CUNY Academic Commons

THE NEW MEDIA LAB (NML) assists City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center faculty and doctoral students from a variety of academic disciplines to create multimedia projects based on their own scholarly research. Our goal is to integrate new media into traditional academic practice, challenging scholars to develop fresh questions in their respective fields using the tools of new technology. The NML is committed to a vision of new technology based on open access to ideas, tools, and resources.

With ongoing support from CUNY, the New Media Lab has become a dynamic environment in which projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Old York Library Foundation, and other private and public sources demonstrate new approaches and methods of merging digital media, scholarship, and learning.

Located in room 7388.01 at the CUNY Graduate Center and run under the auspices of the Center for Media and Learning / American Social History Project, NML researchers:

work across academic disciplines to produce scholarly digital media projects;

analyze Internet usage in the educational, social, and commercial sectors;

construct 3-D environments that explore ways of visualizing the arts, humanities, and sciences

digitally archive and analyze a wide range of data
participate in public programs that address the critical intersection of knowledge and technology

This is a place where you can talk about and plan ways to coordinate, reorganize and contribute information in our Academic Commons Wiki.

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The CUNY Committee on Academic Technology was convened by Executive Vice Chancellor Alexandra Logue in Fall 2008. Chaired by George Otte, University Director of Academic Technology, the committee has members from each CUNY school and is responsible for the creation of the CUNY Academic Commons.

Group avatar by Don Solo.

a group for current and former students, faculty, and staff of the CUNY Graduate Center Certificate Program in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (http://web.gc.cuny.edu/itp/)

This is a group exploring the possibility of developing a new undergraduate information (studies? services? management? science?) degree through the School of Professional Studies.

A place to share ideas and best practices on planning, piloting, implementing, and/or assessing ePortfolios.

NCC Working Group

Project Stretch aims to enable students and teachers as producers of knowledge – in the classroom and beyond.

We see technology as a lever. Pedagogy before technology.

We seek to leverage this space on the Academic Commons for the development of our collective expertise.

Some salient issues: the Stretchmoodle makeover & transition to virtual server.

Shall we have a go?

A group for members of the Fall 2009 Core 1 class in the CUNY Graduate Center ITP Program

ITP group blog on the Commons: http://core109.commons.gc.cuny.edu

CC-licensed group avatar by flickr user Chris Boese

A group for the first year cohort to discus an academic journey.