Digital Fellows office hours are open to all GC students, faculty, and staff. During office hours, a rotating staff of two GC Digital Fellows provide one-on-one assistance for your digital humanities and digital scholarship projects. For more information about the assistance we provide, please visit the GC Digital Fellows website.  

Register here beginning October 7th.

This workshop introduces the fundamentals of programming using Python, a language popular in both academia and the commercial world. Topics will include basic programming concepts such as loops, variables, and conditionals, installing and importing libraries, and creating simple scripts. No previous programming experience is necessary. Register here beginning October 8th at midnight.

This fall, the Teaching & Learning Commons will offer a two-part workshop series for those interested in CUNY’s most famous and popular social media site: the CUNY Academic Commons. The CUNY Academic Commons provides an online space for CUNY faculty, graduate students, and staff to meet and share ideas. Faculty are finding the site particularly…

Higher education has been challenged and transformed by multiple innovations in recent years. Our fall discussion series will give interested faculty, students, and staff the opportunity to learn more about the theory, practice, and research supporting three of the most popular and current educational trends. Handouts and electronic resources will be posted on the Lehman…

This workshop will provide you with an overview of the tools you need, and options you have for scraping social media sites and webpages for data. In the second half of the workshop, participants will set up a general script that can be altered to scrape basic data on twitter. This workshop is intended for…

Learn the basics of WordPress to start building your own website. This introductory workshop will help you learn how to use the dashboard, pick a theme, and find plugins to improve your site. It will also cover troubleshooting WordPress issues using the Codex and other resources.   Facilitator: Laurie Hurson Register here: http://gcitplabs.eventbrite.com  

Open Scholarship Matters! Oct. 20, 2015, 4-6 PM, Atrium 632, Faculty Lounge, NYC College of Technology * Wine and cheese will be served * RSVP to Monica Berger How can your scholarship be more visible and meaningful? Reach new readers and make a difference in the world through open scholarship! City Tech Library and the Faculty Commons…

Register here beginning October 13th.

Digital Fellows office hours are open to all GC students, faculty, and staff. During office hours, a rotating staff of two GC Digital Fellows provide one-on-one assistance for your digital humanities and digital scholarship projects. For more information about the assistance we provide, please visit the GC Digital Fellows website.  

JAEHEE SHIM Biophysics and Systems Pharmacology Program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) Cardiotoxicity is unfortunately a common side effect of many modern chemotherapeutic agents. The mechanisms that underlie these detrimental effects on heart muscle, however, remain unclear. The Drug Toxicity Signature Generation Center at ISMMS aims to address this unresolved issue…

  Thursday, October 22 | 1 PM to 2 PM | http://bit.ly/FuturesED-live | #fight4edu Details WHERE:  The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue ROOM:  9205 WHEN:  Thursday, October 22, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM CONTACT INFO:  [email protected]; (212) 817-7201 WATCH ONLINE:  http://bit.ly/FuturesED-live HASHTAG:   #fight4edu RSVP NOW Description Join us at the Graduate Center on October 22 from 1-2 PM…

This fall, the Teaching & Learning Commons will offer a two-part workshop series for those interested in CUNY’s most famous and popular social media site: the CUNY Academic Commons. The CUNY Academic Commons provides an online space for CUNY faculty, graduate students, and staff to meet and share ideas. Faculty are finding the site particularly…

Want to learn to code but don't know where to start? Learn how computers "think!". In this workshop, participants will use Scratch, a blocks-based programming language and online community, to explore the basics of computational logic. Students will brainstorm an idea for an online maze-game and bring it to life using loops, conditionals, variables and other core CS concepts they will need…

How do we encourage students to take charge of their own learning? Donald L. Finkel’s Teaching with Your Mouth Shut (Boynton/Cook, 2000) makes an excellent set of arguments for opening teaching and learning practices to include and prioritize student empowerment. Each discussion session will cover the main points of three book chapters; handouts and electronic…

Digital humanities scholars have a treasure trove of digital tools at their fingertips, but particularly in the research phase of a project, it can be difficult to determine which ones you'll really need. This workshop will focus on how to clearly articulate a research question that can be answered through digital humanities methods, and how…