Bronx Showcase

2016

Friday May 6, 20169:00am - 4:00pm

Lehman Collegecuny.is/bronxedtech

Ready or Not? Student Preparedness into and out of our Institutions

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Agenda9:00 am – 9:30 amRegistration & Breakfast (Carman Hall, B-Level)

9:30 am – 10:30 amConcurrent Session I (Carman Hall, B-Level)

10:35 am – 11:35 amConcurrent Session II (Carman Hall, B-Level)

11:40 am – 12:25 pmBirds of a Feather Sessions (Carman Hall, B-Level)

12:25 pm – 12:40 pmBREAK – Transit to the Music Building’s Faculty Dining Area

12:40 pm – 1:00 pmWelcome Remarks – College Presidents

1:00 pm - 1:20 pmLunch is served

1:20 pm – 2:15 pmInstitutional and Student Readiness for Online Learning – It’s All About QualityKeynote Address: Dr. Darcy W. Hardy, Associate Vice President for Enterprise Consulting at Blackboard

2:20 pm – 3:00 pmInteractive Lightning Session: Online Learning @ CUNY: A Status UpdatePanelists: George Otte, University Director of Academic Technology; Luke Waltzer, Director of the Teaching and Learning Center; Lisa Brundage, Director of CUNY Advance.

Moderator: Stephen Powers, Department of Education and Reading at Bronx Community College.

3:00 pm – 4:00 pmNetworking Social and Raffle Drawing

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Biography

Dr. Darcy leads a team of nationally recognized experts in higher education, K-12, e-learning and distance education, information technology, open source technologies, outcomes and assessment, and analytics. The practice works with colleges, universities, systems and other higher education and K-12 organizations as they design, develop and grow their educational programs, and provides expertise in driving transformation and managing institutional change.

Prior to her position with Blackboard, Dr. Hardy spent over 25 years in public higher education, most recently serving as Assistant Vice Provost for Technology Education Initiatives at the University of Texas at San Antonio. During her tenure with UTSA, she completed a two-year (January 2011-December 2012)

Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) appointment at the US Department of Labor, where her work primarily focused on the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program, and the use of online and technology-enhanced education to reach adults and the workforce. She also completed a one-year IPA appointment with the Office of Adult and Vocational Education (OVAE) at the US Department of Education in Washington, DC in 2013, where she provided expertise and guidance in the area of online higher education and the opportunity it provides to low-skilled and other adult workers, while continuing her work with the TAACCCT grant program at the Department of Labor.

From 1997 to 2010, Dr. Hardy served as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at The University of Texas System and Executive Director of the UT TeleCampus. The award-winning UT TeleCampus partnered with all 15 UT universities and health institutions to offer over 30 fully online programs, seeing approximately 20,000 enrollments annually. Under her direction, the UT TeleCampus was honored with dozens of state, regional and national awards from such organizations as USDLA, UCEA, TxDLA, WCET and the International Association of Business Communicators for courses, programming, communications, and faculty excellence. The UT TeleCampus was (and continues to be) recognized nationally as a model and benchmark for multi-campus, collaborative online education.

“Institutional and Student Readiness for Online Learning – It’s All About Quality “As institutions ramp up their online programming, questions about quality still loom. What does it mean for a student to be ready for these programs and how does an institution prepare? In most cases, it all boils down to quality. Whether it’s the way the institution is organized to support faculty and students in these endeavors or how well the courses are designed, both can be contributors or obstacles to learner success. Does it matter if the students are enrolled in remedial or degree credit courses? This session will take a look at what makes an insti-tution successful in offering high-quality courses, and what we can do to ensure that all students achieve their academic goals.

Keynote

2016 Theme: Ready or Not? Student Preparedness into and out of our Institutions

Dr. Darcy W. Hardy is Associate Vice President for Enterprise Consulting at Blackboard Inc.

The Bronx CUNY EdTech Showcase, promotes andhighlights the innovative uses of technology thathave the potential to reach new levels of studentengagement leading to improved performance. The three Bronx City University of New York (CUNY)colleges (Lehman, Bronx CC, and Hostos CC) see thisevent as a great opportunity for networking, collaborating,sharing technical information, and buildingupon effective practices within our CUNY Community. Future Bronx CUNY EdTech Showcases will be heldannually the first Friday in May, to offer faculty an opportunity toshare their innovative uses of technology to reachnew levels of student engagement and improvedperformance. The Showcase will continue the traditionof bringing notable guest speakers to thedelight of our audience of faculty, staff, students andadministrators. The Office of Online Education at LehmanCollege is proud and excited to host the fourthedition of this initiative, a unique event that bringstogether colleagues from the three Bronx CUNYcolleges to illustrate their commitment to exemplaryand innovative teaching and learning at the threecampuses and the Bronx IT community. In December 2014, the Bronx EdTech showcase washonored at the 13th Annual CUNY IT Conferencewith the CUNY Excellence in Collaboration Award. Learn more at cuny.is/bronxedtech

About The Showcase

Bronx EdTech Showcase Steering Committee

Albert Robinson, Assistant Director, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology,Bronx Community College

Carlos Guevara, Director, Office of Educational Technology & CTL,Hostos Community College

Elisabeth Tappeiner, Faculty Liaison to EdTech, Library, Hostos Community College

Kate Lyons, Faculty Liaison to EdTech, Library, Hostos Community College

Mark Lennerton, Director, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology,Bronx Community College

Stephen Castellano, Blackboard Technology Specialist, Office of Undergraduate Studies & Online Education,Lehman College

Sakina Laksimi-Morrow, Instructional Support, Lehman College.

