Hi everyone,

I hope you and yours are staying healthy. Looking forward to our first online synchronous class meeting via Zoom at 9 am tomorrow. Please see Prof Montgomery’s post about how to join the meeting.

A sure way to contact us, your instructors, is via email: JMontgomery@citytech.cuny.edu for Prof. Montgomery and ALeonard@citytech.cuny.edu for Prof. Leonard. We will make every effort to respond within 1 working day; up to 2 days over the weekend and Spring Recess. We still keep office hours: Prof. Montgomery from 1:30-3:30 on Thursdays and Prof. Leonard from 10-noon on Tuesdays. Also by appointment.  This can happen via phone or video call; email in advance to schedule.

To prepare for distance learning, please make sure you have access to your college email and the email address you indicated on the sign-in sheet on the first day of class, the OpenLab,  and zoom. Course content will be documented and linked here on the OpenLab, and groups will use their project sites to document their work on the group project.

If you need help with building your OpenLab project site, ask us, or contact the Community Team – they are remarkably helpful and quick to respond.

We plan to continue with synchronous video classes on Thursday mornings via Zoom, and we will evaluate your participation based on your attendance in that space as well as regular contributions to this course site and your group project sites. Ideally, you will contribute 4 times per week in the form of a blog post, a substantial comment on someone else’s post, a draft of an assignment, or other evidence you are making progress on the components of the final group project: the research question, outline, annotated bibliography, and multimedia project and presentation.

Your questions are most welcome – please comment on this post or reach out via email. We are new at this online teaching and learning thing. If you’ve taken an online or hybrid class before, please share anything helpful that you think everyone should know in advance.