What You're Doing, Where We're Going
This Tuesday, 12/9/25, 1:00-2:00pm, our OpenLab team is hosting an open session via Zoom for you to share something you did on, with, or about the OpenLab this semester.
Drop in at any point to show and tell, learn a few things, or just join us to celebrate our community’s accomplishments.… Continue reading this post
The Spotlight is on the The tenth annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, which will take place at City Tech on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 from 9:00am to 5:00pm, and features work from science fiction writers, scholars, and students..
Symposium organizers invite everyone to the City Tech Academic Building at 285 Jay Street in downtown Brooklyn, New York in Room A-105 to join for the day-long event, or stop by as schedules permit, whether for a panel or for the keynote address, “Is Contemporary Science Fiction Strange Enough?”… Continue reading this post
The OpenLab at City Tech has won an Open Education Award for Excellence – recognizing contributions to the Open Education community that exemplify excellence in the field. And since the award, 2025 Open Assets Award, includes that the OpenLab is “Recognized as an Open Community,” that means that you, the OpenLab community, have won this award, too!… Continue reading this post
Co-working is one strategy for increasing focus and productivity. What are others that you recommend? Share your ideas in the comments below!
The next OpenLab co-working session is on Tuesday, 11/18, 1:00-2:00pm, and is open to all students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other OpenLab community members.… Continue reading this post
Co-working is one strategy for increasing focus and productivity. What are others that you recommend? Share your ideas in the comments below!
The next OpenLab co-working session is on Thursday, 10/23, 11:00am-12:00pm, and is open to all students, faculty, and staff.… Continue reading this post
Plan Week starts today, October 17th and runs through Friday, October 24th. You can take part in Plan Week activities to prepare for advisement and registration for next semester, to ensure you are taking the right courses and asking the right questions to stay on the path to graduation and achieving your future goals.… Continue reading this post
When you use the OpenLab, you’re using WordPress, the most popular software for building websites, powering over 43% of the internet. That means that when you do things like develop your portfolio, add a post in a course, comment in a discussion, build a club or project site to bring together people in your community, you’re learning different aspects of WordPress.… Continue reading this post
The OpenLab team provides many different modes of support to help members learn how to do what they want to do on the OpenLab. Co-working sessions are a little different as they’re more about fostering a community of support.
These hour-long sessions are for quiet working time alongside others, with the option to move to a breakout room for conversation or questions.… Continue reading this post
Welcome to the Fall 2025 semester! City Tech welcomes new students and faculty and staff members every year–so welcome to everyone new, and welcome back to everyone returning!
The OpenLab team is excited to work with you this semester as you do great things on the OpenLab–and to help you learn more about using the OpenLab and working in an open community.… Continue reading this post
In Part 4, we looked at the pages and posts that come with a course site. In this installment, we look at how to use these different types of communication and others to facilitate communication and engagement between instructors and students and among students.… Continue reading this post
The OpenLab is an open-source, digital platform designed to support teaching and learning at City Tech (New York City College of Technology), and to promote student and faculty engagement in the intellectual and social life of the college community.
