Luis Alvarado
Personal Website
http://www.luisalvarado.com
This website contains information about Luis’ current projects, work experience, professional goals and contact information.

Fran Apfel
Adult and Career Counseling Resource Center Website
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/accrcweb
This is an interactive website designed to assist adults with career planning an development. Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks were used to create the site.

Victoria Badalamenti
The English Language Center Faculty Website
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/telc (password: telcfaculty).
This site , co-created with Liz Iannotti serves as a resource for English Language Center faculty. Curriculum, assessment, department policies, schedules, sample course outlines and lesson plans, links to ESL related sites are included. Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks were used to create the site.

Jennifer Horton Benichou
Website and BlackBoard Sites for Intermediate Level ESL Class
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/jhorton/course_topics/stress
These web and BlackBoard sites serve as tools for students to access research materials and as a presentation arena for students’ work. Additionally Weblogs, teacher-students communication tools as well as WebQuests, inquiry-based learning tools, have been integrated into the class. The current site includes a unit on stress, incorporating a StressQuest, Stress PowerPoint, relevant links and student work.

Catherine Burland
Program for Deaf Adults—Continuing Education Website
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/pda/ace (click on Continuing Education Program).
This site offers program, service and resource information for both students and faculty. Dreamweaver and Flash were used to create this site.

Monica Courtney
Websites for High Intermediate Level ESL Classes
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/mcourtney
These sites provide students with activities, links, class handouts and BlackBoard discussion topics. Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks were used to create these sites.

Drawing from the Neighborhood Digital Video
Contact Monica Courtney directly if you would like to view the video. This digital video project focuses on students observing and interviewing people in the surrounding environs of LaGuardia (MOMA, subway, art studio, bookstore, etc.) The video captures these experiences along with scenes from the LaGuardia art studio where students created drawings of the neighborhood. I-Movie and Fireworks were used to create this digital video.

The Art of Beauty Digital Video
Contact Monica Courtney directly if you would like to view the video. For this digital video project, high intermediate level ESL students were lent digital camcorders and asked to choose a topic related to beauty (Central Park, architecture, food, etc). Students shot scenes related to their chosen topic and then edited their films. I-Movie was used to create this digital video.

Mae Dick
Adult Learning Center BlackBoard Site
Contact Mae Dick directly if you care to view the site as a guest. This BlackBoard site, co-created with Ellen Quish, serves as a resource tool for faculty at the Adult Learning Center. The site contains links to professional resources such as the Literacy Assistance Center and the Center for Applied Linguistics, documents (ALC Teachers’ Handbook, student guide, class schedules, Research Foundation pay schedules, etc), course outlines and curriculum reports from teachers, email lists so users can email one another, Discussion Board (featuring prompts related to teaching concerns) and samples of student work.
There are plans to include a Digital Video on the BlackBoard site, which will show students and teachers talking about their experiences at the Adult Learning Center. One of the goals for this BlackBoard site is to inspire teachers to see BlackBoard as a way of setting up “courses” with their students.

Carolyn Grimaldi
Student PowerPoint Presentations for Beginning ESL Classes
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/cgrimaldi/powerpoint/theempirestatebuilding.ppt
In conjunction with the theme of the class, “Travel,” students were given a final research project to research a new place in New York City or the United States via the Internet and other readings, visit that place if possible, and put together a PowerPoint presentation about that place. The presentation required students to inform their classmates why their selection was an interesting place and provide information classmates needed if they wanted to visit that place.
Class Website (in development)
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/cgrimaldi
The purpose of this class website is to have a place to post digital pictures taken in class along with writing done by students so they can read each others’ writing clearly and easily, and feel proud about publishing and sharing their work. It is also a place to put up pictures of field trips or other links, which students can view, reflect on and write about. In addition, it is a place where they can post other media projects, such as videos or PowerPoint presentations.
Center for Immigrant Education and Training Website (in process of revision)
http://dev.lagcc.cuny.edu/CIET
This purpose of the department website is to clearly and easily share and promote the work faculty and staff do at the Center for funders, the press, and other organizations who work in the same field.
Staff BlackBoard Site
Contact Carolyn Grimaldi directly if you wish to view the site as a guest.The purpose of this BlackBoard site is to have organized information easily available for faculty and staff members, particularly part-times, related to department announcements, policies, sample course outlines, resources, etc. Everything is posted and accessed on-line, similar to a website, although it is much easier to set up. It is also password protected so that only current faculty and staff are able to access information.

