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The Effortless Mindfulness in the Classroom Toolkit

By Brett Whysel on October 25, 2024 0

What if you could create a happier and more engaged classroom, build a sense of belonging, and support a growth mindset without much effort? The Effortless Mindfulness in the Classroom Toolkit, an open educational resource, provides everything you need to incorporate brief, effective mindfulness exercises into your teaching routine, regardless of your prior experience with mindfulness or meditation.

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Equipping Students for Tomorrow: A Faculty Member’s Guide to Nurturing Industry-Ready Graduates

By Anna Victoria Rondon on April 11, 2024 2

Career readiness is our backstage pass to boosting our students' professional growth. And it's super crucial for our students of color and those being the first in their families to hit the college books.

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Framework for Asynchronous Information Literacy Program

By Anthony Bishop on January 19, 2024 0

This academic year, the BMCC library department introduced a new, fully asynchronous information literacy program designed around four information literacy skills competencies. We invite you to incorporate the modules into your Spring 2024 Blackboard course.

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Word Art: Student Needs Are Academic Needs

BMCC’s Week of Thanks: Celebrating Zero Textbook Cost Heroes

By jean amaral and Craig Nielsen on December 8, 2023 2

Faculty members who choose to teach Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) courses often do not receive acknowledgment for their conscious and compassionate choice to support students by providing course materials at no cost. At this year's BMCC Week of Thanks, the Library’s Open Knowledge team aimed to highlight the genuine appreciation of students in ZTC courses.

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Digital Literacy and the Library

By Christopher Lopez on November 24, 2023 0

In many of the libraries I grew up in and was a student at, the community always saw the library as one of the central technology and digital literacy hubs. The idea behind the first Digital Horizons (DH) series was to begin the groundwork of cultivating that same perception among our BMCC community.

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Here is an Easy Service-Learning Project that Helps the City’s Environment: Neighborhood Tree Reporting

By Brett Whysel on November 17, 2023 2

Service learning can be an effective way to teach in a way that ensures engagement while building collaboration, communication, and critical thinking skills that employers love. The challenge is finding an opportunity that is accessible, free, flexible, and of authentic service to the community.

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We Belong at BMCC: FYE-Enhanced Courses

By Ewa Barnes, Tim Leonard and Danesh Singh on September 25, 2023 0

We want our students to feel successful, graduate, and become lifelong learners. The idea behind FYE is simple: improve student experience, help students feel that they belong at BMCC, and help students navigate the college experience, thus increasing retention.

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Towards Computational Thinking Across the Curriculum

By Mohammad Azhar on April 21, 2023 0

Computational thinking is a framework that students can utilize to solve complex problems and apply across disciplines and in many types of settings, even ones far removed from computer science. The BMCC Technology Learning Community is offering a paid summer/fall professional development opportunity to help faculty implement computational thinking in their classrooms.

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Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

By Elizabeth Whitney on March 24, 2023 0

If I have five minutes to talk about one element of my teaching at BMCC, then digital storytelling works both in terms of format and as the subject matter. My goal is ultimately for students to use first-person narrative to support research, and hopefully to create work that they can use for applications and other academic and professional endeavors beyond our classroom.

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Video Tours of BMCC Classes

By Ewa Barnes, Laurie Lomask, Satenik Margaryan and CETLS on March 17, 2023 0

In celebration of Open Teaching Week, this week's blog post consists of a series of video tours of BMCC classes taught on Blackboard and the Openlab. Learn how your colleagues are engaging students and creating community online in both in-person and asychronous classes.

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Archive | Teaching and Learning

The Effortless Mindfulness in the Classroom Toolkit

Equipping Students for Tomorrow: A Faculty Member’s Guide to Nurturing Industry-Ready Graduates

Framework for Asynchronous Information Literacy Program

BMCC’s Week of Thanks: Celebrating Zero Textbook Cost Heroes

Digital Literacy and the Library

Here is an Easy Service-Learning Project that Helps the City’s Environment: Neighborhood Tree Reporting

We Belong at BMCC: FYE-Enhanced Courses

Towards Computational Thinking Across the Curriculum

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

Video Tours of BMCC Classes

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