Author Archives: Jeff Allred

City Tech’s OpenLab Pedagogy Event, Thursday October 18th

The amazing team at City Tech’s OpenLab is hosting a discussion of open digital pedagogy next week. If you don’t know about OpenLab, it’s an inspiring project that grew out of collaborations among faculty at City Tech over the past … Continue reading

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EVENT: Pedagogy Day at the GC on Friday, October 26th

Just a quick announcement that the Graduate Center’s Graduate Student Teaching Association (GSTA) is hosting a pedagogy day on October 26th, 2018. Submissions due 10/19. Details below; hope to see some of you there: On October 26th, 2018 the Graduate … Continue reading

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OneDrive via CUNY

On a slow news day (holidays, CUNY closed), I wanted to pass along a newish tool all CUNY faculty can access to enhance our teaching and scholarship: the rejiggered site license with Microsoft Office products. On one level, this is … Continue reading

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Structuring Equality in the Early American Lit Survey (guest post from Christina Katopodis)

[guest post from Christina, an instructor of 395 at Hunter this term; cross-posted at christinakatopodis.net] It’s syllabus-writing season! After some time away from teaching, time for reflection and growth as an educator, I am thrilled to be teaching “American Literature: … Continue reading

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Getting started with Groups and This Site

I am Director of Undergraduate Studies at Hunter, a new position designed to provide resources for and encourage collaboration among instructors of core courses in our department (at present, 252, 306, 338, and 395, with more to come in the … Continue reading

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AmLit group: join us!

This is mostly a test, but here’s the URL for our group, which we’ll use for internal communications that are not public-facing.

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BritLit group: join us!

This is mostly a test, but here’s the URL for our group, which we’ll use for internal communications that are not public-facing.

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Beginning Theory (where to start?)

[the following is reposted from the 306 group forum from 2015] Now that we’re ending the semester, I’m looping back to the start and thinking about how little I like the first week of my course. I’ve oscillated between the … Continue reading

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