Hello I’m Sheila and I teach English. I am here to learn to create a site for my classes more accessible than Blackboard. I am already immersing myself into the slowness and the heat this summer. I am reading lots of books, poetry and fiction in bits and pieces as I always do.… Read more “Sheila Maldonado”
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Hi everyone, My name is Maksim Vak. I teach philosophy. I’m looking forward to learning how to design a website that will work for asynchronous classes. I’m reading a bunch of books on Hegel’s Phenomenology, rereading Spengler’s Decline of the West and Nietzche’s Untimely meditations, and some Ukrainian fiction books.… Read more “Maksim Vak”
I enjoy creating, using and remixing open educational resources. This portal should allow my students to easily access resources used in my Math Courses. This summer I look forward to improving my fluency with OpenLab. I’m reading Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil.… Read more “Fatima Prioleau”
Hi! I’m Yan and I teach art history. I am interested in learning more about different ways of assessment that give students more responsibility in evaluating their own performances. I look forward to leaving the country in July (destination unclear at the moment).… Read more “Yan Yang”
Hi all! I am Elida Cisneros (formerly DeKlein), and I have been teaching in the English Department since 2010. I love teaching OER courses, and I have been interested in teaching on the OpenLab for a while now. Currently, I am reading Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, which I highly recommend!… Read more “Elida Cisneros”
Hi everyone. I’m excited to learn more about the Open Lab. I teach in the Speech, Comm, and Theatre department. I’ve been doing a lot of work with ungrading and have developed COM 100 into something I think is pretty special.… Read more “Hollis Glaser”
Hello Everyone! I am an adjunct in the Speech, Communications, and Theatre Arts Department here at BMCC. I am a huge supporter of OER and have made significant contributions to my department’s OER textbook. I am looking forward to this workshop because I am always looking for ways to engage my students through technology.… Read more “Angela Elbanna”
Hi! I’m Karen Thornhill from the English Department here at BMCC. I started learning how to design an online course during the E-Learning Initiative for Faculty Development about a year prior to the pandemic. That training was tremendously helpful. So here I am today: I’m really looking forward to learning how to design and offer appealing online classes that are engaging, fun, interesting, and as affordable as possible to my students.… Read more “Karen Thornhill”
I am proud to say that I’ve just completed my first academic year teaching on the OpenLab! Now the journey continues… I’d like to build a course hub, share my own resources, invite others to share theirs, and create new and exciting course materials.… Read more “Ewa Barnes”
