What You're Doing, Where We're Going
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
Emerging Scholars from COMD Futures, Emerging Media Technologies, and Architecture collaborated with Membit Inc. over the last few semesters to research, design, and develop City Tech’s Fun Facts Finder, an augmented reality campus tour.
This virtual tour uses the augmented reality application Membit to help new students locate important locations and services on campus, meet community members, and share fun facts about City Tech.… Continue reading this post
The LGBTQIA+ Collective shared their slate of exciting events coming up this semester for the LGBTQIA+ community at City Tech and invited us all to join in and spread the word!
The LBGTQIA+ Poster Competition offers everyone in the City Tech community the opportunity to design a poster supporting City Tech’s LGBTQIA+ students.… Continue reading this post
Welcome, visitors, new members, and returning members, to the Spring 2025 semester on the OpenLab!
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
For this spotlight, we’re shining the light on you, OpenLab members, and all the great work you do on the OpenLab. The whirlwind of the Fall 2024 semester is calming down, and soon the semester will be behind us.
Need some inspiration to finish your work?… Continue reading this post
The Spotlight is on the The Ninth Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, which will take place on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from 9:00am to 5:00pm . This year’s event, Science Fiction, Artificial Intelligence, and Generative AI, features science fiction writers, scholars, and students.… Continue reading this post
OpenLab co-working hours are virtual quiet meet-up sessions for anyone to join to get work done. Breakout rooms are available for conversation or questions. All are held via Zoom, so when it’s time for the session, join and quietly work through your to-do list!… Continue reading this post
Adding your club on the OpenLab can be a great way to create a website to reach more students, to bring in new members, and to keep new and returning members up to date on club activities and events.
The Professional and Technical Writing major in the English Department has launched a new club–the PTW Club–and with it, an OpenLab site for the PTW Club.… Continue reading this post
We were so inspired by a recent conversation between Reclaim Hosting’s Taylor Jadin and Amanda Schmidt and OpenLab at University of New Haven’s Mary Isbell. They talk about getting University Of New Haven’s OpenLab started, supporting members, and letting student work shine.… 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.
