Event Archive

When/Where	Event
Wednesday Jun 28, 2017 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm 1203 HE	Multilingual Students in University Classrooms Presenter(s): Linh An (Hunter College AANAPISI Project), Paul McPherron (English) In this Teaching Scholarship Circle, participants will read about and discuss particular challenges multilingual students face in our classrooms and ways we can addresses these needs. Participants will analyze how different instructors have drawn on the linguistic and cultural backgrounds of their students, in this way moving beyond a deficit view of English learners in our classrooms toward a multilingual approach to university pedagogy. [Details...]
Wednesday Jun 21, 2017 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm 1203 HE	Multilingual Students in University Classrooms Presenter(s): Linh An (Hunter College AANAPISI Project), Paul McPherron (English) In this Teaching Scholarship Circle, participants will read about and discuss particular challenges multilingual students face in our classrooms and ways we can addresses these needs. Participants will analyze how different instructors have drawn on the linguistic and cultural backgrounds of their students, in this way moving beyond a deficit view of English learners in our classrooms toward a multilingual approach to university pedagogy. [Details...]
Wednesday Jun 14, 2017 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm 1203 HE	Multilingual Students in University Classrooms Presenter(s): Linh An (Hunter College AANAPISI Project), Paul McPherron (English) In this Teaching Scholarship Circle, participants will read about and discuss particular challenges multilingual students face in our classrooms and ways we can addresses these needs. Participants will analyze how different instructors have drawn on the linguistic and cultural backgrounds of their students, in this way moving beyond a deficit view of English learners in our classrooms toward a multilingual approach to university pedagogy. [Details...]
Wednesday Jun 7, 2017 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm 1203 HE	Multilingual Students in University Classrooms Presenter(s): Linh An (Hunter College AANAPISI Project), Paul McPherron (English) In this Teaching Scholarship Circle, participants will read about and discuss particular challenges multilingual students face in our classrooms and ways we can addresses these needs. Participants will analyze how different instructors have drawn on the linguistic and cultural backgrounds of their students, in this way moving beyond a deficit view of English learners in our classrooms toward a multilingual approach to university pedagogy. [Details...]
Wednesday Jun 7, 2017 10:00 am - 12:00 pm C105 HN	Module-making camp: Day 3 Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung (ICIT) Nancy Guerrero (ICIT) On June 5 – 7, 2017, we invite you to participate in a 2.5-day camp on building or refreshing your hybrid or online courses. We will work intensively to support you as you design one online learning module for a course you will be teaching in a future semester. [Details...]
Tuesday Jun 6, 2017 10:00 am - 4:00 pm C105 HN	Module-making camp: Day 2 Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung (ICIT) Nancy Guerrero (ICIT) On June 5 – 7, 2017, we invite you to participate in a 2.5-day camp on building or refreshing your hybrid or online courses. We will work intensively to support you as you design one online learning module for a course you will be teaching in a future semester. [Details...]
Monday Jun 5, 2017 10:00 am - 4:00 pm C105 HN	Module-making camp: Day 1 Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung (ICIT) Nancy Guerrero (ICIT) On June 5 – 7, 2017, we invite you to participate in a 2.5-day camp on building or refreshing your hybrid or online courses. We will work intensively to support you as you design one online learning module for a course you will be teaching in a future semester. [Details...]
Wednesday May 17, 2017 10:00 am - 11:30 am Online - register for details	Making your digital content accessible Presenter(s): Nancy Guerrero (TTLG) In this workshop, you will learn about best practices for creating and designing accessible MS Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and PDF files. We will also discuss options for captioning videos. [Details...]
Monday May 8, 2017 10:00 am - 11:30 am Online - register for details	Conversations and reflections around images and videos Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung (ICIT) This workshop is intended for faculty who want to design assignments that go beyond text-based discussions. It will introduce participants to two web-based tools that facilitate conversations and reflections around videos and images. Using VoiceThread, professors and students can add comments to slides, images, documents or videos. The comments can be made in the form of text, audio or video. Using Vialogues, professors and students can post questions, reflections and comments associated with specific points in the video. [Details...]
Friday May 5, 2017 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Mentoring students of color Presenter(s): James Cantres (AFPRL), Rob Cowan (Acting Assistant Dean for Program Development, Assessment, & Review), Philip Ewell (Music), Juliana Karras (Psychology), Ricardo Miranda (Media Studies), Sakina Laksimi-Morrow (TLC Fellow), Janet Neary (English) In this Teaching Scholarship Circle (TSC), a four-session forum of roundtable discussions, we will grapple with the difficult issue of mentoring students of color. With the spate of violence against people of color over the past few years, and on the heels of the recent presidential election in which aspects of race were front and center, this issue has never been more important. [Details...]