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Lisa Brundage is Director of CUNY Advance, an initiative that supports high-impact, campus-based digital project pilots at CUNY. Lisa has a long history of working on innovative educational events and digital learning projects at CUNY, with a focus on pedagogically appropriate integration of technology in the classroom. She has taught at a number of CUNY campuses, including courses in English, Gender Studies, and P edagogy. Prior to moving into her current position, Lisa held an Instructional Technology Fellowship and then a Postdoctoral Digital Learning Fellowship, both at Macaulay Honors College. Lisa holds an MA from the New School for Social Research and a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center, and was recently appointed to the GC’s Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program faculty.

Lisa Brundage, Director of CUNY Advance

Panelists

George Otte was named Director of Instructional Technology for The City University of New York in 2001, and renamed the University Director of Academic Technology in 2008, the year that the CUNY Committee on Academic Technology (CAT) was first convened. That same year he became the chief academic officer of the CUNY School of Professional Studies, home of CUNY’s first fully online degrees. An English professor for decades, he is on the doctoral faculty of the programs in English, Urban Education, and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy at the CUNY Graduate Center. This April saw the publication of “Change We Must: Deciding the Future of Higher Education,” a collection of essays he co-edited with CUNY Chancellor Emeritus Matthew Goldstein.

Luke Waltzer is the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center and on the doctoral faculty in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. At the TLC he supports GC students in their teaching across the CUNY system and beyond, and contributes to a variety of pedagogical and digital projects. He previously was the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Baruch College, where he developed the college’s hybrid course initiative, co-directed the Writing Across the Curriculum program, and led two educational technology projects, Blogs@Baruch and Vocat. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the CUNY Graduate Center, serves as the Director of Community Projects for the CUNY Academic Commons and on the editorial collective of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, and has

contributed essays to Matthew K. Gold’s “Debates in the Digital Humanities” and, with Thomas Harbison, to Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki’s “Writing History in the Digital Age.” His research examines the shifting roles of technology in liberal arts pedagogy and the structural evolution of American higher education.

George Otte, University Director of Academic Technology

Luke Waltzer, Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, Graduate Center

Stephen Powers began his career as a junior high school teacher, served as an elementary school principal and a high school assistant principal for academics. Appointed to the Department of Education and Reading at Bronx Community College (BCC) since September 2000. Has worked on numerous BCC and CUNY committees, and currently mentors BCC faculty who are learning how to develop distance learning courses. He spends a great deal of time on an initiative to provide support to academically distressed students at BCC.Steve represents BCC to the CUNY Committee on Academic Technology (CAT) and serves as chair for the CUNY CAT sub-committee for Blackboard (Bb), as well as on the University Steering Committee for Bb. He continues an affiliation with after-school programs in New York City, and recently had a chapter entitled “Role Models in Urban Communities” published in Race in Urban Communities, edited by Teresa Booker of John Jay College.

Interactive Lightning Session

Stephen Powers, Department of Education and Reading at Bronx Community College

Online Learning @ CUNY: A Status UpdateThis panel will discuss the results of a needs assessment survey about Online Learning at CUNY conducted by the DIGITAL CUNY Task Force to learn about current challenges and opportunities around the adoption, creation, and expansion of online courses and programs at CUNY.

Moderator

PROUD BRONX EDTECH SPONSORS:

SPECIAL THANKS TO THIS YEAR’S SPONSORS

9:00 AM-9:30AM

3:00PM-4:00PM

12:25PM-12:40PM

12:40PM-1:00PM

1:00PM - 1:20PM

1:20PM-2:15PM

2:20PM-3:00PM

9:30 AM-10:30AM

10:35AM-11:35AM

11:40AM-12:25PM

Concurrent Sessions I

Concurrent Sessions II

Concurrent Sessions III

Registration & Breakfast: Carman Hall, B-level

Networking Social/Raffles

BREAK – Transit to the Music Building’s Faculty Dining Area

Welcome Remarks – College Presidents

Lunch is served

Institutional and Student Readiness for Online Learning – It’s All About QualityKeynote Address: Dr. Darcy W. Hardy, Associate Vice President for Enterprise Consulting at Blackb oard

Interactive Lightning Session: Online Learning @ CUNY: A Status UpdatePanelists: George Otte, University Director of Academic Technology, Luke Waltzer, Director of the Teaching and Learning Center; Lisa Brundage, Director of CUNY Advance.Moderator: Stephen Powers, Department of Education and Reading at Bronx Community College.

