BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE

The City University of New York

AGENDA      June 5-9, 2000

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8:30 AM:  Coffee and Tea

9 AM: Introductions/ Review of goals/ schedule/ main themes

10:30 AM:  Break

10:45 AM:  Teaching, Classroom Interaction and the New Technology - An Overview -- Bret Eynon

11:15 AM:  Blackboard Electronic Discussion: Dreams, Nightmares, Visions

click here for instructions for writing activity

go to blackboard

12:30 PM:  Lunch

1:30 PM:  Using Inspiration as a classroom tool (Sharona Levy)

2:30 PM:  Presentations and Discussion: The Classroom Possibilities of the New Technology

Joseph Rachlin, Biology, Lehman

Nkechi Agwu, Math, BMCC

Andrew Meyers, History, Fieldston Academy

4:30 PM:  Blackboard: Reflective Writing 

go to blackboard

 

8:30 AM:  Coffee and Tea

9 AM: Student Inquiry and Digital Resources (Bret Eynon)

• Group A: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
• Group B: "Talking and Testifying, Speaking and Speechifying"
• Group C: The West Nile Virus
• Group D: Two Photos/ Many Stories

12 PM:  Lunch

1 PM:  Surveying Electronic Resources/ Creating Inquiry Activities (Bill Friedheim)

• Go to Electronic Resources

3:30 PM:  Enriching Presentations with PowerPoint

Gloria Dickinson, African American Studies, College of New Jersey

8:30 AM:  Coffee and Tea

9 AM:  Writing Across the Curriculum:  The Collaborative Classroom in Old and New Media 

Jane Paznik-Bondarin, English, BMCC, Sharona Levy, Developmental Skills, BMCC

• Go to Hands-On Activities

11:15 AM:  Break

11:30 AM:  Finding and Evaluating Information on the World Wide Web (Search Engines/ Library Sites on Evaluating Information on the Web)

Geoffrey Akst, Math, BMCC

12:30 PM:  Lunch

1:30 PM:  What Makes a Good Web Syllabus? (Bill Friedheim)

2:00 PM:  Go To -- Examining and Evaluating Web Syllabi

4:30 PM:  Blackboard: Reflective Writing about Developing Your Course 

go to blackboard

 

8:30 AM:  Coffee and Tea

9 AM:  Web Basics Using Front Page 2000  

Tutorial in Front Page -- David Jaffee, History, CCNY

Creating Web-based Syllabi and/or Course Material

12 PM: Lunch

1 PM:  Planning Time

4 PM:  Optional workshop: Integrating Front page into Blackboard

8:30 AM:  Coffee and Tea

9 AM: Planning Time

11:30 AM:  Discussion -- What's Next?

• Friday Meetings During the Fall (What issues and software do we need to explore?)
• Reality Check
• Ecology of the Classroom

12:30 PM:  Lunch

1:30 PM: Planning Time (Including posting of tentative plans on Blackboard)

Blackboard: Sharing Plan and Materials (event 4.1, table 1)

go to blackboard

3 PM: Final Face-to-Face and Online Reflections/ Sharing of Projects/ Evaluation of Weeklong Institute

4PM: Institute Concludes

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