[Christopher Stein]

Thanks Matt for posting up the info on NYCDH week!

If you are planning on attending, the Commons In A Box OpenLab team is running a workshop at NYCDH Week – join us!

Commons In A Box OpenLab (https://cboxopenlab.org/) is free, open source software that enables anyone to create a commons space specifically designed for open learning, where students, faculty, and staff can collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and share their work openly with one another and the world.

The project brings together Commons In A Box, the software that powers NYCDH (CBOX, https://commonsinabox.org/, which is based on the CUNY Academic Commons), and City Tech’s OpenLab platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/). The result is a teaching-focused version of CBOX that provides a powerful and flexible alternative to closed, proprietary systems, and is already being adopted at CUNY and beyond.

We will showcase CBOX OpenLab’s features and functionality, using examples from City Tech’s OpenLab and BMCC’s installation of the software (https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/), then discuss how CBOX OpenLab can support open learning in your community.

The workshop is 8am-10am on Thursday Feb 10, 2022 – sign up here: https://nycdh.org/dhweek/event/supporting-open-learning-with-commons-in-a-box-openlab/

We hope to see some of you there!

[Christopher Stein]

Sorry sounds like it’s been lotta trouble. I am adding. One more day to

Sorry sounds like it’s been a lot of trouble. I’m going to Come by

[Christopher Stein]

Sorry for not registering earlier (childcare issues I couldn’t work out in time). If it’s not too late, I can make it tonight. I’ll go on Eventbrite.

 

[Christopher Stein]

Sorry for not registering earlier (childcare issues I couldn’t work out in time). If it’s not too late, I can make it tonight. I’ll go on Eventbrite.

 

[Christopher Stein]

Hi Evan,
The resources list looks great. I noticed that you wrote it in Markdown that wasn’t being processed. I added the WP-Markdown plugin and enabled it for posts (you can enable it for other things in Settings > Writing).

You might also consider adding in projects that are built on FOSS like

• Blogs @ Baruch
• Open Lab at City Tecgh
• Macaulay Eportfolios

Best,
Chris

[Christopher Stein]

Yes, when?

[Christopher Stein]

I teach until 7pm on the 17th, after that I’ll be ready to eat!

[Christopher Stein]

Not the 18th after the CAT meeting for old times’ sake Mikhail?

I can’t remember the last time I was at a CUNY Pie, I’m ready too!

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 4:02 PM, CUNY Academic Commons
wrote:

[Christopher Stein]

Thanks for the info Beth. Will this webinar be recorded and made available for those who can’t attend in real time?

[Christopher Stein]

I’m pretty sure the answer is no. I don’t know about other services but in most editing is considered a higher lever permission than printing or downloading so I’m guessing that you won’t have any luck there either. And remember that anything you let people see on the screen can be turned into an image file and saved or printed with a screenshot tool.

You didn’t give the reason why you want this feature, perhaps with that other suggestions are possible. If you just need students to input data and don’t want them to see the results then it sounds like you want a form. That is something that you can do with a Google Doc.
Best,
Chris

[Christopher Stein]

Hi Erika,
Just to let you know we had some changes in the works for the footer previously and now we will be looking at them to make sure they work with responsive themes.

To directly answer your question about the PressWork header: I’m assuming you mean the part with their logo and tagline. You can remove that by going into the settings (triangle icon) and then deleting the text in the space that says Logo Image URL (image attached). You could replace it with your own too if you like.

It can take a minute to get used to PressWork since the editing is done on the page itself instead of in the dashboard (although I think you can turn off that feature if you like). Post back if you have any other questions.
Best,
Chris

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[Christopher Stein]

Maura,
I think that you are using an old version of Google Docs and that the link you sent requires the user to be logged in to Google which may not be compatible with the Ray’s plugin. When I tried your link directly in a browser it asked me to login before it showed the presentation.

I created a new Google presentation and got the link it was in the format of

https://docs.google.com/presentation/pub?id=xxxxx
Yours is in
http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=xxxx

Here is a link about the new version of google Docs: http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&p=new_presentations_migrate&answer=2611259

I made a copy of the presentation you liked to and it gave me a note that said “this presentation you will soon be upgraded to the new version of Google Docs” and then the a link to the URL above about the new docs.

