Our Open Pedagogy work has given me so much food for thought. It is interconnected with the work I’m doing in FITR and in UNgrading. Meeting our students where they are by developing intentional, accessible and creative materials is very important – especially now! I have two possibilities for this semester project: Idea 1 My project for this semester consists of restructuring the sociocultural module for my Social Foundations of Education course. It is the last module of the semester and serves as a culminating experience of increasing student awareness of the issues/realities surrounding different cultural groups. It includes readings/videos that provide context and examples of experiences surrounding religion, dis/ability,…

While not an OER Fellow, I was grateful to have the privilege of inhabiting our Zoom space with as a you as the OER Librarian, a role and a skillset I’m still trying to develop and define. In short, I learned a lot this semester. I learned that we as librarians still have a lot of work to do in letting teaching faculty know we are here to support their pedagogy and their students–every step of the way. From my library colleague, Michael Kirby, I learned that librarians not only have a supporting role, however–but that we can also be fellows(!), alongside our teaching faculty colleagues. That Michael applied for…

Hi everyone! I’ve essentially finished my digital literacy “syllabus,” although I can’t wait to get some feedback! Because it might end up as a LibGuide (and librarians don’t teach semester-long courses), it ended up looking different than a traditional syllabus; I thought it would be important to include a sort of Q&A section, where I could explain what exactly “digital literacy” is in an easily digestible form for students. I did include a fairly robust list of “required readings,” however, while trying to make sure the “readings” were as diverse as possible (articles, videos, webpages, resources etc.). The Creative Commons license I’ve decided to go with is the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0…

This blog post is written by Tanzina Ahmed, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at KBCC. For my Open Pedagogy project, I decided to work on an extension of a previous project for my Human Development (PSY 3200) course. In my old project, I tasked students with using community/neighborhood health data from the NYC Department of Health’s Community Health Profiles. I asked them to review the health profiles, gather data into specific charts, analyze the data in response to several analysis questions, and then emai) a letter to their local congressional representative regarding beneficial changes that should be made within their community. I enjoyed doing this project with my Human Development…

Hello everyone. I apologize for missing the meeting yesterday. I am a co-coordinator for two courses, and the meeting that began around 11 a.m. ended after 2 p.m. Sigh. New Tool – One of the tools that I have found is Texas A&M University’s School of Medicine – Urine Analysis Case Studies can be used for Bio 1200’s Urine Analysis lab. Some background on the lab. In week 10 of the in-person lab, we have students who would use dipsticks to test synthetic urine samples for specific gravity, pH, and abnormal constituents. The constituents they would test for are – protein, glucose, ketones, bilirubin, blood, urobilinogen, nitrite, leukocyte esterase. Over…

Greetings All! As I discussed in my last post, long-term, I’m hoping to collaborate with other faculty in creating a resource for faculty and students of Acting. This resource would include a directory of open dramatic text (scenes and monologues), acting exercises, readings and more. In my looking for open resources for what will be the “readings and more” section, I recently came across a great series produced by the American Theatre Wing entitled “Working in the Theater” — interviews with leading theater artists (directors, writers, etc). I could envision a faculty member linking a scene assignment of a play to one of these interviews (perhaps a useful piece of…

My colleague and I are curating an exhibition on socially engaging arts about homelessness. We came up with the topic because New York City politics and its system work to create a homeless population. The show’s website will be divided into three categories and will become an open education source to teach this topic after the show. Past week, I wrote most of the artist entries. At our seminar, I would like to inquire my cohort of fellows what resources might be helpful that will compose the artist page.

It was good to meet everyone and hear about ideas from peers in other disciplines. To be honest, I was a bit overwhelmed by the information thrown at me. As mentioned during our first meeting, I have worked on a chapter for an OER lab manual for Bio 1400. I noticed some things that might have been missed in my contribution to the chapter or even to the resource that I put together for my Bio 1200 class. I think that the information and feedback from the group will help me modify what I already have.

During this fellowship I would like to develop a project that not only introduces my current students (pre-service teachers) to OER, but that has them develop an OER as part of their capstone for their current and future students in the field. I will be teaching a STEM in Early Childhood course again next semester. During past semesters, students created a virtual children’s museum with partners then they used various online platforms to take the rest of us through their interactive museums. All of the content was developmentally appropriate for early childhood years (specifically ages 4 – 8). I am thinking now, that what was missing was active lesson planning…