REES SHAD

In this terrific NYT article about Stanford’s D-School you get an idea of how the design centers around user centered iterative design.  Often students at Hostos’ Media Design Programs ask why we require them

Hostos Game Design Student Jon Molina will present his game “Salty Dogs”  along with Professor Matthew Bethancourt at the CUNY GAMES FESTIVAL on Friday, January 18th. IN addition Professor Rees Shad will be

Now Students can easily search for writing Intensive classes with CUNY FIRST’s Class Search-Course Attribute screen.

Merely Enter the Institution (Hostos), choose the proper term (for example Spring

Sign up and get started on your journey!  This class is an excellent introduction to business practice and helps budding media entrepreneurs develop the skills necessary for starting up as an indie designer…or

For the first time ever at CUNY –  math and science classes that augment traditional teaching methodologies with game play and student lead game design to engage students more deeply with the material.  These

This annual award program is aimed at increasing the number of African-Americans,
American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asian Pacific Americans, and Hispanic Americans enrolling in and completing undergraduate and

All these classes are available now on CUNY First.  Sign up today!

Calling all musical performers!  We are looking for a handful of talented students to be featured in the Hostos Helping concert on December 6th.  All styles accepted – just no karaoke.  You gotta make all the

Hostos Helping – Typhoon Haiyan Relief Fund

In the wake of the utter devastation to so much of the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan, the Hostos community is coming together to help raise funds.  These funds

Here, Professor Rees Shad describes the concept he and his colleague Professor Catherine Lewis Cannon have devised. In this presentation, recorded in the Fall of 2013, Shad outlines the development of the concept

It’s time to preregister for your Winter and Spring classes!  Here’s what to do:
 Go to the Apple Lab in C515 and fill out an Advisement Survey form. (ask a CLA if you need help)
 Don’t forget to fill in your

Here’s a terrific article from the New York Times that talks about admissions officers attention to student’s online identities as well as their submitted materials. Being that there has been a lot of attention

An introductory video to the Hive Cooperative’s game ‘I’ve Got a Theory’ created for the G-FMS initiative at Hostos Community College in order to introduce students to the scientific method while exploring

The Fall 2013 Media Design All Majors meeting had a record turnout with 176 students gathering to get updates on the programs, related clubs, student services, and upcoming activities.  Professor Cannon’s

Interesting appraisal of game design and game play here in a piece from the New York Times…

Games are exercises in appraising your position and making decisions. I’m interested in that strength-building b

August 4th -7th, 2013

Over the course of these production days, the Hive worked feverishly to develop playable versions of our initial game concepts in a finished format that included clear and well-written

August 3, 2013

Chris Aiken joined the troop in the morning, arriving by train at Southeast where I picked him up. The two of us then went to Home Depot to get larger Rubbermaid containers in order to protect

August 2, 2013

Focusing on the development of elements for the latest iterations of I’ve Got A Theory and Graphing Go, while I worked in the studio focusing on producing four short audio overview pieces for t

August 1, 2013

Up bright and early to run to the printer and get vinyl printouts of Elijah’s board designs for Double-Cross and Argyle, as the team dug into further development of the projects at hand.

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July 31, 2013

The day began with a systematic playtesting of several of the initial game designs in order to establish, problems that might be occurring, to develop written rule sets, to recognize what graphic