Category Archives: Teaching

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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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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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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