In the Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies courses I teach, I have replaced the final essay with a final zine. This assignment asks learners to analyze a media text using course concepts. Throughout the course, we engage many kinds …
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I would like to ask my fellow teaching colleagues far and wide to consider this information as you begin teaching your courses this fall.
Whether you are teaching 1 course or 7 (like myself), this applies to all.
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A CUNY instructor's experience working collaboratively with students to determine course goals and grading criteria.
Looking for some information about using WordPress on the Academic Commons? Check out these reference materials created by the Commons team.
Let’s take a moment and ask. Why grade? To give students feedback, a professor might say. To measure learning. To motivate. Here’s the problem: Decades of research undercuts these assumptions.
Many types of media content can be embedded in WordPress pages and posts. This “embedding Content from Other Sites” help page from the CUNY Academic Commons team provides instructions for embedding a wide range of content/file types. …
Google Docs is an easy way to edit, co-edit, and share documents with students or others you are working with. Here is some basic information about Google Docs.
Once you create a document, you can either link to it …
Google Forms is an easy way to collect information from students or others you are working with. Here is some basic information about Google Forms. Once you create a survey/form, you can either link to it from your WordPress …
This blog post will serve as a series of examples to help inspire, format and display the myriads of potentials that wordpress based websites offer for teaching, learning, presenting, publishing, archiving & sharing. I am drawing from my own courses …
A detailed description of the Wikipedia assignment undertaken by students in Brianne Waychoff's Gender and Women's Studies class.
