this is my sample blog post

Sections from Freakonomics (suggested by Alexander Mobilia):
http://www.freakonomics.com/books/freakonomics/chapter-excerpts/

“Is Technology Moving Too Fast” by Stuart Brand (suggested by Professor Rodgers)
“The Omega Glory” by Michael Chabon (essay on time and the future suggested by Professor Rodgers)

What Video Games Can Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee (suggested by Professor Rodgers)

Speeches/Debates/Other Documents Related to the 2012 Presidential Election (suggested by Evannie Enghog)

Students: Throughout the semester, I will periodically ask you to participate in some OpenLab assignments.  These assignments are not required, however, I think you may enjoy them and they may either interest you or be useful to you.

Please visit www.unphotographable.com and look at the site with the goal of understanding what the site and the unphotographable project is about.  Then, please write ONE to THREE unphotographable moments and publish them as BLOG POSTS on our course Web site.  Finally, please respond to one or more of your classmate’s posts and consider the following: 1/ what EFFECT the fact of NOT being able to see this photograph but instead having to read about it had on your understanding of the moment that is depicted.  Thanks to Professor Gold for this assignment.

For any of you who did not receive my e-mails earlier this week and/or for those of you who might prefer to NOT check your city tech e-mail account regularly, you might want to consider forwarding mail from your city tech e-mail account to your personal e-mail account.

Directions to forward city-tech mail:

1) Log into your NYCCT email account by going to http://hotmail.com (If you do not know how to log on, visit the help desk on the first floor.)

2) Once you are logged in, click-> the “options” pane, which is near the top right.

3) When you click the options pane you will see a list of a few options,

4) Click-> the “See All Options” button

5) Once you are there you will see a option on the right side that says: “Forward your e-mail” –>click that

6) Simply type the email below to where you want your city-tech mail to be sent to.

Thanks to Jubaire Salim for compiling these instructions.

Please take a look around the OpenLab and our Course Web site.

Welcome to City Tech OpenLab. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!