This Week in OpenLab: Back to School Edition

(image by thejimmylittle via Creative Commons License)

Welcome back everyone!  While you were away (actually right at the end of last term) the OpenLab passed 4,500 members!  That’s right:  4,500 members!  The community continues to grow, and given the start of school, we can only expect another flood of new users in the next few weeks.  Again, welcome everyone!

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OpenLab Workshops!

The OpenLab community team has been busy in the last weeks of the break offering workshops to faculty planning to use the OL in upcoming courses.  But if you missed those (or you aren’t a faculty member) you’ll have plenty of opportunity to join us for our workshops on various topics throughout the term.  We’ll be posting more about the upcoming schedule in the next days and weeks, but above you can find the schedule for student workshops, and below we have a list of upcoming faculty and staff workshops.  If you’d like to come, please RSVP at openlab@citytech.cuny.edu.  But if you can’t RSVP, please stop by anyway.  We’re always glad to have you!

NOTE:  The following are for faculty and staff only.  The student workshops are in the image above. 

February
2/6: 1:30-3:00 (G604) – Getting Started on the OpenLab
2/14 2:30-3:00 (G604) – Getting Started on the OpenLab (brief version)
2/14 3:00-4:30 (G604) – Designing a Course, Project, or Club on the OpenLab

March
3/12: 1:00-2:30 (G604) – Tools, Tips and Tricks for the OpenLab (Experience Required!)

April
4/18: 2:30-4:30 (G604) – Tools, Tips and Tricks for the OpenLab (Experience Required!)

May
5/1: 11:00-11:30 (G604)  Getting Started on the OpenLab
5/1: 11:30-1:00 (G604) Designing a Course, Project, or Club on the OpenLab

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Featured Tip:  Help!

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This is a “tip” mostly for our new users of the OpenLab:  we (meaning the community team) are always here to help you.  Many many answers can be found in our help section, which is accessible from any page of the OpenLab:

In addition, as we say all the time but want to say again, feel free to email us anytime!