CET OpenLab InitiativePROPOSED TO THE DEPT. CHAIR AND HE REQUESTED TO PRESENT IT TO ALL THE FACULTY.

LINK: http://tinyurl.com/cx7ghfo

About OpenLab in General•OpenLab is a digital platform where faculty, students, and staff can work, learn, and collaborate.

•Powered by WordPress, a very popular web publishing open source software.• Some notable WordPress users - http://en.wordpress.com/notable-users/

•It gives you the option to make public and private pages, post content, enable sophisticated features in just a few minutes.

•Customized for CityTech’s needs by a group of faculty, staff, and current and former students.

•Part of the Title V initiative “A Living Laboratory: Revitalizing General Education for a 21st-Century College of Technology,” funded by the U. S. Department of Education under its Strengthening Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI).

OpenLab Analysis•Easy to use tool, although perceived as difficult.

•Users are in control of the content and have many ready-to-use plug-ins.

•No department have a strong presence in the OpenLab• Arch Tech, Humanities, English, CMCE have some presence

•Most users create an account or project and forget about it.

•There are many workshops available.

CET OpenLab Initiative•Take the lead to have a strong presence in the OpenLab.

How?

•Make the current department website more focused on prospective students.• http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/academics/deptsites/cetech/

•Create a departmental OpenLab site that mirrors the CityTech’s official site but that we can control and update and is more suited for current students.• http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/cet

•Encourage our faculty to host their CityTech websites in OpenLab.• Migrate from websupport1

•Encourage our faculty use OpenLab in their courses, that way our students will also become skillful in OpenLab.

Some Websites Examples Faculty Websites (Portfolio in OpenLab parlance):

◦ http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/jreyesalamo/◦ http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/hwu/

Student Portfolios:◦ http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/kamariddin/◦ http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/avillanueva-eportfolio/◦ http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/mdk1985/Courses Websites:◦ CST 1101 - http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/higginscst1101/◦ EMT 1111 - http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/emt1111s13/

CET CityTech’s Portfolio•Link: http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/cet/

•As the site is under construction the link is private and you need to request membership.

•To request membership you need an OpenLab account.

•Next I’ll show you how to access the site.

Creating an OpenLab AccountHTTP://OPENLAB.CITYTECH.CUNY.EDU/BLOG/HELP/SIGNING-UP-ON-THE-OPENLAB/

Creating a Faculty PortfolioHTTP://OPENLAB.CITYTECH.CUNY.EDU/BLOG/HELP/HELP-CATEGORY/FACULTY-AND-STAFF-PORTFOLIOS/

How to Create a PageCREATE “DEGREE PROGRAMS” PAGE

CREATE “EMT” & “CET” PAGES WITH “DEGREE PROGRAMS” AS PARENT

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