Ewa Barnes

Welcome to week 8! Midterm exams, check-ins and surveys are due by tonight. Thank you to all those who’ve already submitted.

This week we begin to work on the argumentative essay. What issues do you care about? Select one from …

This will be an opportunity to meet your classmates, ask questions, and chat about the class and/ or BMCC in general.

This is not a mandatory meeting, but I’d love to see you all there!

Zoom meeting info:

https://bmcc-cuny.zoom.us/j/84894694029?pwd=cjcrYmU5ZU03UFJvM2tEY0x5MTkxQT09

Meeting …

Hi Everyone, and thank you to those of you who took the time to post your videos on problem-solving on Flip. I replied to everyone individually on video, via Flip, so check out the comments section. Excellent replies to classmates …

Hi Everyone,

Are you missing any assignments in this class? Quizzes, Conversations, etc? I am usually open to late submissions, because I know you have lives outside of college, and things happen. That said, my rule is that I will …

Hi Everyone, and so great to see many of you on Flip!

Midterm week officially begins today! Good luck!

There is a review sheet that you can consult to go over units 1-6. There is an anonymous survey that I’d …

How is your week going?

I’ll start with comments on last week’s post. It’s exciting that, on the OpenLab, you can browse through the list of “authors,” and that you are one of them (as long as you posted your …

Please see this overview of the week’s unit.

In Week 6, we are thinking about how we make decisions in life, and discussing an organized approach to problem-solving. How do you make important decisions in your life? There is a …

Thank you for all your amazing work on week 4. Your discussion board on cults was fascinating to read. Many of you created your own cults: the healing cult, the immortal cult, the Frenchie cult, the live in nature cult, …

Dear All,

In Week 5, we are beginning to prepare for the argumentative essay assignment. It’s all about opposing viewpoints, analyzing arguments, and developing your own opinion on a given topic. Please review the reading on arguments (Activity 2), and …

Dear CRT Students: I enjoyed reading through your personal examples of bias in question 10 of week 3s quiz. We all have biases and experience the biases of others–the challenge, now that we discussed them in more detail, is: how …