TeachOER
With funding from “Teaching and Learning with Technology” grant provided by the Baruch Computing and Technology Center, Professor Cheryl Smith (English, Baruch College) and I founded and developed TeachOER.org, a repository of open educational material outlets and assignments. The site is now a thriving online repository of OER resources and openly-licensed teaching materials was developed by faculty for faculty, and is maintained by Baruch’s Center for Teaching and Learning.
EqualityArchive
In collaboration with Assistant Professor Shelly Eversley (English, Baruch College), I developed the Equality Archive, an Open Educational Resource (OER) based on contemporary models of digital media. The Equality Archive creates, shares, and aggregates multimodal content about sex and gender equality in the United States. Our reflections on this project were published in the article, “Equality Archive: Open Educational Resources as Feminist Praxis” and other scholars have also written about this project as a digital humanities praxis.
OpenCUNY
OpenCUNY.org student-run, open-source WordPress platform that is free and open to all students at the Graduate Center, CUNY. As the Coordinator for Planning and Development, I maintained server and network and updated plugins and themes to ensure that the WordPress multisite platform was always online and running smoothy. With the other coordinators, we collaborated with various initiatives throughout CUNY to develop web projects and host events including sessions on managing your digital footprint and discussions about the intersections of open source technology and public education.
On Hybridization
In my role as a hybrid coordinator at Baruch College’s Center for Teaching I helped produce a comprehensive report on hybridized learning at Baruch College during the Spring of 2015. We conducted a survey to gather student and faculty hybrid teaching and learning experiences. The report can be viewed at On Hybridization.
Yelp.com Reviews & Gentrification
As a graduate student I worked with Scarlett Lindeman and Dr. Sharon Zukin (Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY) to collect and analyze thousands of Yelp reviews from two rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhoods. This research resulted in a co-authored paper titled, “The omnivore’s neighborhood? Online restaurant reviews, race, and gentrification“, published by the Journal of Consumer Culture.