Author Archives: John Sorrentino

Using Instructional and Interactive Videos for Online Teaching

by John Sorrentino Posted on December 1, 2014

Instructional Video created as a recorded slideshow using Apple Keynote  As part of the online French course I teach for NHTI, Concord’s Community College, I provide instructional videos to supplement the students’ assignments. Some videos are designed to elicit “video responses” as a means of giving students the opportunity to practice speaking while interacting with their environment […] Continue reading →

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Macaulay Snapshot 2014 at the New-York Historical Society!

by John Sorrentino Posted on November 23, 2014

This year our annual Macaulay Honors College/CUNY Snapshot student-curated exhibit of student photos taken on October 11th was on display for one day at the New-York Historical Society.  Here are some of my own snapshots (and one video of a multimedia display) of the event. Students were asked to take part in a “re-curation” of […] Continue reading →

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Bonjour!

by John Sorrentino Posted on March 29, 2014

This site on the Academic Commons is a feed of my posts from my personal website, johnsorrentino.net.  For more information, please visit my site or click the About Me page on this site.

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John Jay Night at the Museum

by John Sorrentino Posted on March 27, 2014

I took my students from my Intermediate French 1 course to the Museum of Arts and Design this evening. Their assignment is the following: What do you know about the work of art? (name of artist, title, etc.) What do you want to know? (who is the sculpture of? What is the inspiration?  How did […] Continue reading →

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Cutting the Cable in New York City (updated 2014)

by John Sorrentino Posted on February 24, 2014

Recently, a friend asked me how much I was paying a certain large conglomerate for my cable TV service.  I had one of those “all in one triple play” packages that included phone and internet, and with DVR and HBO I was paying $163/month.  I knew I had to figure a way out of that, […] Continue reading →

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A Night at the Museum

by John Sorrentino Posted on September 3, 2013

Tonight was our inimitable Macaulay Night at the Brooklyn Museum.  The event went smoothly after a tremendous amount of preparation.  About 550 Macaulay first-year students descended on the Brooklyn Museum for a private event where, armed with recorders, the students documented their conversations about the works of art they viewed (we had previously trained them […] Continue reading →

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GRADUATION!

by John Sorrentino Posted on May 23, 2013

Today it was my supreme pleasure to receive my PhD (officially!) from the CUNY Graduate Center!  The Commencement Exercises took place at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, along with several colleagues from the PhD Program in French at the GC, as well as other colleagues from Macaulay.  The student speaker was Gregory Donovan from […] Continue reading →

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Two Interesting Birthdays

by John Sorrentino Posted on January 15, 2013

I have a couple of Facebook friends who frequently repost literature-related birthday announcements from the Writer’s Almanac and decided I would follow suit today since there are two French Lit related postings. The first is Molière. My soft spot for him comes from the fact that I enjoy using a small piece of Le Malade imaginaire with […] Continue reading →

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Before December 21, 2012: End of the Apocalypse Course

by John Sorrentino Posted on December 19, 2012

“The notion of a collective death or rapture can be very attractive to those who live a very solitary life. The protagonist of my film lives by herself, she has alienated her family, and she keeps her neighbors out by triple bolting her door. She is able to find solace through her church where her […] Continue reading →

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Snapshot 2012

by John Sorrentino Posted on December 17, 2012

On October 11th, the members of the Macaulay Honors College freshmen class each took a photograph that would capture for them some aspect of New York City. Their photos were uploaded to a gallery – http://macaulay.cuny.edu/gallery/index.php/snapshot-2012 – and a group of student curators, under the mentorship of artist and professor Corey D’Augustine, came together to […] Continue reading →

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