CTL Hybrid Seminar Spring 2017
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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.
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:
Articles
Handouts and Materials:
Example Assignments:
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
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:
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
You can find some documentation on how to annotate VOCAT videos here. Let us know if you run into any problems!
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!
Here’s the OER Resource Directory, where you can find a list of Open Educational Resources that are free and available for students and instructors to use. If you’re interested in OERs, you might also be interested in this syllabus that Cailean Cooney from City Tech developed for an OER Fellowship Seminar there.
Blackboard: This is a presentation by an Instructional Designer at Baruch, Kevin Wolff. It discusses some of the possible ways professors can customize Blackboard to fit the needs of the class. If you’re interested in learning more about these customizations, Kevin is available for individual conferences at [email protected].
Blogs@Baruch: Blogs@Baruch is run on WordPress. Craig Stone ([email protected]) and Christopher Silsby ([email protected]) in the CTL office are available to field questions about customizing your course site. Additionally, the WordPress codex is an excellent resource for finding answers to questions about site design. The YouTube channel WordPress Beginner also provides free video tutorials.
Here’s the backwards design template that we used in the workshop at the February 3rd meeting. And here’s a link to “The Professor and the Instructional Designer: A Course Design Journey.”