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NEH-funded Seminar @ LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
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June 19, 2015

Final Reflection / New Theme on Language & Literacy

Over the course of this seminar, I have established a new theme for LIB 200, which I am tentatively calling Literacy and Linguistic Diversity in New York City. This theme came to be because of three primary reasons:

1) Conversations …

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by Mara Grayson
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June 19, 2015

Prompt response for June 19th, 2015

This seminar has helped me develop ideas around improving my students digital presence. Combing ideas from the readings and issues that came up in discussion I set about reinventing the Art and Design Seminar course for the Fine Arts program …

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by Hugo Fernandez
  • Final reflection 2015 June
April 17, 2015

Understanding GamerGate

Here is a much better explanation what “sea-lioning” refers to in relation to the webcomic critiquing Gamergaters.

Nakamura’s recommended readings are linked to on the overview page. I also added a folder on the resources page with lots …

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by Ann Matsuuchi (she/they)
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March 19, 2015

Jurisprudence of Crime and Punishment and Technology

Technology is changing perspectives on crime, punishment and criminal procedure. Changes are evident in the quality and quantity of the information available for both sides of any legal issue, the nature of that information, who the experts are, sometimes even …

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by francine white
  • March 2015
February 20, 2015

Selfie Assignment

Just for future reference, here’s Mark Marino’s Know Thy Selfie essay assignment on Medium that came up today.

 

-Bethany…

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by Bethany D. Holmstrom (she/her)
  • Initial Curriculum Ideas
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January 28, 2015

Question for Feb. 20 Winter Institute

What element of your Cluster or LIB200 curriculum do you see yourself creating or revising in this NEH seminar? Are you considering developing a new assignment or activity, or mapping out a new theme/syllabus? Please post your response as a …

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by Ann Matsuuchi (she/they)
  • Initial Curriculum Ideas
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December 9, 2014

Question for the December Session:

From Karen and Tim (for Thursday’s readings):

“Each of these pieces examines how ideas about ‘technology’ have been formulated in response to specific social, cultural, and political questions. Kasson illustrates that an outpouring of utopian and dystopian novels were …

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by Ann Matsuuchi (she/they)
  • December 2014
November 20, 2014

Curriculum Ideas

fetishI am intrigued by the idea of teaching some more advanced and “scholarly” ideas to my LIB200. Today I am interested Karen’s idea of “the fetish.”  I would need to bring my students up to speed on the concept using …

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by Stafford Gregoire
  • Initial Curriculum Ideas
November 20, 2014

Initial Curriculum Ideas

The most essential idea I can think of for this semester’s LIB200 class at the end of Fall I, is the notion of humanity and what that means now and into the future. The reason I want to consider this …

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by Timothy Christopher Coogan II
  • Initial Curriculum Ideas
November 20, 2014

Reflections on integrating materials into the classroom

The concerns that we are discussing are definitely part of my classes. In the Spring I’ll be teaching LIB200, which I teach as a US Empire class. Public health is an important aspect of our study, so I’ll be looking …

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by Karen Miller
  • Initial Curriculum Ideas
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