Posts filed under 'Pedagogy'
PhD Comics: Work Output Working with Quantitative Visual Evidence Lindsey’s VoiceThread on Charts and Graphs Shoshoneans photograph Working with Qualitative Visual Evidence Pecha Kucha YouTube Poster Templates for Keynote and PowerPoint Good Sample Poster #1 Good Sample Poster #2 Presentation Tips
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February 7th, 2012
(cross-posted to the Doomsday class blog) I was on the M60 late Monday night, on my way to return a big stack of final exams in Modernist literature (brain freeze!), when I figured out why this editing project wasn’t going well, and what I needed to do differently. I was listening to Depeche Mode’s Playing […]
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December 22nd, 2010
I was in charge of running an introductory workshop at both the first and second sessions of the Fall 2010 Tech Fair. The goals of the introduction were to get students thinking about why and how they could use our eportfolio system, and to teach some WordPress vocabulary, so that they’d go into the next […]
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September 27th, 2010
Tech Day 2010 went amazingly well. Jill & I had 28 intermediate-level freshmen–and we put them through their paces! Everyone signed up for the ePortfolio system, and joined our group Tech Day ePortfolio. They split off into ten groups, 2-3 students per group, and generated some content for our ePortfolio on a particular piece of […]
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August 24th, 2010
We’re almost done! These are my last office hours of the year, so I’m spending them on a short report. Here’s where I think I made progress this year: I did a better job of teaching technology. I got better at explaining complex tools, and better at demonstrating the relevance and the possibilities of each […]
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May 12th, 2010
Today, my doctoral program’s student association sponsored a “Workshop on University Administration and Other Non-Teaching Careers.” I hadn’t intended to go. Today was my first stop by the Graduate Center in about ten days, and I really had come in simply to run errands: print a few items, file for travel reimbursement, etcetera. But a […]
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April 16th, 2010
Study Abroad Student Video Edit & post Prepare For Other Videos Get information on next year’s Faculty-in-Residence Confer with Joe, Lee, and students about making a video ‘advert’ for the Thesis Colloquium Restart Grad A group on the Academic Commons site Invite more people to join Post an ad about it — the GC? Virtually? […]
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April 14th, 2010
I have annotated this ridiculous clip of me cooing at my cat in preparation for the launch of The 67th Street Project. Other examples I have going on: Annotated Pictures in Flickr (1, 2, 3 examples) A sample VoiceThread Dipity (beginnings of a basic thread on Charles Olson)
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February 23rd, 2010
Three of the thesis students (Noia, Patrick, and Janet) presented at the annual CUNY Pipeline Honors Conference yesterday–a one-day event which showcases the work of honors undergraduates across the university. It was held down on the concourse level of the Graduate Center–a place where, between Macaulay events and Graduate Council meetings, I find myself more […]
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February 20th, 2010
First page of Beethoven’s Fifth (full orchestra) First page of Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro (cello/bass part) Click on the notes on each picture to get a sense of what to look for when working with musical figures in your research.
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February 17th, 2010
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