CUNY Pathways & The Council of Digital Media Programs
Saturday, April 21st, 2012 Posted in LaGuardia, New Media, Tech Training, Technology | No Comments »A few months back I organized and hosted a panel discussion at John Jay College’s 10th Annual City University of New York (CUNY) IT Conference. The presentation was on “Creating a CUNY-wide approach towards Digital Media Programs” and focused on what ...
Visual Effects Course Development
Saturday, April 7th, 2012 Posted in Digital Video, LaGuardia, New Media, Technology | No Comments »On April 3, the New York City Investment Fund invited a group of educators and business people from the visual effects industry to a conference on changes within the entertainment sector. Over the past year the LaGuardia Media and Technology programs ...
LaGuardia Academic IT Committee
Friday, February 17th, 2012 Posted in ePortfolio, LaGuardia, New Media, Technology | No Comments »Back in January of this year, I was asked to join the new LaGuardia Academic IT Committee. This new committee has been convened by LaGuardia'Vice-President Katopes and Dean Arcario. Members of the group are tasked with the goals of creating ...
LaGuardia Online/Hybrid Teaching Seminar
Saturday, February 11th, 2012 Posted in LaGuardia, New Media, Publications & Presentations, Technology | No Comments »The above video is from a brief overview that I gave to some of my colleagues at LaGuardia Community College. I was asked to talk about some of the work that I am doing in converting my lectures from a ...
HTML5 Cheat Sheets
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 Posted in Digital Video, New Media, Tech Training, Technology | No Comments »Some of you might remember that I took an HTML5 and CSS3 training class at Noble Desktop a few months back. The class made me acutely aware of how important the newest version of HTML will be terms of web ...
Mobile App Training with AS3 and Adobe AIR
Friday, January 13th, 2012 Posted in Gaming, LaGuardia, New Media, Tech Job Scene, Tech Training, Technology | No Comments »One of the areas in new media that is experiencing phenomenal growth is mobile app development. Students see a large audience using smartphones and tablets, and as developers and entrepreneurs they want in on the market. I can't blame them. ...
Presentation: Creating a CUNY-wide approach towards Digital Media Programs
Sunday, December 4th, 2011 Posted in ePortfolio, LaGuardia, New Media, Publications & Presentations, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »The above video was from a presentation and panel discussion held at John Jay College's 10th Annual City University of New York (CUNY) IT Conference. The emerging nature of Digital Media has challenged the ability of universities to adapt to ...
Presentation: Motivating Students to Succeed
Monday, November 14th, 2011 Posted in ePortfolio, LaGuardia, Publications & Presentations, Technology | No Comments »LaGuardia's Center for Teaching and Learning is currently sponsoring a New Faculty Colloquium. The New Faculty Colloquium is a year-long seminar designed to acclimate new faculty to the institution and to acquaint them with various pedagogical approaches to teaching. I ...
LaGuardia Event: Ryan Charles speaks
Thursday, November 10th, 2011 Posted in LaGuardia, New Media, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »Over the past few months I have been working with Janice Karlen, a colleague of mine from the LaGuardia Business and Technology Department, to arrange for a guest speaker to come in and speak to our students. Janice thought it ...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Launch
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 Posted in Comics and Sci-Fi, Entertainment, Gaming, Lifestyle, Technology | No Comments »So last night I get in late from teaching an evening class and my son meets me at the door in damn near a panic. He tells me they are finalizing the pre-order sales for "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ...