In there’s a link to these instructions on importing your slides to a new presentation:
http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1694982

I followed those instructions with my copy of your document and then published to the web and added to Ray’s shortcode and it worked. Here is what worked for me
[gdoc link=”https://docs.google.com/presentation/pub?id=1mGpQLx3MFBXQPNbpph11t2HZFwR570lukNIFSQmu5HU&start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000″ height=”800″]
 You can use that or go through the process yourself and import the slides to a new presentation.

Hope that works for you.
Best,
Chris

[Christopher Stein]

One more piece of information that might help. Were the documents created by people on PCs or MACs? Also if they were created on MACs was it with MS Office or with Pages or Numbers?

Another thing to check is if it is those particular files or with those particular computers. Seeing if people can download the files from home PC’s is a way to see if it is the files. You can also ask the people to try other files from the Silberman PCs to see if they can open them. There are a few .doc files in this public group: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-humanities-initiative/documents/
Best,
Chris

[Christopher Stein]

Suzanne, I’ll post this in that group too. I have to admit I haven’t gotten
past the point of looking at mobile technologies yet. I’m not sure when I’m
going to get the time to really get my hands dirty and develop one. If you
want to know more about the technology behind PhoneGap, it’s called Cordova
and is open source: http://incubator.apache.org/cordova/. Perhaps native
was the wrong word to use. I think many are calling apps made by tech like
PhoneGap hybrid. As I understand it PhoneGap is essentially a JavaScript
library coupled with wrappers written in native code for each of the
platforms it supports. You write your code in JS and then the native
wrappers work with the particular OS to get everything running. Because
there is that translation I’m sure that it means that there is a
performance drain, much like Java programs running on the virtual machine.
For apps that are very dependent on the speed of the code executed (like a
game or image editor) this might be a problem. For other kinds of apps it
may not be a problem at all.

The main reason people are doing them is that web developers can leverage
their existing skills and you don’t have to write ground-up native apps for
iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry… For companies like Facebook who
have a lot of money and a lot of users and a lot of data then yeah, it
makes sense to write all of those applications. For educational based apps
where there is no money but a lot of different student devices to support,
and especially those apps that are mostly displaying textual information,
then the hybrid ones are probably best. I also personally believe that the
performance of HTML5/CSS3/JS apps will continue to get better.

For other people who might be reading this and a little confused we are
talking about different ways to make an “app” available to a mobile user.
There are roughly three ways (IMHO):
1. Web Based. You make a web page that is optimised in some way for mobile
viewing. The user goes to the browser in their mobile device and then uses
the app. No permission needed to do this. Downsides are that the person
needs Internet access to use the app and performance is slower compared to
the other options. There are development platforms you can use to make your
app look more like a native one.

2. Fully Native. You write the app in the programming language supported
the the OS. Package it and then submit it to the store for that OS. Users
will have to visit the store, download the app and then use it. This is the
best way to make sure that your app runs fast and can take advantage of the
phone’s capabilities. Data is stored on the phone and so it can be used
without Internet connection Downsides, you have to write the code in
different languages for each platform and you have to be accepted into the
store for deployment. This also usually means longer development times and
higher development costs.

3. Hybrid. You write your code once, usually using HTML5/CSS/JS, and then
use a special tool like PhoneGap/Cordova to package that code into native
packages for each of the different OS’es. This way you don’t have to write
different code for each platform. Downside, not all of the features of all
phones are supported in this way. The code does not run as fast as code
written in the native OS language. There are the same downsides as a fully
native app, you still have to submit the app to the various stores for each
OS and get them approved and the user will then download and use the app.

Best,
Chris

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:17 AM, commons.gc.cuny.edu <
wordpress@commons.gc.cuny.edu> wrote:

[Christopher Stein]

Andrew, you’re welcom.

Suzanne, thanks for the tip. I’ll have to look into it. FWIW Phone Gap does produce native apps. It takes the HTML5/JS stuff and converts it into native apps. Of course that means that you have to go through a process for each platform and then also go through the hassle of uploading the apps to the respective stores. Also, for certain phone features I believe that you have to still write code in the native dev langage. So, it’s still like you said dependent on what exactly it is that you’re developing.

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