More pictures

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Ariane Masuda

ICTCM 2018

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Ariane Masuda

Recently, Lucie and I gave a presentation on “An Introduction to Desmos” at the 30th International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics in Washigton, DC. The talk went very well!

Advisement questions

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Laura Ghezzi

Dear Fellows,

As faculty, you represent the face of the college to our students. Because of this, you may encounter questions from students that lie outside your area of expertise – mathematical content. We’ll be spending some time on November 17th addressing these kinds of questions, and giving you the resources you need to help direct students most effectively.

Before Seminar 6 on November 17, please post here on the OpenLab ONE or TWO EXAMPLES of questions you’ve received from students that are *not* directly related to course content (questions about registration, careers, financial aid, bureaucracy, personal problems, etc.) – especially questions you aren’t sure how to answer, or “questions that scare you!”

In support of our work!!

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Marianna Bonanome

Neuroeducation Will Lead to Big Breakthroughs in Learning

Raya Bidshahri

Read the article here.

Lucie’s videos on DESMOS

Posted on October 21, 2017 by Ariane Masuda

Here are the two videos that Lucie has kindly prepared for us:

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cb6lDiIGJP

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cb6InnImYN

If you are planning to develop an activity using DESMOS and need some help, feel free to let us know. Have fun!

STEM Application Ideas

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Marianna Bonanome

Dear Fellows,

At our next meeting, Seminar #4, we will begin to work on creating STEM applications for the MAT 1275 topic you have chosen, incorporating some of the pedagogies we have discussed so far. Here are some examples you may want to look at for inspiration:

You may also wish to take a look at the deliverables created by last year’s OG fellows here:

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/year1-openinggatewaysfacultyseminar/oers/

We look forward to seeing you on October 20!

Kind Regards,
Marianna and Laura

MAT1275 Syllabus: Choose an OER topic!

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Suman Ganguli

Hello all!

We have created a version of the MAT1275 syllabus which you may find useful, “MAT1275 Syllabus: WebWork Sets + OERs [pdf], and we have a quick OpenLab assignment for you!

MAT1275 Syllabus_ WebWork Sets + OERs

As you can see:

we have taken the department’s session-by-session outline of topics and replaced the textbook homework column with the corresponding WebWork sets for each session. This will hopefully be useful when you teach MAT1275 using WebWork!
we we have also added an “OER(s)” column. So far we have listed the OERs created by last year’s Opening Gateways fellows, and each entry is a hyperlink that leads to the dropbox folders which contain the OER materials.

The latter should also be useful when you teach MAT1275–hopefully you will try to use one or more of the existing OERs!

But in the immediate term, this may help you choose a topic for your own STEM OER! Eventually we would like OERs for most of the topics in the course, so you could consider choosing a topic that wasn’t covered by last year’s cohort. Or if you have already chosen a topic for your STEM application that was covered by someone in last year’s cohort, take a look at those materials (and perhaps try to do something slightly different?)

Finally, to get some discussion going, we’d like you each to post a comment below with the syllabus topic you’ve chosen for your STEM OER. This could be just a single sentence, e.g., “My STEM OER will address the syllabus topic of logarithmic functions”; but feel free to tell us more if you have some preliminary ideas about specific STEM applications, pedagogical techniques, technologies, etc.