As we near the end of the semester, we wanted to give a huge shout out and thank you to our ECT community of PhD, DMDL, G4L students and alumni who have gone out of their way to support and (re)build our community this semester as we continue to navigate challenging and trying times.
We want to thank DMDL alumni, Maurice Boothe Jr, Tracey Hagan and Carl Hewitt, who launched a brand new "ECT Alumni Ambassador" meetup group, current DMDL students Ruobing Su, Viktoriia Zykina and Chitvan Bindal who are designing tools that will help students navigate course selection, and Sam Azzaro, DMDL alum, for enhancing academic and life skills resources on the student site.
Lastly thanks to our ECT Mock Interviewers (Barry Joseph , Marjan Ghara, Devin Fitzgibbons, Matthew Marsaglia, Tracey Hagan, Yarmine Jimenez, Kimmie Bernstein, Remberto Jimenez, Lexie Bryan, Anna Zhang, Maurice Boothe Jr, Jeff Brenneman.) Without you, we wouldn't have been able to complete a successful ECT Career series this semester hosted by Janelle Viruet and Jeneva Hall.
ECT Community Spotlights
Featured Alum: Trang Tran (DMDL, 2020)
Program Manager, YSEALI Academy at Fulbright University Vietnam
DMDL alum, Trang Tran recently created a popular Youtube channel about learning design which has gained traction in Vietnam, so she recently translated them into English as well. Check out her videos on Gamification and Game-based Learning as well a short and highly engaging video on Cognitive Load.
Read more about Trang here >>
Q&A with ECT professor, Xavier Ochoa
Assistant Professor of Learning Analytics Director of Augment-Ed lab
In this interview by DMDL student, Chitvan Bindal talks to Xavier about what led him to teaching, his experiences and his research.
Q&A with Claire (Yiwen) Wang (DMDL, 2018)
Senior Product Designer, Curriculum Associates. (Linkedin)
DMDL alum, Roxy Ho, interviews Claire Wang about her journey to Senior Product Designer, making a career change, and advice on gaining experience as an international student.
Read full interview with Claire here >>
Read full interview with Claire here >>
In Other News..
Jan L. Plass, ECT professor and founding director of the CREATE Consortium for Research and Evaluation of Advanced Technology in Education released their free VR science learning simulations "Looking Inside: Cells" developed in collaboration with NYU FRL & supported by Verizon on the Steam platform.
Garima Sharma (DMDL '19) worked on a team at Sanitation Foundation (a charity partner of Department of Sanitation New York) to develop an interactive, illustrated game and educational tool that follows the waste streams of New York City from proper sorting to final destination. Check out the game here.
Congrats to Jade Kearney (DMDL '20) who was featured by TechCrunch on her app to help black women who suffer from postpartum depression.
We are proud of all our ECT accepted papers and presenters in the 12th Annual Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK22) in April, and especially excited that two were student-led efforts.
Unpacking Instructors’ Analytics Use: Two Distinct Profiles for Informing Teaching Qiujie Li, Yeonji Jung, Bernice D’Anjou & Alyssa Wise
Towards a Pragmatic & Theory-Driven Framework for Multimodal Collaboration Feedback - Maurice Boothe Jr., Collin Yu, Armanda Lewis & Xavier Ochoa
Participatory & Co-Design of Learning Analytics: An Initial Review of the Literature - Juan Sarmiento & Alyssa Wise
An Exploratory Evaluation of a Collaboration Feedback Report - Vanessa Echeverria, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Xavier Ochoa & Katherine Chiluiza
Have an update you'd like us to include in our next newsletter? Please email Jeneva Halll, ECT ops manager
ECT Community Events/News
You are invited to join us for our end-of-semester celebration where graduating DMDL and G4L students present creative and inspiring thesis projects across a wide range of educational media and technologies and various contexts and domains and where we celebrate the end of another successful semester for our entire ECT community!
FRIDAY, MAY 13th ||. 3:00PM - 6:30 PM EDT
Join via zoom or In-person (370 Jay st, Brooklyn), RSVP required
New Student Welcome Corner
We are super excited to welcome our Fall 2022 incoming DMDL, G4l and PhD students to the program!
Still have questions? We'll soon be sending you an invite to our ECT orientation for PhD, DMDL and G4L students in late August!
Do you want to read up on things you'll be learning about or skills before officially starting your program? Check out our New Student Resources page and/or join our online communities to learn more about what's going on!
Please meet with your advisor to get cleared to register for classes if you haven’t already! (Registration opens June 6th!) If you have any questions about registration please see our registration info page.
Get Involved!
There are many ways to get involved, meet peers and faculty and stay connected! Here are just a few...
There are many ways to get involved, meet peers and faculty and stay connected! Here are just a few...
ECT Community Hour
Open to our entire community!
A time to chat, ask questions, get to know peers and alums. Drop in for a few minutes or the whole hour. All welcome! See ECT events schedule for more details.
Join here via Zoom!
Get Involved!
Are you looking for ways to get more involved and meet people? Join us in designing our ECT space, becoming our social media moderator for a month, organizing student events or writing for a future newsletter!
Contact Jeneva Hall (jh6135@nyu.edu) or Maaike Bouwmeester (mb262@nyu.edu) for more info!
Let's get Social
Explore other ways to stay connected via our Slack, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn channels.
Thanks to our Spring 2022 ECT Newsletter Co-Editors!
Maaike Bouwmeester, ECT Program Director
Jeneva Hall, Operations Administrator
Chitvan Bindal , DMDL Student
Trang Tran, DMDL (2020)
Graphic Design: Momo Zhai, DMDL student