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New Media Lab

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

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November workshops from the GCDI Digital Fellows!

  • Posted by gcdigitalfellows on October 28, 2024 at 2:02 pm

    There’s lots coming up from the GC Digital Fellows this November! See below for information and registration links for our next three workshops. We also have our annual CUNY Digital Humanities Institute Lightening Talks, on Tuesday, November 19th , 5:30-7:30pm. Sign up here to present a 3 minute, 3 slide talk about your completed or in-progress digital humanities project. And stay tuned for more the next day, when we’ll have programming for GIS Day (November 20th)!

    Intro to Omeka – November 4 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    Omeka is a free Content Management System (CMS) and a web publishing system built by and for scholars that is used by hundreds of archives, libraries, museums, individual researchers, and teachers to create searchable online databases and scholarly online interpretations of their digital collections. If you have a set of digital primary sources that you want to publish online in a scholarly way, you’ll want to consider Omeka. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to understand some of the conceptual challenges faced when developing digital archives and create an online database of digital archival items.

    Avoiding Zoom Doom: Tools to Increase Online Student Engagement – November 6 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

    Teaching online classes can feel daunting and complicated. Sometimes you are just lecturing to a screen of black boxes, and finding ways to keep students engaged requires fun and creative solutions. This workshop will explore various online tools that you can employ to capture students’ ideas, make class more exciting, and create a more collaborative online classroom. We will go over programs such as FigJam, Mentimeter, Padlet, and more! This workshop is great for students and faculty members who are teaching online for the first time, or for those who are looking to expand their teaching toolbox.

    Intro to Mapping with QGIS – November 20 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

    In this workshop, you’ll learn the basics of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with QGIS, a free and open-source platform. We’ll explore how to visualize, analyze, and interpret spatial data, allowing you to uncover patterns and relationships in your data. Whether you’re new to mapping or looking to enhance your skills, this session will provide you with the tools to get started on your own projects.

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