AFAR 2018-2019 - TEACHING
Courses (credit and non-credit) taught over the last year
Discover New York DNY-1000C undergraduate (Fall 2018)
Discover New York HON-1000C undergraduate (Fall 2018)
Foundation Design ART 1110 undergraduate (Fall 2018) New Preparation
Discover New York DNY-1000C undergraduate (Spring 2019)
Discover New York DNY-1000C undergraduate (Spring 2019)
Painting II ART 2320 undergraduate (Spring 2019) New Preparation
Other educational/teaching activities
Thesis Mentor, Erica Garcia, Department of Art & Design, 1968 Spring 2019
Research Month Mentor, Eleanor Meyers; ICS, The Bridge That Crowned Queens April, 2019
Research Month Mentor, Sydney Reyes; ICS, Isolation on the Waterfront April, 2019
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Innovative Teaching Pedagogy
Ongoing:
HON 1000C Silent Beaches, Untold Stories (Continuing Development Fall 2018
HON 1000C Silent Beaches, Untold Stories e-Portfolio link:
https://stjohns.digication.com/silent_beaches_untold_stories_honors_1000c/Welcome/published
A developing course studying the past and present significance of New York City’s coastline through the interdisciplinary lens of history, art, literature, environmental science, and social justice. This course is built upon High Impact Practices such as field-based research, independent projects, flipped classroom techniques, and creative production. Each student creates an e-Portfolio of their semester’s work. Please see the following examples:
https://stjohns.digication.com/adam-silent-beaches/contact
https://stjohns.digication.com/sharon-l/goals
https://stjohns.digication.com/eleanor-m/about-me
https://stjohns.digication.com/olivia-papiano/course-reflection
https://stjohns.digication.com/sydney-r/achievements
https://stjohns.digication.com/michael-u/water-memory
In Development:
New Portfolio Platform:
Having spent the last seven years using the Digication platform as a course container and pedagogical tool, as well as having students build e-Portfolios to showcase their semester’s work (see examples above,) I am now tasked with starting over with new technology. I have explored the new Blackboard Ultra and find it quite limited as far as creating vibrant and complex course structures, and more importantly, it offers students little opportunity to construct sophisticated portfolios that will be of any significant use to them in their future academic pursuits and professions. I will use Blackboard as a home base to link outwards to freeware so that I and my students can produce well-designed portfolios with the kind of features that are expected in our current digital age. I have experimented with various free sites and will likely use Wix. You are currently viewing this year’s Teaching Portfolio on Wix technology.
GIS:
This summer I will participate in a GIS workshop (Geographic Information System) mapping technology as a potential tool for the course HON 1000C: Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City’s Forgotten Waterfront and DNY 1000C Art and Architecture in New York.
Student or Other Recognition for Teaching
1st Prize in Oral Presentations Arts & Humanities awarded to Research Month Mentee, Eleanor Meyers; ICS, The Bridge That Crowned Queens, April, 2019
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Evidence of other relevant teaching activities, including those consistent with the SJU mission
Academic Service Learning:
The Gowanus Canal Conservancy: Clean and Green group service with DNY 1000C and HON 1000C - Fall 2018
NYC H2O: Plumb Beach Clean-up group service with HON 1000C - Fall 2018
The Gowanus Canal Conservancy: Clean and Green: group service with DNY 1000C - Spring 2019
NYC H2O: Ridgewood Reservoir Clean-up group service with DNY 1000C - Spring 2019
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