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11/17 – Manifold Workshop and Drop-in Office Hour

November 10, 2025 / Joshua Peach / 0 Comments

Curious about the free digital publishing platform Manifold available for the entire CUNY community? Join Robin Miller, Open Educational Technologist at The Graduate Center, next week for the last Manifold Workshop and Drop-in Office Hour of 2025!

Introduction to Manifold Workshop

Date: Monday, 11/17/2025

Time: 11 AM-12:30 PM

Registration Link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZnSmy2MuRGSkndKRUj17tw

Please join us for a 1.5-hour Introduction to Manifold workshop. In the first part of the workshop we will provide an overview of the Manifold digital publishing platform and explore how it is being used at CUNY to create beautiful, dynamic, multimedia digital projects and Open Educational Resources (OER) such as custom versions of public domain texts, multi-text course readers, class projects, and journals. In the second part of the workshop participants will create their own Manifold Project, learn how to customize the layout of their Project, add Texts and Resources, and use Manifold’s built-in Social Annotation.

Manifold Drop-in Office Hour

Date: Wednesday, 11/19/2025

Time: 2-3 PM

Zoom Link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/83353767360?pwd=AfytL2IHKQ9sKKErtW4qrhmEqBNQAp.1

Do you have a question about using Manifold? Then join us for our November drop-in office hour! This is an informal way for you to meet with the CUNY Manifold team and ask a question, no registration necessary.

Manifold Spring Semester 2025 Events

January 28, 2025 / Joshua Peach / 0 Comments

We’re excited to share the Spring 2025 schedule of workshops, community events, and drop-in co-working sessions for the CUNY Manifold digital publishing platform, presented by Robin Miller, Open Educational Technologist for Digital Initiatives at the Graduate Center. Below are the details for each event:

WORKSHOPS

Introduction to Manifold

February 14, 2025, 12–2 PM

February 14 registration link

March 14, 2025, 12–2 PM

March 14 registration link

Please join us for a 2-hour workshop. In the first hour, we will provide an overview of the Manifold digital publishing platform and explore how it is being used at CUNY to create beautiful, dynamic, multimedia digital projects and Open Educational Resources (OER) such as custom versions of public domain texts, multi-text course readers, class projects, and journals. The second hour of the workshop will be hands-on, and participants will create their own Manifold projects, learn how to customize the landing page layout, add text, and create a resource. We will provide all the digital materials needed but participants are welcome to use their own EPUBS, Word (.docx) files, Google docs, images, YouTube videos, etc. No prior experience with digital publishing is required. A Manifold Project Creator account is required for this workshop. Please sign up for a Manifold Reader account first (click the SIGN UP link) and then request to become a Project Creator (click the Project Creator Request link) on the CUNY Manifold home page before you register for this workshop.

Customizing Your Manifold Project Layout with Markdown Content Blocks

February 19, 2025, 12–1:30 PM

February 19 registration link

Level up your Manifold game with Markdown Content Blocks! Join the Manifold Team for a 1.5-hour workshop where we will show you how to use Markdown and a little bit of HTML to add content to your Manifold Project home page, including adding images, audio, video, lists (bullets and numbers), bold, italic, and URLs. Prior attendance in an Introduction to Manifold workshop and experience creating a Manifold Project are strongly encouraged.

A Manifold Project Creator account is required for this workshop. Please sign up for a Manifold Reader account first (click the SIGN UP link) and then request to become a Project Creator (click the Project Creator Request link) on the CUNY Manifold home page before you register for this workshop.

Teaching with Manifold: An Overview

March 17, 2025, 11 AM–12:30 PM

March 17 Registration link

Discover the possibilities of teaching with Manifold! This workshop will provide an overview of how Manifold has been used in the classroom, featuring examples that cover creating syllabi and course readers; building course readers with existing projects; utilizing Manifold’s annotation tools and reading groups; designing assignments around resource collection; and publishing students’ work on the platform.

No prior experience with digital publishing is required. Signing up for a Manifold Reader account prior to the workshop is strongly encouraged.

