Barnard Teaches: Real Place + Digital Access is a technology and place-based learning initiative made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This major grant supports curricular innovation using new technologies through active faculty collaborations with curators, archivists, and collection managers at New York City institutions such as museums, libraries, and archives.
Clips are from the following courses: A Virtual Enlightenment, New York City's Gilded Ages, and The Worlds of Ntozake Shange and Digital Storytelling.
Concept
New courses with place-based learning and digital components:
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Students learn at New York City institutions
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Digital components enhance and enrich the learning experience
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Collaborations between faculty, curators, and digital innovators create new points of access to share and learn information
Goals
- Create prototypes for innovative pedagogical models of teaching
- Utilize resources at NYC institutions
- Use technology to enhance learning
- Teach practical digital skills
- Assess and repeat – lessons learned from the first course are applied to the second run of the course
Courses
*Listed in order of first course offering
A Virtual Enlightenment
Anne Higonnet, Professor of Art History
- Offered Spring 2015 and Fall 2016
- For more information, visit bt.barnard.edu/avirtualenlightenment
New York City's Gilded Ages
Kimberley Johnson, Former Professor of Urban Studies & Political Science
Meredith Linn, Former Assistant Term Professor of Anthropology in Urban Studies
- Offered Fall 2015 and Spring 2017
- For more information, visit bt.barnard.edu/nycgildedages
The Worlds of Ntozake Shange and Digital Storytelling
Kim F. Hall, Professor of Africana Studies & English
- Offered AY2015-2016, next offering TBD
- For more information, visit bcrw.barnard.edu/digitalshange/projects
Digital Footprints
Archival/New Media Research at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Paul Scolieri, Professor of Dance
- Offered Spring 2017 and Spring 2019
- For more information, visit bt.barnard.edu/digitalfootprints
Environmental Visualizations of NYC
Toxic Territories and Future Possibilities
Kadambari Baxi, Professor of Professional Practice in Architecture
Karen Fairbanks, Professor of Professional Practice in Architecture
- Offered Spring 2018, next offering TBD
- Course website coming soon
Plants and Profit: The Global Power of Botany
Hilary Callahan, Professor of Biology
- Offered Spring 2018 and Spring 2019
- Course website coming soon