“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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