Customizing your Manifold Text with Stylesheets

April 4, 2025, 12–2 PM

April 4 registration link

Have you created a Manifold Text and thought, some things look wonky, how can I make them look better? Are you curious about Microsoft Word Styles? Are you curious about how to use Microsoft Word Styles in Manifold? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, then this workshop is for you! Join us for a 2-hour workshop where we will teach you how to style your Manifold Text using Microsoft Word Styles and Manifold Stylesheets. Prior attendance in an Introduction to Manifold workshop and experience creating a Manifold Project and Text are strongly encouraged.

A Manifold Project Creator account is required for this workshop. Please sign up for a Manifold Reader account first (click the SIGN UP link) and then request to become a Project Creator (click the Project Creator Request link) on the CUNY Manifold home page before you register for this workshop.

LUNCHTIME COMMUNITY EVENTS
Location: The CUNY Graduate Center, 5th Floor, Room 5307 (feel free to bring your lunch!)

February 5, 2025, 12–1 PM

Join the Lost & Found team to explore how they publish the CUNY Pedagogy Series on Manifold. Dr. Kendra Sullivan (Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center) and Roxanne Shirazi (Mina Rees Library & CUNY Digital History Archive) will share how they use Manifold to digitally preserve and share archival and teaching materials from Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Toni Cade Bambara, and Adrienne Rich. Explore how Manifold’s multimedia support and collaborative annotation features help sustain a “living archive” and foster dialogues among poets, thinkers, and their broader historical and cultural contexts.

March 5, 2025, 12–1PM

Interested in publishing digital dissertations on Manifold? Join us for a community event with Dr. Wendy Barrales (NYU), a former Manifold Graduate Fellow and the author of the first digital dissertation published on Manifold, searching for mami and abuelita: reimagining ethnic studies praxis through women of color feminisms, art, and archiving. Wendy’s dissertation showcases new possibilities for how the Manifold platform can support academic, oral history, and archival work. Learn how Wendy used Manifold’s features to design a unique interface and structure for her dissertation, facilitate peer review, and engage with public audiences!

April 2, 2025, 12–1PM

Curious about building resource-rich projects on Manifold? Stefano Morello (American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, CUNY Graduate Center) will share insights from his work on two projects: Let My People Know and the Italian American Studies Open Syllabus. Discover the collaborative process behind these digital publications—from initial conception and curating materials to creating media-rich, interactive collections. Learn how Stefano leveraged Manifold’s features to bring these projects to life and gain actionable strategies to develop your own project!

Note: These community events are open to all CUNY students, staff, and faculty. If you’re not based at the Graduate Center, you’ll need to present a current ID at the security desk to enter the building.

MONTHLY MANIFOLD CO-WORKING SESSIONS
Location: The CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 5307
February 21, 2025, 12–2 PM
March 21, 2025, 12–2 PM
April 25, 2025, 12–2 PM
May 16, 2025, 12–2 PM

Join us for monthly in-person co-working sessions! Whether you’re starting a new digital project and want to test out Manifold, need expert guidance to overcome roadblocks in an existing project, or simply want focused co-working time with opportunities to ask questions and share Markdown or CSS tips, these sessions are for you! Our CUNY Manifold team will be on hand to provide support, answer questions, and collaborate with you. Feel free to join for the full two hours or drop in when it best suits your schedule.

Note: If you’re not based at the Graduate Center, you’ll need to present a current ID at the security desk to enter the building.

Open Materials in African American Studies

August 24, 2023 / Joshua Peach / 0 Comments

Continuing our work this month of highlighting open educational resources in underrepresented disciplines, Joshua Peach of the OER Team has collected a selection of open textbooks, courses, primary resources, digital objects, and archives in the field of African American Studies. We hope you find these rich and deep collections useful in teaching and research within the discipline, as well as across other departments in the college!

