Seminar 2 Encyclopedia

The Peopling of New York

Professor: Prabal De
ITF: Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land
Campus: City College
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/de2014/

This is the full course site for Professor Prabal De’s Spring 2014 Seminar 2 course. There is another site on the encyclopedia that belongs to his class – “Surviving Sandy’ – which can be accessed through this site. This site is focused on a collection of each student’s personal immigration stories, and their reflections on the content of the course. It features blog post reflections on their field trips and assignments, as well as personal immigration story videos that they recorded either alone or in groups. These videos can be found under the “our stories” tab, as well as by clicking each student’s name on the home page.
The site contains reflections on as many ethnic groups and neighborhoods as there are represented in the students of this class.

Surviving Sandy: An eye on the storm

Professor: Prabal De
ITF: Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land
Campus: City College
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/de2014final/

This site might be of particular interest to Professors who are interested in taking a different approach to the idea of “peopling” New York. The original idea for this class was to produce a documentary about the movement around New York City caused by Hurricane Sandy, and City College’s relationship to the crisis.
At some point it was decided that a documentary project wouldn’t work out, so students re-packaged the work they had done into a website, which can be viewed as its own project, and is also linked to from the course site which features other work the students did throughout the semester: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/de2014/.
The Surviving Sandy site features interviews students did with each other about their experiences of the storm, interviews with a couple of Professors, news footage, original photographs, and original student photos of Sandy devastation. It showcases an attempt to use Aesop story engine.