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.
WebsiteSubmissions from 2011
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
Facebook avatars, or doppelgangers, for the academician: eMentoring turned educational campaign, Jennifer Tang and Sarah Brennan
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
Dramatophobia to Theatrophilia, Dennis Bates
Teaching Remedial Mathematics for Conceptual Understanding: Student Response, Alice Cunningham
The Writing on the Wall: Celebrating National Day on Writing at Hostos Community College, Andrea Fabrizio and Linda Hirsch
Confessions of a WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum) Groupie, Sandy Figueroa
Creating Venues for Student Interactions with the Community College, Flor Henderson
Carving a Path of Sustainability in Hostos Community College, Flor Henderson, Julie Trachman, Olga Steinberg, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez, and Yoel Rodriguez
Touchstone Volume 3.1 (Spring 2010), Hostos Community College
Questioning Cliches: Gender Analysis in History, Ernest Ialongo
Business Ethics Education: How Well are we Preparing Students to Handle Ethical Issues at Work?, Hector Lopez
Introduction, Touchstone, Kim Sanabria
Collaboration in the Design Classroom, Rees E. E. Shad
Talking Until we are "Flu" in our Faces (Taking Microbiology from Theory to Reality), Julie Trachman
A Business Approach to Teaching Quadratic Functions, Alexander Vaninsky
Preface to Touchstone, Lucinda Zoe
From the Classroom to the Concourse: Studying the Grand Concourse to Discover One's Community, Elyse Zucker and William A. Casari
Submissions from 2009
General Education Inquiry Groups: The story of a Pedagogical Conversation, Gina Cicco
Touchstone Volume 2.1 (Spring 2009), Hostos Community College
Hostos Library Fall 2008 Satisfaction Survey: Results and Discussion, Kate Lyons and Elisabeth Tappeiner
What is Cheating About?, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez
My 20-Year Research Journey for a New Species of Spiders, or How to Come to a New Discovery, Vladimir Ovtcharenko
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
Touchstone Volume 1.1 (Spring 2008), Hostos Community
Crossing Academic Domains: Creating a Learning Environment in Faculty Teamwork, Paula Korsko and Kate Lyons
Library Services on the Cutting Edge: Reaching the Net Generation, Miriam Laskin
Business Education, Internships and Students' Transition to Work-- Are Students Meeting Employers' Expectations?, Hector Lopez
The Learning Profiles of Hostos Community College Students, Christine Mangino
Socrates in the South Bronx, Gregory Marks
Teaching Anatomy and Physiology Beyond the Boundaries of the Classroom, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez
Education for Sexual Harassment Prevention: Which Training Technique Works Best?, Amy Ramson
Celebration of The Committee on Beautiful Ideas, Judith Summerfield