Carnegie at CUNY Launch
December 6th, 2006
CUNY launched its work with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on December 6, 2006. This event brought faculty and administrators together from across the University to focus on teaching and on the projects laid out in our action plan. The keynote speaker for this event was Richard Gale, Senior Scholar of the Carnegie Foundation. To view the PowerPoint presentation of his talk, click here.
Presentations were also made by the following:
• Joe Ugoretz and Rachel Theilheimer, BMCC, Visible Knowledge Project
• Paula Berggren, Baruch College, Visible Knowledge Project
• Bret Eynon, LaGuardia Community College, Integrative Learning Project
• David Jaffe, CCNY and the Graduate Center, US History Project
• Robert Whittaker, Lehman, Bridging the Colleges
To view the descriptions of these projects featured in the CASTL Launch, click here.
Teaching and New Media, A WAC/WID Professional Education Symposium
January 26, 2007
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"Recognizing the Visible Evidence of Invisible Learning"
Randall Bass, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship
and Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning Initiatives at
Georgetown University. Dr. Bass has been working to integrate new
technologies, pedagogy, and educational change since 1986, and is a
nationally recognized leader in the field.
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Teaching Innovations at the Colleges
February 7, 2007
The February 7th, 2007 CASTL Seminar featured presentations from faculty and administrators from Hostos Community College and the Borough of Manhattan Community College. First, Amanda Bernal-Carlo and participants in the Committee on Beautiful Ideas (COBI) at Hostos spoke about their college-wide faculty development project and its work to focus the whole college on innovative and inspired teaching. The second presentation focused on a Visible Learning Project entitled "Looking at Learning, Looking Together," conducted by Joe Ugoretz and Rachel Theilheimer at BMCC.
- To view the Hostos COBI faculty project descriptions, click here.
- To view the Looking at Learning, Looking Together handout, click here.
Teaching & Learning with New Media
April 12, 2007
On April 12, 2007, our CASTL Seminar focused on two projects that use new media toward the improvement of teaching and learning: ePortfolios at LaGuardia Community College and the multi-campus Investigating US History Project. The first presentation featured Bret Eynon (Executive Director of the LaGuardia Center for Teaching and Learning & Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs), Nancy Gross (Education and Language Acquisition), and Michael Rodriguez (Humanities/Fine Arts) who spoke about their work on ePortfolios at LaGuardia, where students are creating visual representations of their learning experiences and making visible connections across disciplines and semesters. The second presentation, which focused on the Investigating US History Project , where U.S. history faculty from across CUNY have worked to create and test interactive multimedia "lab" modules for use in college-level introductory U.S. history courses, was led by David Jaffee (History, City College and CUNY Graduate Center), Jonathan Sassi (History, College of Staten Island), Fritz Umbach (History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice).
