What You're Doing, Where We're Going
Welcome to a new academic year! The OpenLab Team has some helpful information to share:
This week we spotlight the City Tech Astronomy Club, which allows students to come together to explore the universe, even in a remote semester. Students in the club can use âSlooh.comâ to access âonline remote controlled telescopes located around the world.â… Continue reading this post
This week, I spotlight the amazing student-led group, the Experiential Art & Design Club. This club provides a âspace to create & playtest digital experiencesâ: you can join to âmake video games, immersive art, AR filters, websites, and literally anything else you can think of.â… Continue reading this post
The Architecture Club has existed for over 30 years at City Tech! This week, I spotlight their OpenLab site, which shows how clubs can use the OpenLab to keep members engaged during this period of distance education. Below are some noteworthy features of their site.… Continue reading this post
Last week, I spotlighted ComD Advisement Information site, which digitally guides students through the advisement process, and is replete with information they need to stay on track and complete their majors. This week, I spotlight the ComD Internship Coordination site, which âis designed to helpâ students âfind fieldwork/ situations of approximately eight hours per week at an internship site approved by the Department Internship instructor such as an advertising agency, graphic design firm, corporate design office, publications art department, photography or illustration studio, TV or multimedia production company.â… Continue reading this post
Student advisement, like much of college life, has moved online this semester. This week, I spotlight the ComD Advisement Information Site, which is replete with âonline advisement toolsâ and shows how departments can use the OpenLab to provide guidance for students moving toward graduation, even during a largely virtual semester.… Continue reading this post
Last fall, long-time Professor of Hospitality and Director of the Faculty Commons Julia Jordan retired. Last week, faculty and staff gathered (over Zoom!) to celebrate her service to the college.Â
Anyone who interacted with Julia over her years at City Tech knew her to be 
kind and generous, warm and welcoming, entirely dedicated to progressive and student-centered pedagogy.… Continue reading this post
The transition to distance learning has challenged the City Tech community to create new digital resources for incoming students and faculty. Professor Sue Brandt and others developed an innovative Connect Days template, which different departments can customize to provide an online orientation to the degrees and certificates offered at the college.… Continue reading this post
Welcome back to all City Tech faculty, students, and staff! We hope your semester is beginning smoothly and that you are settling into a new routine of remote work. Last spring marked an abrupt and challenging transition to distance education. This fall, many of us are going in more psychologically prepared, though we recognize that these continue to be difficult times for many.… Continue reading this post
This week, we spotlight the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center, which is an âincubator for new waterfront-related researchâ and âa venue to bring students into the knowledge-creation process.â Youâll notice that the project has an OpenLab profile but that the site itself was built on our CUNY-wide, sister platform, the CUNY Academic Commons.… 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.
