Hi! I joined BMCC’s Modern Languages Department in 2009, where I teach Spanish and Latin American literature courses at all levels (but mostly to heritage speakers of the language). I am looking forward to visiting friends and family in the Basque Country this summer and traveling a bit.
Community Members
I am part of the OpenLab team as the Student Engagement Coordinator.
I am also a service designer, a learning experience designer, and co-founder of Educar 3.0, a start-up that develops games about financial literacy for students in Brazilian schools.
I am currently a student in Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center.… Read more “Raquel Neris”
Grace and peace from Nkechi (Igbo name meaning God’s Own). I am a Professor of Mathematics, an Ethno-mathematician, a Mathematics Story-teller, a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow, an Interfaith Chaplain and a Global African Woman of Distinction in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).… Read more “Nkechi Madonna Agwu”
I have been on faculty in the English Department at BMCC since 2008. I am primarily a fiction writer, but I also write and publish poetry, nonfiction, and scholarly essays. Right now I am reading THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. Du BOIS by Honorée Fannone Jeffers.… Read more “Racquel Goodison”
I am the learning experience designer on the OpenLab team, affiliated with CETLS and the Library. I work primarily with faculty on designing their OpenLab courses and collecting their OERs, but I also support students and staff with technical issues, do testing when the OpenLab needs it, create our help documentation, and I unofficially assist our director with development of OpenLab features.… Read more “Syelle Graves”
I’ve been teaching online since 2016, mostly asynchronous beginner and intermediate French courses. My intermediate courses are zero cost, as I used material I developed myself. I expanded my use of free online tools during the pandemic, such as Edpuzzle and Flipgrid.… Read more “valerie thiers-thiam”
I’ve been working with the OpenLab team since joining BMCC in 2018, and enjoy supporting the creative uses of the space for teaching, learning, and community building through faculty learning communities like this one. I’m still telling myself I’ll have lots of time this summer to read (!),… Read more “Tom Harbison”
Hi there! As most of you 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.… Read more “jean amaral”