City Tech Stories Podcast

This episode explores services and workshops the library provides for the spring 2021 semester.

Want to listen, watch, or read some of the recommendations you heard discussed in this episode? Our show notes below have links to music, podcasts, tv shows, movies, books, and other media discussed in this episode. Thanks for listening!

One minor correction: David Chang (not Daniel Chang) is the host and creator of the podcast Recipe Club.

Music / Podcasts

WFMU

Arthur Russell

Bandcamp Fridays

Blood incantation

Witch Vomit

Bolt Thrower

Oranssi Pazuzu

Slayer

WBLS 107.5 fm radio in NYC

King Moody

Jungle Drew - Renditions and Jungle Sound

Luluc - Dreamboat

Recipe Club

Stuff you should know

Dreams (Fleetwood Mac Rumors)

Tik Tok skateboard guy

TV/ Movies

Lovecraft Country

Last Black Man in San Francisco

Coming to America

Haunting of Hill House

Haunting of Bly Manor

The New Mutants

Fortitude

The Love witch

Pennies from Heaven

First cow

Books, reading

Algorithms of Oppression (ebook at NYPL)

Evil Geniuses (ebook at NYPL)

In Cold Blood (ebook at NYPL)

The Sea, The Sea (ebook at NYPL)

Dream Delivery Service

ARS Nova PS

His Dark Materials (ebook at NYPL)

Tranny (ebook at NYPL)

Beastie Boys Book (ebook at NYPL)

NYC Downtown collection (Fales Library)

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen (ebook at NYPL)

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (audiobook at NYPL)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed (audiobook at NYPL)

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We were delighted to chat with Maya Marie - farmer, chef, food historian and educator - about her work at the KCC Urban Farm and her passion project, Seeds & Receipts. The conversation touched on austerity at CUNY, how the global pandemic has worsened those conditions, and the inherent hopefulness in farming.

Seeds & Receipts online: https://www.seedsandreceipts.com/

https://www.instagram.com/seedsandreceipts/ on Instagram

KCC Urban Farm online: kbcc.cuny.edu/cewd/urban_farm/kccurbanfarm.html

https://www.instagram.com/kccurbanfarm/ on Instagram

KCC Urban Farm's Food Education Program - Cook Bring it Home on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cookbringithome/

In this episode, Junior and Nora discuss changes at the City Tech Library during the pandemic. Even though the library is closed, we can still assist students and faculty with their research needs.

In this episode of CityTech Stories, we're focusing on Open Educational Resources - an alternative to the commercialized textbook industry, offering free, openly-licensed content. At CityTech, OER is supported by state grant funding, and implemented via the OER Faculty Fellowship, developed by Prof. Cailean Cooney.

Former OER Faculty Fellow, Professor Christopher Swift, talks about his experience using new materials, a Wordpress-based course site on the CityTech Openlab, and student engagement.

An excerpt, in regards to variation of classroom texts and activities:

"A physical, or kinesthetic, involvement with a material...if they can present the material vocally, work in groups where conversations are had, sketching to understand architecture and design..."open" doesn't mean 'online,' but you can find other types." (Prof. Christopher Swift).

Thank you for listening!

In this episode of CityTech Stories, we're focusing on Open Educational Resources - an alternative to the commercialized textbook industry, offering free, openly-licensed content. At CityTech, OER is supported by state grant funding, and implemented via the OER Faculty Fellowship, developed by Prof. Cailean Cooney.

Former OER Faculty Fellow, Professor Colleen Birchett talks about her experience developing a course site based on Open Educational Resources; the impact on students; differences between digital vs print; and content possibilities.

An excerpt, on the difference between OER and traditional textbooks:

"One of the limitations that I've faced as an instructor is the fixed content in a given textbook: someone else decides, and that's their worldview, and their pedagogical view. Whose voices get heard and whose don't? One of the things OER allows you to do, is to modify that...as issues come up on the international/national scene, you can adapt it more easily than you can a textbook."(Prof. Colleen Birchett)

Thank you for listening!

Prof. Nora Almeida interviews Prof. Nanette Johnson and her role as Access Services Librarian.

A transcription of this episode can be found here: https://library.citytech.cuny.edu/blog/introducing-city-tech-stories-podcast/