Hi folks, I’m an English student, so it’s not surprising that most of the time I’m reading texts. I love texts. For the past few months I’ve been visiting museums and archives to reads nineteenth-century sailor’s journals as part of my dissertation research. Recently, I came across a journal with vividly painted watercolors, fragments of (poorly […]
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In Common this Week: Dipping a Toe in Open [Source] Waters
Hi folks– One of the ideas, embedded in the name of the CUNY Commons, is the idea of shared resources. It’s also a simple idea that is important to a public research institution such as the CUNY Graduate Center and should have profound impact on the way each of us situates our own research. Of course, […]
In common this week: Taking Your Class Online
Welcome back folks– The main goal of the CUNY Commons is to “build community through the use(s) of technology in teaching and learning.” So it is not surprising that there is a lot of discussion going on all the time on the Commons about how to use technology in the classroom (and by technology I […]
What’s in common this week?…Art
Thinking of a theme for this week, it occurred to me that I may be forcing myself to get very creative in the future if I decide that I can’t repeat themes. But, perhaps that defeats the purpose of letting these themes emerge from the weekly stream of public posts on the Commons, anyway. I guess […]
In Common this Week: Activism
Here we are with our first weekly round of interesting sites from across the Commons. It’s not surprising that U.S. presidential politics and activism in general are common themes among a lot of the posts going out into the digital world this week and especially so at CUNY. Activism in Academia, an interdisciplinary project and […]
