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Alicia Perdomo,
Francisca Suárez Coalla, Alister Ramírez, Rafael Corbalan, Alessandra Peralta-Avila,
Andrés
Amador, Jean Felix Colimon, Emmanuel Fode, Luis Alfredo Cartagena,
Eda Henao, Maria Enrico & Maria Victoria Acevedo, Modern Languages, Laboratory
Activities for SPN 210
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Members of the Modern
Languages Department have created oral, comprehension and writing
activities for students taking SPN 210. Some professors have
donated materials for this course.
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Joe Bisz, Carlos Hernandez & Francesco Crocco,
English, Gaming Your Class:
Lecture Bingo, Skill Role-playing Sheets, and Other Tips to Stay
on Your Teaching Toes
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Our
poster session will demonstrate how games and game-like techniques
can be used to enhance traditional teaching methods and create
better student motivation. Handouts will be available.
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Brahmadeo
Dewprashad, Science, Using Technology in a Chemistry Class
to Engage Pre-Nursing Students
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| A course in General
Organic and Biological Chemistry (GOB) is a prerequisite for most
Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Programs. Many of the students
taking GOB do not often see the relevance of many of the core
concepts covered in class to their own lives/career plans. It is a
challenge for instructors to engage these students such that there
is a shift from perfunctory participation to enthusiasm and active
learning.
A clinical case study pertaining to a patient with
medication induced hemoglobenia was developed and used to teach
several core concepts in GOB. It was envisaged that students
intending careers in clinical settings would be particularly
receptive to clinical case studies and this was found to be the
case. The case is presented in a format similar to that used
clinically. Technology was used to integrate the clinical aspects
to the case to the underlying chemical principles. Suitable links
(to relevant literature) and explanations are included to make the
case comprehensible to non-medical persons. Many of the linked
references are engaging multimedia presentations on clinical
aspects of the case. Also, links are proved to online sources that
provide the relevant information needed to complete the case. The
students are taken through a series of exercises which lead then
to make a diagnosis of the medical condition and to explain the
chemical principles involved in the treatment options for the
patient. This presentation will demonstrate how technology can be
used in case studies to engage students and facilitate learning.
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Shari
Mekonen, Video Arts & Technology, VAT-NSF Grant:
Creating Career Pathways for Women and Minorities in Digital
Video
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The
Video Arts & Technology (VAT) program will be showing videos
and exhibiting informational posters that display the activities
and accomplishments of the National Science Foundation –
Advanced Technological Education grant awarded to VAT. Included
will be videos and photos from the summer video programs and TV
workshops for high school students, videos from the student
produced television program “BMCC On Air” and photos and data
from faculty and professional development activities.
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Revital Kaisar, Music
and Art, & Suzanne Schick, Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts, Using Podcasts to
Increase Student Learning
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| Faculty from the iTunes U Pilot Project
at BMCC will demonstrate the podcasts they created and used in
their classes this fall. This session will include examples of
podcasts and discussion on how they were incorporated into the
classroom as well as the results of various assessments that were
completed on the use of the podcasts.
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Deborah Gambs, Social
Science & Human Services, Low-tech High Tech: Mobile
Phones Facilitating Visual Sociology
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| This presentation details
the use of the mobile phone to facilitate visual sociology. After
a discussion of Howard Becker's (1973) argument that photograph
and sociology have similar roots in their wish to document social
issues, students were asked to take photographs using their mobile
phone to illustrate an essay on Social Class. They were expected
to email the image to themselves, print it, and incorporate into
the essay. Selected student examples will be included.
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