Here’s a link to my “before” and “after” course canvas. I’m looking forward to our last meeting tomorrow and the opportunity to share how what I’ve learned this semester has helped shape some of the choices I’ve made for my online section of RES 3200 that I’ll be teaching this fall.
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Below, you’ll find a link for the May 5th showcase:
FERPA guides
How much do you know about the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)? Check your FERPA knowledge with this quiz (here’s a link).
Then, head over to the Graduate Center Digital Fellows’ archive of FERPA guidelines for more information, resources, and background information.
Before the May 5th Meeting
Hi everyone!
Here are your “to do” items before our final meeting on May 5th. This looks like a long list, but
- Meet with your CTL buddy
- Attend a workshop, tweet about it, or add it to the “I went to a workshop” Google Doc
- Prep your 5-minute presentation on your course
- Decide on and develop an artifact / visual aid (related to your course) for the Gallery Session (see details below)
- By May 3rd, post two versions of your “Course Model Canvas” to the Hybridization Blog, and categorize your post under “Responses.” The purpose of you creating the two versions is to express the “before” and “after” of how your teaching might have shifted from participation in this seminar. Doing this should assist other people to more quickly get an overview of what you have been doing in your course versus what you plan to do in the future.
- Your “Before” canvas should consider how you have previously taught your course before starting this seminar. (If you have been working on a totally new course in this seminar, choose to represent a different course that you currently teach.) Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this.
- Your “After” canvas should focus on the new course you are developing in this seminar.
- We sent you an invitation to the course blog on April 6. In order to access it, you need to click on the confirmation link. Then, to post to the blog, log in to Blogs@Baruch using your Baruch credentials, and then navigate to the Hybrid Seminar page. You can watch this video if you need help with posting to the site, or feel free to ask us any questions that you have. Click here for the template, an explanation of each specific block, and a sample Course Model Canvas for the Hybrid Seminar.
- Bring printed copies of your Course Model Canvas to the May 5th session.
Let us know if you have any questions! Looking forward to seeing you on the 5th.
Fake News resources
The following resources were developed by Seth Graves and Robert Greco for a series of workshops on Fake News.
As faculty, we face an across-the-curriculum challenge to address the proliferation of maliciously fabricated news and to help students identify the biases, perspectives, and methods that influence the news they read. The rapid rise of online news and social media have created new challenges in information literacy by narrowing readers’ communities, introducing vast quantities of fabricated or unverified articles, and blurring the distinction between reporting and opinion content. The resources below should support instructors when addressing these issues in the classroom.
Online Resources:
- Fact Checking, Verification, and Fake News from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
This site offers a wide variety of resources and links to materials to support teachers and journalists trying to address fabricated and highly biased news. Below, find some links to key resources, but the site as a whole deserves attention. - The News Literacy Project
Articles
- Inside Higher Ed: “The Ghost in the Machines of Loving Grace“
- Points: “How do you deal with a problem like ‘fake news?’ “
- NPREd: “5 Ways Teacher Are Fighting Fake News“
- Stanford History Education Group Research Study “Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning” – Short Descriptive Article; Executive Summary of the Report
Handouts and Materials:
- Types of News Articles: From Journalism to Fabrication
- Creating Rhetorical Outlines for News Articles
- Rhetorical Terms for Interrogating News Articles
Example Assignments:
Course Model Canvas
Faculty Fellows will be using our “Course Model Canvas”, a Business Model Canvas remix with a pedagogical spin, to outline and produce final deliverables for this year’s Hybrid Seminar.
The PDF versions can be viewed and downloaded here: Course Model Canvas PDF
Want the Powerpoint version? Email us!
Twitter Tricks and Image Resources
Twitter tricks
Sabrina’s class uses Tweet Reach to register tweets and to track their influence.
Want to follow/contribute to a Twitter chat? Check out Twubs.com
Sabrina mentioned Hoot Suite and Buffer, both of which are platforms that allow you to monitor several twitter accounts, schedule tweets in advance, and more!
RebelMouse is a tool for collecting and aggregating and displaying tweets on Twitter that use the same hashtag. There’s a WordPress integration that allows you to put these tweets on your B@B blog! For example, check out SimplicityArchive which (for a short period of time) aggregated tweets labelled “simple living”.
Image Resources:
- Flickr Creative Commons: can search by CC license
- Google image search has a Creative Commons feature, too.
- Click “Tools”, filter by “Usage Rights”
- Unsplash: a repository of free, high-resolution photos
- Canva can be used to create logos and images
- Sabrina has asked students to create an image for a blog post or to share on Instagram
- Liz uses it to “remediate” dense ideas from class into a distilled teachable moment (an infographic, image, etc.)
Creating a Snow Day “Make-up Class”
Shared from the CTL Blog, below you’ll find a GoogleDoc that offers some fairly quick ideas of how you can adapt your class meeting to an online format using tools that are free and widely available to Baruch faculty. The CTL staff is available to help you brainstorm and figure this out whether it’s through a workshop or one-on-one consultation. Please reach out to us at [email protected].
Many thanks to Cristina Balboa, Assistant Professor from the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, and Cheryl Smith, Associate Professor of English and CTL Faculty Liaison, for their contributions to this resource.
We welcome additions to the document: Add/edit document here
Image: “Central Park” by Ralph Hockens is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Annotating a Vocat video (documentation)
You can find some documentation on how to annotate VOCAT videos here. Let us know if you run into any problems!
Active Learning resources
Here’s a CTL site on active learning strategies where you can search for descriptions of activities that you can try with your class. You might also be interested in this post on the CTL blog about an active teaching technique called guided discovery.
Recently, we’ve been tailor-making active learning workshops for academic departments or programs. If you’re interested in collaborating with us on a discipline-specific active learning workshop, let us know!