Hello everyone! I started teaching in 1998 and have been a faculty member of Kingsborough’s English department since 2008. I haven’t yet decided if I am going to adapt Eng 24: Composition II or Eng 43: Drama on the Commons, but the aspect I would like to preserve (and improve) is the same for each. For either choice, the most functional part of my Blackboard course is also its most dysfunctional. In my BB shells, I always devote one of the side tabs to collect essential documents and links that can be referred throughout the semester. For my composition courses, it might be helpful handouts I’ve come across about writing,…

Hello, I’m Sarah Dillon, an art historian in Kingsborough’s Art Department. I have been teaching with Open Education Resources (OER) for a while now, thanks in large part to the efforts of Smarthistory, an OER with the mission of making “public art history.” I mention this at the outset because I am extremely grateful for resources like this, which have helped me move away from the traditional textbook model, but also because such resources put art historians like me in a somewhat unique position. With such an abundance of high-quality material available, I often find myself focusing more on curating and presenting the information in ways that best support my…