African-American Odyssey, Library of Congress
Digital projects that represent some of the rare and unique items from the Library of Congress’ vast African-American collections.
African American Experience: Primary Source Sets, Digital Public Library of America
“Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.”
Amistad Research Center Digital Collections and Projects
In partnership with Tulane University, this independent community-based archive has created and maintained rich digital projects with their collections of film, photographs, television, and oral histories that “reference the social and cultural importance of America’s ethnic and racial history, the African Diaspora, human relations, and civil rights.”
Black Abolitionist Archive, University of Detroit Mercy
“From the 1820s to the Civil War, African Americans assumed prominent roles in the transatlantic struggle to abolish slavery. In contrast to the popular belief that the abolitionist crusade was driven by wealthy whites, some 300 black abolitionists were regularly involved in the antislavery movement, heightening its credibility and broadening its agenda. The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period. These important documents provide a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement; scans of these documents are provided as images and PDF files.”
Black Diasporic Visions: (De) Constructing Modes of Power, Reflections and Resources by Josh Adler, Rosa Angela, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Brittany Brathwaite, J. Michell Brito, O.D. Enobabor, Javiela Evangelista, Ruben Mina, Janelle Poe, Carla Shedd, Kayla Reece, Ashleigh Washington, Crystal Welch-Scott, CUNY Manifold (2022). License: CC BY-NC-SA
“Black Diasporic Visions turns us toward a myriad of pathways for liberation formed by African people and people of African descent inside and outside of oppressive structures of power, as well as the development of alternative visions and spaces. More specifically, in this course, we consider these constructions which are often despite, within and at the intersections of institutions and systems that impact education, the prison industrial complex, food justice, public planning, preservation, legal personhood and climate change.”
Black Lives Matter Collective Storytelling Project, University of Washington, Tacoma and University of Washington Libraries (2020). License: CC BY-NC-ND
Student reflections on race, racism and racial justice originating from a cross-course collaboration at the University of Washington, Tacoma.
Black Studies Across the Americas (BSAA), Borough of Manhattan Community College. License: CC BY-NC
“In the Black Studies Across the Americas (BSAA) program faculty and students work collaboratively with Afro-descendant activists from across the Americas to create educational materials that insert Black Studies into disciplines where it is not traditionally the focus. Countries and/or communities that have been part of the program include Argentina, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, the Garifuna of Central America, Haiti, Peru, and Puerto Rico. These free educational products are shared on this site.”
Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection, Digital Public Library of America
“The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960. The materials in this collection include photographs, correspondence, speeches, event programs, publications, oral histories, and other artifacts.”
The Bright Continent: African Art History, by Kathy Curnow, Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University (2018). License: CC BY-NC-SA
“This book aims to act as your map through the world of African art. As such, it will help you define the competencies you need to develop–visual analysis, research, noting what information is critical, asking questions, and writing down your observations–and provide opportunities for you to practice these skills until you are proficient. It will also expose you to new art forms and the worlds that produced them, enriching your understanding and appreciation.”
The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies OER Library
A collection of audio shorts and podcasts from The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+) that “activates, connects, and mobilizes educators, researchers, and activists from marginalized communities and whose mission is to dismantle the structural barriers that prevent the full participation and leadership of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, as well as members of the LGBTQ+ community, in spaces of learning and education.”
CUNY Dominican Studies Institute: Digital Resources
“The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York has developed digital open-source resources featuring various educational platforms to enhance teaching and learning on Dominican topics.”
Digital Schomburg, New York Public Library
“Digital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global Black experience through online materials at the Schomburg Center created and curated by our staff and librarians. Visitors can locate online articles, digital exhibitions, photographs, audio and video streams, historical projects, and external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.”
National Archives: African American Heritage
“The Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Black experience. This page highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.”
Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience – 2nd Edition, by Joshua Farrington, Norman W. Powell, Gwendolyn Graham, and Ogechi E. Anyanwu, Encompass Digital Archive/Eastern Kentucky University (2022). License: CC BY
“Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience gives instructors, students, and general readers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of African Americans’ cultural and political history, economic development, artistic expressiveness, and religious and philosophical worldviews in a critical framework”
Smithsonian Open Access: National Museum of African American History and Culture
Objects from the Smithsonian collections including the National Museum of African American History and Culture, African Art Museum, and American History Museum reproduced as digital assets—2D and 3D images and data available for use in the public domain under a Creative Commons 0 designation.

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