by BMCC faculty, for BMCC faculty
Equipping Students for Tomorrow: A Faculty Member’s Guide to Nurturing Industry-Ready Graduates
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.
From Idea to Innovation: BMCC and the Perelman Performing Arts Center
The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC), a new home for emergent and established artists in theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance, strives to build meaningful relationships with community organizations throughout New York City. Professor Bertie Ferdman worked with colleagues to develop a partnership between BMCC and PAC.
Framework for Asynchronous Information Literacy Program
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.
BMCC’s Week of Thanks: Celebrating Zero Textbook Cost Heroes
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.
Digital Literacy and the Library
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.
Here is an Easy Service-Learning Project that Helps the City’s Environment: Neighborhood Tree Reporting
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.
We Belong at BMCC: FYE-Enhanced Courses
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.
Towards Computational Thinking Across the Curriculum
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.
Community, Connection, and UNITY: WakandaCon
WakandaCon was a manifesto that ideas could truly come to life. The event provided a space for students to come together as a community to view Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and discuss themes such as coloniality, grief/anger, and gender.
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
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.
