Touchstone

 

Touchstone is the Journal of the Professor Magda Vasillov Center for Teaching and Learning. In linking the power of teaching to a broadening of our vision, Eugenio María de Hostos affirmed the power of education. In honor of our namesake’s belief, we have created Touchstone, a new journal devoted to the scholarship of teaching and learning and published yearly by the Magda Vasillov Center for Teaching and Learning.

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Submissions from 2011

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Everything you wanted to know about teaching and learning with technology but were afraid to ask: an online facilitators' inquiry-based investigation group, Sarah Brennan, Sandy Figueroa, and Sherese Mitchell

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Facebook avatars, or doppelgangers, for the academician: eMentoring turned educational campaign, Jennifer Tang and Sarah Brennan

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Saturday in the park with Franz and Joyce, Julie Trachman, William A. Casari, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez, Flor Henderson, Yoel Rodriguez, and Jason Libfeld

Submissions from 2010

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Dramatophobia to Theatrophilia, Dennis Bates

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Teaching Remedial Mathematics for Conceptual Understanding: Student Response, Alice Cunningham

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The Writing on the Wall: Celebrating National Day on Writing at Hostos Community College, Andrea Fabrizio and Linda Hirsch

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Confessions of a WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum) Groupie, Sandy Figueroa

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Creating Venues for Student Interactions with the Community College, Flor Henderson

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Carving a Path of Sustainability in Hostos Community College, Flor Henderson, Julie Trachman, Olga Steinberg, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez, and Yoel Rodriguez

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Touchstone Volume 3.1 (Spring 2010), Hostos Community College

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Questioning Cliches: Gender Analysis in History, Ernest Ialongo

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Business Ethics Education: How Well are we Preparing Students to Handle Ethical Issues at Work?, Hector Lopez

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Introduction, Touchstone, Kim Sanabria

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Collaboration in the Design Classroom, Rees E. E. Shad

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Talking Until we are "Flu" in our Faces (Taking Microbiology from Theory to Reality), Julie Trachman

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A Business Approach to Teaching Quadratic Functions, Alexander Vaninsky

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Preface to Touchstone, Lucinda Zoe

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From the Classroom to the Concourse: Studying the Grand Concourse to Discover One's Community, Elyse Zucker and William A. Casari

Submissions from 2009

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General Education Inquiry Groups: The story of a Pedagogical Conversation, Gina Cicco

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Touchstone Volume 2.1 (Spring 2009), Hostos Community College

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Hostos Library Fall 2008 Satisfaction Survey: Results and Discussion, Kate Lyons and Elisabeth Tappeiner

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What is Cheating About?, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez

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My 20-Year Research Journey for a New Species of Spiders, or How to Come to a New Discovery, Vladimir Ovtcharenko

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Use of a Triple-entry Journal Assignment in a Writing Intensive Microbiology Course Section to Help Students to Read and Write more Effectively, Julie Trachman

Submissions from 2008

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Touchstone Volume 1.1 (Spring 2008), Hostos Community

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Crossing Academic Domains: Creating a Learning Environment in Faculty Teamwork, Paula Korsko and Kate Lyons

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Library Services on the Cutting Edge: Reaching the Net Generation, Miriam Laskin

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Business Education, Internships and Students' Transition to Work-- Are Students Meeting Employers' Expectations?, Hector Lopez

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The Learning Profiles of Hostos Community College Students, Christine Mangino

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Socrates in the South Bronx, Gregory Marks

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Teaching Anatomy and Physiology Beyond the Boundaries of the Classroom, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez

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Education for Sexual Harassment Prevention: Which Training Technique Works Best?, Amy Ramson

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Celebration of The Committee on Beautiful Ideas, Judith Summerfield