Rachael Nevins’s Profile

Staff

Active 13 hours, 47 minutes ago

Staff

Active 13 hours, 47 minutes ago

Title

NTA

Pronouns

she/her

rnevins@bmcc.cuny.edu

Academic Interests

open knowledge, open pedagogy, OER, information literacy, history of the book, the affective experience of libraries, literature, creative writing

Website

https://www.rachaelnevins.com/

CUNY Academic Commons

https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/raerae/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/RachaelNevins

Department

Library

Courses

This course explains how video technology works and how that technology is put into practice to create video content. It covers the fundamentals of contemporary media technology including understanding video image formation, data compression, as well as picture and sound generation and manipulation. Avatar cropped from an image by Omar Flores via Unsplash

ART 102 | Survey of Art History I | Course Hub ART 102 | Survey of Art History I | Course Hub

Course Hub for Instructors Teaching ART 102

Language Race and Ethnicity in the U.S and its Territories Language Race and Ethnicity in the U.S and its Territories

This course explores historical, cultural, and theoretical perspectives on the relationship between language, race, and ethnicity in the United States and its territories. It examines how language is understood to reflect, reproduce, and/or challenge and defy racial and ethnic boundaries, and how ideas about race and ethnicity influence the ways in which people use and construe language. It covers topics such as racialization and racism, ethnicization, notions of authenticity, repertoire, codeswitching and style shifting, linguistic mocking and linguistic racism, language ideology, and identity formation. This course will examine language varieties such as Black American English and its cross-racial uses by other groups, Chicano English and Spanglish, Asian American English, Hawaiian English, and American Indian English.

This course is a sandbox for demonstrating course creation and organization on OpenLab. Avatar image from a photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

This course introduces students to the world beyond the earth. The methods of astronomy and our knowledge of the structure of the universe are presented as an ongoing human endeavor that has helped shape modern man as he/she takes his/her first steps into space.Note: This course satisfies Pathways “Life and Physical Science” and “Scientific World” areas.

Communities

Black Studies Across the Americas (BSAA) Black Studies Across the Americas (BSAA)

This project is supported with U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center funding from the Center for Latin American Studies at The Ohio State University and the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies as well as the the BMCC Dept. of Ethnic and Race Studies and the President’s Fund for Innovation and Excellence, funded by McKenzie Scott. BSAA faculty and student researchers create OERs to help integrate Black studies into disciplines that historically don’t address Blackness and questions of race and ethnicity. BSAA OERs are hosted here on the BMCC OpenLab to foster further collaboration and use of the OERs at BMCC and beyond.

BMCC Reads BMCC Reads

BMCC Reads – The space for sharing books, reviews, clubs, films and ideas

LMS Transition at BMCC LMS Transition at BMCC

A space for sharing information about the upcoming transition from Blackboard to Brightspace.

First Year Experience (FYE) Teaching Resources for Faculty First Year Experience (FYE) Teaching Resources for Faculty

How can we contribute to student success–success not only academic, but also emotional and social–during their time at BMCC? Students’ first year experience is especially important in developing and nourishing their sense of purpose and belonging, their love of learning, access to services and resources, as well as students’ exploration of career paths and citizenship. This is the goal of FYE-embedded courses, and here is a resource site with relevant materials for faculty. We welcome contributions.

Open Education Seminars | Summer 2024 Open Education Seminars | Summer 2024

A virtual learning community for faculty who are participating in summer 2024 OER/ZTC Course Redesign or Open Pedagogy Assignments. (image credit: “Robin Bird Nature” by BiancaVanDijk is free to use under Pixabay license)

Projects

Open Educational Resources at BMCC Open Educational Resources at BMCC

This project and site are a resource for faculty interested in redesigning their courses with open educational resources (OER) and other no-cost materials, including library resources. (image credit: Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash)