Here’s A Brief History of who I am, what I do, and why we should be friends: I grew up most of my life in Brooklyn, New York, raised by two loving parents who brought me from Georgetown, Guyana at a young age. My Creative Journey started when my parent sent me to a Performing Arts school Named Meyer Levin, where I found myself falling in love with Acting and Stage Management. I have studied 5 year to perfected this craft and honestly thought that I would be the next Tyler Perry. Only until I reached High School where I … Read More...
COMD Reminder!
Don’t forget to check the COMD1100 site to see what’s due and which materials are needed for working in class. Hint: bring your mind map and three “curiosity artifacts.” 🙂… Read More...
My name is Elijah Castra and I am 18 years old attending city tech for communication design, hoping to develop skills a graphic designer or gamer designer in my time being here. I went to a high school in Brooklyn called S.T.A.R Early College H.S. Some of my hobbies include playing video games (such as call of duty, 2k, fortnite, rocket league, gta etc…), I also upload YouTube videos of me playing games(sometimes), I like to draw, write my own stories, and chill with my friends. I am not the most social person so I guess I’m “anti-social” it’s just … Read More...
Class 2 8/29
three important take-aways from our first commenting assignment:
- it’s great to respond to each other
- we can write more–and should get a sense of how long our text is
- we can enhance our comments using links, media, etc, and adding @ mentions
Working on our first glossary entries:
- choose a word you want to add to the glossary, using our course documents (syllabus, grading guidelines, learning outcomes, course site) as the sources for that word
- examples: curator, plagiarism, ramifications, prerequisite, syntax, eurocentric, conventional, cross-sensory, consensus, contemporary, exigencies, adequate, typographical, critical, metacognitive, writ, synthesizing, arbitrary, inclusivity, juxtapositions
- define it
- now put
Emily Gosling, “Today’s Design Grads Are More Woke Than Ever—and It’s Looking Great.”
After reading Emily Gosling, “Today’s Design Grads Are More Woke Than Ever—and It’s Looking Great,” respond here:
- write a comment asking a question about the text by scrolling down to the bottom of all the comments on this post and adding your question to the big Reply box. It could be a question to spark discussion, to think more deeply about something in the text, to connect it to another reading or activity in our learning community or in the outside world, or it can be to seek clarification or help understanding. Refer to specific language in the
Introducing ourselves
Although we introduced ourselves in class briefly, and we’ll introduce ourselves more formally in Project #2, please write introduce yourself here in a comment as a way to help us get to know each other better. Aim to write 250-300 words. This is your chance to say all the things you didn’t get to say in class, or to say again all the things you crafted and said brilliantly. You might add what your academic interests are, what the highlight of your high school experience was, what you hope to find at City Tech, etc.
If you have successfully created
Class 1 T 8/27 Introductions
Introduction interviews:
Q: What do you want to be called?
Q: how did you get here today?
Q: what’s your major?
Q: why did you pick this major?
Q: what are your hobbies?
Q: what high school did you come from?
Q: Where are you from?
Q: Age? what’s your sign? birthday?
Q: What would your superpower be?
Sign in to email!
first.last@mail.citytech.cuny.edu
password: MMDDYYlast4of EMPL (so 10 digits total)
Homework: Read the instructions in the Introducing Ourselves post.… Read More...
Welcome!
Ways of Seeing: Adventures with Image & Text
This First Year Learning Community for COMD students taking COMD1100 & ENG1101, will include field trips, hands-on projects, multimedia composing, and cross-sensory experiences to help you discover, express, and refine your creative vision.
At City Tech, First Year Learning Communities (FYLC) are two or more courses with the same students enrolled, linked with an interdisciplinary theme, providing an innovative way for students to learn and form bonds with the college. FYLC faculty work together and with peer mentors to highlight connections between disciplines, in addition to creating a more caring, consistent, … Read More...
