In an email from President James Muyskens to the Queens College community:

qcmailer/COMM/Staff/Queens College wrote on 07/02/2009 03:55:59 PM:

> I am pleased to announce that Judith Summerfield, whom many of you
> know from her previous years at this college, will be returning to
> campus to become the Acting Dean for General Education. This is
> especially fortuitous for us as, besides being a prolific scholar
> and award-winning educator, Judith was the City University’s Dean
> for Undergraduate Education for the last six years. This fall,
> thanks to the extraordinary work of our Academic Senate, we will
> begin our Year of General Education in which we will introduce our
> new curriculum, Perspectives on the Liberal Arts and Sciences
> (Perspectives), to the class of 2013. Judith—who at various times at
> the college was Co-director of FYI, Acting Dean of the Arts and
> Humanities, and Dean for Undergraduate Education—is the right person
> at the right time to ensure that the first year of our new
> curriculum is a success.

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The Center for Teaching and Learning, the Writing Across the Curriculum program and the Educational Technology Lab are pleased to announce the opportunity for faculty to incorporate weblogs into their courses during the approaching fall '09 semester.

Our current license is for 1,000 users, and course blogs will be created on a first-come, first-served basis. If you're interested in using Movable Type in a course this fall, please register online by August 14.

This opportunity comes as part of the college's ongoing pilot program with Movable Type blogging software. A flexible, user-friendly software, Movable Type has been used in more than 75 classes over the past six semesters. Both faculty and students have been very enthusiastic. Students have been energized by the process of authoring blogs, and faculty have been impressed by the quality of the writing that emerges when students are writing in the public forum created by the blogs. You can read more about the project in an article in an issue of FYI.

The CTL, WAC and the Lab will offer support--both technical and pedagogical--for the software, including an orientation meeting, workshops on MT’s advanced capabilities, and in-class demonstrations as needed. You can get a sense of the software and the support available by taking a look at the MT portal page, "Blogging at Queens College," and the support page, "Blog Tutorials" :

Typically, faculty have used Movable Type in one of the following ways:

1. To create individual blogs, linked to each other through a blogroll, for every member of a course.

2. To create a single blog to which every member of a course or department has posting privileges.

3. To offer students templates for uploading Web content and creating student-authored Web pages.

4. To create individual blogs within an interface that doubles as a course home page.

Movable Type can be used in other creative ways as well, such as a platform from which to present an on-line publication. See (on-line, powered by Movable Type) the spring '08 issue of WAC's Revisions 'zine.

If you have questions about using the software so that it's manageable and serves your course goals, or if you would like links to some sample blogs so you can see what the software can do, please contact Boone Gorges by email (Boone.Gorges@qc.cuny.edu) or phone (718-997-4857).