Posts Tagged ‘photos’
The Brooklyn College Immigrant Experience
February 28, 2013
Professor: Brendan O’Malley ITF: Jenny Kijowski Campus: Brooklyn College URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/bcimmigrantexperience/ The students’ mission statement is as follows: “”To chronicle the growth and development of Brooklyn College as an institution, through the lens of the immigrant experience there. This is done through: 1) Documenting immigrant experiences there through oral history accounts, 2) Analyzing the extent […]
2013 | 2012, All The Sites, Brendan O'Malley, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Jenny Kijowski | Media: Dipity, Google Earth, Google maps, iShowYou, NextGen Gallery, photos, Vimeo, WordPress, YouTube | Tags: Alkivia Chameleon 2.3, Brooklyn College, custom css, Dipity, Google Earth, Google Maps, history, immigrant, immigration, interviews, iShowYou, NextGen Gallery, O'Malley, photos, screencast, Seminar 2, Spring 2012, video, Vimeo, WordPress, WPMU, YouTubeComments (0)
Peopling New York City and Its Neighborhoods
June 20, 2012
Professor: Ida Susser ITF: Jen Gieseking Campus: Hunter URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/susser2012/ This is the course site of a Macaulay Honors College / Hunter College CUNY seminar that explores perspectives on urban ethnography with an emphasis on New York City – including specifically: the Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint Williamsburg, the Morningside Heights Harlem neighborhood and Greenwich Village […]
2012 | 2012, All The Sites, Hunter College, Ida Susser, Index, maps, video, WordPress | Tags: Brooklyn, charts, citizenship, ethnicity, gender, GoogleMaps, graphs, Greenpoint, Greenwich Village, Harlem, health, interviews, lgbtq space, Manhattan, maps, Morningside Heights, photos, poverty, race, sexuality, Social Explorer, social movements comparative urbanisms, urban Africa, urban ethnography, urban Europe, WilliamsburgComments (0)
Immigrants “R” Us
May 23, 2012
Professor: Phil Napoli ITF: Jenny Kijowski Campus: Brooklyn URL: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/napoli10 Our projects for this semester are based on immigrant experiences in New York and our own identities as descendants of immigrants. The immigration process is addressed at JFK airport and compared to immigrant experiences in Ellis Island. Then, the local communities of Flatbush and Williamsburg […]
2012 | 2010, All The Sites, Brooklyn College, Index, Jenny Kijowski, Phil Napoli | Media: BannerFans, images, iMovie, MediaWiki, video, Vimeo, YouTube | Tags: 9/11, Arab American, assimilation, BannerFans, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Ellis Island, Flatbush, history, images, immigrants, immigration, iMovie, Israeli, Jewry, Jews, JFK Airport, Lebanese, MediaWiki, Mexican, Napoli, New York City, NYC, photos, racism, Seminar 2, Soviet, Spring 2010, Syrian, The Peopling of New York, video, Vimeo, walking tours, Williamsburg, YouTubeComments (0)
Food Communities of New York
November 28, 2011
Professor: Cindy Lobel ITF: Sam Han Campus: Lehman URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/lobel11neighborhoods/ Cindy Lobel’s class at Lehman made a food-focused site with the help of ITF Sam Han. Using the idea that food is central to community identity, the class gives a history and demographic overview of several neighborhoods before delving into the culinary offerings of each […]
2011 | 2011, African American, All The Sites, Belmont, Brooklyn, Bushwick, Cindy Lobel, East Asian, Featured, Index, Jackson Heights, Lehman College, maps, Places, Sam Han, video, Woodside | Tags: Bronx Italian, cultural institutions, demographics, food, personal histories, photos, Queens College, restaurants, transportationComments (0)
East Harlem
November 21, 2011
Professor: Deborah Gardner ITF: Karen Gregory Campus: Hunter URL: http://www.wix.com/mhc15000/east-harlem Working with ITF Karen Gregory, Deborah Gardner’s class decided made a site about East Harlem, focused on seven specific cultural institutes in the neighborhood: El Museo del Barrio, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, Thomas Jefferson Park, El Paso Taqueria, the Aguilar Library, St. Cecilia Church, […]
2011 | 2011, All The Sites, Deborah Gardner, East Harlem, Hunter College, Index, Karen Gregory, Latino, maps, Places, Thomas Jefferson Park, video | Media: photo, video, Wix | Tags: churches, cultural institutions, culture, El Museo del Barrio, El Paso Taqueria, Graffiti Hall of Fame, interviews, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, landmarks, libraries, museums, parks, photos, St. Cecilia Church, the Aguilar Library, walking toursComments (0)
Immigrant Eyes
November 14, 2011
Professor: Philip Kasinitz ITF: Jesse Goldstein Campus: Hunter URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/kasinitz11 Overview In Prof Philip Kasinitz’s class at Hunter, ITF Jesse Goldstein worked with the class to make a multi-neighborhood site that presented the work of groups who completed specific investigative tasks about the areas they studied: Chelsea, Chinatown, Williamsburg, the East Village, the Upper East […]
2011 | 2011, All The Sites, Brooklyn, Chelsea, Chinatown, East Village, Hunter College, Index, Jackson Heights, Jesse Goldstein, Manhattan, maps, Philip Kasintz, Places, Upper East Side, Williamsburg | Media: GoogleMaps, SlideShare, UMapper, WordPress | Tags: group projects, immigrants, immigration, observation, photos, place-based learning, Queens College, walking toursComments (0)
Peopling of New York: There’s An App For That!
October 31, 2011
Professor: Catherine Lavender ITF: Scott Henkle Campus: Staten Island URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/lavenderspring2011finalproject/ Overview: At CSI, Prof Catherine Lavender’s class divided into groups to study different ethnic communities in NYC. Working with ITF Scott Henkle, each group completed a site, and they were all collected on a main class site. Groups studied Egyptian, Polish, Ukrainian, Caribbean, Korean, […]
