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Friends: At this website you will see the winners of the New York Times' "The Neighborhood Web Site Contest" in which "students participating in the CUNY Honors College seminar program in New York City created web sites about New York neighborhoods. Judges from CUNY and The New York Times selected five sites from among the 16 that the students completed to recognize. Unfortunately, my students did not win but I thought you might be interested in a visit to the site. http://www.nytimes.com/ref/college/coll_cunysites.html As a consolation, I will be presenting my own students' (non-winning) work at the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) meeting in San Francisco in August. Below is my proposal for the workshop session. I would be pleased to share my experience with list members electronically as well as making a campus visit to give a workshop or even develop a similar course as a short term visitor. The Teaching Visually concept makes it possible to work in any language. TEACHING VISUALLY My IVSA presentation will examine how Teaching Visually was accomplished in "Peopling of New York City" a Freshman Seminar in the City University of New York Honors College. I will provide participants with the curricular materials used in the course and at the session introduce the course. I will then present the work of the whole class and the final product - a website on which their collective efforts were presented. The course focused on images of immigrants to New York City in film (e.g. Scorsese - GANGS OF NEW YORK), photography (e.g. Jacob Riis - HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES), and other images such as newspaper drawings, artwork, etc. Where possible all sources and resources were on-line. Students also utilized a "webboard" for communicating with the instructor and with each other. The main text was my visually oriented study of a changing neighborhood SELF AND COMMUNITY IN THE CITY (1982) which was placed on-line, with photographs from the 1970s. One of the student teams did a photographic survey of the neighborhood to compare with the work done in the 1970s. Other student teams were responsible for different facets of the study: e-mail and telephone Interviews of current and past residents of the neighborhood; on-line newspaper searches using neighborhood names as key words; census and other data updating using Internet sources; and, web site development. A major sociological issue was how images of people effect the way they are treated in society. Students learned about immigration to the United States in general and New York City history in particular. They learned sociological concepts such as assimilation and stereotyping. They learned about data collection and archives. It is my belief that Virtual and Visual Methods enhance the teaching and learning of these theories, concepts, and sources of data. We should try to get visual learning and literacy into the curriculum as early as possible. With modification, this freshman level course can be taught in pre-college as well as advance undergraduate and even graduate study. BIBLIOGRAPHY / VIDEOGRAPHY Krase, Jerry (1982). SELF AND COMMUNITY IN THE CITY. Washington, D.C., University Press of America. Riis, Jacob A. (1957). HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES: STUDIES AMONG THE TENEMENTS OF NEW YORK. New York, Hill and Wang. Scorsese, Martin (2002). GANGS OF NEW YORK. USA, Mirimax Home Entertainment. All the best, Jerry Krase Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor Brooklyn College The City University of New York New York
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