Rachael Nevins’s Profile
Courses
XXX 101-XX00 | Course for Demos | Inky Professor | Summer 2022
This course is a sandbox for demonstrating course creation and organization on OpenLab. Avatar image from a photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash.
VAT 100-0101 | Intro to Video Technology | Summer 2023 | Prof. Lorraine Singletary
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
Course Hub for Instructors Teaching ART 102
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.
XXX 101-XX00 | Sandbox Course | Inky Professor | Fall 2023
This course is a sandbox for demonstrating course creation and organization on OpenLab. Avatar image from a photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.
Communities
BMCC Reads – The space for sharing books, reviews, clubs, films and ideas
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.
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 2026
A virtual learning community for faculty who are participating in summer 2026 OER/ZTC Course Redesign seminar or the AI-resistant Open Assignment seminar. (Image credit: “Open & Bubbly” by Tim Mossholder is used under Unsplash license)
The BMCC Zine Library, housed within the BMCC Library, offers a collection of zines across a variety of topics, and includes a number of works created by members of the BMCC community.
Projects
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)
Student loglines from first draft to final draft
Student writing for a public writing assignment. Avatar showing hands typing on a laptop keyboard, cropped from an image by Daniel Thomas, via Unsplash
Psychology and the Modern World
Student writing on the intersection between concepts learned in PSY 100 and modern life. Avatar showing an abstracted and haloed profile of a human head, cropped from an image by Hirzul Maulana, via Unsplash
Students in Psychology 100 reflect on their work for the course. How did they approach their work, and what are they taking away? Avatar showing a person writing in a notebook, cropped from a photo by Marcos Paulo Prado, via Unsplash
