Navigating CUNY
Back in the summer of 1997 I was a strapping 26 year old with nary a gray hair. I was also on the cusp of matriculating into the CUNY Graduate Center’s English Ph.D. program. It was an exciting prospect to move back to NYC from Los Angeles, and I remember surfing the web during my […]
The Underwater World of Networks
While exploring CUNY’s Academic Commons, I came across an announcement on the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative blog about an upcoming talk at the Grad Center: At the Edge of the Network: A Talk with Nicole Starosielski The post immediately caught my attention because I had seen announcements of Nicole Starosielski‘s book The Undersea Network on Twitter, and her work inhabits […]
In Service to CUNY’s mission as a public university
A couple of months ago Jill Cirasella wrote a post introducing the recently launched Academic Works site on the CUNY Grad Center’s Library blog. Why You Should Ditch Academia.edu and Use CUNY Academic Works Academic Works provides an open repository for access to the research, scholarship and creative work happening around the City University of New York. I […]
Tightening the Integration between Groups and the Events Calendar
We first introduced the Commons Events Calendar in May of 2015 with Commons 1.8 , and it has proved to be a powerful tool for getting the word out about upcoming conferences, seminars, and other CUNY-related events, especially for Commons groups. In our first iteration, we allowed any member of a group to enter an […]
Events Calendars: Enhanced Integration with Sites, Private Calendars
Events Calendar has gotten even better since it was launched on the Commons as part of release 1.8 in May, 2015. A great new Events Calendar feature for Commons site owners is now available with version 1.9. Events Calendars can now be embedded on sites on the Commons. To embed a group events calendar on […]
Social Paper: Retooling Student Consciousness
“Social Paper: Retooling Student Consciousness” Scholarly and Research Communication, Vol 6, No 4 (2015) – Erin Glass Glass’ article in Scholarly and Research Communications lays out the initial concepts and goals that later framed Social Paper, the marquee feature of Commons 1.9. Of first importance to SP is the facilitation of student “ownership” of the ongoing […]
Analytics: Top 30 Pages of 2015
Top 30 Pages of 2015 I expanded to the Top 30 Pages for his year end look. We see a lot of top level pages as expected, but it’s interested to see what this list contains. /commons.gc.cuny.edu/ – 247,455 sessions – 0:59 /cunymath.commons.gc.cuny.edu/for-students/compass-2/ – 34,448 sessions – 2:54 /commons.gc.cuny.edu/my-commons/ – 21,472 sessions – 1:04 […]
Analytics: Top 25 Pages for the Week of December 13
Top 25 Pages European Stages has our most impressive showing for number of views this week (outside of the homepage of course). Additionally, the JITP article “Disability, Mental Illness, and eLearning: Invisible Behind the Screen?” received a great deal of engagement. 1. /commons.gc.cuny.edu/ – 5,128 sessions – 1:04 2. /europeanstages.org/ – 1,210 sessions – 0:41 […]
Welcome to Social Paper (beta)!
We are excited to announce the launch of Social Paper (beta), a networked writing environment that enables students to compose and share all forms of their written work across across courses, disciplines, institutions and academic terms. Likewise, students can browse and comment on the papers of their peers. Unlike many learning management systems or course […]
Analytics: Top 25 Pages November 2015
Top 25 Pages The website for an event at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics on the Rojava Revolution was the top new site in the top 25 this month as the 8th most visited page on the Commons. A GC Library post on academia.edu came in as the 10th most visited page. /commons.gc.cuny.edu/ […]