Room B‐82Differentiated Instruction

Room B‐82Differentiated Instruction

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Room B‐83Redesigning (or Redefining) Learning Spaces

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Room B‐81CUNY CTL Council

(Looking for Knowledge in Virtual Cyberspace: Assessing the Effectiveness of Online Platforms in the Advancement

of Student Learning Lloyd Klein, Adjunct Associate Professor, Behavioral and

Social Sciences, Hostos Community College.‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐

Critical Teacher Education and Youth Media Practice: How Should the Next Generation of Teachers Be Trained?Edward Lehner, Assistant Professor. Teresa Gill, Teacher Education Candidate. Robert Rivera, Teacher Education

Candidate. All from The Bronx Community College’s Education and Reading Department.

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The “Great Outdoors” as a Learning Space to study Lichens and Air Pollution

Zvi Ostrin, Assistant Professor, Natural Sciences Dept., Hostos Community College.

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Physiology laboratoryVyacheslav Dushenkov, Assistant Professor, Natural Sciences, Hostos CC. Zvi Ostrin, Assistant Professor, Natural Sciences,

Hostos CC.‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐

PANEL: The Value of ExcellenceFausto Canela, Academic Technology Specialist, College of

Staten Island. Gina Rae Foster, Director, Teaching & Learning Commons, Lehman College. Kathleen Landy, Director, Center

for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, Queensborough Community College

Pablo Avila, First Year Program and Assessment Coordinator, LaGuardia Community College.

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Aligning the Curriculums for College Success: High School and College Library Collaborations

Carl R. Andrews, Assistant Professor, Library, Bronx Community College. Dickens St. Hilaire, Bronx Community

College, Chemistry, Bronx Community College. ‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐

The Algebra Project’s Approach to Teaching and Learning Functions in Collaboration with Beam CenterJeffrey J. Palladino, Principal, Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School. Georgieann Ramsudh, Lead Teacher, Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School. Matt Robinson, Beam

Center.‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐

Relating via YouTube: How Video-Sharing in Media Courses Helps Students Express Knowledge, Culture,

Politics, and Goals Theresa Smalec, Assistant Professor, Communication Arts

and Sciences, Bronx Community College. ‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐

Say That One More Time : Flipping a Web Design Classroom

Catherine Lewis, Assistant Professor, Humanities, Hostos Community College.

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Celebrating the Individual in a Virtual Community: Digital Stories Connect Classmates on Blackboard

Jane K. Cleland, Lecturer, English, Lehman College.‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐

The Sophomore Year Initiative and The S.T.E.A.R. System: A Collaborative Approach to Early Student

InterventionAngela Y. Ho, Career Services Advisor, Title V-Sophomore

Year Initiative/Career Services Center. Julia Naddeo, SYI-Academic Advisor, Title V-Sophomore Year Initiative/

Undergraduate Advising.‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐

Learning for Success in Virtual Space Karen M. Steinmayer, Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Social

Sciences, Hostos Community College. Julie D. Trachman, Assistant Professor, Natural Sciences, Hostos Community College.

‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐To Embrace REVEL or Return to Chalk and Talk Learning?

Faculty and Student Perceptions of Blended Learning in PSY 22

Monique A Guishard, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Bronx Community College. Christin Rosado, Student, Bronx Community College. Webster Ballard, Bronx Community

College.‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐

Are You Ready? Preparing Students for Online Learning Enviornments at Hostos and Beyond

Aaron Davis, Instructional Designer, Office of EdTech, Hostos Community College.

‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐Differentiated Instruction: Improving Student Readiness

and Achievement in E-Learning CoursesAlexis Pereira, IT Academic Technology Coord, E-Learning

Center, BMCC; Brian Nemeth, IT Academic Technology Coord, E-Learning Center, BMCC. Joseph Lathan, Associate Director,

E-Learning Center, BMCC.‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐

Going Digital: Teaching Literature and Writing through Technology

Bret Maney, Assistant Professor, English Department, Lehman College. Deirdre O’Boy, Lecturer & Assistant Chair,

English Department, Lehman College. Rosie Walia, Lecturer, English Department, Lehman College.

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Room B‐83Redesigning (or Redefining) Learning Spaces

Schedule At A Glance

Room B‐84BYOD: Are we ready for every screen based device? (IT, Pedagogy)

Room B‐84Adopting Universal Design: Winning or Losing?

Room B‐84Adopting Universal Design: Winning or Losing?

