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.
Video Tours of BMCC Classes
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.
Navigating the Use of AI Bots in the Classroom: A Faculty Member’s Perspective
AI bots are here to stay, and it's up to us as faculty members to find the most effective ways to use them in our classrooms.
Supplemental Instruction: Reciprocal Learning—Old Dog, New Tricks
Looking back now on five years of using SI leaders, I know I will never go back. Why? Grades are up, and so is retention, but I would really never go back to being that solo teacher in the front of the classroom. I prefer the noisy, happy, imperfect collaboration of working with SI Leaders who are closer in age and experience, and digital footprint to my students.
Slowness in Academia: Reflections on Writing and Time
Care and joy should be at the center of all people’s lives regardless of their work. This need is especially significant for academics, like so many others who work with the demands of unpaid labor and have few boundaries between work life and personal life. “Slow scholarship” produces the nurturing spaces that all academics deserve and is a model worthy of our collective action.
