Blog Feature Archives: Event Capsules

Event Capsules, Teaching Hacks | August 20, 2018

ACERT Teaching Hack – Embodied Teaching

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Group work, Student Engagement

In this ACERT Teaching Hack, Alyson Greenfield (English Department) employs “unconventional” teaching methods to enliven the classroom and student experience as a whole.

Event Capsules | May 31, 2018

ACERT Event Capsule – Designing an Accessible Classroom

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Student Engagement

Kristen Hodnett (Special Education), Antonia Levy (School for Professional Studies), Louis Olander (Special Education), and Gina Riley (Special Education), discuss how they use principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to create welcoming, usable, and accessible courses for students with a broad range of characteristics, including students with disabilities.

Event Capsules | April 2, 2018

ACERT Event Capsule – Focus on Faculty Innovations in Teaching with Technology (FITT)

By ACERT
Topics : Grants, Opportunities, Technology

In this Event Capsule, Iris Finkel, Steven Kowalik, Steve Foglia, and Todd Miller recap their presentations at a March 6, 2018 Lunchtime Seminar. They highlight their own FITT projects, and discuss the work they've accomplished through their participation in the FITT program.

Event Capsules | November 13, 2017

ACERT Event Capsule – Close Looking and Teaching Students to Read Images – Part 1

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Library, Student Engagement

In this Event Capsule, Sarah Ward, Stephanie Margolin, and Mason Brown (Library) discuss their work with the SEEK Summer Bridge students, in which students look closely at and ask questions about comic panels and pages as an introduction to the research process.

Event Capsules | October 24, 2017

ACERT Event Capsule – Student Taskscapes: Understanding CUNY Undergraduates’ Lived Experiences

By ACERT
Topics : Student Engagement

In this Event Capsule, Mariana Regalado (Brooklyn College Library) and Maura Smale (City Tech Library) discuss their presentations at an October 17th Lunchtime Seminar.

Event Capsules | October 20, 2017

ACERT Event Capsule – Active Learning is Lecturing⁻¹

By ACERT
Topics : Assessment, Course design, Discussion, Lectures, Map to assessments, Student Engagement

In this Event Capsule, Malcolm Campbell, Professor of Biology from Davidson College, discusses his October 10th presentations at Hunter College.

Event Capsules | May 3, 2017

ACERT Event Capsule – Online course development: First takes

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Online classes

In this event capsule, Irene Morrison-Moncure and Jared Simard discuss taking their courses online. They share the educational tools they used, and give suggestions for faculty members interested in developing online courses of their own.

Event Capsules | April 5, 2017

ACERT Event Capsule – Serious play: Games in the classroom

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Student Engagement

We often think of play as the opposite of the work that we do in the classroom as teachers or students. However, in this Event Capsule, Leah Potter and Jeff Allred discuss using games to transform their pedagogy.

Event Capsules | November 7, 2016

ACERT Event Capsule – Web scrawlers: Annotating digital objects with students

By ACERT
Topics : Rich media & presentation tools, Technology

What happens to the time-honored tradition of scribbling in the margins when texts migrate from the page to the screen? In this Event Capsule, Jeff Allred and Philip Ewell discuss their use of Skim and hypothes.is to annotate digital documents.