Prism

Prism is a tool for collective interpretation, an experiment in crowd-sourcing and visualizing many readings of a set of common texts. As part of our project to make crowd-sourcing more meaningful and less mechanical, users interact subjectively with a text, highlighting it in accordance with certain interpretive categories, such as sound, sense, and modernism, to produce an aggregate visualization of all other users’ markings that shows points of analytical agreement or disagreement.

The basic workflow is simple:

  1. Play in the sandbox on our introductory text to practice using the highlighting functionality.
  2. After creating an account, choose a text to highlight.
  3. The highlighting page automatically starts with the first category selected. Simply click and drag over the desired text to change its color. To switch categories, simple click on the desired category. Click on the eraser tool and then click and drag over text to undo any unwanted highlights.
  4. When done, click the submit button to see a visualization.
  5. To switch to the visualization for a different category, simply click on a different category.

Prism is an ideal tool for research and pedagogy alike; students can highlight a text and discuss their markings in class, and scholars can see how the world at large views these texts.

http://prism.scholarslab.org/

Net-Art Course

This is a Collaborative Course. You will Collaborate here!

OK, you may have arrived here thinking that this course / community may not be for you and your subject of study. You see a lot of graphics, flashing imagery and fragmented snippets of over-stimulation. It may be resonating with an unconscious aspect of how we already filter Internet content. We dismiss quite a bit these days with out even questioning the meaning or value..

Lets work on that together.

The NET-ART course will change your mind, perceptions and outlook on how we can use creativity, digital tools and the Internet as a powerful force for Teaching, Learning, Pedagogy, Storytelling, Digital Art& Design, Journalism, Promotion, and most of all Self-Expression!

It is my intention to foster interdisciplinary course participation and interaction between CUNY campuses, faculty members, students of all levels, alumni, community members and affiliates. The Net Art course, website and community will expand upon the many ways that we are exposed to new content, experiences and subjects on digital platforms. It is a space to host, exhibit and discuss our reactions and dialogs.

The course / website will promote, present and archive a wide range of multidisciplinary discourse and output including group and solo exhibitions, critiques and reviews, collaborative zines and more.

https://netart.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Open Pedagogy

Open pedagogy is the practice of engaging with students as creators of information rather than simply consumers of it. It’s a form of experiential learning in which students demonstrate understanding through the act of creation. The products of open pedagogy are student created and openly licensed so that they may live outside of the classroom in a way that has an impact on the greater community.

Open Pedagogy Notebook

This website is designed to serve as a resource for educators interested in learning more about Open Pedagogy.

We invite you to browse through the examples, which include both classroom-tested practices and budding ideas, and to consider contributing examples of your own experiments with open pedagogy.