Wednesday May 3, 2017 10:00 am - 11:30 am 1203 HE	Using diagnostic exams to run semester-long assessment Presenter(s): Ernesto Garcia, Richard Gustavson, and Rachel Perlin (Quantitative Reasoning Fellows) Assessment done at the end of each semester makes it difficult to make instructional adjustments or identify students lacking certain prerequisite knowledge. This Assessment Breakfast will show how the use of diagnostic exams given at the beginning of the semester can improve the way instructors run semester-long assessment projects. [Details...]
Friday Apr 28, 2017 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Mentoring students of color Presenter(s): James Cantres (AFPRL), Rob Cowan (Acting Assistant Dean for Program Development, Assessment, & Review), Philip Ewell (Music), Juliana Karras (Psychology), Ricardo Miranda (Media Studies), Sakina Laksimi-Morrow (TLC Fellow), Janet Neary (English) In this Teaching Scholarship Circle (TSC), a four-session forum of roundtable discussions, we will grapple with the difficult issue of mentoring students of color. With the spate of violence against people of color over the past few years, and on the heels of the recent presidential election in which aspects of race were front and center, this issue has never been more important. [Details...]
Wednesday Apr 26, 2017 10:00 am - 12:30 pm 1203 HE	Assessment Recognition Brunch Presenter(s): Lon Kaufman (Provost) Come join us for brunch! We’ll have an introductory opening by Provost Lon Kaufman, peer colleagues presenting for “5 minutes of fame” on an assessment related topic, a time of open conversation, and the recognition ceremony which includes an assessment trophy and several certificates from Shakespeare & Co.as a way to thank folks who are doing assessment. [Details...]
Monday Apr 24, 2017 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Chanin (B126 HW)	Knowledge Without Walls: The ethos of openness in research and teaching Presenter(s): Shelly Eversley (English & Women’s Studies, Baruch College), Matthew K. Gold (English & Digital Humanities, CUNY GC), Michael Smith (Communications Technology, York College) ACERT is pleased to host three CUNY colleagues whose work embodies the spirit of openness in scholarship and teaching. “Open” is a multivalent and emerging concept in scholarship and teaching. Openness, in this sense might point to: authors’ protection of readers’ right to share work via a Creative Commons license; Web 2.0 affordances that invite readers to comment or annotate critical texts; teachers’ creation of free course materials to replace expensive textbooks and thus make education more accessible for economically burdened students. [Details...]
Friday Apr 21, 2017 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 819 HE	Mentoring students of color Presenter(s): James Cantres (AFPRL), Rob Cowan (Acting Assistant Dean for Program Development, Assessment, & Review), Philip Ewell (Music), Juliana Karras (Psychology), Ricardo Miranda (Media Studies), Sakina Laksimi-Morrow (TLC Fellow), Janet Neary (English) In this Teaching Scholarship Circle (TSC), a four-session forum of roundtable discussions, we will grapple with the difficult issue of mentoring students of color. With the spate of violence against people of color over the past few years, and on the heels of the recent presidential election in which aspects of race were front and center, this issue has never been more important. [Details...]
Wednesday Apr 19, 2017 10:00 am - 11:30 am Online - register for details	Using online meeting tools in your classes Presenter(s): Nancy Guerrero (TTLG) In this workshop, you’ll learn about the notable features of some free tools that you may want to consider, including Blackboard Collaborate Ultra and Zoom, and we'll discuss which tools are the best fit for different uses. [Details...]
Monday Apr 17, 2017 10:00 am - 11:30 am Online - register for details	Creating mini-lectures for your hybrid, online and flipped classes Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung (ICIT) Learn how to create mini-lectures that can be used to introduce students to a class or online module; to explain how to solve a problem; or to demonstrate how to navigate a website or use a software program. We will introduce two web-based tools: VoiceThread and Screencast-O-Matic. [Details...]
Tuesday Apr 4, 2017 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Bedford Falls, 206 E 67th St	ACERT happy hour Connect with your Hunter colleagues over food and beers at nearby Bedford Falls. Cash bar. [Details...]
Tuesday Apr 4, 2017 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Students produce and publish knowledge: Wikipedia as student writing space Presenter(s): Iris Finkel (Hunter Libraries), Charles Tien (Political Science), Megan Wacha (Library Services at CUNY Central) Do you tell students never to use Wikipedia as a reference in a paper? Have you ever considered using Wikipedia as a learning tool? In this Lunchtime Seminar, we'll learn about class projects where students contribute to Wikipedia as editors and writers. [Details...]
Friday Mar 31, 2017 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 819 HE	Mentoring students of color Presenter(s): James Cantres (AFPRL), Rob Cowan (Arts & Sciences), Philip Ewell (Music), Juliana Karras (Psychology), Ricardo Miranda (Media Studies), Sakina Laksimi-Morrow (TLC Fellow), Janet Neary (English) In this Teaching Scholarship Circle (TSC), a four-session forum of roundtable discussions, we will grapple with the difficult issue of mentoring students of color. With the spate of violence against people of color over the past few years, and on the heels of the recent presidential election in which aspects of race were front and center, this issue has never been more important. [Details...]