Room B‐85Online Learning

Room B‐85Open Educational Resources: Leveling the cost of learning

Room B‐85Differentiated Instruction

Mobile Technology in Nursing Education: Where do we go from here? A review of the literature

Janet Raman, Assistant Professor, CNPH, Adelphi University.‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐

SMART KAPPS for SMART MATH TUTORINGJ. Juechter, Professor, Strategic Initiatives Bronx CC. Evangelia

Antonakos, Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science Bronx CC. Chevonne Cunningham, Tutor/SMART Kapp,

Mathematics Lab Bronx CC‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐

Adopting Universal Design in Libraries: Collaborating for Student Success

Rebecca Arzola, Assistant Professor, Government Documents-Collection Development Librarian, Library, Lehman College;

Stefanie Havelka, Assistant Professor, Electronic Resources-Web Services Librarian, Library, Lehman College.

‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐RADio568: Connecting Ideas and the CommunityAlan Winson, Assistant Professor, John Jay College.

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YouDescribe: Building Video Accessibility through Service Learning

Julia Miele Rodas, Associate Professor, English, Bronx Community College.

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Panopto –One Professor’s Journey for Lecture CaptureKate S. Wolfe and Iber Poma

‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐Student Perceptions of Online Learning at Hostos

Kate S. Wolfe, Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Hostos CC; Kris Burrell, Assistant Professor, Behavioral

and Social Sciences, Hostos CC; Aaron Davis, Instructional Design Specialist, Educational Technology, Hostos CC; Iber

Poma, Director of student services, Hostos CC.‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐

Development of an Open Online Preparatory Course Textbook for Human Anatomy and Physiology

Carlos Liachovitzky, Lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences, Bronx Community College. Maureen Gannon,

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Bronx Community College.

‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐Using OpenLab to Enhance Teaching and Learning in

Introductory American Government CoursesM. Victoria Perez-Rios, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and City Tech.

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Concept Mapping in Clinical Rowland Ramdass, Allied Health Hostos Community College.

‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐Using Computer Adaptive Technology to Prepare for RN

LicensureEdward L. King, Associate Professor, Nursing, Hostos

Community College. Kathleen Ronca, Nursing, Hostos Community College. Nieves Aguilera, Nursing, Hostos

Community College.‐‐ ‐‐ ‐‐

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Full Program

9:00-9:30AMRegistration & Breakfast Carman Hall, B-level

9:30-10:30AMRedesigning (or Redefining) Learning Spaces{Room B-81} Looking for Knowledge in Virtual Cyberspace: Assessing the Effectiveness of Online Platforms in the Advancement of Student Learning Lloyd Klein, Adjunct Associate Professor, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Hostos Community College.There has been a major revolution in teaching and the presentation of course materials. Blackboard, and similar online platforms utilized in hybrid and Asynchronous courses, have supplemented—and in some case replaced—the traditional “stand and deliver” lecture approach. These online learning platforms are essential in the contemporary classroom since students often arrive in the academic setting with far different experiential frames than in the past. This interactive presentation offers an examination of how the “flipped classroom” and online teaching can succeed in producing more effective learning through the use of visual resources. The application of video materials is discussed as facilitating interaction through giving students an applied view of essential course materials. The presentation analyzes the impact of transforming materials into a visual based format and discusses some preliminary observations on the success of this venture.

Critical Teacher Education and Youth Media Practice: How Should the Next Generation of Teachers Be Trained?Edward Lehner, Assistant Professor, The Bronx Community College’s Education and Reading Department. Teresa Gill, Teacher Education Candidate, The Bronx Community College’s Education and Reading Department. Robert Rivera, Teacher Education Candidate, The Bronx Community College’s Education and Reading Department.In many urban community colleges, numerous academic disciplines continue to enact a form of pedagogy that tends to underutilize the technology informing current society. As a result, community college teaching and learning tends to reflect antiquated teaching methods, often rooted in a form of “banking.” This study examines youth media as a discourse that provides for unique learning opportunities that straddle the boundaries of teacher education and media engagement. Using a cultural theoretical perspective rooted in agency-structure, this study analyzed the results of 6 teacher education courses at the Bronx Community College. Specifically, the presentation highlights that critical youth media practice improves classroom motivation, lowers classroom turnover, and yields more sophisticated student enactments of teacher

education knowledge. Also, this presentation calls for more innovative ways to deploy critical youth media practice, technology, and youth culture to reshape and re-envision community college teacher education classrooms.

Differentiated Instruction{Room B-82} Aligning the Curriculums for College Success: High School and College Library Collaborations Carl R. Andrews, Assistant Professor, Library, Bronx Community College. Dickens St. Hilaire, Bronx Community College, Chemistry, Bronx Community College. Many students enter college lacking the necessary research and critical thinking skills needed for academic success. A strong body of literature shows evidence that information literacy instruction at the secondary level enhances college readiness. The author discusses the importance of curriculum development and the role academic libraries play in supporting college readiness. The research will review and cite successful high school and college partnerships, curriculum development initiatives, secondary information literacy instruction, and teacher professional development. The utilization of select library databases as a tool to promote college readiness is also discussed.

