READ: Reading Effectively Across the Disciplines

In this workshop, we will share strategies designed to improve content literacy, including online annotation strategies and Creative Literacy, our new READ initiative that aims at applying high-impact creative writing pedagogy in the content classrooms. Meeting ID: 812 9601 9494 Passcode: 144401Questions: Professor Juanita But More about the program on OpenLab: READ: Reading Effectively Across the Disciplines

Pirate Queens at City Tech

In celebration of Women’s History Month in March, City Tech will be hosting an event for author Leigh Lewis and illustrator, COMD’s own Sara Gómez Woolley on their National Geographic book tour for Pirate Queens the Dauntless Women who Dared to Rule the High Seas. Join illustrator Sara Gómez Woolley and author Leigh Lewis for

41st Annual Literary Arts Festival Writing Competition

Please encourage your students to submit their work to the 41st Annual Literary Arts Festival Writing Competition! Students may submit their work at: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/literaryartsfestival/submission-guidelines/And, save the date for the 2022 Literary Arts Festival featuring Layli Long Soldier on March 24th, 4:30 to 6:30 pm on Zoom. Layli Long Soldier is an Oglala Lakota poet whose 2017 Whereas received many

Open Pedagogy: Ungrading, Pt. 2

Last semester, we met to discuss ungrading! This is part two of a series of Open Pedagogy workshops the OpenLab Community Team is developing to address inequity in assessment and anti-racist pedagogies. For this event, we’ll be joined by co-authors of a recent article from the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy titled “Resisting Surveillance,

OLAC: Blending synchronous and asynchronous modalities in hybrid courses across OpenLab and Blackboard platforms

Each month during the spring semester, faculty from the City Tech Online Learning Advisory Council (OLAC) and Dr. Karen Lundstrem, Chair of OLAC, will present techniques, resources, and best practices on a specific topic that is relevant to creating hybrid learning spaces designed to deepen student understanding and increase student success. After the presentations, faculty

Open Hearing for SET BS and CET AAS Program Proposals

CET Department invites you to join an open hearing on its new SET(Software Engineering Technology) BS and changing existing EMT AAS to CET AAS program proposals. Click the following link to join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85361941258?pwd=ZXFQOWl5UWU0RzgweGpwczRyeEJ4dz09 Zoom Meeting ID: 853 6194 1258 Passcode: 070571 Please go to College Council OpenLab website for the latest version of

Faculty Friday: Show & Tell – teaching tips!

Stop in for a short take or stay for the hour. Share your favorite success and take away something new to enhance your teaching. Representatives from WAC, READ, OpenLab, and others will be there to share tips, too. Register here and a ZOOM link will be sent immediately to your inbox.

Call for OER project proposals, AY 22-23

Exciting news! New York State and CUNY have reinvested funds to support open educational resources (OER) at the University. Our short-term initiative, which many City Tech faculty have participated in from 2017-2022, has been re-upped with tax levy funds for this fiscal year 2022-2023. In short, we will continue to be able to fund and

Annual HSI Week Forum

Location: Library Building, 300 Jay Street, L632 (Faculty Lounge) This year City Tech celebrates is 25th year as a Hispanic-Serving Institution, we welcome all members of the City Tech community to join in a discussion of "servingness" at City Tech. Please register so we can plan accordingly with some light refreshments. To learn about additional