What You're Doing, Where We're Going
This Tuesday, 12/9/25, 1:00-2:00pm, our OpenLab team is hosting an open session via Zoom for you to share something you did on, with, or about the OpenLab this semester.
Drop in at any point to show and tell, learn a few things, or just join us to celebrate our community’s accomplishments.… 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
On March 12, we released version 1.7.75 of the OpenLab. It included a new plugin and a few minor theme and plugin updates.
Zotpress allows you to connect your OpenLab site with your Zotero library for easy citations and bibliography creation.… Continue reading this post
I hope everyone is hanging in there as the semester wraps up!
We’re trying to understand more about how OpenLab members are using annotation, and what people’s needs might be.
If you’ve used an annotation tool in your teaching or other work, we would appreciate if you could take a moment to fill out a short survey about annotation. … Continue reading this post
On February 15 we released version 1.7.67 of the OpenLab. It included a few new themes and some bug fixes.
We added two new themes: Neve and Miniva. Miniva is a simple minimalist theme, good for beginners or someone who doesn’t want to do a lot of theme customization.… Continue reading this post
This week, we spotlight Savonne Andrews’ OpenLab ePortfolio. As a reminder, if you are a student, an ePortfolio is a space for you to digitally showcase your work. The OpenLab provides you with a template, but you can (and should!)… Continue reading this post
In this screencast, the latest in our Site Building Blocks series, digital pedagogy fellow Olivia will show you how to edit your site’s appearance using the “Appearance –> Customize” feature on the site’s Dashboard.
You can view our other screencasts by visiting us on YouTube.… Continue reading this post
Welcome back to all City Tech faculty, students, and staff! As you all sink into your semesterly routines, we want to take a moment to highlight the different ways we’re here to support your work on the OpenLab this semester.
Meet with a member of the OpenLab Community Team for face-to- face support.… Continue reading this post
THE BLOGGERS ARE BACK!
This week we want to highlight our bloggers, who have returned this year better than ever. We’re extremely lucky to have their work here on the OpenLab, and hope you agree. Be sure to follow The Buzz to follow all their posts!… Continue reading this post
We’re excited to be presenting at Tech Day @ City Tech on Wednesday, March 18! We’ll be in room G-604, from 11:45am-12:45pm.
For our interactive session, “City Tech’s OpenLab: Enhancing the College Experience through Open Digital Technologies,” we’ll be exploring the sites below as a way of thinking through how to enhance the college experience (in the classroom, in our community, and among peers).… 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.
