The CUNY IT Conference: The CUNY Online Baccalaureate
The first panel was a presentation of the work of the CUNY Online Baccalaureate Program. This was likely the most highly attended session at the conference, and also the most densely populated panel (I...
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Blogging at Baruch this Semester
Baruch faculty and students are making some unique and innovative contributions to the educational blogosphere this semester. Our goal in supporting course-based usage of weblogs over the past year has...
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How do academic blogs reflect the disciplines of their authors? I’ve become interested in this question while following our Anthropology/Sociology working group, and also through my own surfing. A...
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Thinking Behind a Redesign
I recently implemented a new design for the homepage for our installation of WordPress MultiUser– Blogs@Baruch. I tried to accomplish a few things with this redesign. Mostly, I wanted to update the...
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Towards the Next Stage of EdTech at CUNY…
The tag cloud above was generated by participants at CUNY WordCampEd, which took place last week at the Macaulay Honors College (click to enlarge). Mikhail and I co-organized the event with Joe...
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Freshbloggers
This semester, we’re managing our largest lift on Blogs@Baruch yet. In addition to an increasing variety of projects that I’ll blog about in the coming weeks, every Freshman Seminar at Baruch currently...
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Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part One, Triumph and Tribulation
We’re winding down another eventful semester on Blogs@Baruch, and over the next few days I’d like to offer some reflections about where we’ve been and where we’re going. Our usership has tripled, and...
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Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part Two, FRO Blogging
Approximately 1200 incoming first year students at Baruch participated in the first phase of our experimental integration of Blogs@Baruch into the Freshman Orientation Seminar. They wrote to blogs in...
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Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part Three, Course Blogging
Blogs@Baruch was used in approximately two dozen courses this semester, in disciplines that included Fine and Performing Arts, English, Sociology/Anthropology, Journalism, Library Information Systems,...
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Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part Four, Extra-Curricular Blogging
The Baruch College community has begun to see Blogs@Baruch not just as a blogging platform or substitute course management system, but also as powerful tool for meeting a wide range of self-publishing...
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Performing Diasporas: Identities in Motion
Several units at Baruch College, including the Schwartz Institute, are planning an initiative for the next two academic years: Performing Diasporas: Identities in Motion. The broad goal of the project...
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Irresistible Prompts: Engineering Participation
In early April, Luke Waltzer wrote a post introducing Performing Diasporas: Identities in Motion, an initiative that seeks to raise the profile of the Baruch Performing Arts Center and to infuse the...
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Once Again Back it’s the Incredible…
the blog animal, ZOE, blogfessor number one. For the second straight year, we’re awarding the Blogfessor of the Year Award to Zoe Sheehan Saldana, of Baruch’s Fine and Performing Arts Department. The...
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This past Spring I was pleased to moderate a panel at the Baruch Teaching with Technology Conference featuring three of Baruch’s most accomplished blogfessors: Mikhail Gershovich, whose Fear, Anxiety,...
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Towards the Next Stage of EdTech at CUNY…
The tag cloud above was generated by participants at CUNY WordCampEd, which took place last week at the Macaulay Honors College (click to enlarge). Mikhail and I co-organized the event with Joe...
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Freshbloggers
This semester, we’re managing our largest lift on Blogs@Baruch yet. In addition to an increasing variety of projects that I’ll blog about in the coming weeks, every Freshman Seminar at Baruch currently...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blogs@Baruch Semester in Review: Part Four, Extra-Curricular Blogging
The Baruch College community has begun to see Blogs@Baruch not just as a blogging platform or substitute course management system, but also as powerful tool for meeting a wide range of self-publishing...
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