Up early(ish) on the first day since August that I’ve had to really breathe for a minute, and I can’t stop thinking about finding a better way to categorize my email. Gmail makes it relatively easy to organize messages like you might papers in a…
Every semester of graduate school so far has been marked by some event. For better or for worse, several of those events have been, for me, injuries. I fractured my tailbone at the end of July (a swimming accident), and then broke my toe about…
This Friday, I’ll be participating on this panel at the CUNY IT Conference. 9:30am-10:45am. John Jay College. Come learn about what’s happening at OpenCUNY as we share what we’ve been doing with our various websites. As an aside, I recently learned you could host a…
Last night, I had the privilege of going to the opera for the first time. As the opening bars of Mozart’s famous opera, Don Giovanni, began, I resisted the urge to hum along, and found myself tearing up before the curtain was drawn. I have long wanted…
I am very excited to announce that the online journal of the Urban Education department of the CUNY Graduate Center, Theory, Research & Action in Urban Education, finally launched this week! It has been a long but rewarding process — one that started about a year…
I made a screencast the other day on creating podcasts with GarageBand as part of my work as an Instructional Technology Fellow at the CUNY Macaulay Honors College. It occurred to me that as I learn new skills and create tutorials on various instructional technology…
As I get my feet wet with this public-blogging thing (intentionally public, anyway–this isn’t the first time I’ve blogged publicly, but it’s the first time I’ve done so while trying to capture the attention of a specific audience and string a common thread through my…
So much has been going on, it’s hard to figure out what to write about! I was back down at Occupy Wall Street this morning, and I am impressed that it’s still going strong. It makes me hopeful about what is possible. In the meantime,…
When I started graduate school, web-based reference tools were only just being developed. At the time, I was using Endnote to keep track of my citations. That is, until I clumsily tripped over the cord attached to my iBook. This was before the cord was…
I knew when I started this blog that it was going to be a challenge to keep up once the school year started–yikes, where does time go!? It’s been a whirlwind of a week, and culminated in going to the Occupy Wall Street protest yesterday…