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Thursday, 4 September 2008
MCNY - LEC BlackBoard Help
Topic: MCNY

The Title V/Learning Enhancement Centre is keen to provide services for our students early in the term to help them with Blackboard log-in issues etc.  Ryan Lunenfeld, our educational Technologist will be hosting three workshops to assist students with specific Blackboard related concerns. [Dates and times listed below]. Kindly let your students know they can drop-in in any time during the allotted workshop times.

If they are unable to make it to these walk-in workshop sessions, they can also email Ryan Lunenfeld at RLunenfeld@mcny.edu to schedule an appointment. 

Thanks for your cooperation in announcing this in your classrooms. In addition, an email regarding these Blackboard workshops is also being sent to all student accounts. We will also be distributing flyers to students notifying them of upcoming LEC workshops.

Dates:

Wednesdays, September 10,   3:00-5:00   PM            Location: Room 12V

Saturday, September 13th,     12:45-4:30 PM              Location: Room 12V

Thursday, September 18th,     3:00-6:00 PM               Location: Room 12V


Posted by draweiner at 5:58 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, 2 June 2009 8:13 AM EDT
Monday, 1 September 2008
Constitution Day - Is it Unconstitutional?
Topic: Constitution Day

 

Constitution Day is September 17. Educational institutions receiving funding through the U.S. Department of Education are required to hold educational programs pertaining to the Constitution (find the original announcement in the Federal Register <http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/retrieve.html> volume 70, page 29727).

Is Constitution Day Unconstitutional? Check out the  American Constitution Society Blog at http://www.acsblog.org/bill-of-rights-unconstitutional-constitution-day.html

 


Posted by draweiner at 12:54 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, 2 June 2009 8:13 AM EDT
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
World Population Day 11 July 2008
Topic: Events

World Population Day 11 July 2008

In 1968, world leaders proclaimed that individuals have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and timing of their children. Forty years later, modern contraception remains out of reach for hundreds of millions of women, men and young people.

This year’s World Population Day reaffirms the right of people to plan their families. It encourages activities, events and information that will help make this right real – especially for those who often have the hardest time getting the information and services they need to plan their families, such as marginalized populations and young people.

When people can plan their families, they can plan their lives. They can plan to beat poverty. They can plan on healthier mothers and children. They can plan to gain equality for women. Plan to support World Population Day this year!

Plan to beat poverty. Plan to gain equality. Plan to beat maternal death.


Posted by draweiner at 5:18 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, 2 June 2009 8:14 AM EDT
Friday, 18 January 2008
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day - February 7, 2008
Topic: HIV/AIDS
 

The mission of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) is to build the capacity and increase awareness, participation and support for HIV prevention, care and treatment among African Americans. February 7, 2008 marks the eighth year of this annual event.

The primary goal of NBHAAD is to motivate African Americans to get tested and know their HIV status; get educated about the transmission modes of HIV/AIDS; get involved in their local community; and get treated if they are currently living with HIV or are newly diagnosed.

 


Posted by draweiner at 3:47 PM EST
Updated: Tuesday, 2 June 2009 8:15 AM EDT
National Wear Red Day - February 1, 2008
Topic: Events

National Wear Red Day —February 1, 2008 is a day when Americans nationwide will wear red to show their support for women's heart disease awareness.  This observance promotes the Red Dress symbol and provides an opportunity for everyone to unite in this life-saving awareness movement by showing off a favorite red dress, shirt, or tie, or Red Dress Pin.


Posted by draweiner at 3:10 PM EST
Updated: Tuesday, 2 June 2009 8:15 AM EDT
Saturday, 5 January 2008
Living Wage Resource Center
Topic: Resources

Welcome to ACORN's Living Wage Resource Center website. What you will find here is a brief history of the national living wage movement, background materials such as ordinance summaries and comparisons, drafting tips, research summaries, talking points, and links to other living wage-related sites. (Please also visit www.raisewages.org for the latest on minimum wage ballot initiatives across the country).


Posted by draweiner at 4:42 PM EST
Updated: Tuesday, 2 June 2009 8:15 AM EDT
Thursday, 22 November 2007
Clothesline Project at MCNY

Has anyone had a chance to visit the MCNY Clothesline Project on the 12th floor? We can thank Pat Gay and the Mentor Program for bringing this though provoking project to our school.

If you want to learn more about this national movement to raise awareness about domestic violence you can go to The Clothesline Project.
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Posted by draweiner at 12:02 AM EST
Updated: Wednesday, 4 June 2008 8:44 PM EDT
Monday, 24 September 2007
Research Resources on Turnitin

Has anyone noticed that at the bottom of the page on Turnitin there is a link to "Research Resources"?

 

Check it out. 


Posted by draweiner at 4:03 PM EDT
Updated: Monday, 24 September 2007 4:06 PM EDT
Monday, 3 September 2007
Broken Promises: 2 Years After Katrina

 

Broken Promises, a comprehensive report from the ACLU, documents the terrible conditions and dangerous lack of planning at the Orleans Parish Prison, and details other increases in police abuse, racial profiling, housing discrimination, along with other civil liberties violations and the ACLU's continuing response.

2 Years After Katrina: Broken Promises


Posted by draweiner at 8:52 AM EDT
Updated: Monday, 3 September 2007 8:53 AM EDT
Saturday, 25 August 2007
Mondo Wikipedia

Village Voice

Education Supplement 2006
by Rachel Aviv
January 10th, 2006 12:32 PM
 
Last fall, students at the University of South Florida contributed to Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, by writing entries for numpty, mohoger, japsoc, and gavilan. The definitions they gave were foggy (numpty, "tea from the land of nump"; gavilan, "a species of left-wing American focused solely on doom and gloom"). Their English professor, Alex Duensing, encouraged them to dream up more entries. When members of Wikipedia protested, he argued that his class had a "fundamental right to shape reality."

 


Posted by draweiner at 1:03 AM EDT

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