Community Members

I am interested in this faculty learning community to improve the teaching-learning process. In a limited time (15 weeks), I would like to maximize the knowledge the students can acquire from my courses. This summer, I would be changing some of the classroom activities and researching outside-classroom learning activities. Programming books like Python and web design are my present interest. I am also finalizing my book in Excel.

I am a pianist, singer, choral conductor and have been teaching at BMCC for over twelve years. I have learned that as a musician, broadening one’s skill set and being part of the hyphenated career person who adapts to the directions in the field can make the inevitable changes feel a little bit easier. This July I will head to Spain for a composer-in-residency for the next six weeks to develop a few more projects.

I am always willing to learn more as a professor and to reach my students more effectively. I look forward to connecting with the faculty and expanding my experience as a professor. I finished reading “Thrust” by Lidia Yuknavitch, and it is one of the most fascinating and whirl of a-wind books I’ve ever read—Yuknavitch experiments with P.O.V., poetry, and a lexicon. I’m an emerging fantasy writer and working on publishing my first novel.

I am happy to say that I am reading “Up From Slavery” again. In fact, my son got in the Seton Hall University and I’m super excited. Being an African American man from Brooklyn with a formal education is extremely rewarding. I teach in the English Department and I believe that Culturally Relevant Pedagogy is important to where we are from. Van Have

I’m a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center, a former CUNY Humanities Alliance Fellow at the GC and BMCC, an adjunct in BMCC’s English Department, and a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at City Tech in the Fall! I’m interested in learning experience design, especially Universal Design for Learning and Asset-Based pedagogy. My research interests include literary nonfiction, queer theory and affect theory.

I am an adjunct teaching psychology in the Social Science department. I am interested in this seminar because I want to have as many tools and resources as I can for my students, and keep on my toes for new learning approaches. I looking forward to some trips later in the summer, but I will be working a lot. I have terrible taste in books, I read garbage detective series.

I teach writing and literature courses for SUNY and CUNY. These courses include: Composition I, Composition II, Introduction to Literature, and Composition II with a special focus on short fiction. I am interested in developing new assignments, using open educational resources, updating the digital platforms for my classes, fine-tuning my lesson planning, and interacting with colleagues across disciplines. I am currently reading Alejandro Varela’s The Town of Babylon, as well as a few selections from the latest Pushcart Anthology.

Hi hi! My name is MaKayla, I am an adjunct lecturer in Voice for the Music & Art Department. When I’m not teaching at BMCC, I sing locally and around the country. I am excited to read a few books this summer, my next read is Reclaiming Our Space by Feminista Jones. I make a great bruschetta and have perfected a few cake recipes. Looking forward to our time together!

I’m interested to continue my development as an OER professor – my eventual goal is to have all of my courses as OER courses. Next semester I am teaching HED 220 Human Sexuality for the first time and I am very excited to do so! This is the course I will be creating this summer as OER and I know there are many resources out there that are already available. I look forward to collecting everything and creating an informative, inclusive, and inquisitive learning space with my students. I am looking forward to celebrating Pride and resting a bit between semesters. Excited to learn with you all!

Hi, everyone! I’m Kelley, and I’m an Adjunct Lecturer in the English Department at BMCC. I’m fairly new to BMCC and to teaching, in general, so I’m excited to learn about how I can use OER in my courses and also create Open Pedagogy assignments that empower my Writing and Literature students to learn through becoming teachers, themselves. This summer, I’m looking forward to traveling to England with my husband and son to visit family; attending a writing residency in Colorado (I’m currently working on my MFA in Creative Writing at VCFA); and hopefully recording some new episodes of my podcast, Literary Prospects (where I talk with authors and other literary professionals about books, publishing and “the writing life”). Looking forward to meeting you all!

