Event Archive

When/Where	Event
Wednesday Nov 19, 2014 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Brookdale Gebbie Room	Using technology to improve learner-centered nursing education: A CUNY-wide faculty development program Presenter(s): Donna M. Nickitas PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CNE, FNAP, FAAN Project Director, NYCNECT Shawn McGinniss, MS Ed Project Manager & Instructional Designer, NYCNECT Dr. Donna Nickitas and Shawn McGinniss will share some of their approaches to blended learning in the New York City Nursing Education Consortium in Technology (NYCNECT), a CUNY-wide faculty development program dedicated to the adoption of learner-centered uses of technology. [Details...]
Wednesday Nov 19, 2014 9:30 am - 11:00 am Room B126 HW	Use your pre-existing tests to better understand student learning Presenter(s): Meredith Reitman (Office of Assessment) Tests that are mapped to learning outcomes can provide helpful information about what students are able to do, and what they are not able to do, by that point in the course. This workshop will guide faculty through best practices for designing/re-designing tests and demonstrate a method for using item analysis to assess student learning. [Details...]
Wednesday Nov 12, 2014 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Phoenix Park	ACERT happy hour Join ACERT for drinks at Phoenix Park [Details...]
Wednesday Nov 12, 2014 9:30 am - 11:00 am Room 1203 HE	Articulate impact with logic models Presenter(s): Meredith Reitman (Office of Assessment) How does your grant program or office make a difference? How will you know if what you are doing is working? Logic models are an excellent way to succinctly tell your story: what resources you have, what activities you are undertaking with them, and what the impact of these activities will be. [Details...]
Friday Nov 7, 2014 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 1203 HE	Helping Students Develop an Academic Voice Presenter(s): Dennis Paoli and Trudy Smoke The Hunter College Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program and [...] [Details...]
Thursday Nov 6, 2014 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Easy research assignment makeovers Presenter(s): Dennis Paoli (Writing Across the Curriculum); Wendy Hayden (English); Sarah Ward and Gardner Treneman (Hunter Libraries) In this research assignment makeover, faculty will hear approaches based on work in the fields of composition and information literacy. Join us as we consider a few simple adjustments that might make research assignments more meaningful to both students and professors. [Details...]
Wednesday Nov 5, 2014 9:30 am - 11:00 am 1203 HE	Assess anything you like with rubrics Presenter(s): Meredith Reitman (Office of Assessment) In this workshop, participants will learn what rubrics are, why we create them, and how they can be used to measure learning on a wide-ranging variety of assignments. [Details...]
Tuesday Nov 4, 2014 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Cooking up a collaboration - Introducing "Observing the Eighties" Presenter(s): Lucy Robinson (University of Sussex, UK); Respondents: Philip Swan (Library), Daniel Margòcsy (History), and Jeff Allred (English) How did past eras look and feel from the "worm's-eye view" of their ordinary citizens? “Observing the Eighties” is a new Open Educational Resource that engages this question by collating source materials on everyday life in the UK in the 1980s. [Details...]
Friday Oct 31, 2014 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 1203 HE	Building Online and Hybrid Courses Presenter(s): Dr. Laura Baecher, Department of Curriculum and Teaching and ACERT Faculty Fellow with Shiao-Chuan Kung and Nancy Guerrero, ICIT If you are teaching an online or hybrid course, it [...] [Details...]
Thursday Oct 30, 2014 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Why capstones? Presenter(s): Martha Crum (Community Health Education), Liz Geltman (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences), Jill Gross (Urban Affairs & Planning), Shyama Venkateswar (Public Policy) Capstone projects, generally the culmination of a student's work in his/her field of study, can increase student engagement and deepen their mastery of a given discipline. [Details...]
Tuesday Oct 28, 2014 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Maintaining quality in multi-section courses Presenter(s): Mark Bobrow (English) and Jonathan Shannon (Anthropology) Many departments at Hunter face the problem of managing core courses, such Pathways-compliant general education courses or gateway courses in the major, that serve a high volume of students through multiple sections. [Details...]
Friday Oct 24, 2014 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 1203 HE	Building Online and Hybrid Courses Presenter(s): Dr. Laura Baecher, Department of Curriculum and Teaching and ACERT Faculty Fellow with Shiao-Chuan Kung and Nancy Guerrero, ICIT If you are teaching an online or hybrid course, it [...] [Details...]
Friday Oct 24, 2014 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 1203 HE	Helping Students Develop an Academic Voice Presenter(s): Dennis Paoli and Trudy Smoke The Hunter College Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program and [...] [Details...]
Thursday Oct 23, 2014 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Engaging students in developing and using rubrics Presenter(s): Erica Chutuape (Asian American Studies) and Lindsay Portnoy (Educational Foundations & Counseling) How do you make sure you have a rubric that will truly work for you and your students? And once you have a good rubric, how do you engage students in its use? [Details...]
Wednesday Oct 22, 2014 9:30 am - 11:00 am	Special session on department/program assessment Presenter(s): Meredith Reitman (Office of Assessment) We will provide an overview of the department/program-level assessment process - developing program learning outcomes, creating a curriculum map, assessing your data and learning from what you find - and then ask participants to engage in hands-on exercises to design and critique assessments. [Details...]
Tuesday Oct 21, 2014 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Who are you online? Developing an online professional presence Presenter(s): Kelle Cruz (Physics and Astronomy), John Pell (Hunter Libraries), Zachary Shirkey (Political Science) Developing an online academic presence can help you make your work more visible, network with colleagues, and learn about new trends in your field. With many platforms to choose from, how do you select which to use? [Details...]
Friday Oct 17, 2014 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 1203 HE	Building Online and Hybrid Courses Presenter(s): Dr. Laura Baecher, Department of Curriculum and Teaching and ACERT Faculty Fellow with Shiao-Chuan Kung and Nancy Guerrero, ICIT If you are teaching an online or hybrid course, it [...] [Details...]
Friday Oct 17, 2014 10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Introduction to VoiceThread in Blackboard Presenter(s): George Haines (VoiceThread) In this hands-on workshop, you will become familiar with the basic functions of VoiceThread and how it integrates with Blackboard. [Details...]
Thursday Oct 16, 2014 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Introducing the Academic Commons Presenter(s): Matt Gold (English and Digital Humanities, CUNY Grad Center) Designed to foster conversation, collaboration, and connections across the 24-campus CUNY system, the Academic Commons has quickly grown as a hub for the CUNY community and has become a national model [Details...]
Tuesday Oct 14, 2014 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Presenting and collaborating with VoiceThread Presenter(s): Diane Berman (Special Education), Kathryn Narramore (English), and Lina Newton (Political Science) VoiceThread is an online communication and collaboration tool can facilitate activities such as discussions around images, videos or documents [Details...]