Category Archives: Tech Projects

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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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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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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SocioWiki NYC – Spring 2007

by John Sorrentino Posted on May 21, 2011

The “SocioWiki” was the first wiki project (I will be posting more) I directed with Macaulay Honors College students at Brooklyn College for their Seminar 2 “The Peopling of New York City.” When we began this project, none of us – not the students, nor I, nor most of my colleagues – knew anything about […] Continue reading →

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