Adjoa Gzifa

Liz Iannotti
Websites for High Intermediate and Advanced Level ESL Classes
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/eiannotti
These websites feature inquiry-based projects, discussion board topics, and class handouts. Currently, students are working on digital stories, which will be published on the website. Dreamweaver and Fireworks were used to design the sites.
The English Language Center Faculty Website
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/telc (password: telcfaculty)
This site, co-created with Victoria Badalamenti serves as a resource for English Language Center faculty. Curriculum, assessment, department policies, schedules, sample course outlines and lesson plans, links to ESL related sites are included. Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks were used to create the site.
Digital Story Project
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/eiannotti/telc7.2
For this project, students learned how to choose images, write a script, record their voices and edit the finished product.

Patti Juza
College Prep Website
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/collegeprep
Co-created with Mimi Blaber, Roderick Graham, Judith Gazzola and Frank Rodriguez, this site includes information and resources for current and prospective adult and continuing education students related to applying to college, choosing a major/career, financial aid and scholarships. Dreamweaver was used to design this site.
BlackBoard Sites for Advanced Level ESL Students
Contact Patti Juza directly if you would like to view the sites as a guest.These sites include course outline, daily assignments, research projects, relevant links, Discussion Board topics, and online quizzes.
Website for Advanced Level ESL Students
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/pjuza
This website focuses on the semester text, Fast Food Nation. Course outline, reading and inquiry research activities, Discussion Board topics and website resources are included. Dreamweaver and Fireworks were used to create this site.
BlackBoard Site for Graduate Students in TESOL
Contact Patti Juza directly if you would like to view the site as a guest.This site includes
class handouts, Discussion Board topics, web resources on curriculum, ESL standards,
materials and assessment.

Sue K. Livingston
Website for Deaf Writers
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/slivings
This site features the best essays written by Deaf students in their English 099 (Basic Writing) class. What is unique about it is at selected parts of each student’s essay, there is a place to click which automatically pops up as a comment. The comment explains what element of writing is done well in the next sentence or sentences. These pop up features help students craft their essays because they see exactly how the element of good writing works in the context of a whole text. The website is used each week in the writing class as an instructional tool. Dreamweaver was used to create the site.
BlackBoard Site for Adjunct Reading and Writing Instructors in the Program for
Deaf Adults
Contact Sue Livingston directly if you would like to view this site as a guest.This site features course syllabi, teaching materials, tests, evaluation forms and required texts.
Inquiry-based Research Assignment
Contact Sue Livingston directly if you would like to view this assignment.This assignment asked CSE (basic reading) students to discover the possible roots of apartheid. The research assignment was created as a 5-week unit and is posted on a course BlackBoard site.

Michael McCulloh
E-Portfolio Projects for High Beginning-Low Intermediate Level ESL Classes
http://clip.lagcc.cuny.edu/E2ASum04/summer04.htm
http://clip.lagcc.cuny.edu/E1BSp04/portsp04.htm
http://clip.lagcc.cuny.edu/E2CW04/portw04.htm
These electronic portfolios display students’ writing and inquiry-based research projects.
Digital Inquiry Project for High Beginning-Low Intermediate Level ESL Class
http://clip.lagcc.cuny.edu/E2ASum04/summer04.htm
This project involved a field trip to the Jamaica Bay Refuge, where students shot digital
video of the surrounding nature and wildlife. Students then conducted web-based research
on birds they observed at the refuge, wrote essays and created and recorded a script,
which corresponded with the field trip video.

Nya N. Manyansa Odedefaa

Ellen Quish
BlackBoard Sites for ESL Classes
Contact Ellen Quish directly if you care to view the sites as a guest.These sites include
inquiry-based projects and student PowerPoint presentations.
Adult Learning Center BlackBoard Site
Contact Ellen Quish directly if you care to view the site as a guest.This BlackBoard site,
co-created with Mae Dick, serves as a resource tool for faculty at the Adult Learning
Center. The site contains links to professional resources such as the Literacy Assistance
Center and the Center for Applied Linguistics, documents (ALC Teachers’ Handbook,
student guide, class schedules, Research Foundation pay schedules, etc), course outlines
and curriculum reports from teachers, email lists so users can email one another,
Discussion Board (featuring prompts related to teaching concerns) and samples of student
work. There are plans to include a Digital Video on the BlackBoard site, which will show
students and teachers talking about their experiences at the Adult Learning Center. One
of the goals for this BlackBoard site is to inspire teachers to see BlackBoard as a way
of setting up “courses” with their students.

Elizabeth Riker
Digital Story Projects for ESL Classes
Contact Elizabeth Riker directly to view digital story projects.These projects focus on
students creating stories by incorporating images, writing scripts, recording this voices,
integrating music and editing the final product. PowerPoint and QuickTime are used to
create the digital stories.