I am a Professor of Geography and GIScience and my academic background is in Geospatial Science – comprising Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Earth Observation Satellite Remote Sensing, Machine learning computing algorithms, watersheds, and inland water assessments. I have taught college courses such as GIS, Remote Sensing, Statistics, GIS programing, and Human Geography. My research interest is in understanding the interactions between anthropological land use dynamics and the natural environment with a focus on sustainable water resource management – we can only manage what we understand, and we cannot understand a resource if we do not know the extent and structure of that resource. Some of my most recent research work include, “assessing landscape change patterns and water quality of New York City water supply reservoirs”, and “a study on the Experiences, Attitudes, and Policy Drivers Shaping Bottled Water Use in New York City”. I look forward to exploring options to adapt my current GEO 100 class to OER designated course.

Hello everyone my name is Dina and I am a Adjunct Lecturer in Marketing at BMCC. Presently I’ve been utilizing various OER resources along with my own ideas based on whats trending to navigate my course. I would love to be able to learn how to streamline things to keep the class engaging but also that its reflective of whats going on within the industry. I am doing alot of traveling and minimizing my home. I know that doesn’t sound exciting but for me it does. I’ve been reading too many trade magazine so I want to get back into reading and writing which is a passion of mine.

I am interested in learning the options of not using a textbook in my HED110 Course I am looking forward to spending time with my family in the summer, I am also a High School teacher and my wife is a elementary school teacher, and I have 2 kids, we only really get to go on vacation in the summer (school vacations during the year are too expensive to travel) so we look forward to this time all year. I read lots of books about history, theology, health, I also love reading about stocks and business news because you learn about all the cool tech and things coming in the future.

Hello! My name is Maya Jimenez and I am a Lecturer in Art History at BMCC. I have been teaching with OER/ZTC Art History courses for the past few years, but I am interested in improving the selection and use of these online resources to maximize the learning potential in the classroom. I am also reconsidering if these OERs should be used in the classroom or as homework assignments, for reflective writing assignments or in-class discussions. Overall, I want to use OERs in a meaningful and purposeful way that surpasses the textbook alternative.

Hi there! I’m Craig, Open Educational Resources (OER) & Research Librarian. My time is currently split between working with Open Knowledge Librarian jean amaral on the IMLS-funded “College Fluency Capacity Building” grant, and working on BMCC’s OER and open pedagogy ecosystems. I also am heavily involved in the library podcast booth, leading class workshops and one-on-one tutorials in Audacity. Beyond critical LIS and open knowledge approaches, my academic interests are in transnational feminist theory, critical agrarian studies and global political economy, with a particular emphasis on Third World Marxist perspectives. I am also interested in scholarship on contemporary China, especially that which attends to the relationship between systemic transformations in the global political economy, rising South–South cooperation, and the ascendance of China’s socialist market economy. I’m currently reading Radhika Desai’s book Capitalism, Coronavirus, and War: A Geopolitical Economy (2023), Neferti X. M. Tadiar’s book Remaindered Life (2022), and the edited volume Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa (2021). I’m thrilled to participate in these workshops!

Hi! I’m an adjunct OER librarian and really enjoy working with faculty in thinking creatively about teaching and learning at BMCC. I took one or two classes—a couple of them intense—during each of the past three summers, so this summer I am looking forward to having no homework. Which means I can read whatever I want to read! My TBR pile currently includes works by Ana Božičević, Chen Chen, Annie Ernaux, Tove Jansson, and Jenny Odell.

Hello all, I teach in the English Department and have been teaching for CUNY for 20+ years. I’m interested in this faculty learning community for professional development and for fellowship with colleagues. This summer, I’m looking forward to traveling to see family and friends that I hadn’t seen since before the pandemic. Re books, I like to have a few things going so I can switch back and forth between genres. I’m looking forward to this experience!

Hi there! As y’all know, I’m the open knowledge librarian here at BMCC, and this I believe . . . Knowledge is a public good and a human right. We need to continually develop and defend the knowledge commons so that every human being has access to humanity’s accumulated knowledge. I strive to create spaces that celebrate, spark, and engage the potential of every human being to create knowledge. So many of our students have been taught to be knowledge consumers; at BMCC, they can learn to claim space and raise their voices up as knowledge creators. My book pile is large and teetering; some near the top are The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich; Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman; and The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe. So happy to be in community with everyone here and look forward to learning with you!