The Ph.D. Program in History

at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

GC Events

Upcoming Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (ITP) Skills Labs and Info Session Registration

 

ITP is excited to offer four workshops this September as part of the Fall 2024 ITP Skills Lab series. They will be releasing more workshops and dates for October and November soon. In the meantime, please take a look at the upcoming labs and register for one or more of them:

 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fall-2024-itp-skills-labs-tickets-948163321017?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

Project Management

Monday, September 9th @ 6:30pm | Kimon Keramidas and Michael Mandiberg

This professional development workshop will focus on how to manage the various aspects of a project, including setting realistic benchmarks and meeting them, sticking to budgets, scope creep, and failing forward. Participants will gain an understanding of things to consider while completing a project. This lab is required of all students enrolled in ITP Core 2 in Spring 2024.

 

Game-based learning

Monday, September 16th @ 6:30pm | Shreya Sunderram

This lab focuses on how to integrate game-based learning, and critical game-based learning, into the K-16 classroom. The lab will include a meta game-based learning experience, followed by a breakdown of how to move from GBL to critical GBL, and an introduction to speculative and world building pedagogies. Participants will work to create a mini game for their classroom

 

Command Line

Monday, September 23rd @ 6:30pm | Satyam Jha

This lab is an introduction to command line and basic regular expressions. Come learn a useful set of low level superpower skills that will allow you to do things more efficiently and accurately. This includes: navigating folders, listing, moving and deleting batches of files, searching files, and using an online diff tool for comparing texts and lists. No previous experience needed. These skills are a pre-requisite for learning Python.

 

Digital Mapping Platforms as Praxis for Teaching and Learning

Monday, September 30th @ 6:30pm | Gisely Colon-Lopez

Explore digital mapping platforms and how they can be integrated into curriculums for K-12 and higher education settings. This workshop will use the CUNY Digital History Archive as an introductory mapping activity to create a collaborative map documenting CUNY history.

 

Additionally, if you’re interested in joining the ITP certificate program, please join one of these upcoming info sessions: