Seminar 2: The Peopling of NYC

“During Seminar 2, Macaulay Scholars investigate the role of immigration and migration in shaping New York City’s identity–past, present, and future. Visits to archives, interviews, mapping and walking tours allow students to create the collaborative Neighborhood Websites, presenting their research through audio, video, photography, and hyperlinks.”

–MHC Web site

Continuing the immersive, experiential learning approach initiated by the Arts in New York City, the second seminar, the Peopling of New York, offers students the opportunity dive into the rich immigration history and vibrant cultural diversity that New York offers. We begin the spring semester with Tech Fair, an ITF-run cross-campus workshop in which students collaboratively examine and evaluate past projects in order to provide a framework for their own projects. At the end of the semester, students will have created multimedia projects which are hosted on our eportfolio system and showcased on the Seminar 2 Encyclopedia.

The following are examples of past projects (I am the ITF, unless otherwise stated):

• NY Dreams, Professor Constance Rosenblum & ITF John Boy: An immersive storytelling eportfolio in which students explored immigrant narratives using the Aesop Story Engine plugin (Spring 2014)
• The Brooklyn College Immigrant Experience, the final project created by students of Professor Brendan O’Malley (Spring 2012)
• The Peopling of New York City, Professor Brendan O’Malley (Spring 2012)
• Immigrants “R” Us, Professor Napoli: Predating our formal adaptation of the Eportfolio system for all our MHC sites, this wiki reflects our self-reflective approach to immigration and place (Spring 2010)

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Instructional Technology

As an Instructional Technology Fellow, or ITF, my job is to work with Macaulay Honors College faculty and students in order to successfully integrate digital technologies into the classroom. Each semester, ITFs are paired up with two seminar faculty members to collaboratively brainstorm, design and execute digital course projects and workshops that enhance the learning experience of the students and help faculty achieve their pedagogical goals. In addition to the seminar work we do, ITFs collectively plan and implement the many cross-campus projects and common events held at Macaulay’s central location, such as the Seminar 2 Encyclopedia,  Snapshot NYC, and Tech Fair.

After five years as an ITF at Brooklyn College, I am now a Senior ITF working at Macaulay Central. Here, in addition to the duties described above, I work with the upper-level courses, act as the new ITF mentor, and help administer and maintain our digital online projects. Now in my second year as a Senior ITF, I have the distinct honor of being the first ITF to co-teach the new Honors Thesis Colloquium, an experimental course called “Looking Forward: From Capstone to Springboard.” Offered as an alternative to the traditional capstone project, this year-long course is guiding senior students as they formulate and execute their own multimedia honors projects, which they will present at the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in the spring of 2015. You can view our collaborative site at http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/springboard14/.

The following is a comprehensive list of all the digital projects that I have helped facilitate during my tenure as an ITF. Although we encouraged the use of public-facing projects, some sites  are closed to the public for a variety of reasons. Please contact me for access to those private sites.

Macaulay Central

Fall 2014
• Seminar 3 Poster Archive: an online repository for the final posters presented at the end-of-semester Seminar 3 Conference

Fall 2014
• Springboard 2014-2015, Instructors Jenny Kijowski and Joseph Ugoretz

Spring 2014
• Honors Thesis Colloquium, Instructor Lindsey Freer

Fall 2013
• Literary Journalism and the Violent Worlds of War, Murder, and Sport, Instructor Steven Isenberg

Brooklyn College

Spring 2013
• Seminar 2: The Peopling of New York City, Instructor Eric Alterman
• Seminar 4: Shaping the Future of New York City, Professor Naomi Braine

Fall 2012
• Seminar 1: The Arts in New York City, Professor Geoffrey Minter
• Seminar 3: Science and Technology in New York City, Professor Joshua (Zhongqi) Cheng

Spring 2012
• Seminar 2: The Peopling of New York City, Professor Jerome Krase
• Seminar 2: The Peopling of New York City + BC Immigrant Experience, Professor Brendan O’Malley

Fall 2011
• Seminar 1: The Arts in New York City, Professor Marie Rutkoski
• Seminar 1: The Arts and New York(ers), Professor Joseph Ugoretz

Spring 2011
• Seminar 2: The Peopling of New York City, Professor Jocelyn Wills

Fall 2010
• Seminar 1: The Arts in New York City, Professor Geoffrey Minter
• Seminar 3: Science and Technology in New York, Professor Tammy Lewis

Spring 2010
• Seminar 2: The Peopling of New York City, Professor Phil Napoli
• Seminar 4: Shaping the Future of New York City, Professor Micha Tomkiewicz

Fall 2009
• Seminar 1: The Arts in New York City, Professor Geoffrey Minter
• Seminar 3: Science and Technology in New York City–Debating Environmental Issues, Professor Joshua (Zhongqi) Cheng

Forum

Arts in NYC Forum

Adaptation Group 1

Adaptation Group 2

Sandbox

Welcome to my “sandbox,” where I play around with applications and tools and gadgets and gizmos, and sometimes come up with some pretty cool things.

Dipity

Forums

Video

Since this is basically a test site, these pages might not be useful to anyone but me. Please go to my Apps page for a list of favorite tools…