CMLAI_SUNYEmpire's Podcast

I am an academic, and a therapist. I am not supposed to be doing “therapy” with students, and at the same time, I am a believer that there are many ways we help people grow personally and professionally, and many ways that we help people heal. As a professor, I do have an analytic enrichment lens when I approach studies-- individual studies, face-to-face study groups, and now, an unexpected blessing of Coronavirus, synchronous online face-to-face study groups. ...

There is much discussion about open educational resources (OERs) in current scholarship. Conferences, workshops, articles, Twitter feeds, blogs and on and offline debates have emerged across the academic community, both supporting and contending their use. With the drastic increase in scholarly dialogue on this topic, there is no question that OERs have had an influence on modern academics and the resources we use. ...

MY CMLAI REASSIGNMENT 2018-2019 by Elaine Handley
I began my CMLAI reassignment with two goals. The first was to be an active member of the CMLAI team, working to support colleagues in terms of their mentoring and teaching—and their own learning. I was intrigued by and not wholly versed in what CMLAI offered, or could offer, and I thought this would be a great learning experience for me—and I was right. ...

Hello. I am Linda Jones, associate professor in the Natural Sciences Department at Empire State College. My fields of interest are related to natural environmental systems dynamics and change during the Holocene—forest system dynamics, dendrochronology, biogeochemical cycles, patterns and distributions of species, climate.

Hello. I am Linda Jones, Associate Professor in the Natural Sciences Department at Empire State College. My degree is in Geology and Environmental Geosciences, and I always tell people that I am a “soft rock” geologist, rather than a “hard rock” geologist, because my fields of interest are related to natural environmental systems dynamics and change during the Holocene. ...

Hello. I’m Rebecca Fraser, and I’m an associate professor and mentor at the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies in Manhattan. What I’m going to talk about to you today is the book that I am currently working on, and how it helped me think about the roots of my pedagogy. My book is titled A Heart for All, and it is a biography/memoir about my grandmother, Louise Whitbeck Fraser, who was a pioneer in special education and music therapy. ...

Hello everyone, I’m Tony Anadio, a History Mentor in Latham and in this podcast, I’d like to share a few thoughts about the subject of Learning Styles.
What is the process of learning? We perceive existence with our five senses, and then the faculty of reason provides us with cognition. We all learn in many different ways at different times and places.
The basic learning styles, we’re told are: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic or experiential. ...

Hello everyone, I’m Tony Anadio from the History Department and today I’d like to talk about giving feedback on student essays.
Microsoft Word gives us many options for providing feedback and in the past, I’ve used the review and markup features. They are useful but can be very time-consuming and require the extra step of giving directions to students on how to view the comments. I’m not always sure that students read them. ...

Hi, my name is Kate Dermody: I am a history teacher at SUNY Empire State College. I have been a teacher for the last 15 years.  I have previously taught in secondary education and at alternative programs such as Upward Bound.  Today I am going to speak about the importance of clarity and transparency in education, the value of using a rubric especially in the online setting with adult and nontraditional students.

A useful learning tool I often require of students is a dialectical notebook.  I encourage them to choose a spiral notebook of a size they feel comfortable writing in and that is easily transportable. Inevitably, a student asks if the notebook can be maintained on the computer, which I allow, but I ask them to always have at least a small notebook to jot a note in while reading or to bring to a study group session or independent study meeting.