Pedagogy-related Fellowships and Grants
Fellow: A Living Laboratory: Redesigning General Education for a 21st-Century College of Technology. (2014-2015).
Deliverables:
– Attended, and participated in, multiple workshops
– Led multi-stage, place-based learning module at Brooklyn Museum (with Sean MacDonald)
– Created and published Course Portfolio on Fellowship page
Fellow: “Making Connections: Engaging the Humanities at a College of Technology” (2014-2015). Grant aimed at incorporating topics from the humanities into technology curricula.
Deliverables:
– Assisted in the editing of the grant application
– Collaborated with Arch Tech instructor Loukia Tsfouli to design a learning module for ARCH course (includes research, design and writing assignments)
– Moderated a seminar on material culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
– Assisted the PIs in pursuing and corresponding with potential speakers
Fellow: “A Cultural History of Digital Technologies” (2017-2018). Grant supports the development of novel uses of technologies in classrooms.
Deliverables:
– Learned how to build GIS digital maps using CARTO software
– Developed mapping teaching module for History of the Theatre course
Project Director: “Mapping Brooklyn: GIS, Spatial Narrative, and Urban Habitus at a Public College of Technology” Proposal submitted for NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant. June 2018 (not awarded). Revised and resubmitted June 1, 2019.
Pedagogy-related Publications and Presentations
(coauthored with Belli, Cabo, MacDonald, Michals, Sowder, Zylstra). “The Importance of Humanities in a Career-Focused Educational Environment.” Submitted to Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, October 25, 2017.
(coauthored with Chin) “Mapping Urban Performance Culture: A Common Ground for Architecture and Theater.” Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Virtual Place-Based Learning, eds. Reneta Lansiquot and Sean MacDonald. New York: Palgrave [forthcoming, 2020]
Chair and Respondent. “Mapping Brooklyn: Digital Tools to Support Place-Based Learning.” 17th Annual CUNY IT Conference, New York, NY, November 30, 2018.
Other Teacher Development Projects
Completed OER (Open Education Resource) Fellowship (Summer 2019). Reworked Theater History course as an OpenLab OER course.
Serve on college Interdisciplinary Studies Committee (2018-present)
Attended PDAC Workshop: Overcoming Apathy in the Classroom, Ashwin Satyanarayana (March 21, 2019) . Prof. Satyanarayana presented the “Learning Log” for effective note taking, which I now use in my courses.
Attended Faculty Commons Workshop: Renew Your Pedagogy: Reframe an Existing Course as Interdisciplinary (May 2015)
Attended PDAC Teaching Portfolio Workshop (January, 2014)
