CUNY Academic Commons | Joseph Ugoretz | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/jugoretz/activity/ Activity feed for Joseph Ugoretz. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 ae5df152ee769626237ad8e14b3ca8d5 Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices https://dhpraxis24.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=502 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:52:03 -0400 testing a form

]]> db89b3609ddc67f47275ecf530126f16 Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices https://dhpraxis24.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=487 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:33:29 -0400 class examples

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]]> 701eae6493559abf5b88960630ab2231 Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices https://dhpraxis24.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=465 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:27:03 -0400 test page     

]]> a73605748b087e9de9ca65aad62871bb Joseph Ugoretz created the site Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/974155/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:52:44 -0500 6f47fac5dc0e8b36823d62eb61ceb068 Joseph Ugoretz's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/933965/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 18:37:55 -0400 839954a78650ebe918d4f0d4d0befa0b Joseph Ugoretz created the site Digital Pedagogy https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/933960/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:56:47 -0400 6d3de4be31102b0ca27e8a9057b41e15 Joseph Ugoretz changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/913771/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:39:22 -0400 95c791e57400819a503849d5ec4e030d Joseph Ugoretz's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/913764/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:41:46 -0400 ac4b54419a0ff2a9a76374df61122f0f Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation https://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=454 Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:51:08 -0500 a later version of this essay appears in Eportfolio as Curriculum, edited by Kathleen Blake Yancey, from Stylus Publishing.

Macaulay Springboards: The Capstone as an Open Learning Eportfolio

Joseph […]

]]> 7aced3609eb81c078eddc3efd905e2f2 Joseph Ugoretz's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/472042/ Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:21:46 -0400 baae4da8ecbd145ec35e65de14135405 Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=410 Thu, 02 Jun 2016 21:55:55 -0400 Last week I was at the 2016 Summit of the National Center for Women and Information Technology.  It was an interesting conference in several ways (the large, mostly empty, slightly creepy desert hotel co […]

]]> 476c3ed24e447ac54859179dcadd7436 Joseph Ugoretz started the topic CUNY UnTechnology UnConference--April 13 in the forum Open Education at CUNY - Forum http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/open-education-at-cuny/forum/topic/cuny-untechnology-unconference-april-13-8/ Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:19:55 -0400 Hi all–

In case I missed you at the last meeting, here’s the information for our April 13 Conference (formerly the EPortfolio Symposium). Share widely, and I’ve also attached an attractive PDF, suitable for framing.

(excuse multiple posting!)

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]]> 2484770821213b41ee64a6cdb0292df0 Joseph Ugoretz started the topic CUNY UnTechnology UnConference--April 13 in the forum ePortfolios - Forum http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/eportfolios/forum/topic/cuny-untechnology-unconference-april-13-7/ Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:19:54 -0400 Hi all–

In case I missed you at the last meeting, here’s the information for our April 13 Conference (formerly the EPortfolio Symposium). Share widely, and I’ve also attached an attractive PDF, suitable for framing.

(excuse multiple posting!)

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The CUNY UnTechnology UnConference
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]]> 2484770821213b41ee64a6cdb0292df0 Joseph Ugoretz started the topic CUNY UnTechnology UnConference--April 13 in the forum CUNY GC ITP Program - Forum http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cuny-gc-itp-program/forum/topic/cuny-untechnology-unconference-april-13-6/ Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:19:54 -0400 Hi all–

In case I missed you at the last meeting, here’s the information for our April 13 Conference (formerly the EPortfolio Symposium). Share widely, and I’ve also attached an attractive PDF, suitable for framing.

(excuse multiple posting!)

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The CUNY UnTechnology UnConference
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]]> 2484770821213b41ee64a6cdb0292df0 Joseph Ugoretz started the topic CUNY UnTechnology UnConference--April 13 in the forum CUNY Eportfolio Symposium http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/eportfolio-and-high-impact-practices-conference/forum/topic/cuny-untechnology-unconference-april-13-5/ Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:19:54 -0400 Hi all–

In case I missed you at the last meeting, here’s the information for our April 13 Conference (formerly the EPortfolio Symposium). Share widely, and I’ve also attached an attractive PDF, suitable for framing.

