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Tech Thursdays Schedule
Where: Charlotte Frank Classroom, 1203 Hunter East
When: Thursdays, 12 pm - 2pm.
RSVP: to edtech@hunter.cuny.edu no later than noon on the Tuesday before the event.
If you would like to present at an upcoming Tech Thursday, please contact us at edtech@hunter.cuny.edu.
| Date | Topic | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 9 |
Using ePortfolios to enhance students' cultural and linguistic awareness Lisa Anderson and Aine Zimmerman will demonstrate how ePortfolios can help to develop students¹ cultural and linguistic awareness. We will discuss:
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Lisa Anderson (German) Aine Zimmerman (German) |
| Feb 16 |
Teaching hybrid courses: Lessons learned In this panel discussion, faculty who participated in CUNY's Hybrid Initiative will talk about what works and what doesn't, share student feedback about their newly hybridized courses, and discuss future directions for their courses. |
Jack Caravanos and Lynn Roberts (Public Health) Chris Braun and Peter Serrano (Psychology) Randye Rutberg (Geography) Daniel Margócsy (History) |
| Feb 23 |
Alternative ways of sharing course materials and interacting with students Faculty discuss how they have used tools such as Facebook, Google Sites, and WebAssign as supplements or alternatives to Blackboard and will share data about how their students use these tools. |
Laura Baecher (Curriculum & Teaching) Kelle Cruz (Physics) Dana Sylvan (Mathematics and Statistics) |
| Mar 1 |
Online tools for group projects We will discuss how students can use tools such as Google Sites and Google Maps for collaborative class projects. |
Marianna Pavlovskaya (Geography) Christine Rosalia (Curriculum & Teaching) Devon Turner (APRLS) |
| Mar 8 |
Peer assessment and peer review Faculty will discuss how students participate in peer review - analyzing and evaluating each other's work. We will see how tools such as clickers, peer-review web sites (SWORD), and online surveys can support the peer review process. Presenters will also discuss how peer review provides students with additional information for self-evaluation. |
Manuel C. Co Jr. (Nursing) Daniel Margócsy (History) Karen Phillips (Chemistry) |
| Mar 15 |
Images and video How can careful and creative use of images and video provoke thinking and deeper learning? We will learn how faculty are using images and video in their classes and will see a demonstration of ArtStor, a tool that can be used to identify and locate images that support this kind of teaching. |
Terrie Epstein (Curriculum & Teaching) David Foster (Biology) Mark Halling (Sociology) Steve Kowalik (Library) |
| Mar 22 |
Copyright in the digital age How do you decide which materials you can copy and distribute to your students or colleagues? What does the law say? How can you get assistance? CUNY's Associate General Counsel will discuss some case studies and answer your questions about copyright. |
Jane Davis (Associate General Counsel, CUNY) |
| Mar 29 |
Podcasting: Authoring your own mobile multimedia learning materials Demonstrations of podcasts created by Hunter College faculty: why they made them, how they made them, and how they use them. This session will include a demonstration of how to author your own podcasts. |
Chris Braun (Psychology) Ellen Trief (Special Education) |
| Apr 19 |
eBooks,ePubs, and iBooks: What's possible? A look at the new breed of digital textbooks: how they work, what they can do, and their costs and benefits. This session will include a demonstration of how to author your own eBooks. |
Maria Cornelio (Romance Languages) |
| Apr 26 |
Blackboard 9.1: What's new? Find out what to expect from the upcoming upgrade to Hunter's Blackboard system. ICIT staff will give an overview of the new system and faculty members who have been working with the new system will share their experiences. During the second part of the session, we will spend time working hands-on with Blackboard 9. Please bring a laptop if you have one. |
Roberta Kilkenny (APRLS) Franklin Steen (Mathematics and ICIT) |
