Six New Plugins Available
The Commons list of available WordPress plugins continues to grow. If you have a plugin you'd like to use, write up a new plugin request and submit it on Redmine, our issue tracking site.
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Downloaded over 5,000 times, CBOX continues to garner the attention of colleges, universities, and other non-profit organizations. Discover what they're building at the CBOX Showcase page.
Call For Proposals
The first annual CUNY Games Festival on January 17, 2014 will promote and discuss game-based learning in higher education, and bring together faculty, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, game designers, and domain experts from various disciplines. Call For Proposals deadline is October 1, 2013.
Zeteo, The Journal of Interdisciplinary Writing
We're pleased to announce the publication of the Spring 2013 issue of the Master of Liberal Studies e-journal at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Your Group on the Commons
Make groups work for you! Find out what collaboration tools are available, learn how groups can be configured, and explore their many uses.
Designing a Site on the Commons?
Discover WordPress tips and tricks at the Commons Wiki page Tweaking Your Site and share your own ideas about how to make a good site great.
Got a Message?
Connect with Michael Smith to find out more about the Commons' live-stream channel: cuny.is/live.
High-Impact Hybrid
The CUNY Hybrid Initiative open access blog includes tools and materials from a host of CUNY Colleges and beyond to help faculty, instructional designers, and administrators teach and support the development of hybrid courses at CUNY.
WordPress 3.5 is Live
The Commons has upgraded to WordPress 3.5. Learn about some of the new features of 3.5 and check out the new default blog theme.
Help Build The Commons
Whether it's creating a blog, forming groups, or contributing to our wiki - everything you share with the Commons makes our community stronger.
Wonder Who You’re Reaching?
Check out “ Statistics for your Site” on the Commons Codex to discover the various ways to gather readership data for your WordPress site.
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There's so much happening in the CUNY community. Be sure to follow the Commons on Twitter to keep up. We follow back! @cunycommons
Come Together
The Commons welcomes JustPublics@365: A project bringing together scholars, community leaders, policy advocates and activists to inspire public debate on issues of inequality and social justice.
Commons In A Box Released!
The CUNY Academic Commons team is very proud to release Commons In A Box, a free, stand-alone version of our project that can be downloaded, customized, and used by other institutions and groups. Please visit us online to join the community and follow us on twitter.
Create Posts From Your Inbox
Our new reply-by-email feature has been a hit with the community. Did you know that you can also create new forum posts from your inbox? Check out Sarah Morgano's post in the Group for Group Admins.
Why Should Faculty Blog?
Professor Anthony Picciano explains the relevance of blogging in his teaching and scholarship as an online faculty member at the Sloan ALN Conference. Explore the Commons Codex for more information about using the Commons as a blogging platform.
Omeka For Rare Books
The Queens College Department of Special Collections is using Omeka to expose its previously hidden archive of Don Quixote editions. Check out the Omeka group blog on the Commons and discover how QC faculty and graduate students created a fantastic finding aid and interactive platform for the 14 volume collection.
Commons Wins Sloan-C Award for Effective Practice
The Sloan Consortium has announced that the CUNY Academic Commons will receive an award for effective practices in online and blended education at their 5th Annual International Symposium for Emerging Technologies for Online Learning, July 25-27, in Las Vegas.
Congratulations! You’ve Been Accepted. Now what?
The New Students: Welcome to the Grad Center site on the Commons is a terrific orientation tool that offers a wide range of resources, including registration timetables, library availability, places to find cheap eats and theater tickets, roommate matching, and information on becoming a NY State resident.
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Recent Blog Posts
Profile picture of Anthony PiccianoAnthony Picciano wrote a new post, MOOCs and Online Classes Fuel Campus Debates: Recap of the Issues!, on the site Tony's Thoughts 2 minutes ago
Dear Commons Community,
The New York Times has a good recap of the current debates on MOOCs that are going on at college campuses. Many of the issues reviewed such as shared governance, tiering of higher […]
Profile picture of Anthony PiccianoAnthony Picciano wrote a new post, United Federation of Teachers Endorses Bill Thompson for Mayor!, on the site Tony's Thoughts 32 minutes ago
Dear Commons Community,
The United Federation of Teachers on Wednesday endorsed William C. Thompson Jr. in the race for mayor of New York. The endorsement from the teachers’ union, one of the most prized of the […]
Profile picture of Robin Camille DavisRobin Camille Davis wrote a new post, Gentle SEO reminders, on the site Emerging Tech in Libraries 15 hours, 16 minutes ago Thumbnail
I know this dead horse has been beaten. But here are some reminders about things that slip through the cracks.
Every once in a while, google the name and alternate names of your organization and check the […]
Profile picture of Anthony PiccianoAnthony Picciano wrote a new post, Humanities and Social Sciences Are Central to National Goals: New Report!, on the site Tony's Thoughts 20 hours, 7 minutes ago
Dear Commons Community,
For much of the past decade, the federal government and the U.S. Department of Education have trumpeted the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) […]
Profile picture of Anthony PiccianoAnthony Picciano wrote a new post, U.S. DOE to Give States More Time to Implement Common Core Provisions!, on the site Tony's Thoughts 1 day ago
Dear Commons Community,
Arne Duncan is pulling back on several of the deadline requirements of the new Common Core program. As reported in The Huffington Post:
“In what some see as a tacit recognition of the […]
Profile picture of Anthony PiccianoAnthony Picciano wrote a new post, Sloan_C Blended learning Conference – Virtual Attendees!, on the site Tony's Thoughts 1 day, 14 hours ago
Dear Colleagues,
I have been asked to promote the Sloan-C Blended Learning Conference that will be held in Milwaukee in July. I have been involved with it since its inception ten years ago and I can say […]
Profile picture of Arlene SteinArlene Stein wrote a new post, For Whom Do We Write?, on the site JustPublics@365 1 day, 17 hours ago Thumbnail
C. Wright Mills once wrote about being at a party of sociology grad students at Columbia who were working on the PhDs. “After they’d introduced themselves, I’d ask: What are you working on?” It would always be […]
