GC Digital Fellows are offering workshops to help students and faculty explore the ways they can use technologies to aid, extend, and enrich their scholarship. Join them for the first workshops of the new semester and learn about sound tools, AI tools, working languages other than English, and ways to enhance presentations.

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Digital Project Design

Thursday, February 5 || 11:30 – 1:00 pm || ZOOM

Do you have a digital project you want to start? Are you planning to apply for a Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant (PDIG)? What does it take to get started making your idea come to fruition? Join this 90-minute, online, interactive workshop to take your project idea and develop a realizable project outline and abstract. We will begin by thinking about the rationale or need for the project. Then we will develop a clear, coherent audience statement. We will identify what affordances and resources you have at your disposal while developing your work, and we will work together to help plan for your project’s needs. As time allows, we will work on potential outreach and communication strategies and modes of evaluation. Finally, we will go over the project proposal format for the Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants so that you can start looking for funding to support your work. All you need to bring to the virtual room are your ideas, focus, and space to write. This session is designed to be interactive, so plan to unmute and ask all your questions.

Please RSVP here: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/3tgRspOCQYyzDYwtx01ufw 

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Basic Audio Editing with Audacity

Tuesday, February 10 || 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm || ZOOM

This hands-on workshop will be a foundational exploration of Audacity as an audio editing software. We will discuss some of its functionalities that can help you edit and clean your audio files to prepare them for publishing and sharing. Prior knowledge and experience are not necessary for the workshop. We will work with a demo audio, but having a pre-recorded sound clip/file (~1 min) that you can practice on is encouraged.

Please RSVP here: https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/basic-audio-editing-with-audacity-3/

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AI Tools for Research: Understanding AI Systems in Research Contexts

Wednesday, February 18 || 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm || ZOOM

This workshop introduces the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs) with a focus on how these systems operate when used in research settings. Rather than emphasizing tools or tricks, the session centers on building conceptual literacy: what LLMs are, how they generate outputs, and what happens when researchers interact with them through prompts and iterative feedback. Participants will explore common research use cases, such as literature exploration, drafting, and analytic support, alongside key limitations, risks, and ethical considerations. By developing a clearer mental model of AI systems, attendees will be better equipped to use these tools intentionally, critically, and responsibly in their research workflows.

Please RSVP here: https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/ai-tools-for-research-understanding-ai-systems-in-research-contexts/

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Text Analysis for Right to Left Languages

Thursday, February 19 || 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm || ZOOM

Doing DH in languages other than English, especially right to left languages, once required building tools from the ground up. Today, we find that there are several text analysis tools that can be used when working with right to left languages. In this workshop we will explore one text analysis tool and one AI tool that may assist in multilingual text analysis.

Please RSVP here: https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/text-analysis-for-right-to-left-languages/

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Slides with LaTeX

Thursday, February 26 || 1:00 am – 2:30 pm || ZOOM

“A presentation is not a set of slides: it is all about someone having something to say to an audience-slides or no slides.” With this aphorism of Doumont in mind, we will learn how to use the Beamer package in the typesetting software LaTeX to create effective slides for short talks. Beamer is a powerful tool that inherently forces you to carefully consider how to use judiciously use slide space, enabling the creation of useful slides that complement your talk. This workshop is designed for those with a basic understanding of LaTeX, including those who attended Fall 2025’s Introduction to LaTeX. We will go through some examples of efficient slides, walk through how to use Beamer, and finish by creating our own mini-slide deck as a workshop activity.

Please RSVP here: https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/slides-with-latex/