Why do students sometimes resist buying and reading textbooks? How is the landscape of textbook publishing changing, and how can we take advantage of new strategies and platforms to ensure that our students have access to high quality curricular materials? Come to this Open Access Week workshop to learn more about open educational resources! You’ll hear from faculty across the college who use these materials in their courses, and learn more about library resources and support for open educational materials.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday October 23, 1-2pm in the Faculty Commons, Namm 227. RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
This workshop is being offered as a part of Open Access Week (October 21-27). For more information about open access publishing visit http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.
Faculty/Staff Workshop: Advanced Search Techniques
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a library workshop: Advanced Search Techniques for Library and Internet Sources. Improve your research skills and go beyond the basics with Boolean operators, truncation, limiters, and other sophisticated search strategies in library databases, Google, and more.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday October 9, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Keith Muchowski at kmuchowski@citytech.cuny.edu.
Faculty/Staff Workshop: Encouraging Good Googling
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a library workshop. How can we help students learn to evaluate internet sources, and to distinguish the good from the bad (or the ugly) online? We’ll discuss strategies to boost students’ evaluation skills and help them find credible information on the internet.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday September 25, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
Faculty Workshop: Introduction to Citation Managers
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. Looking for a way to streamline and manage the research you do using internet or library sources? Looking for a tool that your students can use to keep track of their research? Learn about how citation managers can help organize and cite references as well as share and discuss scholarship with colleagues at City Tech or beyond. In this workshop we’ll introduce you to 4 solutions for citation management: RefWorks, EasyBib, Zotero, and Mendeley.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday April 24, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or Prof. Keith Muchowski at kmuchowski@citytech.cuny.edu.
Faculty Workshop: Introduction to Photoshop
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. Are you interested in creating graphics for your class? Would you like to learn how to resize your digital photographs? This workshop will focus on the very basics of Adobe Photoshop. Participants will gain hands-on experience with the toolbar, layers, cropping, and text.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday April 10, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
For more information, or to schedule a workshop by request, visit our website.
Faculty Workshop: Getting Started with Instructional Web Design
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. Learn to design web pages for instructional use, including layout and navigation, color and graphics, and developing effective content. We will look at beginner HTML and other online alternatives.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, March 20, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 (small library classroom). RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.
Tech Happy Hour: Introduction to Social Media for Academics
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a Tech Happy Hour and library workshop. Have you heard the buzz about social media, but haven’t yet taken the plunge? Intrigued, but not sure about its scholarly uses? Come enjoy wine & cheese with your colleagues at our Tech Happy Hour and learn how academics are using the tools of social media to connect, collaborate, and share with the scholarly community at CUNY and beyond. Tools discussed will include Twitter, LinkedIn, Academia.edu, the CUNY Academic Commons, and more!
Our Happy Hour will be held on Tuesday March 12, 5:30-7pm in Rm. A632 (Faculty and Staff Lounge). RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
Save the Dates!
Our schedule of drop-in faculty workshops for the Spring 2013 semester is:
JUST ADDED! Getting Started with Instructional Web Design
Wednesday, March 20, 1-2pm
Introduction to Photoshop
Wednesday, April 10, 1-2pm
JUST ADDED! Introduction to Citation Managers
Wednesday, April 24, 1-2pm
For more information, or to schedule a workshop by request, visit our website.
Faculty Workshop: Research Beyond the City Tech Library
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. You may already be familiar with interlibrary loan to get articles and books not available here at City Tech. Did you know that we participate in library consortia that permit access to research libraries around New York City? Learn about the many options for accessing research resources beyond the City Tech Library. Attendees will also learn how to make the most of browser add-ons and other online tools to help identify, locate, and connect with resources from other libraries.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, March 6, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 (small library classroom). RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.
Faculty Workshop: Introduction to Citation Managers
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. Looking for a way to streamline and manage the research you do using internet or library sources? Looking for a tool that your students can use to keep track of their research? Learn about how citation managers can help you organize and cite references as well as share and discuss scholarship with colleagues at City Tech or beyond. In this workshop we’ll introduce you to 4 solutions for citation management: RefWorks, EasyBib, Zotero, and Mendeley.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, February 6, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 (small library classroom). RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.
Strategizing the Literature Review and Identifying Publication Venues
Last Tuesday, November 5, 2012, we presented a workshop entitled Strategizing the Literature Review and Identifying Publication Venues for the NYCCT Faculty Commons in their series on publishing teaching and learning research. We are pleased to share our slides as a .pdf.
