This workshop will cover issues of data security. What does it mean for data to be “secure”? What is data encryption? How might you begin to protect yourself from data surveillance, reconsider data storage, and think about personal privacy in an age of internet research? This workshop is designed for someone who has never really…
Using Improvement Science to Build Teaching Effectiveness Wednesday, February 15 – 3:30 – 6:30 – E242 Presenters: Amanda Meyer, Associate Improvement Science Specialist at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching The MEC Accelerated Courses for Developmental Math Taskforce This workshop will introduce participants to improvement science as applied to practice in classrooms and…
Do you have folders full of documents like “draft_1”, “draft_final”, “draft_finalfinal,” and “draft_reallytrulyfinal”? Are you worried about backing up your work and looking for a secure way to save drafts of your work? Does the idea of accessing the vast quantity of code available on the internet terrify and excite you? If so, come learn…
The Teaching and Learning Center and Futures Initiative invite all members of the Graduate Center community to bring lunch and reflect on their experiences teaching during the first two weeks of the new presidential administration, and to discuss teaching strategies for the weeks ahead. This informal gathering will provide an opportunity to share and reflect…
RSVP - LACUNY Instruction Roundtable 2/16 – One-Shots Idea Exchange When: Thursday, February 16th from 2pm to 3:30pm. Refreshments will be served. Please stick around for the Committee’s organizational meeting from 3:30pm to 4:00pm. Where: at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, 219 W 40th Street, please check in on the 3rd Floor before you proceed…
MEREDITH RAY, “Early Modern Women and Communities of Science” MEREDITH RAY, Associate Professor of Italian and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware, and Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow at the Alice Paul Center is the author of Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance (Toronto, 2009), which was awarded…
This workshop will focus on the nuts-and-bolts of ensuring your digital humanities project gets off the ground–and even takes flight. We’ll cover the basics of articulating a clear research question or statement of purpose, how to obtain funding, where to seek resources, ways to manage digital (and collaborative) workflows, and options for presenting your work…
Led by Sonia González. Lab location: GC Library Basement, Room C196.01. Interested in creating a mobile app as an interactive, public-facing component for your project? This lab is a hands-on introduction to the development process for making a web-based mobile app. Participants will learn about the tools for building an app, and gain an understanding…
Wanna know when you'd use a scatter plot versus a line plot? Or why a bar graph is usually favored over a pie chart? What is a heatmap, and how is data mapped to colors? Why are colored maps called chlorepleths? What is data? This workshop is a crash course and discussion on the implicit…
Led by Anders Wallace. Lab location: GC Library Basement, Room C196.01. Discover the possibilities for developing and presenting born-digital scholarship with this introduction to Scalar, an open source authoring and publishing platform. Participants will have an opportunity to experiment with different ways to interweave media and writing in Scalar. No prior experience needed. Register through…
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…
Monday, March 6, 2017 | 2 pm - 4 pm | The Graduate Center, Skylight Room (9100) RSVP HERE Full details at: bit.ly/fight4edu-global Event Livestream: bit.ly/fight4edu-live Join the Futures Initiative on Monday, March 6, 2017 from 2-4pm for a roundtable discussion on “Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education," in which we will share…
Hello everyone, Thank you for joining the GIS Working Group. I would like to invite everyone to have a meeting on Monday 6 March at 2:00pm in Room 7414 of the Graduate Center. It will be a first opportunity to meet and talk about our GIS-related research / projects, to discuss the software we are…