The Algebra Project’s Approach to Teaching and Learning Functions in Collaboration with Beam CenterJeffrey J. Palladino, Principal, Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School. Georgieann Ramsudh, Lead Teacher, Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School. Matt Robinson, Beam Center.Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School teaches a two-year math curriculum based on the Algebra Project and work created by Bob Moses. The math concepts are connected to the Common Core guidelines taught creatively with project-based assessments. Participants will experience the Algebra Project’s approach to the teaching and learning of functions through a series of activities, including dialogues and abstract representations of functions from the Road Coloring unit. We then analyze the functions that our students created in collaboration with Beam Center via the use of the Funk-tions Machine, an LED function visualizer. We discuss students’ responses to the activities and the effects these approaches have on the development of students’ mathematical thinking.

Redesigning (or Redefining) Learning Spaces{Room B-83} Learning for Success in Virtual Space Karen M. Steinmayer, Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Hostos Community College. Julie D. Trachman, Assistant Professor, Natural Sciences, Hostos Community College.Research has demonstrated that community and communication facilitate student engagement, which promotes students’ success in remaining in school, graduating, and joining the workforce. While distance learning is becoming increasingly important, many educators fear that distance learning undermines community by diminishing face-to-face contact among students and between students and faculty.

Drawing on an earlier investigation, our team of two professors will lead an interactive session in which they will demonstrate and compare their work in progress on two courses requiring different teaching approaches. The professors compare their use of these different online strategies to promote community and communication in order to facilitate student success, graduation and employment. The key objectives being targeted include collaborative learning and critical thinking, which are highly valued by employers.

To Embrace REVEL or Return to Chalk and Talk Learning? Faculty and Student Perceptions of Blended Learning in PSY 22Monique A Guishard, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Bronx Community College. Christin Rosado, Student, Bronx Community College. Webster Ballard, Bronx Community College.At Bronx Community College PSY 22: Social Psychology is a 3 credit intermediate level course designed to introduce junior college undergraduates to the scientific study of the role social influence, perception, and interaction play in determining behavior. This presentation discusses the preliminary findings of a participatory phenomenological assessment of blended learning and student engagement in PSY 22. Working in collaboration, student researchers designed and administered a focus group protocol about our perceptions of REVEL and flipped instruction. Also, the presentation analyzes student engagement and comprehension of course content using performance metrics on REVEL, email exchanges, and meetings with students.

BYOD: Are we ready for every screen based device? (IT, Pedagogy){Room B-84} Mobile Technology in Nursing Education: Where do we go from here? A review of the literature Janet Raman, Assistant Professor, CNPH, Adelphi University.The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the National League for Nursing (NLN), as well as many other nursing organizations, have called for the integration of information technology into nursing curriculums to prepare nursing students for the present-day practice environment in which it is necessary to have access to vast amounts of information to provide patient care. Nurse educators have begun to do so, but are the available technologies, in particular, mobile technology, being maximized? The benefits and concerns regarding the use of Mobile Technology in Nursing Education will be explored as well as recommendations for successfully implementing Mobile Technology in Nursing Education.

SMART KAPPS for SMART MATH TUTORINGJ. Juechter, Professor, Strategic Initiatives Bronx CC. Evangelia Antonakos, Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science Bronx CC. Chevonne Cunningham, Tutor/SMART Kapp, Mathematics Lab Bronx CC .Selective technology can give students and their Tutors significant assistance in the study of mathematics. Through 2

Bronx Community College grants, 6 SMART Kapps, a type of digital whiteboard, were placed in use in math tutoring centers. Tutors can save a PDF of their work session, page by page, as it develops and forward students the PDF to serve as a valuable study aide. This session provides an orientation to the SMART Kapp, which includes discussions and demonstrations by users, as well as costs, and presentations on training materials, and other information.

Online Learning{Room B-85} Panopto –One Professor’s Journey for Lecture CaptureKate S. Wolfe, Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Hostos CC; Iber Poma, Director of student services, Hostos CC.Panopto lecture capture is a new tool for most faculty and there definitely is a learning curve with it. Hostos has a pilot program where faculty from different disciplines are currently creating recordings. Mr. Poma will discuss what Panopto is, its implementation & integration, technological requirements, and how it can be used by faculty. Prof. Wolfe will discuss her experiences with Panopto to date and what she has learned from trying to implement this technology in her classes. One of the greatest advantages of using Panopto is how easy it is to use. Panopto’s other advantages are its location within Blackboard, the ability to create a live webcast, it allows web-based editing and provides reports on viewing statistics. There are different recording modalities (lecture recording or a flipped model). Prof. Wolfe will share her experiences with trying to integrate one more tool in her courses. She will discuss how she first began trying to use it and how she has come to use it currently. The Educational Technology Department at Hostos will be conducting a survey to assess Panopto’s effectiveness.

