CUNY Academic Commons

Workshop Ideas -- meeting 2013-08-27

See full list on Google Drive. Please list your name on the spreadsheet if you're interested in learning and/or teaching! (I've prepopulated some names based on my recollection of the meeting.) These workshops will be held monthly and will be 2-3 hours long each. They'll be informal and friendly. The committee co-chairs (Allie, Stephen Z, and Robin) are happy to schedule your workshop and make any administrative arrangements. Once scheduled, we strongly recommend you let participants know ahead of time of any specific prep work they'll need to do. A few resources for teaching a workshop include site44 (Dropbox » website) and browser-based programming environments (e.g. PythonAnywhere). Topics mentioned at first meeting:

• 3D printing
• Augmented reality: Oculus Rift, Google Glass
• AutoHotkey
• Backup best practices
• Clojure
• CMS tours: behind the scenes of Drupal, Omeka, &c
• Data structures, normalization
• Data viz: Gephi, &c
• eResource mgmt: SFX, SerialsSolutions
• GIS
• Google Analytics, SEO beyond <meta/>
• HTML, CSS, Js
• LaTeX
• Legacy computing/computers
• LibGuides API
• Mapping your library
• MARCedit
• Microcomputing: RPi, Arduino, Makey Makey!
• MySQL
• PHP
• Preparing to accept digital archival materials
• Python + MARC
• R + SPSS
• RegExes
• Responsive design
• RFID
• Ruby
• Semantic Web
• Simple XML editing
• Tacit knowledge (e.g. keyboard shortcuts)
• Usability testing
• Using Git
• WorldCat API

Topics mentioned at second meeting (spring 2014):

• gaming software
• pedagogical design software for teaching critical information literacy skills