Sent on behalf of Michelle Fraboni: Please break bread with us (and watch presentations on great teaching and learning practices) at CTL's Teaching Innovation Showcase Friday, May 9. The complete schedule for the day’s presentations is below; you will find additional information (descriptions of each presentation) on the event’s webpage: http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/teaching-innovation-carnivale/ Please let us know if you will be attending, by completing this brief RSVP form: http://goo.gl/nXAP1J Best - Michelle Teaching Innovation Showcase - http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/teaching-innovation-carnivale/ May 9, 2014, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Agora Café, Student Union Food (and great teaching and learning practices) will be served, so please RSVP: http://goo.gl/nXAP1J Program 9:00 am – Breakfast 9:30 am – Tsippa Ackerman (Psychology) – It’s Not Just for Cat Videos: Using YouTube to Help Teach 10:00 am – Anaiis Cisco, Nicole Bugarin, Chad Scantlebury, Professor Roopali Mukherjee, and Professor Ellen Scott – The Ethnic Media Collective 10:30 am – Chris Hanusa (Mathematics) – Individual Research in Mathematics 11:00 am – Fern Estrow (FNES) – Virtual Meeting Tools: Beyond Teaching Off Campus 11:30 am – Robin Hizme, Rafal Olechowski, Brian Sweeney, Chris Lore, Laura Caba and Sadiqah Ali (College Preparatory Programs) – Collaborating with Technology in Humanities Courses 12:00 pm – Intermission and lunch 1:00 pm – Mark Levy (Civil Rights Initiative), Norka Blackman-Richards (SEEK), Ryan Smith (Design/Art), and Leslie Leach (BALA) – Is the 1960s Civil Rights Narrative Relevant to QC Students Today? 2:00 pm – Ted Kesler (EECE) and Damian Walsh – Multimodal and Multimedia Writing for a Better World 2:30 pm – John Dennehy (Biology) – Genomics Research Experience: An Introductory Biology Lab 3:00 pm – Hannah Schwadron (Drama, Theatre, and Dance) – Testing Theory-Practice in the QC Dance Classroom 3:30 pm – Ramona Pérez (Anthropology) – From Candycane Colonialism and Competitive Kula Exchange to the Cooperative Economics of Grades: Teaching Simulations and Student Motivations in Anthropology 101 and 201 4:00 pm – Raffle