(excuse multiple posting!)

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The CUNY UnTechnology UnConference
Wednesday, April 13, 2016,…[Read more]

]]> 22933197fdef936df645613c15a0af62 Joseph Ugoretz started the topic CUNY UnTechnology UnConference--April 13 in the forum CAT ePortfolio Subcommittee http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cat-eportfolio-subcommittee/forum/topic/cuny-untechnology-unconference-april-13-3/ Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:19:53 -0400 Hi all–

In case I missed you at the last meeting, here’s the information for our April 13 Conference (formerly the EPortfolio Symposium). Share widely, and I’ve also attached an attractive PDF, suitable for framing.

(excuse multiple posting!)

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The CUNY UnTechnology UnConference
Wednesday, April 13, 2016,…[Read more]

]]> 7f51e3712b5ff8699cb991dbf78ac5ee Joseph Ugoretz and Jim Groom are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427235/ Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:03:27 -0500 1a5d859d35ed987ff23a310df5489c5f Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=394 Wed, 10 Feb 2016 22:05:38 -0500 (A long and technical post follows.  If you don’t care to read it, if you’re of the TL;DR school, then go, right now, to Smarthistory.org and take a look at what kind of a beautiful OER can be made with […]

]]> b6ad79cc70d3e8a6d05d51d0b0b3b7cc Joseph Ugoretz's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/425725/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 22:43:00 -0500 bf135fe5ce048911ce4af1a8d6b56644 Joseph Ugoretz joined the group Teaching and Learning Center https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/424901/ Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:24:50 -0500 1b27e7f7977dad0724544fb4eab6dfad Joseph Ugoretz commented on the post, video player buttons disappearing in wordpress in all browsers, on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/08/16/video-player-buttons-disappearing-in-wordpress-in-all-browsers/#comment-7958 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:15:40 -0400 I did try that, and every .htaccess fix I could find. Unfortunately mine is not a ‘simple’ mime configuration error! 🙁

]]> 6d8286038778daf796531ef34f8ce862 Joseph Ugoretz joined the group CUNY Central Server: A Discussion... https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/355377/ Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:04:03 -0400 29e90b0f8462b94ff271ab7874c1424f Joseph Ugoretz started the topic Third annual eportfolio symposium, May 6 in the forum CAT ePortfolio Subcommittee http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cat-eportfolio-subcommittee/forum/topic/third-annual-eportfolio-symposium-may-6/ Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:06:02 -0500 We are ready (and happy!) to accept registrations for the third annual CUNY Eportfolio and Academic Technology Symposium.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015, at Macaulay Honors College.

As in past years, the Symposium will include open discussions and round-table sessions, as well as a lightning-round show and tell, rather than formal presentations.

And as…[Read more]

]]> c80c77475157313efaf8ee8aac072930 Joseph Ugoretz joined the group Futures Initiative https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/320501/ Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:40:46 -0500 a64bc89b22a68898c47e1eed8e0c8121 Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=388 Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:17:08 -0400 This one falls into the “reminding myself how to do the workaround” category, but maybe it will be helpful to someone else, too.

The WordPress media player has some nice buttons for play, volume, full-screen, […]

]]> 29ccefab9ec318174dd01f8fc21ac20b Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=386 Fri, 16 May 2014 17:16:20 -0400 I was interviewed for this report, although my role was small, and now it’s out, and I think worth a read. It’s long, but that means it’s comprehensive. I was impressed by the real openness and curiosity of the […]

]]> a579ff4a62dd022037089be7155e268f Joseph Ugoretz commented on the post, Why videos?, on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/03/why-videos/#comment-2279 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:22:56 -0500 So great to have all these responses! As Cathy says, these are all subjects that are rich ground for further conversation! I’ve got a few further thoughts myself, so I might as well keep the conversation […]

]]> a3c03ed2178ea98998dfba34f20ba13f Joseph Ugoretz commented on the post, Why videos?, on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/03/why-videos/#comment-2252 Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:50:35 -0500 Thanks, Cathy! I appreciate the response. It’s interesting to see the different models arise and I’m especially impressed that you went ahead and tried Coursera’s model to see things from outside your own (and my) […]

]]> a22257d589a0c9796a1dc2d5cd08f329 Joseph Ugoretz commented on the post, Why videos?, on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/03/why-videos/#comment-2237 Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:17:22 -0500 Fair enough! We don’t all have to agree.

