Rachael Nevins’s Profile

Staff

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Staff

Active 12 hours, 16 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 is a sandbox for demonstrating course creation and organization on OpenLab. Avatar image from a photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash.

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.

Communities

Open Education Seminars | Winter 2026 Open Education Seminars | Winter 2026

A virtual learning community for faculty who are participating in winter 2026 OER/ZTC Course Redesign seminar or the AI-resistant Open Assignment seminar. (image credit: “Open education and flexible learning” by Gavin Blake)

BMCC Reads BMCC Reads

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

BMCC Open Knowledge Commons BMCC Open Knowledge Commons

The Open Knowledge Commons brings together faculty, staff, and students committed to knowledge as a public good and creating spaces for the BMCC community to share our knowledge with the world.

LMS Transition at BMCC LMS Transition at BMCC

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

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.

Projects

Democracy in Practice Democracy in Practice

Student writing on the intersection between lived experience and concepts regarding politics and government learned in American Government. Avatar showing people carrying signs at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, cropped from a photo by Marion S. Trikosko, via the Library of Congress

Concerts You Missed Concerts You Missed

Reviews of live music concerts in the NYC region by students of music. Avatar cropped from a photo by Dolo Iglesias on Unsplash

Loglines Loglines

Student loglines from first draft to final draft

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)