About
I am graduate student in the English doctoral program at the CUNY Graduate Center in NYC. After finishing my masters in English with a certificate in teaching at two-year colleges at DePaul University in Chicago, I was an adjunct in Northeast Pennsylvania for two years. I am currently a graduate intern at BMCC, where I teach two sections of English 101 or 201 per semester. I am studying the relationship between technology and writing, which leads me to take classes in composition and rhetoric, textual studies, and the digital humanities. I am enrolled in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program under the direction of Dr. Steven Brier, and I am also an active member of both the Digital Humanities Initiative and the GC Composition & Rhetoric Group. The purpose of this blog is to centralize my thoughts on the role of technology in my scholarship and teaching. You can also follow me on twitter @amandalicastro.
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good luck with your blog – like the skin, and certainly drawn by the blog’s title.
…but here because of a looong path, via WP themes, then wanting to know what BuddyPress is, then following BP’s link to institutions using BP, then to Cuny’s list of blogs… and voila!
postgraduate study too huh?
well, if you;re going to be an academic, it’s as good a way as any to be ‘dyed in the family ways’ – for all other professions, well, hmmm. standards are falling all over, and so, a BA is not worth much these days, hence the need to acquire higher quals – and the university’s need to encourage more students for underwriting their financial position – hence dropping standards and so on.
my advice – study is its own reward. the rest is just a job.
best wishes,
L