Announcements: Class

• Please remind me to press “RECORD” if needed.
• Please type in the chat: games that interest you right now.
• For those interested in cybersecurity: a CSAW panel on “Strengthening Diversity & Representation in Cybersecurity” immediately follows today’s class.
• Looking ahead to Thanksgiving (NYU Provost)
• NYU Free Flu Shots
• Last chance:
  • Phase 2 Suggestions
  • Soul of Reason: Episodes that interest you

Agenda 

• Jamboard on Election Tech
• Sasha Kinney, DeCOALonize.org (interactive map here)
  • Remote Work Guidance
• If there’s time:
  • Resource of the day, Medical Bias Clips
  • Student Blog Spot Talk (chosen at random) 
  • Diversity and Design and accessibility

Assignments

• Due Tuesday, 11/10: 
  • Phase 2, Blog Post #6. Discuss Sasha Kinney’s
    • Remote Work Guidance, particularly its implications for advocacy, justice, and security, and/or
    • Environmental work with Save Lamu and DeCOALonize, as visualized in this environmental impact model map (choose Kenya from the menu at left) and discussed in the first 8 minutes of this explainer video. For further resources on this work, see the Extra Credit section below.
  • Before class on Tuesday, play a round of a game called Guess The Candidate by NYU Verbatim Performance Lab (VPL) in advance of a visit from VPL’s founder. Tuesday’s class will focus on D&T through performance and games.

Announcements: Extra Credit

• Events: 
  • 11/4 – 11/6: CMD-IT Grad School Fair
  • 11/5 – 11/8: CSAW (Cybersecurity Awareness Worldwide) Games and Conference, sponsored by NYU
    • A panel on “Strengthening Diversity & Representation in Cybersecurity” immediately follows today’s class.
  • All November: Post-Election Programming and Resources (NYU Office of Global Inclusion)
• Reading:
  • Election night marks the end of one phase of campaign 2020 – and the start of another (Pew Research data piece)
  • Save Lamu links: 
    • “Lamu Old Town under Increased Pressure from Proposed Mega Infrastructure Development” (pp. 153-155 of World Heritage Watch 2020)
    • Complaint regarding the International Finance Corporation’s investments in Kenya Commercial Bank and Co-Operative Bank of Kenya (Accountability Counsel)
    • Arlene’s Remote Sensing Notes for Natural Justice (used to compile Fig. 2 in the World Heritage Watch Report)

Opportunities

• Sesame Workshop Writers’ Room fellowship applications open soon. 
• NYU Pipelines in Quantitative Aging Research Summer Program
• NYU Makerspace $50 Mini-Grants