I wonder what you think of the other video examples I linked in the post? To me, those are excellent videos (and I’m quite intentionally working not to link to any […]

]]> cb79d2a76952bd1cebda04f9b7997491 Joseph Ugoretz commented on the post, Why videos?, on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/03/why-videos/#comment-2235 Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:54:54 -0500 Thanks for the response, Vahid! I guess I should be more clear. I have nothing at all against videos. I just think that videos should take advantage of what videos can offer. A person sitting on a couch […]

]]> 800a903989c957d32c44cec38bf37d7e Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/03/creativity-vs-organization/ Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:56:13 -0500 I’m enrolled in Cathy Davidson’s “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education” MOOC.

I’ve got some comments about the course in general in another post, but I thought that I might as well share, here, my […]

]]> 89e37516dcbf521577998ee99b40fdb3 Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/03/why-videos/ Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:55:07 -0500 In the Cathy Davidson “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education” MOOC, I’m really intrigued by her decision (or maybe Coursera’s decision?) to have so much of the content delivered by means of video. […]

]]> 237711306b7d9d27033f961f1bd68c44 Joseph Ugoretz replied to the forum topic Eportfolio and Academic Technology Symposium in the group CUNY Eportfolio Symposium http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/eportfolio-and-high-impact-practices-conference/forum/topic/eportfolio-and-academic-technology-symposium/#post-16330 Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:46:39 -0500 Hi Carina, I do understand and know the limitations of the building. After all, it’s my own home campus! 🙂

What we did last year and what we could do again is to limit attendance to 72 people total. We just […]

]]> 47b51d8f06d70b89180713ee72d02ba5 Joseph Ugoretz replied to the forum topic Eportfolio and Academic Technology Symposium in the group CUNY Eportfolio Symposium http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/eportfolio-and-high-impact-practices-conference/forum/topic/eportfolio-and-academic-technology-symposium/#post-16326 Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:31:14 -0500 I think these are valid concerns but we are somewhat constrained by the availability of spaces and dates. I think we also found last year that a “quality not quantity” approach gave us a very productive […]

]]> 332cc3fde85fc7dd0c0ae300a52e5924 Joseph Ugoretz changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/235683/ Fri, 01 Nov 2013 19:50:58 -0400 eafe7b68f1065b5debf8426caa26c9c5 Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/30/reverse-midterm/ Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:05:39 -0400 This exercise is one that I invented (pretty much on the spur of the moment) last year, when students asked me if we were having a midterm and I hadn’t planned on it.  I told them no, then thought it over a bit. […]

]]> afe80a3afc7bb7c4aa9d4175bd370f10 Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/24/classroom-manifesto/ Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:02:15 -0400 In no particular order….

Questions are more important than answers.

Cooperating is more important than competing.

Thinking is more important than knowing.

Searching is more important than […]

]]> 338f52610abc5c70177418468a13bfa5 Joseph Ugoretz started the topic Great Announcement from the Getty in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/openatcuny/forum/topic/great-announcement-from-the-getty/ Mon, 12 Aug 2013 20:17:56 -0400 This is a very forward-thinking and positive development. I hope it will inspire other major museums to follow suit quickly.

Kudos to the Getty!

