We invite you to The Graduate Center for this CUNY-wide event, which will feature series of lightning talks on current and recent digital humanities work at our institutions. All disciplines, all research, and all students, faculty, and staff are welcome and we encourage you to attend and present. Presentation proposals may be submitted through the following…
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.
This fall, the Teaching & Learning Commons will offer a workshop series based on Thinking through Quality Questioning: Deepening Student Engagement (Walsh, Sattes, 2011). Quality questioning engages students and teachers in two areas: asking instructors to re-examine their communication styles and asking teachers and students to design questions that support deep learning and thinking. These…
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…
In this workshop, you will learn more about developing and customizing your WordPress site. If you have some knowledge of WordPress (i.e., you can make a page and a post and have used the dashboard), but you want to add some more structure or functionality, this workshop is for you. By taking this workshop, you…
Does the idea of accessing the vast quantity of code available on the internet terrify and excite you? Trying to collaborate with someone else? Worried about backing up your code? Want to share it with others? If so, come learn the most basic steps of using GitHub, the web-based Git repository hosting service. This introductory…
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…
This workshop provides a basic primer in flexible text encoding and markup using XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and principles of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). Humanities scholars use this method to transform texts into computational data, format digital texts to meet archival standards, and prepare an encoded or annotated text for eventual web interface. We…
Wednesday, November 18 | 1 PM to 2 PM | Livestream TBA | #fight4edu | RSVP Details WHERE: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue ROOM: Skylight Room (room 9100) WHEN: Wednesday, November 18, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM CONTACT INFO: futuresinitiative [at] gc.cuny.edu; (212) 817-7201 Description Join us at the Graduate Center on November 18 from 1-2 PM…
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.
Increasingly, it would seem, the future is already known, determined by algorithms that analyze, predict and pre-empt actions. Privacy is dead, and so is consent, because regardless of our own actions, we are betrayed by people “like us.” To what extent, though, does this situation offer new possibilities for action and modes of identification? This…
This workshop is an introduction to coding with Python. Participants will have an opportunity to get some hands on practice and walk away with some resources to continue practicing and learning on their own. This workshop is designed for individuals that have little or no experience with Python or coding. Facilitator: Ian Phillips Register…
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.
In this workshop, you will learn more about customizing your WordPress site and assess its impact. If you have knowledge of WordPress (i.e., you are comfortable with the dashboard, know what themes and widgets are, and can create a custom menu), but you want to make your site more personalized, or analyze the viewership, this…
Participants will learn basic skills such as understanding and adjusting the histogram, tonal scale, refining colors with hue/saturation, changing fill and opacity. Then we will delve into more advanced skills such as layering and collage, burning and dodging, creating effects with blur gallery. Students are encouraged to email themselves a photo or photos they would…
