GC Digital Initiatives Speaker Event, Fall 2016 October 20th, 6:30-8:00pm Room C198, The Graduate Center, CUNY Dr. Joshua Miele “Digital Accessibility and the Making of a Meta Maker Movement” GC Digital Initiatives and Futures Initiative are excited to welcome Dr. Joshua Miele to The Graduate Center, CUNY, to speak on the topic of…
Want to liven up your teaching by integrating games and game design? Participants in this lab will demo some applications of game-based learning using a variety of tools. Expect to walk away with preliminary ideas for a class assignment or a lesson plan incorporating games or game design. The lab will be held in the GC…
Room 9207. The process of writing can enhance student learning in every classroom. This workshop will introduce tips and techniques to incorporate writing into non-writing courses.
EPortfolio allows students to demonstrate the process of their learning throughout a course or program and makes their own learning more explicit to them and their audience. At the same time, because the portfolio is a web site where they create and organize their best work, it is also a showcase for them to take…
This lab will introduce participants to basic concepts and tools in data visualization for the humanities and social sciences. Beginning with a definition of data visualization and information design, we will explore key examples including basic line graphs and complex interactive visualizations. We will lean how to use word clouds, Google Ngrams, the Google Public…
New Media Lab general meetings are held monthly during the fall and spring semesters and are an opportunity to learn more about lab, to meet active and interested student researchers and faculty, and to discuss two or three projects in progress. All are welcome. Fall 2016 meetings will be held: Wednesday, September 14, 12:30 –…
EPortfolio allows students to demonstrate the process of their learning throughout a course or program and makes their own learning more explicit to them and their audience. At the same time, because the portfolio is a web site where they create and organize their best work, it is also a showcase for them to take…
The Funded Research Faculty Development Series will run throughout the year with the aim that participants will each submit a high quality application for external funding in 2017. Participants will be paired for the length of the series with senior faculty mentors who have successful track records securing external funding. Seminars will feature OAR and OSP…
Wednesday, November 9th, 6:30-8:30 PM Registration opens November 2nd We spend plenty of time with our computers, websites, and maybe even code: but how familiar do we feel with the circuits, wiring, and sensors that make all this possible? Physical computing uses hardware and software to build digital devices that respond to our analog world--or…
Join the Futures Initiative on Monday, November 14 from 12-1 for “Media Blackness,” an engaged conversation about the rendering of blackness in, across, and through multiple forms of media. The discussion will include multiple perspectives on the intersections of blackness and aesthetics in film, television, digital media, and beyond. Panelists include Cathy N. Davidson(CUNY Graduate…
EPortfolio allows students to demonstrate the process of their learning throughout a course or program and makes their own learning more explicit to them and their audience. At the same time, because the portfolio is a web site where they create and organize their best work, it is also a showcase for them to take…
