What You're Doing, Where We're Going
(Borough Hall, 1908. Image in the public domain, retrieved from Wikimedia Commons)
This week we’re featuring student work from around the Open Lab. Hope you enjoy, and feel free to send us any submissions–we’d be happy to feature them in upcoming editions…
_____________________
Featured Assignment: The Blue Caves of New York
The first of our featured student works comes from Mark Noonan’s The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing About NYC. … Continue reading this post
(image by Merelymel13 via Creative Commons)
From all of us at here at the OpenLab, happy Fall! Keep looking out for those snakes, but so far, so good.
_____________________
Featured Course: Interaction Design
Today we’re featuring Professor Amelia Marzec’s Interaction Design course. … Continue reading this post
CubePoints is a way of awarding points (or “dollars,” if you’re feeling materialistic), to users for participating in your site–users have a great deal of control over what sorts of activities are worth points, and how many each activity is worth. … Continue reading this post
Just a quick note to say there’s been a change to the time of one of our student workshops this fall. The details can be found below (and on our Workshop Schedule page):
Hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend and/or holiday! Just a few quick things this week…
_____________________
Featured Tip: Handing off Your Site to a New Administrator
In the category of Not So Frequently Asked Questions, we have had a few questions lately about what to do when you want to hand a site over to a new administrator. … Continue reading this post
Usually our images have something to do with what’s going on at City Tech, but this week we were simply taken aback by this, described as “A huge crowd gathers outside The New York Times building in Times Square to hear play-by-play bulletins of the World Series between the Cleveland Indians and the Brooklyn Robins on Oct.… Continue reading this post
How To Install & Use PageMash For WordPress by newbizblogger
PageMash makes menu manipulation easy. Use if if you want to hide pages so they don’t show up on your menu, or if you want to quickly rename the page, or if you want to create parent/child pages (an odd way of saying “I want this page to appear as a dropdown on my menu”–the way the tutorials on The Open Road appear under “Useful Tools”). … Continue reading this post
(image by Ed Yourdon via Creative Commons)
Hope you had a wonderful Labor Day weekend! Courses are being built, projects are being started, and students and faculty are joining the OpenLab by the hundreds–the year is in full-swing here at City Tech. … Continue reading this post
(Image by ‘Mother of User”/Bullpit via Creative Commons)
Welcome back to the school year, first of all, and welcome back to our over 2,600 members! Shocking to think how we’ve grown in such a short time–and we’re looking forward to another exciting year.… Continue reading this post
Copy of Presentation On Beautiful Presentations on Prezi
If you’ve never used Prezi, it’s what they call a “cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them.
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.
