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Big changes are coming, and we’re working away behind the scenes to bring you a new update on the OpenLab. Keep your eye out over the next few weeks!
Featured Site, and a REQUEST!
This week we’re featuring Theatreworks, the resident theatre company at New York City College of Technology. They’ve recently created an OpenLab presence, and in addition being excited about them as members, we want to pass along their request: They’re looking for student help building their site!
Remember that if you are a student (or a faculty or staff member, of course), you can always contact the OpenLab Community Team for help with any questions regarding site building. We’re happy to answer via email, or you can set up a help-session specificially for your group.
But more on Theaterworks! Theaterworks is composed of students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members. Founded in 1974, Theatreworks has been recognized in the media and theater circles for its commitment to professionalism in performance, technology and the advancement of multicultural casting and crews in plays, videos, musicals, dance and other events. This unique approach to theatre has given Theatreworks citywide recognition and an audience from the greater New York area. Theatreworks is now performing in the state-of-the-art Voorhees Theatre, where a haunted hotel, the Gravesend Inn, has opened each October to hundreds of spectators for over 13 years. Each spring semester a resident group is hosted on campus to work with the Theatreworks students. Student technicians receive valuable training by participating in the lighting, sound, costume, video, publicity and scenery crews for performances each year. Theatreworks alumni can be found in the professional theater, in television and concert venues, and working with many theater-related companies in their respective communities. For further information about Theatreworks, call Professor Chip Scott in the Entertainment Technology Office in the Voorhees Building, room V 205, at 718.260.5590 or email cscott@citytech.cuny.edu
FEATURED PLUG-IN: SHARE THIS
This week we’re also featuring the plug-in “Share This,” which adds the social media bar above to all posts and pages, allowing your followers, members or readers to easily share things that they like. You can even click the green “Share” button in the bar and then choose multiple platforms to share with simultaneously (that is, you can share with twitter and facebook with one click).
You can find out more about configuration on our tutorials page, but it may be our simplest plug-in yet: go to plug-ins in the left-hand column of your dashboard, activate the “Share This” plug-in, and what you see above will appear!
That’s all for this week. Have a great one, and as always contact us with any questions!
