Note to all attendees: Session leaders will contact you with additional information, including a meeting link, for each individual workshop, event, or demonstration. 

A Project-Ready Approach to Teaching Visual Cultures: Replacing the Textbook with a Flexible, Scalable Database

NYU, 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, Conference Room B 726 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

In this demonstration, attendees will learn about building a flexible, platform neutral textbook replacement using low tech collaborative tools. The resulting data set can be published to a variety of display platforms (such as WordPress or Omeka) in addition to being available for faculty and student projects such as maps, timelines, and exhibits. Participants will […]

Free

Digital Tools for Students as Producers of Public Scholarship

Brooklyn College, Room 412 2900 Bedford Avenue, Room 412, New York, NY, United States

This open pedagogy demonstration illustrates different ways of enacting the belief that students, as part of the their learning, can be- and should be- not only consumers of knowledge but also producers of it. This digital tools demonstration includes annotation software such as Hypothes.is. and Slack, Story Maps other Web-based mapping, podcasting tools and platforms […]

Free

Out of the Classroom with Fulcrum: A Digital Note Taking App for Student Fieldwork

Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States

For many instructors who teach in New York, the city is seen as a pedagogical asset that can be used to extend their classroom.  As a result, many courses include assignments that ask students to leave campus and to explore, examine, and evaluate the city as primary source material.  At Fordham University, Fulcrum - a […]

Free

Commons In A Box OpenLab: A Commons for Open Learning

CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

This workshop introduces Commons In A Box OpenLab: free, open source software that enables anyone to create a commons space specifically designed for open learning, where students, faculty, and staff can collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and share their work openly with one another and the world. Funded by a generous grant from the NEH’s Office […]

Free

Open & Digital Pedagogy: Teaching with WordPress and the CUNY Academic Commons

CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

This workshop will present models and strategies for teaching with Wordpress. We’ll explore open teaching, considering methods and digital tools that allow instructors and their students to engage with wider audiences and public discourses. The workshop will also introduce the CUNY Academic Commons, a WordPress platform for the CUNY community, and demonstrate how this platform […]

Free

Introduction to Manifold Scholarship

Virtual NY, United States

Please join the GC Digital Initiatives for this workshop on Manifold Scholarship, a Mellon-funded digital publishing platform developed by the CUNY Graduate Center, The University of Minnesota Press, and Cast Iron Coding. Learn about how Manifold allows you to create beautiful, dynamic projects that can include text, images, video, embedded resources, and social annotation. We […]

Free

Introduction to Open Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Virtual NY, United States

Open access, open science, open knowledge, open data ... what does all of this openness mean, and what does it mean for those working in or alongside the humanities in particular? This offering will explore the role of open knowledge dissemination in the humanities, academia, and at large. We will focus on the history, evolution, […]

Implementing Learner-Created Podcasts

Virtual NY, United States

As global podcast listenership continues to grow, students are now aware and interested in the medium. Podcasts can be an engaging collaborative course activity and/or assignment and it works well in the remote learning environment. This workshop will focus on implementing learner-created podcasts in the classroom including rubrics on how to assess creative content. No […]

Fair Use in the Digital Humanities

Virtual NY, United States

A crash course on fair use, particularly for digital scholarship projects that use copyrighted works as data. We will look at the wiggle room built into the fair use clause of U.S. copyright law, and at what that wiggle room has allowed. We will also look at the increasing importance of transformativeness in court rulings [...]

Free

Building a Commons for Open Learning with Commons In A Box OpenLab

Virtual NY, United States

Commons In A Box OpenLab is free, open-source software that enables anyone to create a commons space specifically designed for open learning, where students, faculty, and staff can collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and share their work openly with one another and the world. The project brings together Commons In A Box, the software that powers […]

Free

Working with Data: From Formats to Ethics

Virtual NY, United States

This workshop offers a space for participants to develop their data literacies and experiment with the role of humanistic inquiry in data work, and vice versa. We’ll start with a primer on data types, formats, and modeling, bringing into focus information genres that we encounter every day but often take for granted (like tables and […]

Free

Introduction to Manifold, an Open Source Publishing Platform

Online New York, NY, United States

Please join us for a workshop on Manifold, a Mellon-funded digital publishing platform developed by the CUNY Graduate Center, The University of Minnesota Press, and Cast Iron Coding. Learn how you can use Manifold to create beautiful, dynamic projects that can include text, images, audio, video, and social annotation. We will provide an overview of [...]

Free

Digitalizing the Classroom: The Way Forward.

Online New York, NY, United States

Since the emergency online transition in March 2020, teachers have been gathering in strong communities to support each other exploring a plethora of theories (and praxis) on digital pedagogical tools. How effective were these in creating equally great students’ communities and fostering their engagement in classrooms? Back to a new normal in the Fall 2021, […]

Free

Supporting Open Learning with Commons In A Box OpenLab

Online New York, NY, United States

Commons In A Box OpenLab (https://cboxopenlab.org/) is free, open source software that enables anyone to create a commons space specifically designed for open learning, where students, faculty, and staff can collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and share their work openly with one another and the world. The project brings together Commons In A Box, the software [...]

Free

Lessons from Hybrid Teaching

Online New York, NY, United States

This free online NYC Digital Humanities session organized by Cinema Studies professor Marina Hassapopoulou will focus on hybrid teaching methods adaptable to various subjects and fields in the Humanities. Participants will be introduced to new (and DIY) tools and practices for collaborative learning, mind-mapping, visualizations, and other low/no-budget platforms. The demonstration and talk will be [...]

Free

Interrogating the Archive and Digital Humanities through Latina Feminism

Online New York, NY, United States

This discussion focuses on the use of underrepresented archives to reconfigure how we understand the past in the aftermath of pivotal change and imagine a more inclusive future. The US Latino Digital Humanities program (USLDH) at the University of Houston draws from the rich archival collections at Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery) in [...]

Free

Musical Collaborations: Discussion & Knowledge Sharing

Online New York, NY, United States

The pandemic did not keep live music from happening, but it did change the way musicians played and recorded music with others and by ourselves. In this discussion, we'll share our experiences from the past couple of years of making music, recording it, and attempts at playing live together while apart. What strategies did you […]

Free
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