“Today the Getty becomes an even more engaged digital citizen, one that shares its collections, research, and knowledge more openly than ever before. We’ve launched the Open Content Program to s…[Read more]

]]> 3b6812a1f5349ef64fc6c0c94eb5037e Joseph Ugoretz commented on the post, Protecting Uploaded Files in WordPress, on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/08/11/protecting-uploaded-files-in-wordpress/#comment-249 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:07:50 -0400 In my testing so far, it works GREAT for users on a multisite network like the Commons. It’s the only solution I’ve found that will work at all (all the htaccess tricks I tried would not work at all in multisite. […]

]]> 5e700860b3bc6839fa44bf0ade59b296 Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/08/11/protecting-uploaded-files-in-wordpress/ Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:29:07 -0400 After a long day of struggling with various .htaccess solutions (none of which I could get to work at all in WordPress multisite), I had the wonderful idea to ask for help from the wp-edu listserv and within […]

]]> 206b2a4c5e46567a7db85afb8b84d0c2 Joseph Ugoretz started the forum topic DINNER in Boston? in the group ePortfolios http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/eportfolios/forum/topic/dinner-in-boston/ Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:05:56 -0400 Hi All,

By my count on the program for the AAEEBL Conference in Boston, we have a nice large group of CUNY folks attending. I count close to 20!

In past years, we’ve had a CUNY dinner on one night of the […]

]]> 2a783a4c29b45feb35db3c4a2764d84e Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/05/21/hole-in-buddypress/ Tue, 21 May 2013 21:15:46 -0400 Mainly documenting this just so I will have it somewhere I can find it easily, but maybe it will help others, too.

On the Macaulay Eportfolio system we do not restrict account creation by email domain (since we […]

]]> 0c923357f0e6639b86ed844cda9c9167 Joseph Ugoretz edited the wiki page Kitchen Sink/Kitchen Table Utilities https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/192753/ Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:29:00 -0500 0c923357f0e6639b86ed844cda9c9167 Joseph Ugoretz edited the wiki page Kitchen Sink/Kitchen Table Utilities https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/45887/ Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:29:00 -0500 a15fb2f5ff7633b5c6e8f9a0f1bfbe7e Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/02/10/the-emerging-doitocracy/ Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:25:13 -0500 ThumbnailA meritocracy is not enough, when it requires someone, somewhere, to recognize that merit as an abstract concept.  We live in a world where, increasingly, the reliability of credentialing is suspect.  Where the […]

]]> e228f4604908ec4486705bbc9f9aa910 Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/02/09/steam/ Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:43:27 -0500 Thanks to Michael Branson Smith for the great tip to listen to Adam Savage’s talk “Why We Make” at the 2012 San Francisco Maker Fair.

Savage explains with some brilliance how art is always part of STEM (art is […]

]]> d6421b50a395e6b9905f6299331e4d41 Joseph Ugoretz and Elizabeth Macaulay (she/her) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/187767/ Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:42:22 -0500 21c90b102cac51c3ac30f0a26a8d54f1 Joseph Ugoretz wrote a new post on the site Prestidigitation http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/01/31/on-wizards-and-learning/ Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:48:41 -0500 Thumbnail

There are many things to like about Gandalf, but one that especially appeals to me is that he isn’t a wizard just because he was stolen away and adopted by wizards when he was a baby, or because another wizard bit […]

]]> 2129b7c602934fd865306dcf2f052843 Joseph Ugoretz commented on the post, The iPhone 5 - Unboxing, Setup, and Speed Test., on the site Adam's Antics http://adam.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/09/22/the-iphone-5-unboxing-setup-and-speed-test/#comment-117 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:21:29 -0400 Thanks for the review, Adam! Can’t wait to get my own hands on my own phone. In the meantime, I appreciate all the detail.

]]> 0e91166c964591a2a1c238873d3df906 Joseph Ugoretz commented on the post, Instructional Technology: A Sea Too Wide, on the site Envisioning Online Learning http://onlinelearning.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/05/24/instructional-technology-a-sea-too-wide/#comment-48 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:10:55 -0400 Thanks for that IT list, Bruce! It’s a valuable resource. Might be a good idea to link back and forth with the ongoing list here https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/Kitchen_Sink/Kitchen_Table_Utilities […]

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