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Hawaiian green sea turtle by Dr. Donald B. MacGowan
Welcome Back!
First off, we hope everyone had a wonderful, relaxing, sun-drenched break, and is all refreshed for the home stretch of the term. Just a few things today…
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The OpenLab Launch!… Continue reading this post
(Image by Nikchick via Creative Commons)
As the term starts its inevitable wind-down, just a few reminders this week, and a best wishes for the upcoming break!
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OpenLab Launch Update
As mentioned before, the official coming out party for the OpenLab will take place on the 19th of April. … Continue reading this post
PLEASE NOTE: CUSTOM GOOGLE MAPS WERE RECENTLY CHANGED AND CANNOT BE EMBEDDED USING THE TUTORIAL BELOW. WORDPRESS IS WORKING ON THE PROBLEM AND WE’LL UPDATE THE TUTORIAL AS SOON AS THEY DO. STANDARD, UNCUSTOMIZED GOOGLE MAPS CAN STILL BE EMBEDDED.
Our Google Maps plug-in allows users to embed google maps into posts and pages. … Continue reading this post
Image by Steve Velo via Creative Commons.
This week we’d like to start by mentioning that our very own Elizabeth Alsop, OpenLab Community Team Member and all around wonder, has accepted a tenure track position in the great state of Kentucky (doubtless singlehandedly causing Kentucky’s ongoing NCAA tournament success). … Continue reading this post
The Rotating Gallery is a simple plug in that allows a user to have a (you guessed it!) rotating gallery of images appear in one of the sidebars of their site. Each time a visitor refreshes or visits a new page, the image will change, giving them an appealing overall sense of the site activity. … Continue reading this post
Image by Perfecto Insecto via Creative Commons License
Upcoming Launch!
With the Brooklyn spring here a bit early, consider this your first invitation to the official CityTech OpenLab launch, scheduled for mid-April. More details to follow, but pencil it in for the 19th of April. … Continue reading this post
Many of our professors use the ‘comments’ function on course sites to have students respond either to one another’s work or to a prompt, as in the example from Professor Rosen’s above.
And comments are not just useful for professors–encouraging comments from users is one of the main ways for a site to interact with the public, particularly the larger public outside CityTech. … Continue reading this post
MORE THAN 2000 USERS!
We here at the OpenLab promised ourselves we wouldn’t brag every week anymore about how quickly our community is growing, but we need this week to take a second to celebrate our latest milestone: As of this writing, there are 2,094 active members of the OpenLab! … Continue reading this post
Contact Form 7 is way of allowing visitors and users to contact you that is simple yet flexible (in wordpress that usually means there’s a simple set-up for people who want simple, and complexity for people who want complexity). On the OpenLab, this plug-in is probably most useful to clubs and projects, particularly those who have visitors from outside the CityTech OpenLab community. … Continue reading this post
We’re a little late this week, since we spent the weekend at the AWP conference in Chicago, which was wonderful and which had us thinking (again) about teaching and writing and technology, particularly creative writing, but really any writing, and then…
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Announcing the Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy!… 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.
