology (NCWIT). Talk followed by a cocktail reception. Free and open to the public, but you must register in advance at https://go.bloomberg.com/promo/invite/gender-inclusive-software-what-the-so… ======================================================== ======================================================== WHO SHOULD GO: Anyone who designs software for an information-rich domain with navigation-intensive tasks. Programming environments are just one example of the theory-guided design considerations the speaker will present. Thursday, March 23, 2017 6:00PM — 9:00PM Sponsored by NYTech Alliance Location: Meister Seelig & Fein LLP 125 Park Avenue 7th Floor New York, NY 10017 Developers Need Usability Too: Theory-Guided Design of Programming Environments Programming is an information-rich and navigation-intensive task, especially when comprehending source code written by others, making modifications to that code, and debugging. In these respects, programming is similar to other domains that require exploring large amounts of textual information, problem-solving, and synthesis, like finance, research, or even online shopping. Information Foraging Theory is very influential in the field of human-computer interaction as a method to describe and predict people's navigation behavior through these information-rich environments. In recent years, the software engineering community has begun to study program navigation and tools to support it. Some of these navigation tools are very useful, but they lack a human-oriented theoretical basis that could reduce the need for ad hoc tool building approaches by shedding light on what is fundamentally necessary to the people using such tools. To help fill this gap, we present what Information Foraging Theory tells us about how to support programmer navigation during software maintenance. We show what our results reveal about existing software engineering tools, and how they point the way forward for future software engineering tools. The insights gained from studying program navigation can generalize to other information-rich fields. Speaker Bio: Margaret Burnett is a Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, and an ACM CHI Academy member. She began her career in industry, where she was the first woman software developer hired at Procter & Gamble Ivorydale. A few degrees and start-ups later, she joined academia, with a research focus on people who are engaged in some form of software development. She co-founded the area of end-user software engineering, which aims to improve software created by users who are not trained in programming. She also pioneered the use of information foraging theory to solve software engineering problems, and leads the team that created GenderMag, a software inspection process that uncovers gender inclusiveness issues in software from spreadsheets to programming environments. She serves on a variety of HCI and Software Engineering committees and editorial boards, and on the Academic Alliance Advisory Board of the U.S. National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). More on Burnett can be found at: http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~burnett/ Preceded by light hors d'oeuvres https://www.eventbrite.com/e/developers-need-usability-too-theory-guided-de… ========================================================

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Thursday 3/16 12:15 pm, international special lecture -- Dr Jaya Dantas, UN delegate to the Commission on the Status of Women
by Limarys Caraballo 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

FLYER https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwCdp3pcWJcSMjdEeWI3R3ZRX00/view?usp=shari… **A Journey across Nations: Studying Resiliency and Empowerment in Post-confict and Transitional Nations across Three Continents** ?DR JAYA DANTAS Below, please find a link to the flyer for a special lecture cosponsored by the Division of Education with the Divisions of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, as part of the Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series, which is hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature. Our guest is an international scholar and delegate to the United Nations' Committee on the Status of Women (in session this week: http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/csw61-2017) Dr Jaya Dantas is director of graduate studies in the Faculty of Health Sciences and professor of international health at Curtin University in Western Australia. She is an internationally recognized expert on public health, education, and health sociology. For 30 years she has been an interdisciplinary researcher and educator in India, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Timor Leste, and Australia, and she also consults in Pakistan, Kosovo, Sri Lanka, and Singapore. Her current research focuses on vulnerable populations, especially women and young people. Dr. Dantas serves as a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. ?

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FW: Game-based Learning Workshop 3/23, CUNY Grad Center
by Michelle Fraboni 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Hi everyone - Please see below for an opportunity to participate in a workshop on applying game-based pedagogy in your classes, facilitated by The CUNY Games Network: http://www.cunygames.org<http://www.cunygames.org/> Turning Your Exercises into Games: A Mid-Semester Workshop with What¹s Your Game Plan? Thursday March 23rd, 6:30-8pm The CUNY Graduate Center Room 9207 Games and simulations are powerful tools for learning. In this bootcamp brainstorm, BMCC¹s Prof. Joe Bisz (English) and Prof. Kathleen Offenholley (Mathematics) break up professors and graduate students into design teams whose job is to enhance an exercise with the mechanics of popular board games. This workshop provides a fun introduction to the engagement and deep learning principles behind game-based learning pedagogy. Attached is a flyer with more details -- please feel free to share it with other interested folks! Planning to attend? RSVP here, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFOoyYOesqNmbL4ZBmfvTW7yZRmQny0Z2 UUpyyXyxo2b-mog/viewform?c=0& Best - Michelle Michelle C. Fraboni Queens College Center for Teaching & Learning

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