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Author Archives: Anne Leonard
Support for designing place-based learning activities
Documents to help you design your place-based learning activity: City Tech’s General Education Proposal, including General Education Learning Outcomes [pdf] Activity Template [.docx] Sample Activity Template: Jonas Reitz’s Infinity activity [pdf] Kuh’s High Impact Practices [pdf] Thanks to Karen Goodlad … Continue reading
What the ?#!%* is gentrification?
What is gentrification, anyway? Activity: In the classroom, or via the course blog, real-time collaboration software such as google docs or piratepad, or Blackboard, students will crowdsource a definition of the term gentrification. In the field, the class will visit … Continue reading
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The Sixth Borough
Q: What is the sixth borough of New York City? A: Its waterways. New York City’s Comprehensive Waterfront plan, Vision2020, describes the City’s plans to reclaim New York’s waterfront by expanding public access, supporting the working waterfront, develop climate resistance, … Continue reading
The Smelling Committee
The Fifteenth Ward Citizens’ organization formed in Brooklyn in 1891 to convince the mayor of Brooklyn to put a stop to the “nuisances and deathly stenches” emanating from the refineries and factories of Newtown Creek. The so-called Smelling Committee was … Continue reading
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Historic map resources
Old Maps Online Finally, federated searching for digitized historic maps! Allows the user to search for digitized historical maps across many different academic and research collections. NYPL Map Warper Registered users of the map warper can georectify digitized maps from … Continue reading
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Maps of imaginary places
An image can engage an audience and supplement textual information, but a map can enhance a text by illustrating movement, showing where and how simultaneous storylines take place, and by suggesting the passage of time. Many children’s books and sci-fi/fantasy … Continue reading
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Trip Calculator
“Before GIS, before GPS, before Google Earth, there was the milestone.” So begins a recent New York Times article about an early wayfinding marker known as the milestone. At least 40 milestones pointed 18th-century New Yorkers in the direction of … Continue reading
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You may already be a Flaneur
As New Yorkers, many of us get around on foot more than we make use of any other mode of transportation. Traditionally, a Flâneur was a well-dressed gentleman intent on experiencing and observing the city as he walked leisurely walks … Continue reading
Organizations
Organizations that can serve as resources for place-based learning activities: Brooklyn: Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center The Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center of City Tech aims to raise awareness about critical issues facing Brooklyn’s waterfront through research, teaching, and public programming. Brooklyn … Continue reading
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