Hi Mark (and Stephen),

Jill mentioned you were discussing OJS and I thought I’d check in. To build a little bit on what Stephen said, my understanding from other JITP members is that the platform at the time was very difficult to manage given the size of JITP’s editorial collective and the turnover of issue editors. The managing editor at the…[Read more]

Dear Raffi,

For discovery, CUNY Academic Works is a great place to put your titles. Manifold has special functionality for OER (Reading Groups let you manage student annotations, for instance) and new features make it even easier to remix portions of OER available across CUNY. If you’d like to set up a meeting to talk through the differences a…[Read more]

Dear all,

Thank you so much for attending our Manifold Minis and/or following along with the email recaps.

This week, I ran two sessions of Manifold Mini #5: Publishing Your OER on Manifold. I did manage to record the second session, which I have linked. The recording is anchored in a new Manifold Minis project I created that compiles all the…[Read more]

Dear all,

In just a few minutes I will be reprising the “Publishing Your OER on Manifold” Manifold Mini. If you’d like to join, here is the Zoom info:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/<wbr />88541692447?pwd=<wbr />RmhwRVdiNy9PaUp6cm14dDVzc01TQT<wbr />09

Meeting ID: 885 4169 2447
Password: 2nZdWP

All are welcome! Review or come see…[Read more]

Dear CUNY Manifoldians,

Yesterday in our fourth session, I discussed Resources in Manifold. Below you will find my recap of the demo and the Q&A. You can find recordings of sessions 2-4 in this Manifold Minis Dropbox. I encourage you all to join the CUNY Manifold Users group on the Academic Commons, where I will continue to post updates.

Thank y…[Read more]

Dear Manifoldians,

Despite my meeting mixup, I recorded the session and am sharing this Manifold Minis Dropbox with the recording from today as well as last week’s. Below I’ve typed up a recap. I will keep sharing these on this thread so that the recaps exist somewhere together. I know that there’s an overwhelming amount of content coming at you…[Read more]

MANIFOLD MINI #2, 4/14, RECAP

THE DEMO

CUNY OER on Manifold

I walked the group through some examples of the amazing OER built on cuny.manifoldapp.org. Anyone teaching or studying at CUNY is welcome to use Manifold. OER, Open Educational Resources, are meant for free classroom use of openly licensed material. Manifold allows for any license, but…[Read more]

Dear CUNY Manifoldians,

Tomorrow from 1-1:30pm I will host the second Manifold Mini. This week, I’ll be demonstrating some vibrant examples of Manifold OER in the CUNY classroom. If you wish to attend, email me at [email protected].

Hope to see you there,

Jojo

APRIL 7 Manifold Mini Recap

TODAY’S DIGEST:

I gave a general overview of CUNY’s Manifold instance:

– I talked briefly about the collaboration with CUNY GC, University of Minnesota Press, and Cast Iron Coding (the development firm founded by Zach Davis, a CUNY English PhD)

We looked at the overarching organization of the interface

– Home page…[Read more]