ZINES!
Learn how Brianne Waychoff uses student-created zines in Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies.
Category: Resources
How to create a calendar in an OpenLab course site (with the Events Manager Plugin)
1) dashboard > plugins > events manager > activate.
2) dashboard > events > settings > pages > event list/archives > [Display calendar in events page? choose yes] > save changes.
3) dashboard > pages > events > quick edit > [change title to “calendar”] (optional, but oh-so-awesome, idea from one of Gina’s sites).… Read more “How to create a calendar in an OpenLab course site (with the Events Manager Plugin)”
Zine Resources
If you’re interested in learning more about zines for use in your courses, this post contains a few resources.
A Lesson Plan for Democratic Co-Creation: Forging a Syllabus by Students, for Students
A CUNY instructor's experience working collaboratively with students to determine course goals and grading criteria.
Grades Can Hinder Learning. What Should Professors Use Instead?
Let’s take a moment and ask. Why grade? To give students feedback, a professor might say. To measure learning. To motivate. Here’s the problem: Decades of research undercuts these assumptions.
Embedding Content in WordPress
Many types of media content can be embedded in WordPress pages and posts. This “embedding Content from Other Sites” help page from the CUNY Academic Commons team provides instructions for embedding a wide range of content/file types.
Google Docs
Google Docs is an easy way to edit, co-edit, and share documents with students or others you are working with. This post contains some basic information about Google Docs.
Google Forms
Google Forms is an easy way to collect information from students or others you are working with. This post contains some basic information about Google Forms.
Teaching Website Examples
Ryan Seslow (Media Arts and Technology) shares examples from his teachinbg to help inspire, format and display the myriads of potentials that WordPress-based websites offer for teaching, learning, presenting, publishing, archiving & sharing.
