WordPress Workshop

Mina Rees Library @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

WordPress Workshop: March 6 Want to create a website to showcase your academic work? Organizing a conference and need an accompanying website? Interested in starting your own blog? WordPress allows you to do all this and more with ease. Join Stephen Klein, GC Digital Services Librarian, for a hands-on introduction to the blog and website platform …

Free

Data for Social Justice part 1: Finding Data

Mina Rees Library @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

This semester, the library is offering three “Data for Social Justice” workshops: Finding Data, Analyzing and Visualizing Data, and Mapping Data. To sign up for a workshop, click its title: Data for Social Justice part 1: Finding Data - March 6, 6.30-8pm<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1l2tzqbGkL8H3a2sHrBJYXM60eEpWcIoqEK6Yj-RNnpM/viewform> This class will introduce various sources of data (including demographic, economic, and social data) …

Open Books, Not Open Wallets: How Open Educational Resources Help Students Spend Less and Learn More

The Segal Theater @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

You are invited to an event in the Information Interventions @ CUNY series: Open Books, Not Open Wallets: How Open Educational Resources Help Students Spend Less and Learn More Friday, March 7, 2014, 10am – noon The Graduate Center, Segal Theater (1st Floor) Refreshments will be served Do your students sometimes resist buying and reading …

Excavating Knowledge from Data: Introducing Data Mining using R

Room 6304.01 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

MARCH 7, 2014, 10 AM to 5 PM @ The Graduate Center, Room 6304.01 Excavating Knowledge from Data: Introducing Data Mining using R. Speaker: Dr. Graham Williams, Australian Taxation Office   To RSVP for any event you can do so at cunydatamining.eventbrite.com. Alternatively, you can register by emailing us with your name, institutional affiliation (if any), and …

WORDPRESS 2: ENHANCING YOUR DIGITAL ACADEMIC IDENTITY

Room C196.03 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Please join us for our latest workshop of the Spring 2014 term: WordPress 2: Enhancing Your Digital Academic Identity Tuesday, March 11th 2014 – 6:30-8:30pm; Room C196.03 This workshop will focus on improving the appearance and functionality of your existing WordPress site.  We will review some of the basic components of WordPress from our previous …

Free

Doug Rushkoff – “Technology as Classroom: the media environment as pedagogy.”

Room C202 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Doug Rushkoff – March 12th, 3:45pm in room C202  - "Technology as Classroom: the media environment as pedagogy." Co-Sponsored with the Center for the Humanities. We are pleased to announce our schedule of events for the spring semester at the Graduate Center, CUNY. More information about each event will be posted, so please follow our twitter feed …

Data for Social Justice part 2: Analyzing and Visualizing Data

Mina Rees Library @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

This semester, the library is offering three “Data for Social Justice” workshops: Finding Data, Analyzing and Visualizing Data, and Mapping Data. To sign up for a workshop, click its title: Data for Social Justice part 2: Analyzing and Visualizing Data - March 13, 6.30-8pm<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10oM6amfJY__32_9V33pwagzoYTJ_O7uTxqiRrf_1NYM/viewform> This class will cover different web applications and software available for analyzing …

Intro to Data Cleaning and Visualization Tools

Room C196.03 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Please join us for our latest workshop of the Spring 2014 term: Introduction to Data Cleaning and Visualization Tools Thursday, March 13th 2014 – 6:30-8:30pm; Room C196.03 In this workshop, Digital Fellows Micki Kaufman and Alice Lynn McMichael will present the fundamentals of using data in humanities research, with specific focus on data cleaning and basic visualization techniques and …

Free