Student Perceptions of Online Learning at HostosKate S. Wolfe, Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Social Sciences; Kris Burrell, Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Social Sciences; Aaron Davis, Instructional design specialist, Educational Technology; Iber Poma, Director of student services, Hostos CC.The Hostos Online Learning Assessment (HOLA) survey was created by a team consisting of Hostos Community College faculty who teach online in both the hybrid and asynchronous modalities and Hostos EdTech staff members. This survey was designed to assess students’ perceptions of their online learning experiences. The presenters will briefly discuss the survey design with most of the presentation focusing on the results of the survey and future research plans. During the Spring 2015 semester, the college offered 56 course sections in the hybrid modality and 30 courses in the asynchronous modality. The data collected will help us identify areas for professional development for faculty teaching online courses and workshops that focus on online student readiness. This study contributes to the literature on online learning assessment by focusing on urban community-college students. The information have collected will also help the faculty make meaningful changes that would enhance the student online-learning experience.

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10:35-11:35AMRedesigning (or Redefining) Learning Spaces{Room B-81} The “Great Outdoors” as a Learning Space to study Lichens and Air Pollution Zvi Ostrin, Assistant Professor, Natural Sciences Dept., Hostos Community College.In the Learning Space of Experience (i.e. the “Great Outdoors”), the deepest and richest type of learning takes place outside the classroom. This presentation analyzes a Title V project that was designed in such a way that while the students carried out the survey they were also incorporating learning into what might otherwise be merely a data collection experience. The outdoor locus of the survey served as a laboratory for creativity and for stimulating insights into critical thinking and experimental design and modification. The students’ specific task was to survey the level of lichen growth on tree trunks in several Bronx neighborhoods, with the goal of seeing whether there was a correlation between lichen growth and air pollution levels, and ultimately between air pollution levels and asthma. The implications of this iterative approach to learning outside the classroom are discussed in connection with other projects and fields of study.

Prospects for integrating iPad apps into the Anatomy and Physiology laboratoryVyacheslav Dushenkov, Assistant Professor, Natural Sciences, Hostos CC. Zvi Ostrin, Assistant Professor, Natural Sciences, Hostos CC.For the past several years, we have been exploring the pedagogy of mobile device usage in the Anatomy and Physiology laboratory. This presentation discusses how, when properly incorporated into the learning design, digital technology becomes a powerful tool for active learning and for the retention of material. Additionally, the iPad apps enhance the laboratory experience by empowering students to visualize and manipulate anatomical structures in 3-D virtual reality while simultaneously giving them immediate access to information about the structures.

Differentiated Instruction{Room B-82} Relating via YouTube: How Video-Sharing in Media Courses Helps Students Express Knowledge, Culture, Politics, and Goals Theresa Smalec, Assistant Professor, Communication Arts and Sciences, Bronx Community College. Teaching introductory courses in mass communication at Bronx Community College often presents unexpected challenges. Many students who intend to major in Media Studies or Media Tech are still unfamiliar with the basic history and terminology of mass communication. However, our students love watching and sharing videos—music videos, clips from their favorite TV shows or movies, and other video-based expressions of American culture. Video-sharing can also be a tool for assessing and improving students’ media literacy skills. Finally, this communal process invites students to use

their critical thinking and public speaking skills to engage in thoughtful debates about matters such as racism, sexism, homophobia, cultural values, and socioeconomic stratification. This presentation examines how cultural differences account for students’ differentiated responses to the videos that we share and explore in class.

Say That One More Time : Flipping a Web Design ClassroomCatherine Lewis, Assistant Professor, Humanities, Hostos Community College.Learning a new language requires familiarity with vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure. Learning the markup language of web design is no different. Media Design students at Hostos Community College often struggle with how to begin writing in this new language. Would students be more successful if class time were spent less on lecture and more on guided, hands-on HTML and CSS development? Would students gain more from a lecture if it were online and in video that they could watch and rewatch? Would flipping the classroom reduce the fear students face with this unfamiliar language and improve persistence in the course? This presentation explores the answers to these questions with the help of a Nearpod presentation.

Learner-Centered Integrity: Is there an app for that?, Redesigning (or Redefining) Learning Spaces {Room B-83} Are You Ready? Preparing Students for Online Learning Enviornments at Hostos and Beyond Aaron Davis, Instructional Designer, Office of EdTech, Hostos Community College.At Hostos Community College there has an emergence of courses offered in both the hybrid (partially online) and asynchronous (fully online) modalities. However despite many students entering higher education being dubbed “digital natives,” online learning environments like Blackboard are not as intuitive or familiar as the online environments such as social media, which digital natives use on a daily basis. This presentation discusses how the Office of Educational Technology has created the “Are You Ready?” course in Blackboard to better prepare students in both how online learning works and what to expect in an online learning environment.

