Category: Announcements (Page 3 of 4)

Hi everyone, the mapping tutorial is now under “Tutorials” on the website, and is linked here. Please email Jake if you have questions or would like more help with the map, or if the plugin is not working the way you want it to.

As a reminder, I have office hours Mondays from 12:30-2, but I am happy to meet you outside of that time if it is more convenient for you. If you feel like you have any questions about how your computer works, any at all (even if it’s something you think you should know but don’t), please reach out, I am here to help and to teach you how to be comfortable with your laptop.

-Jake

There is no new reading assignment for Wednesday. We will discuss Chapter 3 in Foner and Jake will spend some time with the class as well. Please let me know if you have any questions about he neighborhood visit assignment.

DR

I am now posting a more detailed assignment sheet for the neighborhood visit and will email you each individually to tell you which neighborhood and immigrant group your team will investigate. Please read the assignment sheet carefully.

Download (DOC, 38KB)

There is no additional reading assignment for Monday. We will continue discussing Foner, Chapter 2 and 3.

DR

In addition to reading Chapter 3 in Foner, please read this short New York Times article about undocumented immigrants in the USA. It answers several questions that have come up from time-to-time this semester already. We will discuss in class on Wednesday.

Hello everyone,

I mentioned this in class last week but there was very little response one way or another, so I’m asking you all to please weigh in below. Because of the government’s newly stated policy regarding immigrants and heightened arrests and deportation, we want to make sure that you feel safe and protected in the work you do in this class. We’ve been very grateful for so many of the personal stories that have been shared via the blog, but we do not want anyone to feel that they are sharing personal immigration information that could compromise their status or that of their family. Right now, our site is open to the public, meaning that anyone can find our site and read it. This potentially includes immigration officials, although I want to stress that there has been NO evidence to suggest that they are doing so thus far.

Here are three options for continued privacy of our site:

1. Continue being open to the public. If you have a post that contains potentially sensitive information, you can set the visibility to private and we will all have a password that we can use to read your post.
2. Make the site accessible only to members of the Macaulay community. This means that only those who have signed up for an ePortfolios account can view.
3. Make the site accessible only to our class.

I would be happy to discuss pros and cons of any of these options tomorrow in class, if you like. Or you may email me with specific questions. We want our site to be open to the greatest number of people because educators and students from other schools and from within the CUNY community can see the great work you’re all doing. At the same time, we want to make sure that no one feels that they are placing themselves or their families in a compromised position. We continue to be dedicated to the belief that Macaulay is a place for all students regardless of immigration status.

-Jake

Hi everyone, a few of you asked me for some guidelines on footnotes and citations today in class, so I put together this tutorial. Feel free to ask me about anything. Also remember to upload your prezi if you want me to look at it this weekend. Use the category “Prezi practice.”

http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/rosenberg17/2017/02/22/footnotes-and-citations/

-Jake

Hi class,

Please use this form to sign up for which day you will present your Family History project. The two options are Monday February 27 and Wednesday March 1. Make sure you enter your full name, make sure you record your selection, and then make sure to click “Save” after you’ve selected a day. There are 9 slots per day; once the day is full, it will no longer be available as an option to select.

The link to the form is: http://doodle.com/poll/asuriyndz7g53iei, in case the link above doesn’t work.

Have a good long weekend!

-Jake

It appears that the links that I provided in my comment to Belinda’s post on Food on the blog contained some nasty virus or malware. You can read Belinda’s post but don’t click through to the comments! In the meantime, I have deleted the links.  In any case, we will talk about immigrant food in American culture in class on Wednesday.

Thanks,

Prof. Rosenberg