In this extremely resourceful blog post, GC Digital Fellow Stefano Morello discusses the pros and cons of a variety of website creation and digital archiving platforms available today. If you’re looking to create a website and/or a digital archive, then this blog post is will help you learn how to assess the many platforms that …
In this fascinating blog post, Jesse McCormack (GCDI Coordinator and Philosophy PhD Candidate) reflects on her experience as a participant in the GC Digital Research Institute 2021. McCormack discusses the opportunities and outcomes of the Institute, as well as reflects on the importance of communication – between people and machines – when learning foundational computational …
In this blog post GC Digital Fellow Connor French teaches you how to add “some extra oomph” to your GIS project. Connor discusses different datasets as well as analytical tools available through the Google Earth Engine, which can help take your mapping project to the next level. Read more: GIS at Scale with Google Earth …
In this blog post GC Digital Fellow Di Yoong discusses ways of getting your Sound Studies project off the ground by focusing on how to make a podcast. What is the difference between a podcast and an interview? How do you use sound techniques to create an audio narrative? This blog post addresses these questions …
In this informative post, GC Digital Fellow Olivia Ildefonso discusses the GIS /Mapping Working Group’s project to assess the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on vulnerable communities in New York and strategize what could be done about it. Olivia discusses a variety of initiatives that took off under this initiative such as COVID and Cages, which studied …
Check out GC Digital Fellow Filipa Calado’s helpful guide to start a dissertation blog, where you can develop your thoughts and share drafts of your work in progress! Read more: Creating a Dissertation Blog with Open Source Tools – GC Digital Fellows
In this extremely helpful guide, GC Librarian Donna Davis walks us through strategies for finding ebooks. As publishers temporarily open access to their collections, there are many ways of accessing ebooks. Read more: Tips & Tricks for Finding E-books
This guide was prepared for a hands-on workshop about building websites with WordPress on the CUNY Academic Commons. The slides have been refined slightly to allow a user to walk through the workshop on their own, and they can help you understand how to set up a Commons account and create and edit a website …
In this blog post, GC Digital Fellow Stefano Morello discusses a variety of strategies for teaching with Omeka, a digital archiving platform. Stefano considers project ideas, teaching and learning outcomes, as well as best practices for using Omeka in the classroom. Read more on Tagging the Tower.
In this excellent post, GC sociology student and 2020 Open Pedagogy Fellow, Brian Mercado discusses how he incorporated OER (Open Educational Resources) in his teaching. Mercado draws on his own experiences with teaching Introduction to Sociology and lucidly writes about the challenges and opportunities for using OER in this course. This blog post is an …