Differentiated Instruction: Improving Student Readiness and Achievement in E-Learning CoursesAlexis Pereira, IT Academic Technology Coord, E-Learning Center, BMCC. Brian Nemeth, IT Academic Technology Coord, E-Learning Center, BMCC. Joseph Lathan, Associate Director, E-Learning Center, BMCC.Our focus this past year was to use our existing technology to improve student readiness, achievement, and retention in an online class. It is vital that distant learners receive the same support and guidance as in-house students benefit from, easing some of the pressures for faculty and staff in an

E-Learning environment. Including our work strengthening our support systems for students, we have continued to foster an easy transition for students entering online courses for the first time, relieving faculty and staff of clerical and administrative challenges.

Adopting Universal Design: Winning or Losing?{Room B-84} Adopting Universal Design in Libraries: Collaborating for Student SuccessRebecca Arzola, Assistant Professor, Government Documents-Collection Development Librarian, Library, Lehman College. Stefanie Havelka, Assistant Professor, Electronic Resources-Web Services Librarian, Library, Lehman College.This presentation provides an overview of accessible features in library research databases, computer technology, mobile devices, and apps. The presenters report on their collaboration with Lehman College’s Access and Technology Center and Student Disability Services to share how to better approach issues and challenges in order to more successfully support students’ access needs. The presentation also considers the following questions: How can we more effectively apply Universal Design features to support student retention and success? How can we share and communicate our experience and expertise to ensure our students’ accessibility needs are met? What innovative approaches facilitate collaboration between CUNY faculty, students, administrators, disability services providers, and libraries?

RADio568: Connecting Ideas and the CommunityAlan Winson, Assistant Professor, John Jay College. How does a mass media instrument fulfill the many needs of a college? RADio568.com is a streaming Internet service with live broadcasts and podcasts. Primarily this mass media tool is used to support the Self, Media and Justice course in the English Department. This presentation examines how RADio568.com has developed, what it does now, and the problems it faces in practical application—getting programming completed and broadcast on a five day schedule—in matching pedagogical outcomes, and in wider institutional acceptance. Comparisons will be made to other CUNY college radio stations formats.

Open Educational Resources: Leveling the cost of learning{Room B-85} Development of an Open Online Preparatory Course Textbook for Human Anatomy and PhysiologyCarlos Liachovitzky, Lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences, Bronx Community College. Maureen Gannon, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Bronx Community College.Human Anatomy and Physiology is a challenging Pathways Gateway Course into Nursing and the Allied Health programs. Many of the approximately 600 students starting the course each semester come to it with very little science background and a lack of experience on how to study. This presentation briefly describes the process of writing an open preparatory course textbook, and making a digital version

of it in Blackboard. Goals of offering an open preparatory course textbook and an online version of it are to increase students’ awareness on the challenges ahead, to increase their preparedness and confidence in success, and to improve their performance and reduce attrition. This presentation will also analyze a preliminary assessment of student participation and responses to the preparatory course, its use and usefulness, and future development.

Using OpenLab to Enhance Teaching and Learning in Introductory American Government CoursesM. Victoria Perez-Rios, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and City Tech.Students at the freshman level face not only challenges to their analytical and writing skills but also a perceived disconnect between their academic and professional goals and the courses required for graduation. Overwhelmed with so many challenges, many students will disengage from in-depth learning in subject matters that are not part of their majors and/or minors. Open Access technology is especially suited for this purpose because students can use it to share their work beyond the classroom.To engage students in my introductory American Government courses at City Tech I have designed a multiple-step assignment that incorporates open access in a secure setting to showcase student work. This presentation describes the goals for this assignment, such as: making learning about the American government meaningful to students; foster deeper understanding of the American government; and facilitate peer-to-peer learning.

11:40-12:25AMCUNY CTL Council{Room B-81} PANEL: The Value of ExcellenceFausto Canela, Academic Technology Specialist, College of Staten Island. Gina Rae Foster, Director, Teaching & Learning Commons, Lehman College. Kathleen Landy, Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, Queensborough Community CollegePablo Avila, First Year Program and Assessment Coordinator, LaGuardia Community College.

Differentiated Instruction{Room B-82 } Celebrating the Individual in a Virtual Community: Digital Stories Connect Classmates on Blackboard Jane K. Cleland, Lecturer, English, Lehman College.Distance learning can be isolating. Without integrating activities to build community, crucial benefits of participating in a college course are at least partially lost. Beyond group projects, digital stories allow students to get to know one another quickly, and in a meaningful way. Using information developed by the University of Houston and Cowbird (the largest repository of digital stories in the world), students learn to write for new media in this community-building project. Students create a professional script by explaining

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why a certain object in their home is meaningful to them. The presentation analyzes how stories can be informational, funny, and/or touching, but they’re always insightful and help build enduring relationships.

The Sophomore Year Initiative and The S.T.E.A.R. System: A Collaborative Approach to Early Student InterventionAngela Y. Ho, Career Services Advisor, Title V-Sophomore Year Initiative/Career Services Center; Julia Naddeo, SYI-Academic Advisor, Title V-Sophomore Year Initiative/Undergraduate Advising.In order to identify and support at-risk students, the Sophomore Year Initiative (SYI) introduced the S.T.E.A.R. System to Lehman College as a possible solution. The S.T.E.A.R. System is a web-based, early intervention, retention module that identifies at-risk students within the first 6 weeks of the semester. This presentation examines the strategies utilized and the existing approaches the Lehman Title V SYI program has championed to providing increased support to “at-risk” students. The presentation provides details that highlight collaboration through faculty engagement, referral process and follow-up procedures.

