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)
- 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.
- Phase 2, Blog Post #6. Discuss Sasha Kinney’s
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