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Spring 2023 ITP Skills Labs

Spring 2023 ITP Skills Labs

By Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program

Date and time

Monday, March 6, 2023 · 6:30 - 8:30pm EST

Location

CUNY Graduate Center

365 5th Avenue Room 6418 New York, NY 10016

About this event

Please register for the upcoming Spring 2023 ITP Skills Labs:

Introduction to Omeka

Tuesday, February 21@ 6:30pm, online | Ricardo Martin Coloma

Omeka is a free Content Management System (CMS) and a web publishing system built by and for scholars that is used by hundreds of archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and individual researchers and teachers to create searchable online databases and scholarly online interpretations of their digital collections. If you have a digital collection of primary sources that you want to publish online in a scholarly way, you’ll want to consider Omeka. Omeka allows to describe the items according to archival standards, import and export that descriptive information from other systems, and to create interpretive online exhibits in a myriad of ways. Alongside how to create a collection, this workshop will teach how to exhibit your collections following diverse criteria such as 1) Pictures: using on Omeka’s integrated miniature tool users will be able to create a gallery of an specific collection, 2) Location: this tool will allow users to display a set of items in an interactive geographical map using coordinates information attached to each item, and 3) Time: the tool will allow users to lay out a collection of items over an interactive timeline based on the date attributed to each item.

→ By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Understand some of the conceptual challenges faced when developing digital archives.

Create an online database of digital archival items.

Create a public facing exhibition featuring items from your collections in the format of a gallery.

Create a public facing exhibition featuring items from your collections in the format of a map.

Create a public facing exhibition featuring items from your collections in the format of a timeline.

Doing User Research & Building a User Persona

Monday, February 27@ 6:30pm | Anders Wallace

In this workshop, we will build a basic user persona following established practices of user experience (UX) research. Whether you’re building a project for ITP, or engaged in human-centered research for a non-academic audience, this workshop will introduce you to some established UX research frameworks for building empathy with your users’ needs and goals; refining data into concise insights; and building insights into an impactful user persona that reveals opportunities and implications for you how conceive, design, and deploy your project. No previous experience in UX or UX research is necessary.

Project management

Monday, March 6 @ 6:30pm | Kimon Keramidas & Michael Mandiberg

This professional development workshop will focus on learning how to acquire skills and plan that out. Through interactive exercises, participants will gain an understanding of how to determine vectors for acquiring skills sets (what related digital workshops will be needed to achieve a development objective.

Mapping & Pedagogy

Monday, March 13 @ 6:30pm | Nerve Macaspac

Mapping is an ongoing process of picturing, narrating, symbolizing, contesting, re-picturing, re-narrating, re-symbolizing, erasing, and re-inscribing a set of relations. When we map, we put things in dialogue. And it is through this integration, this relationality, that the question of ‘where’ takes on a new meaning. Through ‘thick mapping’ and digital storytelling, this workshop will invite participants to create or assemble maps that foreground a multiplicity of voices, layered narratives, sources, and representational practices while re-imagining possible futures.

Student Showcase

Monday, March 20 @ 5:15pm | ITP Independent Study students

The Student Showcase will be an opportunity for Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Independent Studies students to share their interdisciplinary digital scholarship with the broader ITP community. This event will provide a supportive and generative space for presenters to present their projects and receive feedback on their work.

Going Gradeless: Ungrading as a Transformative Practice

Monday, March 27 @ 6:30pm | Panelists: Julie Van Peteghem, Austin Bailey, Gina Riley, Amber Alliger

What happens when we seek to denaturalize grades as the primary means of student evaluation? What happens when we seek to reimagine assessment as a generative site, one that reframes our pedagogical practices? In this interactive roundtable session led by Julie Van Peteghem, instructors from varying fields and at different stages of their career will share their experiences and approaches to ungrading. This session will offer participants a chance to think through how they might begin to implement some form of ungrading, big or small, in their own courses.

This event is co-sponsored by the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program, The Futures Initiative, and the Teaching and Learning Center.

Introduction to GitHub

Monday, April 3 @ 6:30pm | Zach Muhlbauer

Do you have folders full of documents like “draft_1”, “draft_final”, “draft_finalfinal,” and “draft_reallytrulyfinal”? Are you worried about backing up your work and looking for a secure way to save drafts of your work? Does the idea of accessing the vast quantity of code available on the internet terrify and excite you? If so, come learn the most basic steps of using git version-control software and GitHub, the web-based git repository hosting service. This introductory level lab will guide you through the basic structure of git on your own computer and GitHub.com. You will learn the basics: what a repository is, why you would use one to back up your code, and the basic commands that allow you to do so.

Turn your Paper into a JITP Submission

Monday, April 17 @ 6:30pm | Patrick DeDauw

Would you like to publish your work in the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy? This session will go over the basics of how to successfully turn your seminar papers and other research work into a journal submission.

Distant Reading with Voyant Tools

Monday, April 24 @ 6:30pm | Tuka Al-Sahlani

Voyant is a web-based text analysis tool commonly used to distance read, mine text, visualize data, and aid in writing revisions. Some notable features of Voyant are: it is open source; it supports multiple text formats; it can be embedded on other sites; and it can analyze any language--yes, any!

In this workshop, we will explore a few ways to use Voyant in our research and in our classrooms. We will use Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed as our corpus and discover new ways of reading, analyzing, and visualizing this seminal text. Attendees are encouraged to bring their coding skills and/or digital texts in languages other than English if they wish to explore beyond the workshop’s text, although no coding skills are necessary to participate in the lab.

Quantitative Methods & Reasoning Across the Disciplines

Monday, May 1 @ 6:30pm | Walter Kaczetow & John Orellana

Offered in partnership with the Quantitative Research Consulting Center, this lab introduces quantitative methods and reasoning applied to various kinds of research projects. It will cover the basics for an interdisciplinary audience, from questions related to research design and data collection, to choices that arise in analyzing data. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect upon incorporating quantitative approaches into their own projects under development. Students across the disciplines, especially those outside computational fields, are encouraged to attend.

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How to Cancel

• Please be respectful of those on the waiting list and cancel at least 48 hours in advance of the lab.

• To cancel, use Eventbrite or email itp@gc.cuny.edu, with the date and title of the lab you will no longer be attending.

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