Redesigning (or Redefining) Learning Spaces{Room B-83} Going Digital: Teaching Literature and Writing through Technology Bret Maney, Assistant Professor, English Department, Lehman College. Deirdre O’Boy, Lecturer & Assistant Chair, English Department, Lehman College; Rosie Walia, Lecturer, English Department, Lehman College.This panel reports on the evolving commitment of Lehman College’s English Department to all forms of digital pedagogy as it seeks to prepare students for careers that combine traditional humanistic skills with technical savoir-faire. Panel participants will discuss concrete ways in which they are using and experimenting with digital methodologies in the traditional classroom and through online projects designed to link students to the growing career world of tech, digital publishing, and new media. Speakers from the English Department will explore how such digital practices and projects contribute not only to better student preparedness but also to larger discussions about the role, value, history, and future of our department in the context of an emerging 21st-century humanities.

Adopting Universal Design: Winning or Losing?{Room B-84} YouDescribe: Building Video Accessibility through Service Learning Julia Miele Rodas, Associate Professor, English, Bronx Community College.This presentation reviews a free, crowd-sourced video description platform called YouDescribe. The presentation discusses its usefulness as an accessibility tool,and contemplates a number of crucial factors for creating a video

description assignment as a service-learning project. Also, the presentation addresses the tool’s usefulness for a community college composition course. In addition to the practical introduction, the presenter also reflects on pedagogical insights that grew out of the review process.

Differentiated Instruction{Room B-85} Concept Mapping in Clinical Rowland Ramdass, Allied Health, Hostos Community College.Faculty needs to prepare students to work in a continuously changing health care system. Nursing faculty are tasked with engaging student’s learning abilities; consquently, many pedagogies have been enacted to assist faculty and students in teaching and learning. Concept mapping offers a different method for teaching and learning. This presenter describes and discuss his experiences with implementing concept mapping into an evening medical surgical clinical nursing course at a community college. A template and various student’s concept maps will be previewed. Also a rubric for evaluating these concept maps will be discussed.

Using Computer Adaptive Technology to Prepare for RN LicensureEdward L. King, Associate Professor, Nursing, Hostos Community College; Kathleen Ronca, Nursing, Hostos Community College. Nieves Aguilera, Nursing, Hostos Community College.In the Spring 2015 Semester, the three Nursing Professors teaching the graduating class coordinated their efforts to include Computer Adaptive Testing into the curriculum. This presentation analyzes how computer testing assesses each student response and places the student on an individual learning pathway until the maximal level is achieved. Furthermore, this presentation discusses how the standardized test results was tracked and assessed through the semester.

Dr. Ricardo Fernandez, President, Lehman CollegeDr. Thomas A. Isekenegbe President, Bronx Community CollegeDr. David Gómez, President, Hostos Community CollegeDr. Claudia V. Schrader, Provost, SVP Division of Academic and Student Success, Bronx Community CollegeDr. Christine Mangino, Interim Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs, Hostos Community CollegeDr. Anny Morrobel-Sosa, Provost, SVP Academic Affairs, Lehman CollegeDr. Stefan Becker, Associate Provost for Academic Programs, Lehman CollegeMr. Ronald Bergmann, Vice President and Chief Information Office, Lehman CollegeMs. Ediltrudys Ruiz, Assistant Vice President for Information Technology, Lehman CollegeMs. Luz Jimenez, Office of The President, Lehman College Keynote and Special Presenters:Dr. Darcy Hardy, Associate Vice President, Enterprise Consulting, Blackboard, Inc.Dr. Steve Powers, Professor, Education & Reading, Bronx Community CollegeDr. George Otte, University Director of Academic Technology, City University of New YorkDr. Luke Waltzer, Director of the Teaching and Learning Center and doctoral faculty in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program at the Graduate CenterDr. Lisa Brundage, Director of CUNY Advance and faculty in the Graduate Center’s Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program Our Faculty and Staff Showcase PresentersHostos EdTech Staff & EdTech Interns

Bronx Community College Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology StaffBronx Community College Division of Academic and Student Success Ayechia Perez

Bronx Community College Budget OfficeLehman College Office of Online EducationLehman College/Information Technology Resources StaffLehman College/Media Technology ServicesHostos Community College Budget & Planning Operations Fanny Dumancela Conference Program/Graphics Designer Enmanuel Rosario Lemar Francis Miguelina Curiel Baldonado

Lehman College Department of Buildings and Grounds Jorge Mateus, Administrative Superintendent Lehman College Public Safety Fausto Ramirez, Director Lt. Alicia Cruz

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