What You're Doing, Where We're Going
This week, weâre spotlighting Professor Blainâs ENG 2570 Writing in the Workplace course, âan advanced composition course emphasizing writing used in business and industry.â The course introduces students to the principles of workplace ethnography, and scaffolds assignments so that students gain a range of technical and analytical writing skills directly applicable to many industries.… Continue reading this post
This week weâre spotlighting the City Tech Libraryâs Open Educational Resources (OER) Copyright Module. The module âcovers copyright basics, gives an overview of creative commons licenses, and offers some best practices for using copyrighted and library licensed materials.â This site is an invaluable resource for faculty teaching OERs specifically and working in open digital spaces more broadly.… Continue reading this post
This week, as we prepare for our first Open Pedagogy Event of the semester,
weâd like to draw your attention once again to our in-house site, Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab. This site operates as a forum where OpenLab community members can ask questions and stimulate discussion related to teaching and learning on the OpenLab and in open digital environments more generally. … Continue reading this post
When enrolling at City Tech, freshmen and transfer students can choose to participate in learning communities. As noted in the First Year Learning Communities (FYLC) OpenLab Site, FYLCs are âtwo or more courses with the same students enrolled, linked with an interdisciplinary theme, providing an innovative way for students to learn and form bonds with the college.… Continue reading this post
Greetings from the OpenLab and congratulations to all on the closing of another successful semester!
While our weekly âSpotlightâ blog series will go on hiatus until the Spring semester, we wanted to remind you of the sites we featured this past semester and encourage you to check them out if you havenât already done so.… Continue reading this post
This week weâre spotlighting Professor Foster-McKelviaâs AFR 1321 Black Theatre course, an introduction to African American dramatic literature that âexplores the complex ways in which the black experience is constructed and presented by playwrightsâ, and offers one entry point for understanding the African American experience more broadly.… Continue reading this post
This week weâre spotlighting Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab, an in-house site managed by the OpenLab Community Team thatâs dedicated to sparking and cultivating discussion, and facilitating the sharing of ideas, materials and practices related to open digital pedagogy (ODP) amongst City Tech faculty and staff.… Continue reading this post
This week weâre spotlighting Professor Boisvertâs fall entertainment technology course, MTEC 3175, Experimental Game Design & Development. This course is a âhands-on studioâ where students explore various complexities of gameplay development and design through creating prototypes. In short, the course touches on technical game construction, to aesthetics and design (character development, level design), to user experience and more.… Continue reading this post
Greetings City Tech community, and welcome back to those of you who were away this summer! As you get back into the swing of things, be sure to join and check out the Open Road. This site houses a number of important resources that can help you get (re)acquainted with the OpenLab.… Continue reading this post
Greetings from the OpenLab and congratulations to all on the closing of another successful academic year!
While our weekly âSpotlightâ blog series will go on hiatus for the season, we wanted to remind you of the sites we featured this past year and encourage you to check them out if you havenât already done so.… 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.
