As you likely heard, earlier this week the current U.S. Administration chose to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, commonly known as DACA. The program served and protected 800,000 young Dreamers who arrived in this country at a young age. In the past the CUNY system has supported DACA students and has vowed… Read More DACA Info & Resources
What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)? Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that have been released into the public domain under an open license. An open “intellectual property license…allows for free use, adaptation, and distribution”. This means that OER materials can be re-used, re-purposed, and sometimes “remixed” to better suit the… Read More OER Overview
CTL Basics Educational Technology The CTL assists faculty and students with various projects. Common requests are below. Click the request to learn who to contact for support. I want to…
Questions and considerations for faculty members teaching a hybrid course for the first time are outlined below.
It’s likely that most of the people reading this post have used or heard of clickers: in-class polling systems that allow instructors to gauge student knowledge, understanding, or interest in a topic. Whether you use Poll Everywhere, Turning Point, the student-generated Cliqur system, or something else, this technology can be handy for facilitating student-centered, active… Read More Checking student understanding with Plickers
The following resources were developed by Chris Campanioni, Mary McGlynn, Lisa Blankenship, Robert Greco, and Lindsey Albracht for a workshop on multimodal assignments and assessments. Multimodal assignments ask students to use more than one of the modalities (i.e., visual, audio, gestural, spatial or linguistic) to create a meaning. In this curated forum, we explore what… Read More Multimodal assignments
The following resources were developed by Seth Graves and Robert Greco for a series of workshops on Fake News. As faculty, we face an across-the-curriculum challenge to address the proliferation of maliciously fabricated news and to help students identify the biases, perspectives, and methods that influence the news they read. The rapid rise of online… Read More Contextualizing “Fake News”
The Department of English’s First-Year Writing Program and Great Works of Literature have compiled a guide containing resources and assignments faculty can use to teach students how to evaluate and cite sources ethically and effectively. These ideas can be applied to most disciplines. Click here to view the guide. If you would like some help… Read More Engaging with Sources in the Era of Fake News: Faculty Resource Guide
Below you’ll find a GoogleDoc that offers some fairly quick ideas of how you can adapt your class meeting to an online format using tools that are free and widely available to Baruch faculty. The CTL staff is available to help you brainstorm and figure this out whether it’s through a workshop or one-on-one consultation.… Read More CTL Snow Day “Make-up Class” Guide
Thursday, March 9, 1:00-4:00pm, NVC 7-205 Join us as we work with EqualityArchive.com for a Wikipedia-edit- a-thon in which members of the Baruch College community contribute content related to women’s history on Wikipedia, the largest and most popular general reference resource on the internet. In this Women’s History Month session you will learn how to… Read More Women’s History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
